The Convenience Cook : 125 Best Recipes for Easy Homemade Meals Using Time-Saving Foods from Boxes, Bottles, Cans & More Paperback / softback

How to make delicious meals from prepared convenience foods. Create sensational family meals that taste like they were made from scratch, yet actually use convenience foods -- canned, frozen, bagged, boxed, or from a jar.

For soul-satisfying weekday meals to decadent desserts, all you need are common and convenient supermarket ingredients.

With the 125 recipes in The Convenience Cook, managing mealtime has never been easier. Take a can of salmon and create an inspired Thai-Style Curry, simply by adding some coconut milk and a few pantry ingredients.

Create an Easy Shepherd's Pie by using convenience foods like ground beef, canned beef broth and frozen hash brown potatoes.

A dozen recipes use one of the most commonly available convenience foods: chicken.

When kids need a quick treat, simply unwrap the crescent roll dough, add some applesauce, dried cranberries, a little sugar and cinnamon and presto! you have an easy and delicious Apple Cranberry Pan Dowdy. Included is a listing of pantry staples and lots of helpful tips, techniques and imaginative variations for each recipe.