In [i] DillDish Rotating Meal Plan, [/i] J. Dillon presents a meal plan consisting of 20 dinner recipes that can be implemented for a whole month. Dillon’s idea is to adopt a meal plan at home that requires less mental energy, reduces leftovers and waste, and saves cooking time. After working in a hospital setting and trying many recipes for years, Dillon came up with the DillDish meal plan that revolutionizes grocery shopping trends and changes the pantry, fridge, and freezer organization system in the kitchen. The DillDish process combines a rotating meal plan that changes every week, recipes that combine fresh and packaged ingredients, and an inventory system that keeps your kitchen stocked. For each week, that is, Weeks A, B, C, and D, there are five meals. For example, the dinner recipe for Week B shown in the book consists of white turkey chili, pork sliders, and ham and egg biscuits among others. Having five dinners instead of seven in a week leaves room for an unplanned side dish. Since Dillon created DillDish for her home and it worked, other families are assured that it can work in their kitchens as well. Dillon proposes that you create a shopping list for all the items needed to cook the five meals in a week. In addition to that, she offers tips on what to include in the pantry and fridge stock, how to implement the DillDish kitchen stock, and how to create recipes for each meal. Lastly, she recommends cooks to conduct a five-minute kitchen inventory every week to check which items need restocking.
One of the things I liked about the book is that Dillon is creative in this area of creating dinner recipes. First, she admits to having some cooking experience in a hospital setting. Then, she claims that she has tried many recipes at home for months before coming up with the DillDish meal plan. It is ingenious to have a dinner plan with five options in a week and then you rotate those meals in the other weeks. Another positive aspect of the book is that the author seems to understand the fatigue that most people have when it comes to cooking. Instead of eating junk food every night because you don’t want to go to the kitchen, she advises you to identify 20 core meals and prepare them in advance to last for a month. Another thing is that Dillon’s book is well organized and I liked the way she included pictures and icons to support the written content. The positioning of the graphics within the content is elegant and impressive. Lastly, the readers can see examples of meal plans, dinner recipes, and shopping lists from the book, which will guide them in preparing similar documents for their own use.
Regarding the negative aspects, I noticed only one grammar mistake that can easily be corrected to make the book error-free. Otherwise, for the most part, the book seems to be professionally edited.
By considering that there are four strengths against one weakness, it would be reasonable to give the book a rating of [b] 4 out of 5 stars. [/b] I decided to give it a high rating because the spelling mistake on the last page seems to be unintentional and can be corrected. Also, the book is well organized with clear headings that help the readers to easily follow the content.
I would recommend the book to all families that cook dinners every night and are looking for ways to improve their meal plans. The book is also suitable for people who live alone and have problems with cooking lunch or dinner. If you often find yourself buying pizza to escape the fatigue of cooking, this book is definitely for you because it gives you a strategy to stop eating junk food and embrace cooked meals.
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