Bored of Lunch: The Healthy Slow Cooker Book Hardcover – September 17, 2024

I am so glad I bought this book! Every recipe I have tried in this book (I’ve tried half the book so far) has been so delicious and incredible! These recipes have made my life so easy as a full time designer and mom of two! I recommend this book to all my mom friends who struggle with coming up with easy dinners

This cookbook is possibly my new favorite. For a busy family of 4 we have used the recipes in this cookbook multiple times each. This is flavorfull British cuisine that even children enjoy. Absolutely recommend.

I absolutely love these books, they are English so some of the ingredients may have different names in the US & oven temps may vary

I read about this in the Irish Times and ordered it from Amazon.UK. It took a long time to come and cost as much in postage as it did the book. It was well worth it though. The recipes are all easy to follow, tasty and use ingredients we use all the time. It also gives the calories of the recipes and makes a big effort to keep the recipes healthy and good for weight loss and weight control. I have actually tried some recipes in my Dutch oven and have liked them just as well, so it's not just a book for slow cookers, just adjust the cooking time. Am presently going through the soups and like them so far. For U.S. readers, the measurements are in metric, but if you have a standard measuring cup, you can use them or use a converter chart. For those who are on Instagram, check out the author's posts boredoflunch on Instagram. Recommend this book and can't wait for his air fryer cookbook to be published.

Falsely advertised, unfortunately. This is a mostly Indian-food book, where nearly all recipes call for curry and consist of the traditional runny messy soggy CURRIES that Brits are so fond of eating, including one in our extended family.In Great Britain, where part of our family is from, they are huge fans of what they call "takeaways", which are soft and soggy and mushy combinations of meat and veggies soaking in a sauce and, most often, drowning in curry. "Takeaways" are so often curried-dishes that they are also called "curries". And that's what this book consists of.Despite the chapter-headings, which would suggest that so-called "takeaways" (soggy, runny, wet messes of meat and veggies soaked in curry powder and cooked to near-disintegration, making mushy-peas seem downright crisp by comparison) only occupy one chapter of this book, the bulk of the recipes in most chapters are in fact curries.I only found a few dishes that didn't rely on either curry or pasta to make dinner, and those are the only ones worth trying, because they are the only ones that have any chance of not consisting of that runny wet-mess they call a "takeaway" overseas. The curries are runny, as shown in the photos, but also as shown by how they are prepared, and then pasta dissolves in a slow-cooker and isn't appropriate to cook in a slow-cooker in the first place which leaves only a handful of recipes, less than ten, for your money.Sadly, even those recipes which do not call for curry do end up calling for odd ingredients that produce multi-ethnic dishes that taste rather a lot like "takeaways", despite using cumin instead of curry.In the end, this is a brilliant British "Takeaways And Curries" cookbook, where most of the dishes are in fact curries, but it's a terrible general "Slow-Cooker Lunch" cookbook, which is what it claims to be.For the record, I only ever return used cookbooks mislabeled as "like new" when they were "good" or I return new cookbooks that were torn up and horribly damaged. This is new and it only has slight damage to the corner, which is my justification for returning it, but I would have kept it, had it actually contained lunch-friendly meals in a variety of flavors instead of curry after curry after curry and then so many curries in the non-takeaways chapter. In our family, we don't use curry powder because no one likes the taste. One person, in the UK, still loves curries, and took a look at this cookbook where they live, then told me it's really a curry cookbook with some other things thrown in, but it's also less than a hundred recipes which isn't normal for the UK (and it's certainly not normal in the US). He said it's not a good value for money, but, since he loves curries, he'll wait until this author puts out a compendium of all their cookbooks, because adding all three together gives you still-less-than-a-normal-size-cookbook that's still a bit of a scam.I say pass on this, unless you LOVE CURRIES. If you're looking for lunch, not SOGGY UK CURRIES, then this isn't for you. And yet, if you love those soggy runny messy CURRIES, then this is perfect.