I love this book. With a larger than average family and busy life, I need the help of my slow-cooker. But I hate the expense & lack of nutritional value in the cream soup recipes that seems to dominate most slow cooker cookbooks. I paid full price for this book (a rarity, if you know me), and it was worth every penny! ( )

I borrowed this from the library, renewed it three times, and then caved and bought it.

I was surprised to find such a large collection of slow cooker recipes where tinned or powdered soup is so rarely mentioned. And there are more bean recipes than I I can shake a stick at. I also appreciate the details given for how different foods cook in a crock pot - gives me enough confidence to adapt some of my own stove-top recipes to the slow cooker.

One warning - the, er, hints for non-slow cooked side dishes are terrible - but that's not why I bought the book ( )