Product Description
The easy, affordable, and delicious recipes found in this calendar are perfect for the family on the go. Based on the best-selling Fix-It and Forget-It cookbook series, the calendar includes hundreds of recipes, helpful hints, hosting ideas, and useful tips intended to get the most out of one of the kitchen's most versatile small appliances--the slow cooker.* The calendar pages are removable 4" x 6" recipe cards that cooks can store in the sturdy calendar box or in their own recipe files, carry to the store, and share with others. Included are monthly and category dividers to use throughout the year.
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Fix-It and Forget-It: Feasting with your Slow Cooker: 2009 Day-to-Day Calendar
- Calendar: 640 pages
- Publisher: Andrews McMeel Publishing; 2008-08-01
- Label: Andrews McMeel Publishing
- Studio: Andrews McMeel Publishing
- ISBN: 0740776452
- Average Customer Review:
 based on 1 reviews
- Sales Rank in Books: #191770
Avg. Customer Review:
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Summary: Poorly formatted, but content is true to description 2007-12-12
Comment: So, when I ordered a "day-to-day" calendar, I expected what I've gotten with every other day-to-day calendar I've ever owned in my life, including other cooking/recipe ones-- a separate page, each day, with the probable exception of Saturday and Sunday, for a total of six pages a week.
What I received was, I have to admit, "over 100 recipes" as the description states. However, there are only 3 pages a week-- Monday and Tuesday share a page, Wednesday and Thursday another, and Friday, Saturday, and Sunday are all on a page together. (The box is very sturdy, as described, and the looseleaf calendar sheets are very well-contained inside it.)
To be fair, each page is printed front and back, which is admirable in that you still get pretty much the same amount of material as a normal day-to-day AND it conserves resources. And, some pages have a recipe front-and-back (although on most that I've skimmed, the back either contains the spillover from a long recipe or a "helpful tip.")
However, the design of the calendar is very unattractive-- I suppose my biggest complaint with the whole thing is that the dates are only printed on the front side of each page so if you value being able to check the date on your calendar, you can't view the front of a page Monday and the back of that page Tuesday; it is the same side of the same page two (or even three) days in a row. On top of THAT, the dates are not printed in the same general place-- Mondays, Wednesdays, and Fridays are left-aligned across the top, while Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Sundays are right-aligned (and Saturdays are centered). I find this to be a nuisance because it makes it hard to check the date "at a glance."
For the price-to-content ratio, I will not complain, because there are plenty of recipes and quite a handful of helpful tips; however for the purposes of a day-to-day calendar, I will be purchasing something else.
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Fix-It and Forget-It: Feasting with your Slow Cooker: 2009 Day-to-Day Calendar
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