To ask you to recommend a realistic recipe book......

[jwbsgjones]

that contains easy to make recipes using everyday ingredients that will satisfy a very fussy 6 year old, a 9 year old and two adults, preferably with lots of recipes using chicken, eggs, fish, pasta, potatoes. Really like the kind of recipes on the tasty/really tasty Facebook pages - can anyone recommend anything??

My daddy cooks is great - plus he used to do a video blog

Seconding Cake's recommendations for the Bisy Mum's Cook Book. River Cottage Everyday and the Mary Berry books are great. The Family Sunday Lunches one she wrote is really useful.

Cooking ' with Coolio...

Not really-(though I do have it). Save with Jamie is good...

Or else I have always worn by annanel jar meals feeding my baby and toddler, use the recipes exactly when the DD's were little and now adored them a bit as they are older.

Slow Cooked by Miss South. If you have a slow cooker that is! It was written by one of my old school friends

Jack Monroe's is excellent. Cheap ingredients. Simple quick recipes. Great results.

1001 one pot, stews, soups.

It is very realistic, budget friendly, fullof every day normal meals with meat and with pulses.

Most recipes have one or two varieties i.e. if you don't have x ingridient, use y but add water/ or increase cooking time etc.
Imo best book ever for no fancy cooking.

Ainsley's Family and Friends book. Can't stand the man but I've made loads out of this which have become weekly staples.

The Hairy Bikers have a few books - I have the dieters book and the recipes are good - succinct and not loads of ingredients

I use Home Cook by Alastair Hendy a lot. It's out of print now I think so would have to be bought second hand.

Glitter this book has weekly mealplans and shopping lists for families.

www.amazon.co.uk/Nosh-Busy-Mums-Dads-Cookbook/dp/0956746446

Oh, treacle already said. Sorry.:)

Jamie olivers ministry of food is really good for basic skills/meals.

But after I had read and done a lot of recipes from that I found Jamies Dinners better. I also use the Hairy Bikers books and Jamies Great Britain.

Hairy dieters, easy to follow and not mega ingredients lists.

The dairy book of home cooking. Best cook book ever. Free or cheap with your milk in the 1980s. Cant beat it!

River cottage baby and toddler book. has stuff on weaning but all recipes are suitable for all family.

"How to feed your whole family a healthy balanced diet with very little money..." by Gill Holcombe.

It's never failed me and (apart from the flapjack recipe which is too sweet) the meals have all been easy and well received. It's the most thumbed (and grubby) book I own.
I binned Jack Monroe's book which I found bland and boring and unoriginal if I'm honest.
Jamie's recipes have never worked for me although Nigella's have but I feel they are a little heavy handed with the sugary stuff.

Yes ministry of food, Delia and Ainsley Harriot.

Thanks

I had come on to say Jamie Oliver's Ministry of food too, I have perfected the art of amazing Yorkshire puddings & can highly recommend the salmon & pesto.

Any of Mary Berry's books. I'm not a fan of celebrity cooks/chefs normally, but our family has loved every Marry Berry recipe we have ever tried. Nothing fancy which keeps fussy DD happy, but enough flavour to keep gourmand DS happy.

Diana Henry, Cook Simple (NB the one published in 2006, not Simple which was published in September of this year). She writes about how she had to change her cooking style when she had children and her son was a Velcro baby and it's really excellent.

Not a book but mylovelylittlelunchbox is good. Although she refers to bubba and doesn't understand correct apostrophe usage

No celebrity chefs, no chain restaurants.
This is the only recipe book you will ever need.

https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/aw/d/1908449322/ref=mpssa112?ie=UTF8&qid=1483047046&sr=8-2&pi=ACSX2366SY340QL65&keywords=good+housekeeping+cookbook&dpPl=1&dpID=51XHMkmlGRL&ref=plSrch

River cottage family cookbook is good.