Tired of eating the same thing over and over again?
Looking for new twists to old favorites?
Learning to cook and need simple recipes?
Want to cook REAL, uncomplicated food from scratch?
Mystie Winckler, a homeschooling mom of four children, has the perfect cookbook for you.
Simplified Dinners is… amazing. I don’t even know if that word covers this cookbook accurately. When I opened the e-cookbook Mystie sent me, I was immediately breathless because the recipes are… GASP… for real food. But, as happy as I was to find a multitude of family-friendly recipes, the formatting is my favorite part.
Simplified Dinners is set up like this:
- Keep a pantry of the ingredients you need. (You get a master pantry list for FREE.)
- Browse the cookbook for the recipe you want to prepare.
- Review the process for making the meal.
- Choose the variation you prefer.
Simple Recipes for Quick & Easy Dinners
Want to know what is included?
- Slow-Cooker Roasts
- Slow-Cooker, No-Defrost Chicken Pieces
- Chicken-in-a-Pot
- Skillet Cutlets with Pan Sauces
- Marinades for Grilling or Broiling
- Foil-Packet Fish
- Stovetop Pasta
- Bean Pots
- Fajitas
- Quesadillas
- Taco Bar
- Burritos or Enchiladas
- Taquitos
- Frittata
- Oven Omelette
- Pizza
- Simple Stir-fry
- Potato Hash
- Baked Potato Bar
- Bean Soups
- Stews
- Blended Vegetable Soups
- Quick Soups
- Main Dish Salads
- Vegetable Side Dishes
- Side-Dish Salads
- Starchy Side Dishes
Buy It
Use coupon code ‘meetpenny’ to save 20% on your copy of Simplified Dinners.
Need a gluten-free, dairy-free cookbook? No problem! Mystie has an edition of Simplified Dinners for you!
Win It
Mystie has generously donated a copy of Simplified Dinners for one Meet Penny reader.
Mystie Winckler provided me with a download of Simplified Dinners at no charge and is providing the e-cookbook for giving away. Additional compensation was received but a favorable review was not required. Opinions expressed are 100% my own.
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Time at home is my #1 struggle. Juggling school, soccer, and homework is tough enough without squeezing in dinner. Thanks for the giveaway!
I have some physical limitations and cant stand for long. This cookbook looks like a great idea for me because She sets it up simply and it doesn’t look like any of them require standing for hours 🙂
When I don’t get a home-cooked meal on the table it’s almost always due to lack of preparation on my part. This seems like an easy way to get it done every night.
It all sounds wonderful. Organized for us too – can’t beat it.
I cook at home more often when I have planned well. If I don’t plan, I have little kids tugging at my ankles while I stand looking at the pantry trying to decide what to cook.
That sounds like a book I would like.
Great giveaway!
Boy, I sure could use this cookbook! I am stuck on the same 5 dinners and need an intervention or your cookbook!
Thanks for the chance to win!
Simplify dinner??! Yesss please!!
Time constraints and poor planning ahead keep me from cooking lots of the things I would like to do.
What is the #1 thing that keeps you from cooking more often than you do?
Lack of effort/planning a meal schedule.sometimes I think its easier to get takeout when I long work days instead of cooking for my family.
What a great giveaway! I am a new recipe ADDICT and would love to get my hands on this! The master pantry list is an excellent idea, and one of my favorite tips for new married couples. Get that pantry stocked with basics for your favorite recipess and never let it run out!
Mine is forgetting to take things out of the freezer or being out of an essential ingredient I was sure I had.
I maintain a decent pantry but then can’t find/create menus for the foo dI have! This sounds like the perfect cookbook for me.
The #1 thing that keeps me from cooking would be energy. I pretty much cook everyday of the week, but sometimes when i get home from work I just don’t have the energy. So i don’t : )
I always love new ideas for busy nights!!
Simplified dinners? Now that sounds wonderful! Feels like cooking takes up so much of my time, when I’m making homemade everything it feels like that’s all I get done.
Planning/being organized.
We stay so busy with our school work & co-op classes that it’s hard to find the time to cook dinner. I’m sure if I were more organized, it would be better.
We are soooo tired of the same old meals. I, too, am limited to how long I can stand. I have diabetic neuropathy, a brain tumor, and many other problems so I need all the help I can get. We barely have any income so I need real food ideas that we can afford. Sounds so exciting.
I cook most nights but the biggest barrier is the energy factor – sometimes i am just too tired by dinnertime to do anything much…
What a great resource.
I cook at home nearly all the time, but only because there are so few affordable restaurant options that will work for all the food allergies in my family. I dread doing the meal-planning and grocery shopping, though.
This sounds like a dream come true….shop when I want to, and always have the things I need on hand. I would LOVE to win!
The #1 thing is NOT having the ingredients on hand….LOL
The #1 thing is not only time for cooking, but time to plan the meals ahead of time/get all of the ingredients, etc.
Thanks!
The #1 thing is how busy I always seem to be, plus not having the right ingredients when I do find the time to actually cook. Meal planning is definitely something that i need some help with.
The #1 thing that keeps me from cooking every day is my poor planning.
This would be great to have. #1 Simple organization for my disorganized mind.
The #1 thing that keeps me from cooking is; I don’t know what I’m doing. I suck at cooking. I could burn water. Would LOVE to know how! I can follow recipes pretty easily, but finding non-complicated recipes is difficult. A lot of recipes I find take a bunch of ingredients that I just don’t have and living on a budget prevents me from just running to the store when I need something. So poor planning has a factor too!
Anything that would make preparing and cooking meals easier is always welcome!
Having the same meals over and over.. 🙁 it seems that most new things cost more money to make
It’s that busy time of year, when I am looking for new, easy recipes for the family!
This looks awesome!!
The number 1 thing that keeps me from cooking HAPPILY as often as I’d like (because I have to cook nearly every night if we are going to eat ;0) is not having a plan. There are far too many times I’ve stared dumbly at the nearly empty fridge and cabinets and tried to cobble something together at the last minute.
Hopefully I win this cook book. I think it is neat how she gives you choices of meat and makes the wording easy to understand. I hate reading terms I don’t get in cook books… I usually don’t bother with them if I don’t get it right away. 🙂
Probably having all the ingredients on hand keep me from cooking more often than I do. So the master pantry list will be such a big help for me!!
I’ll be honest here, laziness 🙂
Nothing…I cook ALL the time…and sometimes I weary of it, so some new ideas would be great!
Not having time and honestly, just not having much of a desire (I’m not the best cook), so I need all the help I can get!
Time!
I love to cook and bake, try new recipes and experiment with different ethnic foods. But right now I have a little one so I’ve had to largely scale back dinner time complexity…and it’s not easy. I thought it would be, but no, not so much LOL!
I absolutely love the recipes posted and would love to try them. Taquitos is one of our favorite go to snacks. I love to cook from scratch and with 6 kids at home I need all the help that I can get.
This looks fabulous!!! I’m trying to cook everything from scratch, but feel like I’m in the kitchen all the time!! This looks like it would be so helpful!
The #1 thing that keeps me cooking more? Being tired.
Always looking for “what’s for dinner!”
I know part of the reason I don’t cook as many home cooked meals is just lack of time and planning. My husband hates for me to cook on the weekend so it is hard to make good food during the week.
This sounds amazing. My time is so limited for cooking now because I am homeschooling. I need some simplification but so many slow cooker and other time saving recipe formats are not for real food.
Lisa
I usually fail to get a good healthy meal on the table due to lack of planning. Even when I have a meal plan made out, I end up forgetting to defrost meat or don’t remember to chop the veggies for dinner and then I give up on my intended meal and go for the quick taco or spaghetti meal instead.
Would love to win – always trying to find new ways to make meal planning easier!!!
Kathey
Time!!! Some nights I don’t get home until 6 and my sons bedtime is 7. That can make it a bit too crazy at my house. Even with cooking ahead of time and eating leftovers there’s just not time for a nice family meal sometimes.