A perfect cookbook for anyone who just doesn't have time to cook No time to cook? No worries! You can finally skip the drive-through and put home-cooked meals on the table any night of the week! The key is saving time not just in the kitchen, but during that time-consuming trip to the supermarket. "Supermarket Shortcuts" will get you in and out of the supermarket quickly, efficiently, and cheaply with strategies for streamlining your shopping, then preparing hundreds of delicious, quick meals, almost from scratch. Filled with 370 recipes made easy and speedy with convenient prepackaged foods and pre-set shopping lists, "Supermarket Shortcuts" includes A variety of home-style favorites and new flavors, like Cheesy Meatball Stew, Stir-fry Chicken and Peppers, and Spiked Pot Roast and Potato SimmerWays to make meal preparation faster and easier-saving you not only time in the kitchen, but also time (and money!) at the supermarketA "Shortcuts to Supper" chapter presents 50 great-tasting convenience products followed by five recipes for each (250 recipes in all!), all ready with a minimum of time and effort "1 Grocery Bag, 5 ways" chapter presents a shopping list with 10 ingredients and lets you decide which of five recipes you want to fixA make-ahead chapter perfect for removing stress from dinnertimeA "Workaday Dinners" chapter with family-style recipes ready in 30 minutes or less, with short ingredients lists (10 or fewer ingredients) featuring easy-to-find convenience products and/or fresh ingredients that require minimal preparation With 24 pages of beautiful color photos, "Supermarket Shortcuts "has the easy, quick recipes you need to make dinnertime-and shopping for dinner-a snap.

This extensively revised and expanded edition broadens the reach and depth of the permaculture approach for urban and suburban gardeners. The text's message is that working with nature, not against it, results in more beautiful, abundant, and forgiving gardens.

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • The former First Lady, author of Becoming, and producer and star of Waffles + Mochi tells the inspirational story of the White House Kitchen Garden and how gardens can transform our lives and the health of our communities. Early in her tenure as First Lady, despite being a novice gardener, Michelle Obama planted a kitchen garden on the White House’s South Lawn. To her delight, she watched as fresh vegetables, fruit, and herbs sprouted from the ground. Soon the White House Kitchen Garden inspired a new conversation all across the country about the food we feed our families and the impact it has on the nutrition and well-being of our children. In American Grown, Mrs. Obama invites you inside the White House Kitchen Garden, from the first planting to the satisfaction of the seasonal harvest. She reveals her early worries and struggles—would the new plants even grow?—and her joy as lettuce, corn, tomatoes, collards and kale, sweet potatoes and rhubarb flourished in the freshly tilled soil. She shares the stories of other gardens that have moved and inspired her on her journey across the nation. And she offers what she learned about planting your own backyard, school, or community garden. American Grown features: • a behind-the-scenes look at every season of the garden’s growth • unique recipes created by White House chefs • striking original photographs that bring the White House garden to life • a fascinating history of community gardens in the United States From a modern-day vegetable truck that brings fresh produce to underserved communities in Chicago, to Houston office workers who make the sidewalk bloom, to a New York City school that created a scented garden for the visually impaired, to a garden in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, that devotes its entire harvest to those less fortunate, American Grown isn’t just the story of a single garden. It’s a celebration of the bounty of our nation and a reminder of what we can all grow together.

Look Good, Feel Great, and Save Big with This Giant Collection of Homemade Healers, Quick Tricks, and Crazy Cures! You deserve the best. So why not treat yourself to blessed natural relief from aches, pains, and other minor health and beauty problems -- and save a bundle in the bargain -- by mixing up hundreds of homemade healers with ordinary items you already have on hand? Heal heartburn with vinegar? Fade age spots with horseradish? Calm arthritis with tipsy raisins? You bet?and lots more besides! We?ve gathered 1,241 brand-new real-life remedies, kitchen cures, powerful potions, folk fixers, and magic elixirs in our bestest, brightest, and healthiest new book! You get 350 mix-?em-up, fix-?em-up tonics you can make at home for just pennies, including: Sniff Away Sniffles Solution; Wild Yam Arthritis Tamer; Hound Away Cough Syrup; Cent-Sible Stomach Settler; Blemish Banishing Tonic; Farewell, Cellulite Massage Oil; Hair's-to-Bananas Hair Cream; Pure-and-Simple Wrinkle Remover;, And much, much more! There?s a whole lifetime of healing wisdom packed into these pages. Hundreds of fun fixers and excellent elixirs that work wonders and save you money every day. The teas and tonics?ointments and unguents ... potions and lotions you'll discover in this book are just the ticket for quick relief you can rely on?whenever you need it.

How to save money, time, and the environment-on the urban frontier With The Complete Idiot's Guide® to Urban Homesteading anyone can learn how to live sustainably and responsibly—and save money and time—in any urban environment. Expert urban homesteader Sundari Elizabeth Kraft shares her hands-on knowledge of: growing organic foods and preserving them; composting; raising small livestock and chickens; generating electricity and biofuels; and other ways to cut costs and live green. This book has all the information required to become a successful urban homesteader in any city. • Practical advice on everything from composting to clean energy. • Sundari Elizabeth Kraft is an expert in urban homesteading.

"Highly recommended to anyone that has an interest in aromatherapy and the energetic and vibrational aspects of essential oils."—Kelly Holland Azzaro, Past President of the National Association for Holistic Aromatherapy "An excellent resource...Kac's work is thorough, easy to understand, and gives you the depth to want to delve into using oils on a regular basis."—Ann Boroch, CNC, award-winning author of The Candida Cure Includes more than 100 recipes for everyday use Explore a new world of aromatic awakening, physical healing, and natural delight. The Healing Art of Essential Oils is a comprehensive guide to fifty carefully selected oils, providing a master class in uses, blending, history, and spiritual benefits. Learn how to use oils for physical and emotional healing. Prepare oils for relaxation, stress relief, and treating ailments. You'll find all kinds of uses, such as what oils work best in love spells and how to create rituals with oils. Enjoyed for their spiritual and beneficial properties by cultures around the world for thousands of years, the essential oils presented here will help you achieve holistic wellness and personal enrichment. Praise: "In this well-researched book, Kac Young leads the reader through the history of essential oils and their use in daily life, beautifully bringing together ancient wisdom with modern thought."—Kavitha Chinnaiyan, MD, director of Advanced Cardiac Imaging Education at Beaumont Hospital