Miguel Barclay's FAST & FRESH One Pound Meals: Delicious Food For Less

I got this book after having been impressed by Miguel Barclay's One Pound Meals book. Like the previous book, Fast & Fresh is a nicely produced paperback with a full page picture of each meal, a simple to follow recipe and it uses readily accessible ingredients. While you would need very careful in planning and shopping to produce the meals for £1 there is no doubt they are economical, tasty and straightforward. 20-30 minutes is the typical preparation time. Some of the recipes call for frozen or tinned goods. I have no problem with those but if you do you can always upgrade to fresh. No offal, thank goodness. I've tried quite a few recipes since I got the book and they have all turned out well and they do indeed look like the photographs in the book. Although this book is billed as recipes for the summer months I'd be happy to mix and match from either book throughout the year.

Love these easy to follow recipes

I absolutely love these books. I heard Miguel Barclay on the radio and thought I'd check them out, sounded too good to be true. I started getting his recipes from Instagram and then borrowed the books from the library. I have made so many of his recipes, they are so quick, so easy and so tasty, some of the tastiest meals I have ever made. So I had to buy the books. They are not a recipe book which will just sit on the shelf, unused. I regularly make the recipes after work, when you're usually too tired to bother too much. And you'll never look at a chicken thigh in the same way again! I still need to try the vegan one, but I would highly recommend the other three.

This guy is a genius! His first book was good but this one is even better. There isn't a single dish I wouldn't cook from this book and that's unusual (I have a vast selection of cookbooks from which I may cook 1 or 2 dishes at most each). I've already cooked 16 different meals from this book and I've only had it 10 days! There are plenty of low carb options as well as veggie, meat, chicken, pasta and the fish has been a revelation. It's really got me cooking again because its all so easy to throw together. It's easy to shop for and cook up even after a long day at work because there is only a few ingredients for each meal. I cook 2 portions and take the second for lunch to work the next day. Even though I have kids, I love that the portions are for 1 because I often don't want to eat the same food as my picky children!. Plus the portion sizes are healthy too. The cauliflower steak, asparagus 'danish', Cajun chicken, Spanish chorizo stew, fish en papilliotte and white fish cassoulet are all dishes I'll do again and have served some of these to friends who loved them too. They look like you've made a big effort when they're on the tabke in 10-20 mins. I've decided to cook my way through the whole book. Every recipe. Even if you are not on a budget, buy this book for its simplicity and flavour. You wont be disappointeed with this book and I'm sure it will save you money too.

Originally bought for my nephew who is off to uni and thought he might find it useful. He will not find it useful (being on a budget and fussy about his food), but I will. The good thing about the recipes is few ingredients and simple instruction- brilliant! Great food ideas for when you want a quick meal, but not sure what you're in the mood for. However, if you do want to stick to the £1.00 budget then you will probably be starving most of the time. Still, I would recommend this book to anyone.

Bought for my son to take to university but I have used it lots for family meals. Some different meals and my son likes the clear instructions plus the breakfast ideas that I wasn't interested in. I am not sure if £1 is accurate especially as there is a lot of "handfuls" of ingredients which you obviously cannot buy like that, although he has a few recipes using up the extra ingredient. I am quite often disappointed by recipe books that look good from the outside but there are only a small handful of recipes that you like or like to cook. This book has lots of useful recipes and good ideas. I would definitely buy a Miguel Barclay recipe book again.

Lots of easy, tasty, and healthy dishes, made with easily obtained ingredients. Useful for anyone attempting the Mediterranean Diet. Excellent to have quantities for one person, which are easy to size up if wished. Mercifully, only a few instances of the annoying "grabbing" which occurs in all his books. "Grab a . . . sheet of greaseproof paper"; "Grab a few slices. ."; "Grab a bag. . ."; "Grab a muffin tin"; "Grab a tin of corn"; "Grab a jar"; "Grab an ovenproof dish."

Loved the idea of writing a book of recipes for 1 person - so difficult to get decent recipes for 1 person. Most of the recipes are good and those that are not can easily be tweaked. My complaint has to be the limitation imposed by the £1 limit. Every so often we want to indulge and spend some extra on...whatever takes your fancy. I do hope Miguel will write a book for 1 person which cost a bit more for when we want to treat ourselves.

great book. very few ingredient in each receipe and easy to folloe instructions

Ich habe Monatlich in etwa 40€ für Essen übrig und dank diesem Buch habe ich trotz dessen rund 5€ Ersparnisse, welche ich dann mir beiseite legen kann.

Simple, tasty easy to prepare meals. Wonderful stuff!

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