If you’re looking for down-home cooking, this book has it with foods that are simple to make. It contains recipes that are sure to please with meals that will stick to your ribs. This cookbook is your one source for it all, from soup to desserts, to ways to save money by taking advantage of seasonal items. A very useful tool to have in your arsenal of cookbooks.
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Wanda Brunstetter's new cookbook is a amazing way to help stretch your grocery budget. I am a huge fan of this author and I love when we get new recipes that come straight from the heart of Amish Country, I love that these recipes are laid out and help you get the most out of your groceries. This might be my favorite cookbook by the author yet

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This is a wonderful cookbook that everyone needs in their cookbook collection. It's full of wonderful sounding recipes and tips. I highly recommend this cookbook.
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3.5 stars

I’m not sure this is a cookbook I would use all that often but I do appreciate the thought behind it. I like that there are minimal ingredients and all of the recipes seem quick and easy with minimal effort. However, some are as simple as take your leftovers, layer them, bake and eat. That is not an exaggeration it’s pretty close to the actual recipe. There are also a few that I would never in my life consider but I’m sure there are plenty of people that would (frog legs, heart, tongue). That’s just not for me.

I will say a lot of the sides and drinks look really tasty.

Also I wish there was more pictures. They really make or break a cookbook for me.

I was expecting more from this book. The tips were not something new for me, i was all ready doing what the author proposed in her book. I think this book is useful for someone new to cooking and saving food. I find the book pretty basic

"Wanda E. Brunstetter's Amish Friends No Waste Cookbook" is a treasure chest full of amazing recipes, Bible quotes, hints, sayings, and miscellaneous how-to's. The recipes are exactly what you'd expect from the Amish - down home comfort food that are not only delicious, but can be made with ingredients you probably have on hand.

I was very pleased to find that not only are there the "normal" food recipes, but also included are one for making items like deodorant, bleach alternative, laundry soap, baby wipes, and other very useful miscellaneous recipes. I have tried a few and they work!

There is a wonderful canning/preserving section, but I will say that one must be aware that many of the Amish use the "old" ways of water bath canning meats and other low acid foods that is not recommended by the USDA. Meats that are water bathed in this book should now be processed in a pressure canner. Please do your research before canning the recipes. There is a free guide online that the USDA has put out called "The Complete Guide to Home Canning". Am I saying not to use the canning recipes? Absolutely not. But do look up how to safely can the items.

"Wanda E. Brunstetter's Amish Friends No Waste Cookbook" is a wonderful cookbook that should be a part of any kitchen. It is filled with some of the most mouthwatering recipes that many people associate with the Amish community. You'll find yourself pulling it off your shelf again and again. Yes, the recipes are that delicious!

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I really enjoyed this cookbook. I am always looking for simple "home style" meals. This is a wonderful book with great recipes. I am going to be adding it to my shelf.
Thank you Net Galley for for allowing me to review and try out this wonderful cook book!

I attempted to read and review Amish Friends No Waste Cookbook but was unable to do so as the book was difficult to read due to formatting issues. What was able to see, which was mostly color photos, the book looks lovely.

Another lovely Amish cookbook by Wanda E. Brunstetter. The book is filled with beautiful pictures, appetizing recipes and tips for not wasting food, but using leftovers and stretching your budget in these hard times.

The book includes an Index of Contributors, an Index of Recipes by Section, and an Index of Recipes by Key Ingredients.

I highly recommend this lovely addition to your cookbook library.

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With the prices of everything going up, Wanda E. Brunstetter's Amish Friends No Waste Cookbook: More Than 270 Recipes Help Stretch a Food Budget, is a perfect addition for everyone’s kitchen. Recipes included are: beverages, breakfast, breads, salads, side dishes, main dishes, desserts, snacks, candies, canning, curing and more. The kids and I have already tried the Cozy Hot Chocolate and it was delicious and so easy to make. There so many other recipes we want to try but too many to list. This recipe book will definitely be kept in a convenient location in the kitchen.

I am giving Wanda E. Brunstetter's Amish Friends No Waste Cookbook: More Than 270 Recipes Help Stretch a Food Budget five stars. I highly recommend it for everyone, especially for those who are looking for quick and easy recipes.

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I have loved Wanda's Recipe books and this one had some very nice and simple recipes. I have gone down one person in my household and this gives nice casseroles that could be used a couple of nights for my now small household. The Cheeseburger Bacon Pasta sounded like a winner to me! As did the Pizza Casserole! Can't wait to try them. I need to a way to use the leftovers that I always seem to have in the fridge and somehow often end up just throwing away. And this book seems to fit the bill perfectly. The dessert items looked so nummy! I can't wait to start baking and cooking these wonderful looking foods. The artwork was great and everything looks wonderful.
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I really enjoyed this cookbook. These are receipes that are truly made from scratch.. The content is receipes that are popular in the Amish setting. Throughout the book are tips with are fun nugggets to read. I enjoyed at the end of the book the miscellaneous chapter of additional foot tips. This book is helping to stretch your food budget. The photos are nice. Could always include more photos of the finished items.

Wanda E. Brunstetter’s Amish Friends No Waste Cookbook
Wanda E. Brunstetter
We are a wasteful society, but we weren’t always. Think back to the way our grandparents and great grandparents lived, most of them could not afford to waste food. But we have forgotten what it means to go without. I remember my mother telling me about her family. Times were hard and supplies were scarce, they had no choice but to live frugally and not waste anything.
With inflation at a high we all need to learn to use what we have and not waste food. Author Wanda E. Brunstetter’s new cookbook Amish Friends No Waste Cookbook should be on a shelf in every kitchen for it is chockful of delightful recipes that will assist in stretching your budget and still providing delicious meals for your family.
MS Brunstetter begins her book with beverages. Among the tempting recipes she has one for Refreshing Peach Tea that is delightful. Her breakfast recipes include Best Brunch Enchiladas and Hash Brown Cheese Omelet. Her chapter on breads has a Gluten-Free Dairy-Free Bread for those of us who are Gluten Free. The breadsticks look and taste luscious. Deep-Fried Pizza Dough is tasty and reminds me of a recipe from my cousin, Cindy, Dough Dads. Under Main Dishes she has a recipe that we should all become familiar with, Anything Casserole, perfect for your leftovers. The Potluck Taco Casserole sounds yummy (I haven’t tried this one yet, but it is on my to do list.) There are soups, desserts, salads, side dishes, snacks and a chapter on Canning and Curing.
You will find TIPS throughout this book as well as quotes. This is one of the quotes that stuck with me: “When we have nothing left but God, we will find that he is enough. Amish Proverb.” I will end this review with one more quote from the book: “Hard Times – To survive hard times, I think the old motto holds true today: use it up, wear it out, make it do or do without. Emma Kurtz, Smicksburg, PA”

The Amish have a reputation for preparing good, simple food, and bestselling Amish author, Wanda Brunstetter has compiled several cookbooks filled with recipes from her friends. Wanda E. Brunstetter's Amish Friends No Waste Cookbook: More Than 270 Recipes Help Stretch a Food Budget is a timely cookbook, not only filled with great recipes, but also hints to help on the food budget as well as use up everything with no waste. The cookbook is reminiscent of a church cookbook where the recipes are contributed by members of the church or community. Brunstetter takes her cookbooks a step higher, however, and adds beautiful photographs of many of the dishes. So, not only does this cookbook contain mouthwatering, yet simple recipes, but also enough pictures to make it difficult to choose what to make next. Unlike many church and community cookbooks, the recipes are written in standard form and are easy to follow. They include the information (like can and package sizes) to make successful dishes. Other than canned goods, few convenience foods are called for, which is refreshing, and will result in less preservatives and crap that is most likely making us all sick.
There are also several entries for recipes you don’t usually see, like for soap, homemade corn syrup, and even homemade lard. Several gluten-free helps are also included such as a gluten-free baking blend. The end of the cookbook includes clever and helpful household hints and tips that anyone can learn from.
All told, this is yet another Amish cookbook by Wanda E. Brunstetter that will be an asset to any cookbook shelf. Anyone who owns her previous books will welcome this excellent addition and find new ideas hand helps for an easier time in the kitchen.

Special thanks to NetGalley for supplying a review copy of this book.

I enjoy flipping through cookbooks and this was no exception! Thanks NetGalley for the ARC, I appreciated the opportunity to view "Amish Friends No Waste Cookbook by Wanda Brunsetter.

Amish Friends No Waste Cookbook is full of recipes that are easy to put together using ingredients you most likely already have in your pantry. Included in the book are sections for breakfast, lunch, dinner, and other helpful sections such as household advice and tips.

Wanda E. Brunstetter pens those twee Amish romances that are currently all the rage. They’re not for me, but who am I to argue with a woman who has sold 10 million copies, translated into four languages? Here she turns her hand to supplying some humble, cheaper fare for this time of inflation.

Brunsetter doesn’t include her own recipes. Like the Women’s Auxiliary in every Midwestern church, she collects a bunch of recipes to combine into a cookbook. And the entries don’t seem to belong together. On the one hand, you have the same tired recipes (yet another recipe for hamburger-and-bean casserole or coleslaw or cobbler — noooooo!) Sporadically throughout the book, Brunstetter also gives what looks like some spectacularly bad advice, like recommending that readers eschew pancakes, waffles and biscuits to save money, which is instead to be spent on “whole foods such as eggs, meats, dairy products and good healthy fats [that] actually result in a much lower grocery bill, provided you grow at least some of those things yourself.” What? How many readers have chickens to lay eggs or pigs to slaughter or a cow to milk?

Apparently, a lot! The first half may be a standard 1950s-style cookbook, but the second half becomes pretty Amish: recipes for venison jerky, chicken feet, beef tongue, liver patties, pickled pig stomach or beef heart, curing your own ham, canning stewing hens, making your own baking powder, your own cottage cheese and sour cream, your own gluten-free flour mix, your own grape juice or corn syrup, your own liverwurst and lard (I kid you not!), Peach Peeling Jelly and my favorite: Simple Fruit Canning, where you don’t have to boil the cans because you’re sealing the Mason jars tightly, putting them in a five-gallon bucket, covering them with water and storing them in the ice house! Wow!

I really don’t know what to think of this eclectic cookbook, but I’m glad I read it. I really don’t know how to rate it, so I didn’t on Goodreads.

In the interest of full disclosure, I received this book from NetGalley, Barbour Publishing and Barbour Books in exchange for an honest review.

I received an ARC of this cookbook from NetGalley in exchange for an honest review.

This is a great cookbook for if you want to make recipes with easy to find ingredients and you want to use leftovers. I tried the recipe for Pizza Rice, using leftover rice that I was about to throw away, and it was delicious.

This was disappointing. Some of the recipes sound good but there's really nothing out of the ordinary here, unless you want to make something like your own laundry detergent - which requires lard and lye.

As far as the "No Waste" part of the title - well, yes, if I don't peel my veggies I don't have to throw away the peelings.

I appreciated the references to Bible verses but they didn't make up for the lack of recipes I'd want to try.

Thank you to NetGalley, Barbour Publishing, and Wanda E. Brunstetter for an ARC of this book.

This cookbook was cute and folksy, it read almost exactly like one of those church or school fundraiser cookbooks where different people submit recipes and they're all thrown in together.

Most of the recipes were not ones that I would personally choose to make but I do appreciate that many of the recipes were non-recipe recipes (ie, they just say thrown in an arbitrary amount of X to taste) since that is more what my cooking style is. People who follow recipes religiously may find this off-putting. I really liked the canning ideas at the end, that's something that I'm looking at getting into. Love the detailed instructions on how to pickle a pig stomach, that's the content I'm here for.

A lot of the "no waste" tips were things that seem very obvious to me (save your bacon grease! don't throw out your vegetable scraps!) but perhaps they are less common sense than I thought? Decide for yourself.

Thanks to Netgalley for an ARC.