A Man, A Can, A Plan, A Second Helping: 50 Fast Meals to Satisfy Your Healthy Appetite

The latest entry in the A Man, a Can series returns with more easy recipes for great, guy-friendly food.

When award-winning cookbook author/editor David Joachim introduced the A Man, a Can series in 2002 with A Man, a Can, a Plan, readers and reviewers alike were quick to embrace the winning premise: quick, tasty, healthful meals based on canned and other convenience foods. “This cookbook makes meals guys would love,” raved the Philadelphia Daily News. “A foolproof, not to mention spill-

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Kurt A. Johnson

12 of 12 people found the following review helpful:

Offbeat but highly useful!, September 3, 2007

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Kurt A. Johnson (North-Central Illinois, USA) –







This review is from: A Man, A Can, A Plan, A Second Helping: 50 Fast Meals to Satisfy Your Healthy Appetite (Board book)

This neat little cookbook has some fifty quick and easy recipes that can be prepared using nothing but a microwave oven and a few ingredients. The recipes are organized into eight categories: beef, chicken, pork, fish, noodles, beans, veggies, and fruit.

During a recent heat wave, my wife and I were redoing our menu, searching for meals that would require a minimum of baking and boiling, and as such keep from heating up the house. Well, this book came as something of a godsend! The recipes are all easy to make, use the microwave oven, and taste great. Yeah, I know, how can something cooked entirely in a microwave taste great? Well, take my word for it, these meals succeed!

So far, we have tried the Red Bull Steak, the Chicken and Dumplings, and the Peach-Bluenana Smoothie, and loved them all. We highly recommend this offbeat but highly useful cookbook to everyone!

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D. Starks “inspectrg”

9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:

Second helping feels different than the first, November 20, 2008

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D. Starks “inspectrg” (Cleveland, OH) –

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The first edition of this book featured lots of dishes featuring non-perishable ingredients and really simple instructions that people with zero cooking know-how could follow. Second helping diverges in that there are many more fresh products (specifically in the meat department) and the instructions have gotten more complicated. It’s as if this is more of an advanced version, instead of a continuation of the same thing. This is no longer a dorm-room cuisine cookbook, it’s more geared towards someone actually willing to take effort to cook.

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Chase Mann “Creative Owner”

5 of 6 people found the following review helpful:

Nice layout, easy recipes … yucky food., December 23, 2007

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Chase Mann “Creative Owner” (San Diego, CA United States) –

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I’m sad to say that the food from this book is NOT very pleasing to the palette.

I’m not very good at cooking, but thought this book looked easy enough.
I’ve made over a dozen of the recipes … and I’ve actually enjoyed ONLY 1!

The Pork Beef Stew with Sweet Potatoes … and even then I cooked it in a crock-pot (not following the prep instructions since I’d been disappointed with at least 4 meals thus far) which made the meat very juicy and delicious.

Save your money and buy Lean Cuisine frozen dinners instead, they’re cheaper, healthier and easier to make.

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