The Good Stuff

Good variety of recipes for every taste
Simple easy to follow instructions
Ingredients are easily available in any grocery store
Once you have ingredients in house, recipes are inexpensive to make
Great tips and tricks for stretching your food budget
Excellent pantry list - items that you should always have in your pantry in order to easily put together affordable, delicious meals
Lots of pictures (Not one on everypage though, which would have made my wife even happier - the women cannot make a recipe unless she sees a picture of it)
Recipe Cost index is interesting (see note in not so good stuff below)
My kids will probably eat some of the recipes, the picky little heathens
Well organized and easy to look through -- all the pictures make the recipe look extremely appetizing
Wife thinks the index is good (she is making me put this in the review -- don't tell her but yes a good index is important in a cookbook
The Not So Good Stuff

Recipe Cost Index took a few seconds to figure out - would have been nice to have it listed more obvious
meat terminology is American -- than again not really a bad thing, just a pain in the ass when Ayou go to the store looking for the item and its called something else
Not sure you can really say they are 10 dollar dinners as food here in Alberta is really expensive
Favorite Recipes

Moroccan Meatloaf (DELISH & easy to make)
Zucchini Carpaccio
Sole Napoleon with Tomatio-Caper Crudo
Four-step Chicken Piccata
Bruleed Mandarin Oranges and Sabayon
Black Bean Brownies (For the love of god don't tell the kids there were beans in this recipe - they loved them)
Who Should/Shouldn't Use

This cookbook is perfectly suited for the beginner to intermediate cook -- nothing fancy for the more experienced cook
A great cookbook for those on a budget (and that we are since we are now a one income family)
Highly recommended for inclusion into the inventory of a public library (yes that one is from the wife)
4.5 Dewey's
I received this from Random House in Exchange for an Honest Review ( )