Womans Day - Womans Day Easy Everyday Dinners: Go-to Family Recipes for Each Night of the Week

Ask any reader, past or present, what she loves most about Womans Day, and shell say without the slightest hesitation, The recipes! For 76 years the WD food editors have been steaming, sauting, stir-frying, broiling and braising to create recipes that are simple, delicious and fast.

Our kitchen looks a lot like yours: We have a regular stove and oven, a beat-up but beloved stand mixer and a seasoned 6-qt slow cooker. We cook like you do, except we put our recipes through a long and rigorous process of testing and tweaking until were 100% happy. We take pride in our recipes so that you can be proud of the meals you serve your family.

As we develop recipes for each issue, nutrition is front of mindwe keep an eye on calorie and sodium counts, and weve never met a vegetable we didnt like. But we also believe that mixing in some savory (or sweet!) indulgences into a week of healthy dinners keeps everyone happy and satisfied. So you can make wise choices, each recipe in this cookbook includes nutritional information.

We also added a icon for every recipe that meets our heart-healthy criteria and noted some of those that come in at 400 calories or less.

Getting dinner on the table shouldnt break the bank. Just as we do in the magazine, weve priced out each recipe in this cookbook so you know how much it will run you per serving. To determine costs we used a combination of national averages from the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA), grocery store prices from around the country and the suggested retail price of nationally available brands for packaged, canned and frozen ingredients. Its not an exact scienceas a careful shopper, you know that grocery prices change frequently depending on whats on sale and where you shopbut using this information as a guideline will help you make informed choices that benefit your wallet.