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One Hundred Dollars a Month

I am your typical housewife living in high maintenance suburbia. I have a handsome husband, 2 kids and a flock of pet chickens. I try and feed my family with $100 a month. With the help of coupons, gardening and bartering I am able to squeeze the most out of our grocery budget and still manage to have a little fun along the way.

Mavis’ 24 Days of Christmas Giveaways – Day 19

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I once told a friend once who was complaining that she hated cooking that she should go out and buy a bunch of cookbooks and read them like she would a novel. The pretty pictures and yummy recipes would inspire her. It totally {and accidentally} worked because she ended up buying a Fix It and Forget It cookbook that blew her mind.

I guess she didn’t even own a slow cooker before that. What?!! I was blown away. I asked her like 5 times if she was serious. Who doesn’t own a slow cooker? I pretty much figured every sane, busy human had one because they make getting dinner on the table a breeze. It totally made sense why she hated cooking. Take away my Crock Pot and I’d probably hate it too.

In honor of her cooking breakthrough, I’m giving away a couple Fix It and Forget It cookbooks!

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One lucky reader will win 2 Fix it and Forget It Cookbooks with a retail value of $30 or less from this list.

To enter for a chance to win, simply leave a comment below letting me know what two cookbooks from this list you’d choose if you won.

Just answer that one question and you’re entered to win. Life’s pretty complicated sometimes, so I like to keep things simple around here.

Rules

1 entry per person/ip address. If you cheat, you will totally be disqualified.

This giveaway ends December 19th, 2013 @6 pm PST and the winner will be announced in the December 20th, 2013 edition of Mornings with Mavis. You will be notified via email and have 24 hours to claim your prize. If you do not claim your prize within 24 hours, the prize will be forfeited.

Good Luck! I hope you win!

♥ Mavis

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Comments

  2. Definitely The Big Cookbook and The Kids Cookbook. I love my crockpot and use it almost every day for something.

  4. I’d go with the “Fix It and Forget it Pink” and the “Fix It and Forget It Diabetic” cookbooks.

  5. Set it & Forget it : Vegetarian Cookbook. We’re working on lowering our food budget other ways beyond growing our own (because we live in an apartment with no yard) & without using too many coupons on processed foods. One way is having 3-dinners of meat meals (Usually a roast chicken + chicken leftovers + one additional meat), 1 egg dish & 3 vegetarian dishes. But…. I’M SUPER LIMITED ON MY VEGETARIAN DISH KNOWLEDGE!

    Set it & Forget it: Big Cookbook sounds like fun too. 1400 slow cooker recipes. Could go all Julie & Julia on that bad boy. Blog about making slow cooker meals cover to cover…. & probably going through like 10 crock pots in the process.

  10. I would love the Fix-It and Forget It Kids’ Cookbook and the Fix-It and Forget-It Christmas book. My fifth graders and I have been rocking our two crockpots in class this week. Ever see two boys argue over who gets to stir the chocolate? Super funny!

  11. Pretty much any from the top five…not too picky as I don’t own even one of them…just started getting into the slow cooker now!

  12. Fix-It-Forget-It-Big-Cookbook-Recipes
    Fix-It and Forget-It Big Cookbook: 1400 Best Slow Cooker Recipes!

    These are great recipes, I hope I win!

  14. I would love these: Fix-It and Forget-It kids’ Cookbook: 50 Favorite Recipes to Make in a Slow Cooker and Fix-it and Forget-it Christmas Cookbook: 600 Slow Cooker Holiday Recipes. I love using my crockpot 🙂

  15. So many options, it’s so exciting! I would have to say The Big Cookbook and The Vegetarian Cookbook. Thanks Mavis!

  16. Fix It and Forget It Vegetarian Cookbook: 565 Delicious Slow-Cooker, Stove-Top, Oven, and Salad Recipes, Plus… by Phyllis Pellman Good (May 1, 2012)
    • $13.70 Paperback
    Fix-It and Forget-It Revised and Updated: 700 Great Slow Cooker Recipes (Fix-It and Forget-It Series) by Phyllis Pellman Good (May 1, 2012)
    • $11.97 Paperback

    I love my slow cookers!

  17. I would take Fix-It and Forget-It 5-Ingredient Favorites Exclusive Edition (More than 750 Comforting Slow-Cooker Recipes and maybe the Fix-It and Forget-It Pink Cookbook: More Than 700 Great Slow-Cooker Recipes!

  22. The big cookbook and maybe the kids one because it looks simple. I cant cook much mote than a grilled cheese. I need help my poor husband.

  27. The big one for sure and the Pink one as well…love cooking with the crockpot and these cookbooks would help my variety of meals. Thanks so much.

  28. I love my crock pot also! I’d choose Fix it and Forget it 700 recipes with Fix it andForget it New Cookbook with 250 recipes.
    Thank you for all your great crock pot recipes.

  30. Yay! Cookbooks! I would love to get my hands on the Fix It and Forget It Big Cookbook and the Fix It and Forget it Vegetarian cookbook

  35. I would love the New Cookbook and the Lightly Revised & Updated Healthy, Low-fat one. I just moved to a new state and bought a house with chickens and garden beds. I recently discovered your site and am excited to learn how to take care of my chickens and grow fresh veggies for them and my family. Can’t wait to unpack my crockpot and start making meals in my new house! Thank you for such a great, informative, and fun website.

  42. I would pick the first two on the list – the revised edition (mine is old! love it but I bet the timing is different) and the New Cookbook. Thank you!

  54. I’d go with the Big Cookbook and the Entertaining Cookbook. I have the Lightly one already, but I had no idea that there were so many different ones!

  55. FI&FI Big Cookbook.

    I really, really, really need this. With a newborn, toddler (who is getting into EVERYTHING), and preschooler, I don’t have the time & energy to cook!

  56. I’d love Fix It and Enjoy It Healthy Cookbook and the Vegetarian version. Both would be a great help to the New Year’s resolution that’s bound to be made – just maybe not kept!! ; )

  58. The Big Cookbook and The Kids Cookbook. I have my crockpot going right now with a ham and white bean soup!

  63. The Big Cookbook and the Kids Cookbook. I would love to have these…i’m just making friends with my slow cooker!

  64. I have one Fix It and Forget It cookbook, and I love it! If I won, I’d choose the Kids version and Fix it And Forget It Lightly…I think that would make me use my crock pot even more!

  65. I would love the Fix It and Forget It Diabetic Cookbook because my mom (who’s diabetic) lives with us and it would make meal planning so much easier. Also the Fix It and Forget It 5 Ingredient Soup Cookbook. Soup is our favorite!!

  73. The original Fix It and Forget it Revised and Updated version and The 5-Ingredient Favorites would be be my picks!

  74. The original and the new revised books would be wonderful. I forget – ha!- that’s why I need to fix it! Thanks!

  75. Fix it and forget it big cookbook and kids cookbook! I have 6 kids and try to include them in the kitchen! So fun and good bonding time.

  79. Fix it and Forget It 5 Ingredient Favorite and Fix It and Forget Itd Revised and Updates. The slow cooker is wonderful!

  85. Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly Revised & Updated: 600 Healthy, Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker
    Fix-It and Enjoy-It Potluck Heaven: 543 Stove-Top and Oven Dishes That Everyone Loves

  91. I would love the Fix It and Forget It Big book and ,if there is enough change left, I would pick the Fix It and Forget It Kids cookbook. Thanks for the chance. Merry Christmas.

  98. Christmas and New cookbook. Thanks for these awesome giveaways and the totally awesome everything else you do!!!

  105. I would choose the Fix-It and Enjoy-It Potluck Heaven and the Fix-It and Enjoy-It 5-Ingredient Recipes.

  107. I would pick the new cookbook and the 5 ingredient cookbook. I already own the Big Cookbook and love it!

  108. Fix-it and Forget-it Christmas Cookbook: 600 Slow Cooker Holiday Recipes and Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly Revised & Updated: 600 Healthy, Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker………..I can’t believe that I don’t have any of these cookbooks yet, they look awesome!

  109. Wow! What an awesome giveaway. I would choose:
    Fix-it and Forget-it Christmas Cookbook: 600 Slow Cooker Holiday Recipes AND Fix-it and Forget-it 5-Ingredient Favorites: Comforting Slow Cooker Recipes

    Thanks.
    Merry Christmas Mavis!

  110. I would love to have the Fix it and Forget it New & the Fix it and Forget it Big. I love my Crock pots. (2)

  111. The Fix-It & Forget-It Big Cookbook and the Fix-It & Forget-It Potluck Cookbook. Thanks Mavis – Merry Christmas!

  115. Fix-It and Forget-It Big Cookbook: 1400 Best Slow Cooker Recipes and 600 Healthy, Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker

  118. The Big cookbook and the Diabetic ones. I always feel better when I can fix or share a diabetic friendly recipe with those who are close to me that are diabetic.

  119. I am diabetic so the Diabetic cookbook would be one of my choices. The other would be the 5 ingredients cookbook!

  120. Fix-It and Forget-It Revised and Updated: 700 Great Slow Cooker Recipes (Fix-It and Forget-It Series)
    And
    Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly Revised & Updated: 600 Healthy, Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker
    Thanks!

  122. Thank you so much for introducing these! Slow cooker use rises in Winter…Baby it’s cold outside!
    I would pick
    Fix It And Forget It 5 Ingredient One Dish Dinners
    Fix It And Forget It Christmas Cookbook (so busy at Christmas time)

  127. 5 ingredient favs and the newest edition from 2013. Now I’m inspired to get my slow cooker out and make stuff!

  130. Fix it and Forget It The Big Cookbook and the Kid’s cookbook. The only way you would get my crockpot away from me is you’d have to pry my crockpot from my cold dead hands…LOL I love mine so much I have 3!

  131. What a neat give away. I’d like the Diabetic-stovetop and oven recipes for everyone ($12.34) and the Christmas Cookbook with 600 recipes ($11.05). Thanks.

  134. If I won I would choose the Fix it and Forget it Diabetic Cookbook and the Fix it and Forget it Pink Cookbook.

  135. I would love the “Lightly Revised and Updated” version and the “New Cookbook with 250 new recipes” version! Thank you! 🙂

  136. Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly Revised & Updated: 600 Healthy, Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker
    Fix-It and Forget-It Revised and Updated: 700 Great Slow Cooker Recipes

  137. Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly Revised & Updated: 600 Healthy, Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker and
    Fix-It and Forget-It 5 Ingredient One Dish Dinners

    Thank you,
    Anne

  139. Thank you for the giveaway! I would want the Fix It and Forget It Big Cookbook and Fit IT and Forget It Lightly Revised and Updated.

  147. Fix-It and Forget-It 5-Ingredient Soups & Fix-It and Forget-It Big Cookbook: 1400 Best Slow Cooker Recipes!

  150. The “Vegetarian Fix It & Forget It” and “The Big Fix It and Forget It” Cookbooks would be great. Always looking for good veggie recipes and since I am in the garden so much, It is nice to know that I can prepare something ahead that taste good and is healthy too. Thanks again for another chance to enter your giveaway!

  151. I’d choose the revised and the new. I bought the big book based on your recommendation and it’s been one of my “go to” books since – worth every penny!

  157. I love cookbooks also and although I would love any of them I would pick….
    Fix-It and Forget-It Recipes for Entertaining: Slow Cooker Favorites for All the Year Round and
    Fix-It and Forget-It Revised and Updated: 700 Great Slow Cooker Recipes (Fix-It and Forget-It Series)

  158. I would take the Fix it and Forget it Big Cook Book. I honestly don’t have a slow cooker cook book so it would come in handy.

  159. Fix It & Forget it Revised & Updated: 700 Great Slow Cooker Recipes
    Fix It & Forget It 5 Ingredient Favorites: Comforting Slow Cooker Recipes

  162. Oh, I’d have to go with Fix-It and Forget-It Big Cookbook: 1400 Best Slow Cooker Recipes and
    Fix-It and Forget-It New Cookbook: 250 New Delicious Slow Cooker Recipes. Love crock pot cooking!

  163. I’d have to say the Fix-It and Forget-It New Cookbook and Fix-It and Forget-It Diabetic Cookbook Revised and Updated

  172. Awesome giveaway! I would choose the ones below to aid in my weight loss!
    1) Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly Revised & Updated
    2) Fix-It and Forget-It Diabetic Cookbook Revised and Updated

  179. Not sure if the list is accurate since there are a ton of things besides Fix it and Forget it books on there…
    But of those books I’d choose the vegetarian and lightly versions.

  183. Vegetarian & Diabetic please.
    I recently received a hand-me-down crock pot. I haven’t used it yet. I’d love these cookbooks!

  189. I wouldn’t mind the ‘Diabetic’ and ‘Lightly’ cookbooks. I can always use more healthy recipes especially with how I cook.

  190. Fix-it and Forget-it 5-Ingredient Favorites: Comforting Slow Cooker Recipes & Fix-It and Forget-It Revised and Updated: 700 Great Slow Cooker Recipes (Fix-It and Forget-It Series) would be the ones!

  191. Fix it and forget it cookbook & fix it and forget it big cookbook. Thanks for all the giveaways!

  192. Fix-it and Forget it Revised and Updated and the Fix-it and Forget it Lightly. Merry Christmas!

  194. I’d do the Big Cookbook and the Kids’ Cookbook. I love getting the kids involved in the kitchen. I’ve found that it helps them try new things that they may not try if I would have prepared it.

  195. hello Mavis, I would like to win the Diabetic cookbook because my husband and I are both diabetic and the other one is the BIG COOKBOOK. thanks for the chance.

  196. The Fix it and Forget it Pink, and the Diabetic one–we have so many folks at our church who have either diabetes or cancer, that I am always looking for recipes to make for events that everyone can enjoy. I have FIVE crock pots, four given to me by folks who got newer fancier ones and didn’t want to hold on to the old ones, and a new, jazzier version I got for five dollars at a yard sale, because the lid didn’t have a handle. I LOVE MY CROCK POTS!

  198. I LOVE Fix It and Forget it cookbooks. I just picked up the Big Book from the library last night! I would love to have the Kids and Diabetic books.

  200. The Big Cookbook and the Vegetarian one. I just bought my first crockpot ever last month for something my husband’s job needed and it went right into a cabinate after that. I’d love some inspiration!

  202. Fix It and Forget It Vegetarian Cookbook: 565 Delicious Slow-Cooker, Stove-Top, Oven, and Salad Recipes, Plus and Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly Revised & Updated: 600 Healthy, Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker. I bought the big book after seeing you recommend it all the time. LOVE it!

  203. Believe it or not, my daughter doesn’t own a slow cooker. She’s afraid of leaving it alone all day while she works. If I win, I’d give my cookbooks to her (along with a slow cooker so that she can start using it to have dinner ready when she gets home from work): Revised & Updated: 700 Recipes and 5 Ingredient Favorites. Thanks for all the giveaways you’re doing this month – you rock!

  206. I have a slow cooker but not a cookbook, I would love to win this. The fix it and forget big book and kids cookbook. Thanks

  207. Oh My! I didn’t know they had a fix it and forget it vegetarian 😮 Def that one and the fix it and forget it soups.

  209. Fix-It and Forget-It Big Cookbook: 1400 Best Slow Cooker Recipes! – $22.02
    Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly: Healthy, Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker – $5.75
    Total = $27.77 Yep, that’s a qualifying number!
    I came to it late in life, but it is a lifesaver now that medical treatments mean I have to start a meal early, and leave the house for the day. I’d kiss the boots of whomever invented the slow cooker! Thank you for this opportunity! Merry Christmas!

  216. Fix-It and Forget-It Big Cookbook: 1400 Best Slow Cooker Recipes! 22.02
    Fix-It and Forget-It Diabetic Cookbook: Slow-Cooker Favorites to Include Everyone 7.58
    total =29.60 woohooo!
    I love my slow cooker, but I always make the same things. New recipes would be great.

  217. Fix it and forget it big cookbook and fix it and forget it kids cookbook for sure!! Love my crockpot!

  224. I would love Fix it & Forget it New and Revised and the New Cookbook.
    Thanks for the chance to win!!

  225. the “big” fix it & forget it plus the kid’s one! both would go to my daughter who works a full time job, is caretaker for my Mom, and now a full time mommy (from new marriage)…so she really needs these! thanks Mavis!

  226. Fix It and Forget It Vegetarian Cookbook: 565 Delicious Slow-Cooker, Stove-Top, Oven, and Salad Recipes, Plus 50 Suggested Menus $13.70, Fix-It and Forget-It Revised and Updated: 700 Great Slow Cooker Recipes (Fix-It and Forget-It Series) $11.97.

  227. Fix-It and Forget-It Revised and Updated: 700 Great Slow Cooker Recipes
    Fix-It and Forget-It kids’ Cookbook: 50 Favorite Recipes to Make in a Slow Cooker
    Thanks!!

  230. Hi Mavis, the list won’t load for me, but I would take any combo of the fix-it books, I LOVE them.

  235. I would choose:
    Fix-it and Forget-it 5-Ingredient Favorites: Comforting Slow Cooker Recipes
    and
    Fix-It and Forget-It kids’ Cookbook: 50 Favorite Recipes to Make in a Slow Cooker
    Merry Christmas!

  236. My picks:
    Fix it and Forget it Vegetarian Cookbook and Fit it & Forget it Vegetarian Soups, stews & chili’s

  237. I’m going to copy Lisa from above and request the Fix it and Forget it Vegetarian Cookbook and the Vegetarian Soups, Stews & Chilis Cookbook.

  243. I would love the Fix it and forget it Christmas and Holiday Sweets and Desserts. I have one Fix it and forget it already, (Soups, stews and chili’s) I agree, it is a fabulous cook book! Thank you for the opportunity to win 🙂

  244. Wow, what a great giveaway! I’d go with Not Your Mother’s Slow Cooker Cookbook and Fix-It and Forget-It New Cookbook: 250 New Delicious Slow Cooker Recipes!

  245. I would choose the Kids’ one and the Fix-It and Forget-It New Cookbook: 250 New Delicious Slow Cooker Recipes!

  247. I would pick “Fix It and Forget It New Cookbook” and of course the “Fix It and Forget It Big Cookbook”,,,the more recipes, the merrier!! Thanks for the awesome giveaways!!

  250. I do not own one of these so I would pick the original, updated one and also the dessert one. I use my crock pot all the time but have never attempted a dessert in one.

  251. I’m just like your friend – I don’t own a crock pot (yet), but a little birdie told me that I just might get it for Christmas, so I would appreciate any of these books! If I had to choose, though, I’d pick Fix-It and Forget-It Big Cookbook: 1400 Best Slow Cooker Recipes! and Fix-It and Forget-It kids’ Cookbook: 50 Favorite Recipes to Make in a Slow Cooker (my youngest daughter LOVES to cook, she’d get a kick of having her own cookbook) 🙂 Thank you for a chance to win!

  252. Fix-It and Forget-It Big Cookbook: 1400 Best Slow Cooker Recipes
    Fix-It and Forget-It Diabetic Cookbook Revised and Updated: 550 Slow Cooker Favorites

  253. Fun! I’d pick the Vegetarian Main Dishes and the New Cookbook. LOVE my original one. Hmmm, I need to remember to use my crockpot more.

  255. I would love the fix it and forget it kids as I have some junior chefs in my house! And also the fix and forget it revise and updated 🙂

  256. I’d go for the Big cookbook and the Kids’ cookbook. The only reason I’m not making something in the crock pot right now is that it wasn’t clean from when I used it yesterday!

    • I LOVE my crockpot, but I am running out of ideas. I would love to have the Big Cookbook for myself and the Diabetic Cookbook would come in handy for when my dad comes to visit.

  258. Fix It and Forget It Big Cookbook and the Fix It and Forget It Revised and Updated – love to use my crockpot and need more really good recipes for it

  259. Wow !!! They have a lot of them don’t they? I’ve never seen these books before and love the idea of fixing it and forgetting it !!!

    Fix-It and Forget-It Revised and Updated: 700 Great Slow Cooker Recipes (Fix-It and Forget-It Series)
    Fix-It and Forget-It 5-Ingredient One-Dish Dinners

  260. I’d love Crock-Pot Best-Loved Slow Cooker Recipes and Fix it and Forget it Big Cookbook: 1400 Best Slow Cooker Recipies

  262. This is right up my alley. I have about 6 rockstar crockpot meals but the teenagers in the house have threatened mutiny unless I find some new recipes. I’d choose the Big book and the Entertaining book, they sound promising!

  263. Hi Elf Mavis,
    I’d love copies of the Fix it and forget it books for kids and for diabetics.
    I just bought my second crock pot (should have got the one with the delay timer option-oh well maybe that will be my third crock pot!)
    Thanks!
    You rock!

  264. Would love to have the Fix-It and Forget-It Lightly Revised & Updated: 600 Healthy, Low-Fat Recipes for Your Slow Cooker and the Kids one as well. Thank you so much for offering this giveaway!

  268. I’d get the Big cookbook and the 5 ingredient favorites cookbook. My daughter is just starting out her family and loves using her crock pot the most!

  271. I would love to own the Vegetarian Mains Dishes and the 5 ingredient Soup ones. That would make life so much easier to get in the groove using my crock pot.

  273. I would chose the Diabetic Cookbook for my mom. My dad was diagnosed with diabetes a couple years ago. I would also choose the Kid’s Cookbook to get my two boys into the kitchen cooking.

  281. I’d like the Big cookbook and the Kids book (would give to my granddaughters so they can learn to make meals not out of a box!)

  282. [To the tune of White Christmas…] I’m dreaming of the Big Cookbook and the Diabetic Cookbook!

  284. Fix It and Forget It Vegetarian Cookbook , and Mom and Me in the Kitchen: Memories of My Mother’s Kitchen. Thanks Mavis!

  286. I’d like thumbing through the Fix-It and Forget-It Big Cookbook and the Lightly cookbook for easy dinner ideas.

  287. I would choose the kids one and the diabetic one. I hear great things about this series of cookbooks!

  289. The diabetic one and the new one. I struggle with eating properly while still cooking what my husband likes. This would be a God send! love your column.

  293. I would love the Fix It & Forget Big Cookbook for my daughter and I would like the diabetic cookbook for myself & husband. What fun it would be to share all that “good” cooking!

  294. I’d love the Fix it and Forget it Big cookbook… 1400 recipes? Heck, that’s one a day for…. a very long time. And I only have about 90 cookbooks, so I know I need one more

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