--- product_id: 3815040 title: "Dinner: The Playbook: A 30-Day Plan for Mastering the Art of the Family Meal: A Cookbook" price: "637 kr" currency: NOK in_stock: true reviews_count: 10 url: https://www.desertcart.no/products/3815040-dinner-the-playbook-a-30-day-plan-for-mastering-art store_origin: NO region: Norway --- # Dinner: The Playbook: A 30-Day Plan for Mastering the Art of the Family Meal: A Cookbook **Price:** 637 kr **Availability:** ✅ In Stock ## Quick Answers - **What is this?** Dinner: The Playbook: A 30-Day Plan for Mastering the Art of the Family Meal: A Cookbook - **How much does it cost?** 637 kr with free shipping - **Is it available?** Yes, in stock and ready to ship - **Where can I buy it?** [www.desertcart.no](https://www.desertcart.no/products/3815040-dinner-the-playbook-a-30-day-plan-for-mastering-art) ## Best For - Customers looking for quality international products ## Why This Product - Free international shipping included - Worldwide delivery with tracking - 15-day hassle-free returns ## Description NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Three signs you need this book: 1) Chicken fingers qualify as adventurous. (Hey, they’re not nuggets.) 2) You live in fear of the white stuff touching the green stuff. 3) Family dinner? What’s family dinner? When Jenny Rosenstrach’s kids were little, her dinner rotation looked like this: Pasta, Pizza, Pasta, Burgers, Pasta. It made her crazy—not only because of the mind-numbing repetition, but because she loved to cook and missed her prekid, ketchup-free dinners. Her solution? A family adventure: She and her husband, Andy, would cook thirty new dishes in a single month—and her kids would try them all. Was it nuts for two working parents to take on this challenge? Yes. But did it transform family dinner from stressful grind to happy ritual? Completely. Here, Rosenstrach—creator of the beloved blog and book Dinner: A Love Story —shares her story, offering weekly meal plans, tons of organizing tips, and eighty-plus super-simple, kid-vetted recipes. Stuck in a rut? Ready to reboot dinner? Whether you’ve never turned on a stove or you’re just starved for inspiration, this book is your secret weapon. Praise for Dinner: The Playbook “Your hard-to-please crew will wolf down these inventive ways to introduce ‘fancy’ foods. Jenny Rosenstrach created them for her family, and she swears you’ll be shocked by the clean plates. . . . Dinner: The Playbook mixes ‘You can do this’ inspiration, practical planning, and easy recipes [with] hard-earned wisdom for getting a kid-pleasing meal on the table, night after night.” — Redbook “The master of simple, low-stress cooking. You might know her from her blog, Dinner, A Love Story; her new book, Dinner: The Playbook, is full of the same secret strategies for busy women.” — Glamour “Families and novice cooks who accept Rosenstrach’s challenge will definitely find a few ‘keepers’ here.” — Library Journal “Jenny Rosenstrach has truly mastered the art of the happy family dinner. This is the most sensible advice on cooking for kids I’ve ever seen: no gimmicks, no tricks, just practical advice for working parents. I wish this book had been around when my son was small.” —Ruth Reichl “This book is for anyone who loves the promise of a home-cooked dinner but gets bogged down by the day-to-day reality of it: picky kids, picky spouses, the extinction of the nine-to-five workday, and the pressure—oh, the pressure—to get it on the table before everyone collapses into a hangry (hungry + angry) meltdown. Which is to say that this book is for me, me, me. And I bet it’s for you too.” —Deb Perelman, author of The Smitten Kitchen Cookbook “Well, Jenny Rosenstrach, on the behalf of my whole family, thanks for the most practical—and yet still inspired—cookbook on our shelf. You are singularly responsible for my return to the kitchen.” —Kelly Corrigan, author of Glitter and Glue “Jenny Rosenstrach is warm, wise and a genius when it comes to dinners.” —Joanna Goddard, blogger, A Cup of Jo Review: WINNER! - It's one thing to say that "Family Dinner" is important, quite another to actually do it. We're all so busy and crammed with activities so it's difficult to get it all together, especially if you are working or otherwise busy and your kids are picky eaters (aren't everyone's?). This book, which follows in the style of Jenny's blog (Dinner, a Love Story) tells you how. WHAT A WINNER! Not just good recipes, but a game plan on how you and your family can make Family Dinner happen -- and be happy about it. She not only sets out a game plan, but offers loads of helpful tidbits everywhere, like in The Kitchen Dump Section, where there's some info on what to do with bruised apples. And, for picky eaters, a suggestion to "rename" a dish so it will sound more appealing and maybe get your child to try it. I especially liked the advice to have your children look at pictures of food, to see what they find appealing. Why didn't I ever think of that? And I also especially like that she recommends shopping with your children. What better way to spend some time talking to your children than in a supermarket where you can distinguish colors for the youngest ones, show the scale and how it works to your grade schoolers, ask your older children to figure out how much 3 pounds of peaches cost, show your children the long list of ingredients on the junk food labels? You may not consider this an adventure, but you get to do what you have to and spend some quality time with your children too. BRAVO Jenny. Jenny never preaches. This is all just sound, practical advice to help take the stress out of planning, shopping, cooking and finally, eating dinner together as a family. Your game plan may not be hers. You may choose different recipes. But the concept of considering, planning, shopping, cooking and dining with family is now a lot easier if you use this wonderful book. Btw, the recipes are easy. The Sticky Pomegranate Chicken Pieces have 4 ingredients and taste awesome. Also loved the Miso Glazed Salmon. Review: My kids tried radishes and kale!?! - We are on day 2 of our 30-day challenge and I want to thank the author and this book for getting us organized and motivated to take the plunge into making one family meal every night. My kids are 5 and 7. For the last 5 years we have been having 2 separate dinners -- mac & cheese / chicken nuggets for the kids and blue apron / hello fresh for my husband and myself. We are all trying new foods and talking a lot about the "fun challenge" and the "big prizes" for all our hard work. My kids tried radishes and kale on our first two nights, and liked them! WHA!? I don't know if we're going to an all kale/radish diet quite yet, but I'm so thrilled they tried some legitimately adventurous new foods! They also ate the salmon and chicken sausage, which I can't believe I consider a footnote to my review -- this is a major, major step in the right direction. I'm taking off 1 star for the overall organization and detail in the book. This is not the most precise or well-organized cookbook, so pulling together a weekly menu took a lot of cross-referencing and double checking. The author's kids don't like pasta or eggs, while mine do, and her kids do like baked beans, which my kids don't, so I feel like we have to veer off her exact instructions to create something that is in the spirit of her message of keeping something familiar on the plate. The recipes reflect her own family's preferences a little too much. So I would say that overall, the book still leaves quite a bit of planning and work to do on my and my husband's part. If you need a good kick in the pants to shift how you do family dinners, I definitely recommend this book. In the end, I suspect we will probably do a lot of our own menu and recipe planning, following the spirit of this book. Joan ## Technical Specifications | Specification | Value | |---------------|-------| | Best Sellers Rank | #182,140 in Books ( See Top 100 in Books ) #102 in Cooking for Kids (Books) #1,238 in Quick & Easy Cooking (Books) #2,445 in Parenting (Books) | | Customer Reviews | 4.2 out of 5 stars 155 Reviews | ## Images ![Dinner: The Playbook: A 30-Day Plan for Mastering the Art of the Family Meal: A Cookbook - Image 1](https://m.media-amazon.com/images/I/71EEXu2Z-cL.jpg) ## Available Options This product comes in different **Media Format** options. ## Customer Reviews ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ WINNER! *by U***D on September 8, 2014* It's one thing to say that "Family Dinner" is important, quite another to actually do it. We're all so busy and crammed with activities so it's difficult to get it all together, especially if you are working or otherwise busy and your kids are picky eaters (aren't everyone's?). This book, which follows in the style of Jenny's blog (Dinner, a Love Story) tells you how. WHAT A WINNER! Not just good recipes, but a game plan on how you and your family can make Family Dinner happen -- and be happy about it. She not only sets out a game plan, but offers loads of helpful tidbits everywhere, like in The Kitchen Dump Section, where there's some info on what to do with bruised apples. And, for picky eaters, a suggestion to "rename" a dish so it will sound more appealing and maybe get your child to try it. I especially liked the advice to have your children look at pictures of food, to see what they find appealing. Why didn't I ever think of that? And I also especially like that she recommends shopping with your children. What better way to spend some time talking to your children than in a supermarket where you can distinguish colors for the youngest ones, show the scale and how it works to your grade schoolers, ask your older children to figure out how much 3 pounds of peaches cost, show your children the long list of ingredients on the junk food labels? You may not consider this an adventure, but you get to do what you have to and spend some quality time with your children too. BRAVO Jenny. Jenny never preaches. This is all just sound, practical advice to help take the stress out of planning, shopping, cooking and finally, eating dinner together as a family. Your game plan may not be hers. You may choose different recipes. But the concept of considering, planning, shopping, cooking and dining with family is now a lot easier if you use this wonderful book. Btw, the recipes are easy. The Sticky Pomegranate Chicken Pieces have 4 ingredients and taste awesome. Also loved the Miso Glazed Salmon. ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ My kids tried radishes and kale!?! *by J***D on September 12, 2017* We are on day 2 of our 30-day challenge and I want to thank the author and this book for getting us organized and motivated to take the plunge into making one family meal every night. My kids are 5 and 7. For the last 5 years we have been having 2 separate dinners -- mac & cheese / chicken nuggets for the kids and blue apron / hello fresh for my husband and myself. We are all trying new foods and talking a lot about the "fun challenge" and the "big prizes" for all our hard work. My kids tried radishes and kale on our first two nights, and liked them! WHA!? I don't know if we're going to an all kale/radish diet quite yet, but I'm so thrilled they tried some legitimately adventurous new foods! They also ate the salmon and chicken sausage, which I can't believe I consider a footnote to my review -- this is a major, major step in the right direction. I'm taking off 1 star for the overall organization and detail in the book. This is not the most precise or well-organized cookbook, so pulling together a weekly menu took a lot of cross-referencing and double checking. The author's kids don't like pasta or eggs, while mine do, and her kids do like baked beans, which my kids don't, so I feel like we have to veer off her exact instructions to create something that is in the spirit of her message of keeping something familiar on the plate. The recipes reflect her own family's preferences a little too much. So I would say that overall, the book still leaves quite a bit of planning and work to do on my and my husband's part. If you need a good kick in the pants to shift how you do family dinners, I definitely recommend this book. In the end, I suspect we will probably do a lot of our own menu and recipe planning, following the spirit of this book. Joan ### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ A Blueprint for Family Dinner *by M***L on August 30, 2014* Two years ago, I went from eating take-out at night with my cat, to being married with two children, and wanting to start a family dinner ritual. The thing was, I was no cook. In fact, the college kids who worked the counter at our local Moe's knew me as "the nacho lady" because I frequented their establishment so often. That Christmas, my mother gave me a copy of Dinner: A Love Story: It all begins at the family table and my life literally changed. I now have a few "back pocket" recipes of my own, and "deconstructing dinner" is a standard practice at our house. However, I still struggle with a picky-eater who makes being creative at dinnertime an impossibility. Enter, Dinner: The Playbook. Jenny's newest book is not just a cookbook, it is a PLAN with a capital P on how to make family dinners a fun family affair. I love how the book not only lays out the rules of the game, but also provides a number of tips to make implementation easier. For example, Jenny offers TEN done for you meal plans, ideas on what to do with the odds and ends left in your fridge each week, even how to grocery shop effectively. I haven't even gotten to the actual recipes yet. I love that she breaks them down into do-able weekday dinners and other, more adult-friendly, romantic recipes. The black bean and goat cheese quesadillas are a staple of our Meatless Mondays. I am excited to try the Braised Adobo Pork with Polenta. Jenny's recipes have always been easy to follow, honest with regards to time and effort, and delicious. This Playbook is definitely going to be my number one new reference as I continue to navigate the waters of my new family, and the ritual of family dinner. Jenny, my husband, kids, and I thank you. 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