Sneak Peek at Our New Cookbooks!

We're so excited to announce the release of two brand-new books that have taken us decades to compile! Who Knew? Cooking Essentials: Make-Ahead Meals and Who Knew Cooking Essentials: 365 Everyday Dinners have been a true labor of love. We wanted to make everyday, hard-working cookbooks that reflect the way people really eat. We challenged ourselves to cook a different meal every night of the year, based on what we found on sale that week at the grocery store (soup, beans, and other canned items play a large role, as do prepared foods like spaghetti sauce and ramen noodles). We asked our friends with children (the more kids the better) what recipes they had success with—“What foods to you make that your kids always eat?” and “What’s your ‘go-to’ dinner?”

The results, our Who Knew? Cooking Essentials library, contain so much more than just delicious dinners:

--Recipes That Are Simple to Understand:Each delicious dinner uses a small number of ingredients and requires no previous cooking experience to prepare.
--Low-Cal, Low Cost Alternatives: Who Knew? Light Switch recipes give you low-cal, low-cost alternatives to common pre-made foods at home to save money and lose weight.
--Ingredients You Already Own, or Bought on Sale:Each meal is designed around common foods you already buy at the store, and are often found on sale. Extensive ingredient index helps you easily find recipes for what you have on hand.
--Who Knew? Tips: Our renowned, time-tested hints help make cooking quick and easy.

365 Make-Ahead Meals is a meal-planning must-have. It gives you a year of simple dinners perfect for refrigerating or freezing for later. You’ll find two-meal soups, easy casseroles, set-it-and-forget-it slow-cooker meals, and more.

365 Everyday Dinners gives you a year of quick and simple recipes that make dinnertime a cinch. You’ll find family dinners that take less than 30 minutes, ingenious ways to transform your leftovers, mouth-watering microwave meals, and more in this revolutionary, sanity-saving cookbook.

To get your own copies of these amazing cookbooks for only $24.95 (free shipping!), watch Bruce live on HSN today (2/21) at 2 p.m. and 9 p.m. EST, or tomorrow at 9 a.m. and 6 p.m. EST. Or order here. And don't forget to tell us your favorite recipes! If we use your recipe in a future book, we'll send you a free copy!

Black Friday: Get the Best Deals without Overspending

Black Friday is almost here! For businesses, it's time to go from the red to the black, and for consumers, it's time to save! But it's hard not to get caught up in the commotion and end up spending more than you meant to. We've compiled tips for staying frugal on Black Friday, as well as some of our favorite can't-miss deals. Visit our new website for tips on how to get the best Black Friday deals!

Ten Cleaning Tips We Couldn't Live Without

Whether you're expecting company, your house needs a spring cleaning, or you're just trying to keep up with removing the cat hair from the couch, cleaning always seems to take longer than you'd wish. Luckily, we have some secrets for making cleaning much easier. Check out these ten cleaning tips from our Who Knew? books that we simply couldn't live without!

Click here for Ten Cleaning Tips We Couldn't Live Without on our new site.

Who Knew? Household Hero: Aluminum Foil

Bruce laughs at me when I say that aluminum foil is God's gift in a serrated box, but I love all its practical uses around the home! It has so many, in fact, that we dedicated an entire chapter to aluminum foil in our book Who Knew? 3. Visit our new website for 10 of my favorite non-cooking uses for aluminum foil, one of our Who Knew? Household Heroes!

Tips to Make Thanksgiving Easier!

I simply can't believe Thanksgiving is only three days away! I'm not sure how the time got away from me (but it always does). If you're hosting the big day at your house like we are, we have some great tips to make it easier for you!

Visit our new website for tips on how to cook a turkey, Thanksgiving decorations, and more!

A Sugary Cereal Trick

Sorry I haven't posted in a while! We've had two weddings in the month, and although it's been so much fun, it's eaten up a lot of time!

Bruce will be on HSN tomorrow morning selling Who Knew? II with our new calendar, so tune in while you're getting ready in the morning to see some fun household tips. You can catch him at 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. eastern time. Meanwhile, I'm sorting through a million recipes for our next set of books: an as-of-yet unnamed series of cookbooks. They're going to concentrate on teaching people how to buy in bulk and cook their meals once a week (or once every other week, or once a month) to save time and money later on.

If there are any tips you'd like to share about how you make coupons work for you, save on meals, or making cooking for your family easier (and you wouldn't mind us using them in our book) please share! Here's something my friend Tina shared with me--it's too late for my kids, but maybe not for yours! Tina is one of those super-parents who doesn't let her children eat sugary cereal, so she uses it as a reward!

Kids who are not used to having a morning sugar fix normally like sugary cereal brands as much as they like candy, so why not use it instead? That way, when kids are getting a sugary treat for being good, they’ll at least getting it from a food that is also enriched with vitamins. And if you’ve been wanting to wean your children off the sugary stuff in the morning, this might be a good way to start!