Unless there’s a particularly compelling show on television, each time I
begin my dinner preparations in the kitchen, I hear the pitter patter of little feet as four-year-old Kyle comes in to ask, “Can I help you?” He doesn’t even wait for an answer as he heads over to pull the step stool up to the kitchen island.
Having the kids help me in the kitchen is fun for them, and it’s a character-builder for me. I have to slow down and remain calm, and be willing to take a little more time to clean up the bigger mess that it creates. It’s absolutely worth it. In the short run it encourages them to try new food, because they see where it comes from, but in the long run maybe I will be able to kick back and watch my favorite television show while my kids are cooking my dinner.
Just last night, my nine-and-a-half year old daughter told me that she would like to cook more dinners (by herself) this summer. I told her that she could, but she had to plan ahead, and pick out some recipes so that we could shop and be prepared. Children’s cookbooks are great, because they have recipes that can be prepared with a minimum amount of adult supervision with great pictures so that she knows what it’s supposed to look like.
If she’s armed with a good step-by-step cookbook, the right ingredients, and a willing Mommy standing by, she does a pretty good job of putting a meal together.
Yum-O: The Family Cookbook is Rachael Ray’s newest cookbook. This book has so many positive featur
es:
- As Rachael Ray says in the introduction, one goal of the book is to “make eating healthier as a family easier, more affordable, and fun.” I tested out a recipe for Penne-Wise Pumpkin Pasta which uses canned pumpkin and whole grain pasta. My family didn’t love it, but they ate it, and it was an easy and healthy recipe. I might tweak it and try it again soon.
- Each recipe has a sidebar which guides you towards how “The Itty-Bitties” can help (by beating eggs, squeezing spinach dry, mixing dry ingredients etc.), which can encourage you to let even the youngest of children join you preparing dinner.
- One section is devoted to “rollover dinners” which allow you to cook once and eat twice (or more) with some quick variations.
- Other sections are devoted to breakfasts and lunches and snacks, which are helpful in trying to break out of the same old menus that could be replaced with better alternatives.
Would you like to win one of 5 copies of Yum-O: The Family Cookbook to help your family get in some fun and extra nutrition in the kitchen?
Spread the word on your own blog (or email your friends), and then leave a comment on this post. We’ll post all of the winners for the Creative Summer Days event on June 24.
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OOOOOO, I love her recipes. I’ll have to email some friends and blog about it:)
I love cookbooks!!! Sure, I’d like to win
Looks like fun!!!
Great site – I love relaxing over my coffee here!
Looks great! I have it up on my blog!
I’d love this cookbook. We are always looking for new things to cook!
This would be fun for my kids!
She is so funny to watch~ I love her comments!
This looks like a wonderful cookbook!
My kids adore her.
I am always looking for new recipes! Would love to win. The button is on my sidebar!
I’d LOVE to win! cdziuba@aol.com
I would love this cookbook, I’m e-mailing my friends right now about it to see if any of them have it! Thanks for posting this!
I want to win!
Rachel Ray just happens to be one of our favorite people to watch. The girls go crazy when I turn her on. It’s because of her, that I’ve been letting the girls help a little more, in the kitchen.
I could really use this, as my toddler is getting more and more interested in cooking!
Count me in!
Wow this sounds great and I am not quite sure how to have my “itty-bitties help me at 3 and almost 2!
I love Rachel Ray. Thanks for the chance.
Rachael Ray is one of my favorites! Thank you for offering this giveaway.
Love her cookbooks
I’m always looking for things my 3yr old can help me cook…and who doesnt love Rachel Ray??
i would love to win this ,yum-o
Fabulous! I love it!
You are on the right track when it comes to teaching your children to navigate the kitchen. All of my children help out in the kitchen and my oldest two can prepare meals.
Patience and perseverence builds memories now and reaps benefits later on.
Please include me in the drawing.
You can never have too many cook books!
Yum-o, indeed! I’ve got the button up!
Love Rachel Ray. Thanks for the giveaway!
I would love to win this cookbook! THanks
This would be awesome to win. One of my kids is anemic and it would be great to have a new cookbook to use to try to get him to eat new things …
I love her cookbooks! I’m going to put this site on my sidebar!!
Love Rachel Ray!
I love to cook, and my children are always trying to help too! I’d love this book!
My 16 year old is learning to cook. This would surely help us both. Thanks!!
gkstratos @yahoo.com
I would love to have this cook book!! Rachel Ray is one of my favorites!!!
I’ve seen this cookbook in Barnes and Noble and it looks great!
Yes! Please enter me. I have also linked to you in my sidebar!
Sounds Yummy!….I mean, Yum-O! Please, count me in!:)
Would love to win this for my older brother who loves cooking with Rachael Ray.
Thanks.
I love cookbooks
I’ve been really working on learning to cook more things this past year. My daughter is always under foot and wanting to help. This would be perfect!
Oh…and your button is in my sidebar.
Would love this, thanks for the great giveaway!
I’ve told my friends that I would love to win this cookbook! I’m a big fan of getting kids involved with everything I do in the kitchen.
OH wow, this is a great idea!!! Your button is up on my sidebar….yay, for summer fun!!!
Thanks girls!
This is something that I know I need to improve in as mom. My boys really love to help but I have been so hesitant to allow them to help me much in the kitchen. Just reading your post was an “aha” for me. I’m like – oh yeah, they could squeeze out the spinach. Never thought of something like that.
I wrote a post and will put the button in my sidebar but the button isn’t working right now.
Thank you for always providing such excellent ideas and resources!
I could use a new cookbook!!
laura_licious101(at)hotmail(dot)com
I’ve never had one of her books before, so I’d love to get one and give it a try! Thanks for the opportunity!
I would love to win one of her Cookbooks, I am sure they are great! Thanks!
Nice
I love Rachael Ray and have been wanting to get this so winning it would be even better!
I would love to win this cook book thanks for the chance
RR is my favorite Food Network girl! Thanks for the chance!
We love RR, and I’m sure my daughter would have a blast with this cookbook. Thanks!!
I’m always trying to come up with new meals and something called Yum-O? I’m all for that!
Oh Goody, my youngin’s are just getting going in the kitchen.
My daughter would love this. She’s 6 and totally obsessed with Rachel Ray.
this cookbook sounds great!
cool book
i love to cook. i need this book.
i like it.
Looks like a great cookbook. Count me in!
I would love this!
Love her show. Love her recipes. Would love to win a cookbook!
This would be great! We are in need of some new recipes; we keep eating the SAME things over and over and over again.
Oh I love Rachael Ray and My 8 year old daughter is into cooking as well so this would be great! I have alos bloged about it and put your button in my sidebar! Thanks
I’d love one of these!!! Yah!
Rachael Ray is so inventive & her show’s great, she always inspires me! Thank you for a really great giveaway!
I’d love this cookbook! Her show is great, and I love her ideas for simplifying and letting the kids help!
What a great idea… sign me up
I’d love to win this cookbook. This entire event is a great idea since I’m already scrambling to think up ways to entertain the kids. And summer has only begun…
Thanks!
I love Rachael Ray. I watch her every day and subscribe to her magazine.
I love most of RR recipes and I would love to win this book!
Love her recipes!
love Rachel Ray have some of her books and use them often
I love her recipes! They are definately YUM-O!
Would love to win….
i remember the lazy saturdays my father spent with me and me sister cooking something. i remember thinking he actually let me do that when i got the chance to crack an egg. it would be nice to be able to have the children in my life help me cook and get the same joy from it i did. thanks for the chance
Rose are red
Violets are green.
Pick me, please
And I’ll make the Yum-O scene!
I don’t have this Rachael book yet. Her recipes are simple and delicious. Thanks for the chance.
I have spread the word about your blog!
i am all for something that will bring more nutrition into my childens eating habits.
YUM-O
I love all of RR cookbooks.
I would love to win this! Rachel Ray is adorable!
I love her cookbooks! Thank you for the giveaway!
I would love to have this cookbook. Thanks,Anne
I *heart* Rachel Ray!
I have her first 2 books and am a huge fan! I have the button up on my blog to share the fun!
When it comes to cooking, I need all the help I cab get!!!
i love her recipes
Love her stuff….sign me up!
My kids (ages 3 and 4) love cooking, but it would be great to expand their repertoire beyond green eggs and ham
Yummo! Would love to try out her recipes.
I would love to win! I have a little girl who loves to “help” in the kitchen!
This sounds like a fun cookbook. Would love to win!
The button is on my blog! I love Rachael Ray!
This looks like a great cookbook!
I enjoy the recipes Rachael has on her show and in her books. I would love to add this book to my cookbook collection. Thansk for the goveaway!
This sounds like a neat family cookbook. Rachael Ray really does have great, practical recipes. My ‘itty bitty’ toddler isn’t quite at the helper stage, but she does her best and she loves mixing it up with her little baking set while Mama’s cookin’!
I would love to add this to my cookbook collection!
My daughter loves to cook, and loves Rachael Ray! We would love to add this to our collection!
Love Rachel Ray!!
I love Rachael Ray and watch her program every day. I would love to win her cookbook.
Twitter: TheAngelForever
June 10, 2008 at 3:38 pm
All linked up to the giveaways here.
This cookbook looks wonderful
It’s my nieces birthday today and whenever we are together she always wants to bake or cook something with me. I love to cook myself and cooking with her is a lot of fun – count me in!!!!!
Sounds like a great cookbook
her recipes are great and easy
I’m not exactly sure what a Yum O is, but I am certain it’s NEVEr been said about something I cooked. Please enter me in your giveaway as I need all the help I can get! thanks.
I like Rachel Ray and her cooking. What a cool prize to give away!
My husband got me watching Rachael Ray! He loves cooking shows & would love it if we won this.
Rachael put the fun back in cooking.
Love Rachel Ray! Me and the kiddos watch her show on Food network and then try and make some of the food she does. I have one of her cookbooks, and love it! Spreading the word now!
Love her!! and love the site!
Looks great! I need all the help that I can get in the kitchen.
love to cook
I would love to win this! Please enter me
What a great sounding cookbook! I sure hope I win! I’ve posted all about the contest, the Creative Days and the cookbook on my blog:
http://theten0clockscholar.blogspot.com/2008/06/yum-o-new-book-to-help-family-cook.html
i would love one of these books, i’m forever trying to figure out ways my little ‘uns could help!
Oooooo! I love Rachael and would love to win this! I emailed all of my friends and told them about this site.
This looks like a great new cookbook! Thanks for the contest… and your banner’s on my sidebar.
Fabulous! I love her cookbooks!
Great idea to get kids to help in the kitchen – I do it all the time (although it doesn’t make my daughter any more interested in trying new foods!).
Rachel Ray is my fave on the Food Network and I have many of her cookbooks. This cookbook would be great to use with the kids though and I don’t have any family cookbooks. Thanks for a super fun give-a-way!
Count me in.
Sounds like a great book!
I would love to win!!!! I would watch her show all the time when I had cable!
Enter Me !!
I’d love to win this.
My daughter loves to watch Rachael Ray whenever we’re somewhere with cable. I so need to find something to get us cooking *together* too! I made sure to blog this one.
http://momnmore.blogspot.com/2008/06/win-new-rachael-ray-cookbook.html
Everyone else wants one of these cookbooks and I do too! I was just thinking of preparing a recipe I saw her make last week on her show. Yum!
I’m so thankful I found your website! I’ll put this up on my blog. I have a 13 and 10 year old daughter who are in the kitchen already and, a three year old son who loves to help me cook. And my one year old son is following in his footsteps. God bless you and thank you for this blog!
Ooh, we’d love to have this! I posted about it on my blog! Thanks
This is the perfect cookbook for our family!!
I love Rachel! She’s great!! And, I’d love to have her book. Thanks.
I love her recipes and I don’t have one of her cookbooks, yet. Thanks for the contest!
Her recipes are perfect for my on the go family.
You’ve been blogged:
http://lyricandariasmom.blogspot.com/2008/06/creative-days-of-summer-cook.html
I’d love to win this book, I can’t cook worth a darn and I’m trying to find easier recipes and great ways to cook some great meals, the girls always love to help.
Thanks.
I would love to have that cookbook!
Love Rachael Ray! Thanks for the giveaway!
I really enjoy Rachael Ray,yet I don’t have any of her cookbooks. I’d love to win this! Great giveaway – thanks for offering it!
~Tanya
the4moyers(at)msn(dot)com
I need this I do….I need help….
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Thanks so much have a great week!
Angie
Wow! Your contests are getting more and more competitive.. LOVE IT!! Count me in!
I love RR
I’d like to win this ~ I need some new ideas, as I’m in a “cooking rut!”
Would like to own this book.
I love Rachael Ray! This would be great as my son loves to help me cook. Thanks!
all linked up over at DesignHER. My do I need some new dinner choices over here….
WOW great prize. I emailed my sister about this. Please enter me. Thanks so much.
I love Rachel Ray and her recipes are so yummy!!
We’re fans of the Rachael Ray travel shows.
I love Rachael and her recipes and would be thrilled to win this book! Thank you!
Yummy!
This looks like a very fun cookbook! and I love Rachael !
Love her 30 min meals show
Oh, I’d love to win this! I love cookbooks and I love Rachel Ray!
i love achel ray. this sounds so, well so yummy oh
Oh! Random number thing please pick me! I never win anything!
I agree that getting a toddler or child to help in the kitchen at a young age will help them later on in life. I love Rachael Ray and am a big fan and would love this book.
Thanks!
I’ve never tried her recipes but this looks like a good way to start.
I love her recipes that I’ve tried, and this looks like a great book!
I love all the recipes of RR I have made and I would love to have her book.
Ya know, if I could fit all six of my kids in the kitchen at once it might be fun to try some of these recipes. Or would that be too many chefs in the kitchen?
Still I need some ideas – The spagetti thing is getting old.
Yum is right!! Count me in.
Count me in!
Oh, boy, would I! This would be a fun addition to my cookbook shelf. Thanks!
My kids love to help me cook!
Daughter would love!!
I don’t have a blog, but I would love this cookbook.
Sounds good, I could use some good easy recipes.
Always looking for new easy cookbooks. Thank you for this giveaway!
love rachael ray
my girls always want to help too, I have another cookbook of Rachel rays and love the turkey corn chowered recipe in it
Wow this sounds like a good one!
RR is my favorite!!!
My 2 yr old loves watching Rachel Ray. I think it’s helped him in the kitchen already
I love Rachael Ray! I wanna win. Thanks for this fun giveaway!
Love Rachael’s recipes. Would love to win this cookbook!
I posted the button in my sidebar last night. Please enter me. We love RR at our house!
I have looked at this book at work. I love almost all of the recipes in it!!1 I will spread the word to some friends about it too
I’ll put the word out on Twitter.
This looks like a good one!
I am always looking for easy recipes that my kids will think are “Yum-O” ! Sometimes it’s hard to get them to eat anything except noodles!
A wonderful idea, my 3 year old boy like to help in the kitchen.
I have always wanted to try her recipes! I’ll keep my fingers crossed!
Yummy OOOO, how I would love to win this!
This cookbook sounds right up my ally!!! Thanks for the chance to win.
My daughters love helping in the kitchen and we all love Rachael Ray!
most of my kids want to help when I’m cooking and my 12 yo wants to be a chef
so this book would be great for our family!
I have yet to try out any of Rachel’s recipes but they sound delicious! What a great way to involve the kids too. Thanks.
include me too
I need this something awful
That sounds wonderful – my kids would love it! I’m writing the post on my blog now.
Rachel Ray is such a bundle of energy. Sometimes, o her show, she talks so quickly that I can’t stay up with her! She has wonderful cookbooks and I like the fact that this one is for family meals and eating healthier with less cost. Please enter me in your wonderful contest. I always appreciate it! Many thanks, Cindi
I would love to have a copy of her cookbook.
Just love her.
You can never have enough cook books!
Yum-O is right! Sounds great!!
I’m clueless in the kitchen. But, now that I have a baby… it’s time to figure it out.
I just saw this book on Amazon today and put it on my Wishlist. I sure hope I win it, though!
I blogged you here:
http://carolsbloggys.blogspot.com/2008/06/5-minutes-for-mom-win-copy-of-rachael.html
RAchel Ray…..Yumm-o
sweet prize, like it…
I love her 30 minute meal cookbooks. I’m sure this one is just as great!
I would love the cookbook.
I could really use this cookbook!
Great prize! Love Rachael’s shows.
I love cookbooks But I love Rahcel Ray even more Smile
thanks for the cookbook
Yummmm…. I love to watch her… who doesn’t like quick meals
Great contest! We would love to have a new cookbook for the summer!
Here’s the link to my post about your contest:
http://www.homeschoolblogger.com/Tami/546022/
I love Rachel!
always up for another cookbook – plug me in
Great cookbook…thanks for the contest!
Sounds great
What a great prize! It’s always fun to try something new in the kitchen.
My daughter is a beginning cook-I would love to win this cookbook for her.
My 12 year old loves cookin and cook books
This book sounds great!
I’d let her cook for me.
Sounds like a great book to check out and winning it here would be the perfect opportunity to do so
Thanks,
Maureen
This would be a nice addition to my cookbook collection.
I love Rachel Ray and would love to win this cookbook. Thanks for the giveaway.
I am not great in the kitchen which leads to many PB&J sandwiches – I would love to win! Rachel Ray makes yummy looking food!
(Your button is in my sidebar)
I’m letting my friends know about this contest; if one of them wins, maybe s/he’ll invite me over for dinner!
I’d love to win this -it’d keep me from referring to my PC for recipes while I’m cooking! LOL
enter me!
Please enter me and thanks!
My husband collects cookbooks, I would love to win this one for him.
love her
I just saw this book advertised in my book club catalog (along with all the other books I’d love to read, but can’t find the time). This would be perfect for getting my 3 and 5 year old involved in the kitchen so hopefully they’d eat someting at dinner time.
I am always at a loss for dinner ideas, so new inspiration would be fabulous!
ooh – that would be great for us as I always struggle with dinner…thanks for the great giveaway…I’ll have my button up momentarily!
I’d love this for my parents they love her show
I love Rachael Ray!!! I would love to win this so my daughter and I could cook together.
I’ve been wanting to check out this cookbook forever! Thanks for the chance to win.
My daughter loves to cook with me, this would be great!
THANK YOU GOD BLESS
My daughter and I both love Rachael Ray (She is only 6) and she goes around saying YUM-O all the time!
This would be so great to win. Thanks for the contest!
My mom and I were just looking at Rachael Ray stuff the other day!
I’m a fan of Rachael, she makes everything look so easy!
I am a huge fan of Rachel Ray, she is always smiling and just so excited about whipping up new and cool recipes.
I love RR – I have two of her cookbooks already and would love to add this to the collection
Great prize. i really like Racheal Ray’s recipies.
I sure hope I win thanks
This would be great! And I am linked to your contest!!
Great prize!
Nice contest
We love Rachael Ray!!! I would love to own this cookbook. I am not much of a cook so I need all the help I can get.
tiffy2two@gmail.com
Please count me in!
please enter me in this greta contest thanks
I love Rachael Ray’s recipes. They’re usually right up my family’s alley.
I’d love that cookbook!
I love Rachel.
I’d love to win this for my wife, she loves Rachael. Thanks!
Rachael is great.
i love her! would love to try this…
I love RR recipes and am always trying her meals.
My daughter would love this!!! She hopes to be a chef one day.
I would love to win this! My daughters (ages 5 & 6) have really begun to take an interest in cooking. We always watch RR and since they love to be in the kitchen with me, this would be something we could really, really use!
Thanx for the awesome contest!!!
I could use some new ideas for lunch/dinner.
I blogged you
Yum-o is right
Yumm-O!
Sign me up!
Not only do I LOVE Rachael Ray, but my DAUGHTER loves her, too! How great would this cook-book be for the both of us?! Thanks!
This would be great when I start cooking soon!
Rachael Ray’s recipes are always huge hits at our house.
Thank you for having this contest. I really appreciate it.
Anything to help me in the kitchen!
Yummo!!! I would love to win this
I want to win
I love new cookbooks!
Sounds great!
Sounds yummy!
I dig the Rachel Ray!
I have yet to be disappointed yet.
These are the only recipes I cook,
’cause I need all the help I can get!
What could be better than putting together a healthy, great tasting meal in less than 30 minutes? Winning a Rachel Ray cookbook!
HELP!!! I need HELP cooking and I am CERTAIN that Rachael Ray can teach me something simple yet delicious!
I would love to have this for my daughter, who is just starting her family this year
Wooo Hooo Make me a winner!
I would love to use this!!
My post is here:
http://www.livinwithme.com/2008/06/fabulous-giveaways/
lol to all
like to win this
What a great idea! My daughter loves to help cook!
I would love to win this book. I am always looking for more easy, kids friendly recipes and a bonus, ideas to have the kids help. Yea!
thanks for the giveaway
this would be great!
Rachael Ray has a great show, though I doubt I’d ever be able to finish the meals she cooks in 30 minutes.
we would love to win!!
thanks so much!!
moore.g at insideconnect.net
Great prize…thank you for the contest.
ok, we LOVE RR!! the kids love to watch food on TV lol. we are constantly trying to come up with new things to cook so this would be great to win!
Love Rachel Ray and her shows. My son loves to be in the kitchen with me. This cookbook would give me some great ideas.
My three year old daughter loves Rachel Ray and so do I! We also love to cook together so I’d just love to win this one. I will post about it on my blog!
love to play in the kitchen
I was just perusing this tonight at B&N….I’d love to win a copy.
Thanks!
Thanks. Count me in!
Wow, what a cool prize.
my 12 year old loves cooking with me and this will help alot.two guys in the kitchen!!!!!
Thanks.
I love Rachel’s recipes. Would love to win this!
would love to win a copy of this–sounds like it would be helpful for involving the little ones! thanks for the chance to win! -beth
Sounds like a great book! The kiddos are just getting interested in helping me cook; it would be nice to have it broken down this way.
I bet this cookbook has great recipes.
I love her!! Im sure this is a great cookbook, we have 2 of hers.
this does sound Yum-O!
Enter me please. Thanks!
Please enter me — this looks great!
Sign me up! This looks like a great book!
I love this!
We love cooking and I love what I’ve seen on the Rachael Ray show, would definately put this cookbook to use!
Here’s my bloggy post on the give away:
http://kristiniac.blogspot.com/2008/06/thursdays-tantallizing-finds.html
Gotta Love Rachel! She rocks!
Please enter me!
Ohhhh YUM!! (couldn’t resist)
P
I NEEEEEED this cookbook.
Yummmo, I love Rachael Ray!!!
I’d like to win this book. I need recipes my teen son can do easily.
This quote is funny…I tested out a recipe for Penne-Wise Pumpkin Pasta which uses canned pumpkin and whole grain pasta. My family didn’t love it, but they ate it, and it was an easy and healthy recipe. I might tweak it and try it again soon.
I make up my own recipes, and sometimes they don’t come out the way you would think. I tried to do a pumpkin lasagna using canned pumpkin and lasagna noodles. My family didn’t love it either, but they did finish it. My kids will taste anything, as long as I don’t try pumpkin lasagna again.
I collect cookbooks! Thank you!
Sounds great. Yummy
I really need some new meal ideas!
Coming up with dinner ideas is always a challenge. Maybe this cookbook can help me.
Great book of recipes to get everone busy in the kitchen together!
I really love easy and tasty recipes! This would be great to win! Thanks!
I blogged about this HERE!
I enjoy watching and listening to Rachel. She comes up with so many good recipes.
Great idea! My 11-year-old daughter loves to cook and it would be fun to help her plan things she could cook over the Summer. Love Rachael Ray
Please enter me for the cookbook. I’ll link on my blog!
I’ve shared this on my blog. I enjoy Rachael’s show.
We love to cook (and eat).
i love rachael, enter me please
R.R. rules!
I have been a Rachael Ray fan for EVER!
Rachael rocks!
I’ll have to email my friends about this. My DH and I love watching Rachel Ray!
Miranda
bleucowgirl at hotmail dot com
My Wife would love this!
Got it on my blog! Both Kiddos love “helping” in the kitchen, so this would be great.
This looks like a great cookbook! Just love Rachael Ray! Watch her shows as often as possible and my kids love her, too! They are helping out more and more in the kitchen. Thanks for the great giveaway!
I love to cook! Count me in! Thanks!
Would really love to have this for our family.
I would love to win this!
This is perfect! Please enter me! Thanks!
I came over from Summer’s site. Awesome giveaway. Wow.
My daughter’s nickname is actually Chef-O because she loves to cook! We enjoy watching Rachel’s 30-minute-meals show and would love to win this cookbook! Thanks!
We are big fans of rachel ray in my house, great giveaway
great prize, great recipes!
I love Rachael. I have two of her books!
YUM YUM!!!
Thanks.
great cookbook like to have it
I need some new recipies. The fam is gettin’ sick of the old ones!
I love Rachael Ray’s recipes. We often watch her shows as a family.
Love Rachel Ray’s shows, would love to own one of her cookbooks.
Love love love RAchel Ray and as her fellow italian sista I need this cookbook. Well really I need it because I have 3 kids and meals that can be ready in 30 minutes or less is perfect. I dont’ have time to cook in the evenings if it takes more than 30 minutes and my children living on hotdogs is not a good idea LOL
Love RR!! I have been really interested in her new cookbook, too. Pick me! Pick me!:)
Just a great cookbook to win. Thank You.
Please enter me for this cookbook. I’m really looking for new recipes that my VERY picky eater will eat, and that are fast and easy to make. I’m weary of my regular meals…..
Very fun give away!!
Love this website and love this giveaway! Hope I win!
Thanks for another great contest folks. Would love that cookbook.
i need this!
I love her simple recipes because they are simple and quick and use normal ingredients.
I love cookbooks!
Cookbooks and cooking together are a great way to spend time with your kids.
I need some new ideas for recipes for my family!
I need some help with some new recipes.
looks yummy…count me in!!!! thanks :O)
How lucky to have children that want to help with dinner. I love it!…I hope this happens with my family.
Adam
http://adam-finch.eachday.com
I emailed some of my friends and family – we love Rachael!
me and the girls love rachel ray we watch her everymorning my girls just like to watch her cook she is great
This would be a wonderful book to win! I absolutely love Rachel Ray and her daytime talk show is one of my favorite shows!
Would love to win this book! Good luck to all
I always watch her on the food network…and i love her…would love to win this cookbook!!
I love watching Rachel Ray on Food Network. My husband is always wanting me to try something that she is fixing. with this I could actually do that.
Looks great and I would love to try this one out.
OK-both of my girls (ages 3 and 6) will sit and watch Rachel Ray with me! And BOTH are ALWAYS in the kitchen wanting to help. They’ll sit and watch the bread maker for 20 minutes! Yes, mine have been cracking eggs and mixing batters for years now! We would LOVE a chance at this book!
Please enter me!
this looks great
30-Minute Meals is my favorite cooking show and Rachel Ray is my favorite television chef! I would love to have her cookbook!
Rachael Ray has such great recipes!
please enter me in the drawing
It is going to be a long summer because mom is already complaining about the fact that the boys are complaining. Thanks
I love Rachael Rays cookbooks.
Rachel Ray Rocks!
This would inspire me to cook more! Love RR!
Who doesn’t love Rachael Ray? Yumm-o!
This is a cookbook I will probably have to buy if I don’t win!
Sounds Great! I enjoy Rachel Ray but have never tried one of her cookbooks. Thanks for the chance to win one!
We love Rachel! and the kids love to help. Great combo!
thanks for the contest, nice prize
I love Rachael Ray’s recipes, would love to win this cookbook. Count me in.
I LOVE RACHEL RAY. SHES MY FAVORITE CHEF.
i WOULD LOVE TO WIN THIS
I’m putting this info on my myspace blog. Thanks!
i really like Racheal Ray’s recipies they look so good
I must admit my husband hates her voice, but does that stop me from watching regularly — heck, no. I adore her.
I love cookbooks and RR. What’s not to like about this contest?
My daughter and I love to cook. This would be great. Thanks.
I blogged this giveaway at http://acontestblog.com/index.php/2008/5-minutes-for-mom-rachel-ray-yum-o-family-cookbook-giveaway/
Thanks
Forwarded this link to my sisters… They love to cook and watch the Food Network (esp. Rachel) as much as I do!!!
We’d love to have a copy!
I blogged your contest on Prize-A-Tron toO!
http://www.prizeatron.com
I love Rachel Ray and would love to own one of her cookbooks.
I don’t have a blog, but my four year old granddaughter loves Rachel Ray so this would be great for us. She says she’s going to be a chef when she grows up and she’ll stop whatever she’s doing to watch cooking shows!
If Rachael Ray say’s Yam-O,you can count me in.thanks.
blah blah blah….. enter me please
Would love to win this. My kids love to try out new things!
Love her cookbooks!
We could totally use this. My kids wont eat anything except mac and cheese or pizza!! Im at my wits end trying to get them to eat!! (not to mention husband doesnt eat anything worthwhile either!)
I am a huge Rachael Ray fan and would love to win.
I’d love to try some new recipes
*Thanks* for the giveaway!
My sister is a Rachel Ray freak! I would love to get this for her.
I would love some new recipes! I think DH is starting to get bored with my cooking…lol!
LOVE Rachael Ray! Would love to win this!
Love you and your cooking show, I watch every week i would love to have your cookbook. Thank you
I’m a sucker for anything Rachel
I love Rachel Ray and would love to own one of her cookbooks.
Rachel Ray Rocks. Thanks for the chance.
Sounds like a great book
I’d love to win this cookbook!!
I borrowed this from the library and LOVED it!
I really like RR. She is one of the only celebrity chefs that acknowledge the presence of vegetarians in the world. Her magazine often has substitutions you can make.
My wife is a cookbook fanatic
Yummy. Please accept my entry.
This looks like just what I need to kick my butt into cooking more.
I would love to win this cookbook!
Thanks!
Fabulous! We’d love to have this cookbook. Thanks!
I love Rachael Ray. She’s got some awesome recipes too and my husband has enjoyed those that I’ve made. It would be wonderful to win one of her cookbooks
I would love to try this cookbook out! thanks
Cooking with my kids is something I love as an ideal… but in practice, I really struggle with some control issues. I’m always hoping to find more easy recipes, and the way this book is laid out sounds great for me! I’ve blogged about it now, so here’s hoping some luck comes my way!
I would love to win a copy of this! I too, stuggle with kitchen control issues and would love to give this a try.
owatz (at) telus (dot) net
My stay-at-home Mom always had me help her in the kitchen. I was 14 (and the oldest of 5 kids) when she went back to work. I got a “job” making menus and grocery list and preparing dinner for the family several nights each week. It was adventageous for both of us, and I felt a lot more prepared to take care of myself when I went away to college.
I would love to win a copy of this cookbook! I love trying new recipes!
I love cookbooks! Always looking for new things to try. Count me in!
Yummo! I love to watch Rachael Ray.
I love her recipes! It would be great to win a cookbook full of them! THanks for the contest and the chance to win!
Rachael is my kitchen hero. The recipes on her show are usually a big hit in my house and I have a feeling the ones in this book would be no different.
This looks like so much fun! Please enter me.
My daughter just turned 4 and she loves Rachel Ray. She got an easy bake oven for her birthday (along with her own cooking utinsils and apron) and calls it her Rachel Ray oven! She loves to help me in the kitchen and this would be perfect! Thanks for the chance (she thanks you too~)!
The kids & I would have a blast trying out the recipes in Rachel’s book.
Love RR, her recipes and cooking! Would love to win this!
I like cookbooks.
Rachael is a real cutie pie.
We love Rachel Ray and would love another one of her cookbooks!! Woo hoo! Great contest! chrisandamyward at comcast dot net
I collect cookbooks
. Please count me in. Thanks!
I really never cared for Rachael Ray until I actually sat down and started watching her talk show. I paid attention to the types of things she cooked and I was shocked to find that eighty percent of what she made was appealing to me. Now I’m a fan. Thanks for the chance to win one of her cookbooks!
wow
I would love this! I have a 4 year old who loves to cook.
enter me
I would love to win this. We have other Rachael Ray cookbooks. My kids love to cook from her just for kids cookbook. They would love to have new recipes to try. I have emailed all my friends and they are hoping they can win too.
I love cooking with my kids! And quick, easy meal recipes that are family-friendly are always welcome!
Sounds yummy!!!
My daughter and I love to cook together. This would be fun to have some new ideas and recipes.
The kids and I intend to do a lot of cooking together this summer, so a new cookbook would be perfect.
This looks great!
I really hope I win this one!
she is just to cool
i am a truly picky eater and i have to say that i just love her recipes. just good eats and i say yummy.please include me in this wonderful giveaway. rachael ray is the best.
I love her show, the cookbook would be great.
This looks like a fun cookbook
She has a hamburger recipe that we love. Her show is my 14-year-old daughter’s favorite.
LOVE, LOVE, LOVE Rachel Ray
Could definitely use some new recipes!
Passed along your link to my mommy group, we ALL love Rachel Ray’s recipes after a long day.
I love Rachel Ray!I am not a big reader but when it comes to cook books I can’t get enough.Thank you for the contest.
Great for the cookbook collector….ME!!
I know Iwould enjoy her recipes.
I love cookbooks!!!
Love cooking with my kids and seeing them start to do things on their own.
Yum-O looks Yummy! My kids love cooking together as a family. This would be a great addition to our collection.
I love cooking and could use some new recipes.
If I win, my family will stop saying my food taste like cardboard : )
Rachel’s recipes are the bomb! I’d love to win this cookbook. Yum-O!!!
will this help my kids eat their vegetables?
She’s the best! Only she could give us hundreds of recipes that take only minutes and taste great!
This cookbook looks wonderful! I would love to win this and use it with my kids this summer!
tfisher83 AT myexcel DOT com
Oh YUM-O! Our kitchen could use this cookbook! I’m in. You can find my post at Make Our Kitchen Yum-O 5 Minutes for Mom!
This would be a great cookbook to have! I love Rachel Ray!
I love Rachel Ray!
I’m always looking for new recipes to try – especially ones that are fast, easy, AND healthy! This cookbook looks like it offers recipes that fit that criteria.
P.S. I blogged about this contest in my Tuesday Tours column this past Tuesday: http://metropolitanmama.net/2008/06/tuesday-tours-whats-happening-on-the-web-30/.
enter me
I’m in!!!!
I love Rachel Ray. Let me win!
We just love Rachael Ray in this house. It would bring my two children and I closer together while cooking an evening meal. Thank-you for the wonderful contest.
I love watching Rachael Ray on TV-I’d like one of her cookbooks!
I love Rachel Ray and her recipes and would really love to have this book.
Would love this cookbook! Always looking for ways to get my family to eat healthier.
I love Rachael Ray and would love this cookbook!
I love Rachael Ray! Thanks!
Rachael Ray is my favorite cooking show. I get her maagzine, too, and love her recipes!
I love her books and recipes and would like some ideas to help get my daughter involved in cooking with me.
I love cookbooks and this would be a great addition to my collection.
I am a cookbook collector and would love to have this one
Rachel Ray is my favorite. I made 3 of her recipes just this week..
Awesome cookbook
I watch her show daily and try her recipes often.
Nothing says lovin’ like cooking with your kids!!!
Thank you for the chance to win this AWESOME cookbook!!
Rachel Ray rules— I love me some EVOO!!!
This looks like a fun cookbook!
Love Rachael Ray!
Just love her, I have some of her other books.
My daughter loves to help cook also. At 7 y/o she has become quite the pancake/french toast turned on the griddle.
Summer fun with Rachael and my Nathan? Sign me up!
I love nearly every recipe of Rachel Ray’s that I have tried. I would love to win a free cookbook.
sounds great!looks great!Yum-O!
Great cookbook, she also has a great kids section on her website to encourage little ones to try new foods…
I would love this!
Rach Rocks!
This would be a fun way to beat the summer time blues and try some new recipes.
Love love Rach! Would love to win this!
What a great cookbook and just the thing I was looking for this summer for family fun!
I really like Rachel Ray’s recipes. I have 3 of her cookbooks and her dishes have never failed to please my family.
My daughter loves Rachael
Sweet niblets!
I love rachel ray. she is a great cook
I have to admit, Rachael Ray drives me crazy, but every one of her recipes that I’ve tried has turned out great.
I would love a copy of Yum-O! Thanks!
This would be a wonderful cookbook to have!
Yum-o is correct…great prize!!
enter me please
I love Rachael Ray and her recipes make cooking for the family much easier.
Mske me a winner!!!!!
Yummy to my tummy and four little tummies as well!
We need some new recipes.
This looks so fun!
I would love to have this cookbook!!
Thanks for making a great site!!
Please enter me into the contest!!
I heart Rachel Ray!
I’d love to win this. I just e-mailed my friends to enter too.
My daughter loves to cook. she would love this.
I need some new creative ideas for meals for my kids.
Love Rachael Ray!
Getting hungry just thinking about it! Thanks!
Her recipes are easy enough to actually follow unlike lots of other tv personalities!
Thanks for the chance.
Rachel Ray rocks!!
I love the idea of roll-over dinners! hope I win!
Would love to have a cookbook that is geared for families, so that I might get some new ideas on things to cook that all of my kids will like! Some nights my husband and I feel like short order cooks! Rachel Ray is fun and has great recipes so that makes it even better!
It would be good to get some new recipes that the kids might be willing to try.
i love rachael ray
this sounds great!
Sounds like a wonderful cookbook!
I’m a big RR fan, I would love this!
Rachael ROCKS!
Great giveaway! I want to win! Thanks so much for the giveaway!
count me in please
Great Giveaway!! We just love Rachael Ray!!
please enter me thank you
Love to cook and love getting new ideas that are easy, fun, and good for my family.
My family and I love cookbooks and trying new recipes. Thanks for the chance to win!!
My kids love to help me cook. Measuring & following directions are great skills for them to learn. Cooking together also helps to stengthen our relationship. Thanks for the contest.
we love cookbooks, and i like the sections showing how kids can help.
I’d love to try out these recipes!!
This would be a great cookbook to have for my husband of 45 years, he loves Rachaels cooking
Rachael seems to make cooking easier.
I would love to win this cookbook.
i could use this cookbook.
need new recipes. we eat like the sam ething every week. i am picky
This sounds like a very creative and fun cookbook. I’d love to have it.
Yum, yum!
I am so hoping a book like this will finally convince my son that he’ll truly benefit from learning to cook (as opposed to assuming mom will make everything forever!)
I have two preschoolers who LOVE to help in the kitchen, so this Rachael Ray book sounds great! Thanks!
My 6 year old son loves to help me cook. This would be perfect for us!
roses are red
violets are blue
please pick me to win!
It would be great to win this! Thanks for the contest.
I am always looking for ideas to keep the grandkids busy when they come over. This is such a great way to get them involved!
I am emailing my friends to let them know about the book.
Thanks for the contest.
Yum-o! Love Rachel Ray and would love one of these cookbooks!
lookin good add me please!
Defiantly need this to help me with cooking…lol
I really like her cookbooks and my kids really enjoy cooking with me!
I love to watch Rachel Ray. I don’t have any of her cookbooks yet. I’d love to win. Enter me too please.
I love her recipes.
she makes the best stuff
Turn on the stove !
Love Rachel Ray’s show.winning her cookbook would be a bonus.
Rachel Ray fan here!
Oooh, fun! We’d really enjoy this cook book!
Good prize!
I would love to win this! I can use all of the help that I can get in the kitchen!
my wife needs this
I have all of her books but this one!! Thanks for the contest!
Love Rachel’s recipes, and so does my family. Thanks for the great giveaway!
my 4 y/o loves rachel ray!
Rachel Ray is such a sweetheart
I’d like to have this too!
YUMMMMMMMMMMMMMMM would I love a cookbook!
I think Yum-O sounds so funny! Great giveaway!
i could sooooo use some new reciepes that please me and my kids
Rachael Rocks! Her ideas are fantastic and yummy.
I would be happy to own her cook book.
we’d love this!
Love Rachel Ray and her show!!!!!
Please pray that this book contains simple easy to follow with no hassle receipes; many thanks SW
Rachael Ray is cool and has great recipes.
I’d love to win and try new recipes
yay. i emailed some friends!! thanks
I love Rachel Ray!
I love her show and would love to win this cookbook. Thanks!
big rachel ray fan here. i love to cook and I love watching shows that rejoice in the art of the meal