Running out of midweek dinner inspiration? Need more help with meal planning? On the lookout for failsafe recipes to please both kids and adults? Family cooking can be a chore but it really doesn’t have to be. These family cookbooks show how easy it is to put food on the table quickly, simply, cheaply, while never compromising on flavour. From Jamie Oliver‘s five-ingredient dinners, to Mary Berry‘s quick cooking, to Nadiya Hussain‘s creative twists, these family-oriented cookbooks will revolutionise your cooking.
Creative, efficient, and cost-effective recipes that hero simple fresh ingredients.
Clever ideas for meal planning and transforming leftovers into delicious meals.
Stretch the weekly shop further with batch-cooked dinners and freezer-friendly bakes.
Cook Once, Eat Twice
Get the most out of your cooking with these clever recipes from Nadiya Hussain. From freezer-friendly individual cottage pies, to innovative ideas for turning your staples and leftovers into a whole dish, Cook Once, Eat Twice is full of indispensable meal inspiration for busy home cooks who want to save time and food waste.
Tasty midweek meal ideas
Easy ideas to feed a crowd
Showstopping cakes and bakes
Nadiya’s Family Favourites
This family-friendly cookbook is packed with achievable recipes for every occasion. From quick midweek meals to weekend gatherings, expect dishes that are inventive but accessible, such as Fruit Salad Fattoush and Carrot Cake Pakoras, Avocado Pasta and Ginger Rice with Spiced Chickpeas. And, course, the big-hitter cakes you’d expect from a GBBO winner. Our favourite? Peanut Honeycomb Banana Cake.
It only takes 5 ingredients and less than 30 minutes
All the recipes from the TV series
Simple, step-by-step recipes
5 Ingredients – Quick & Easy Food
Jamie’s super-accessible family cookbook is all about making the journey to good food simple. Every recipe uses just five key ingredients, proving that you don’t need a loaded fridge or a cupboard full of spices to create truly delicious meals. Quick and easy food is really what sets this cookbook apart, whether it’s finished and on the table in next-to-no-time or you’re letting the oven do the hard work for you. With dishes like Roast Tikka Chicken and Crazy Simple Fish Pie, it’s amazing to discover what you can make with so few ingredients.
Cardiff Mum’s Thrifty Feasts
If you’re looking to feed a family whilst sticking to a budget, look no further than Ashleigh Mogford, also known as Cardiff Mum, whose cookbooks are are delicious and family-friendly. With chapters covering one-pot meals, air fryer and slow cooker recipes, and dinners that cost just £5 for a family of four, this is your go-to book for midweek cooking inspiration.
Discover a selection of free recipes in our roundup of budget-friendly family meals.
EASY
If you’re looking to follow a plant-based diet, or simply incorporate more vegan options in your meal planning, this family-friendly cookbook by the duo behind So Vegan has you covered. Expect 100 super-simple recipes including Creamy Pesto Rosso Gnocchi, Harissa Bolognese, Teriyaki Meatball Ramen, Red Pepper Tapenade Baguette Pizzas, and Gooey Chocolate Brownies.
The debut cookbook from the winner of The Great Cookbook Challenge
Fuss-free family favourites, from traybakes to curries
Packed with East and Southeast Asian flavours
Dominique’s Kitchen
With a successful business, three children, and now a successful career as a cookbook author since winning The Great Cookbook Challenge, Dominique Woolf understands a thing or two about being a busy family cook. It’s no surprise then that her first cookbook is packed full of fast and simple family-friendly favourites.
A new set of fuss-free recipes from the author of the Roasting Tin series
Featuring 75 meat-free recipes packed with flavour
Including plenty of one-tin recipes for fans of the Roasting Tin method
The Green Cookbook
Rukmini Iyer‘s collection of 75 vegan and vegetarian recipes proves that you can, indeed, cook veg-packed dinners the whole family will love. In addition to chapters covering quick-cook carbs, 30-minute dinners, family favourites and more, you’ll also find handy weekly meal plans – and even seasonal hosting menu ideas.
Cardiff Mum’s 5 Meals for £25
Cardiff Mum’s second cookbook has everything you need to help you stick to your weekly budget without compromising on flavour. Alongside each five-meal plan, you’ll find a complete shopping list of the ingredients and store-cupboard staples you’ll need for the week ahead, so you can stay on top of your weekly meal planning with minimal fuss. Try one of the meal plans in the book here.
120 recipes designed for sharing with friends and family
Recipe keys and menus to make event planning easy
From sharing platter dishes and classic bakes, to decadent brunch ideas and Sunday roasts
Mary Berry Cook and Share
Mary Berry’s Cook and Share was made with entertaining in mind. Whether that be casual brunches, family roasts, or afternoon tea catch-ups for two, Mary has 120 fuss-free, accessible dishes to choose from. Find lots of inspiration for home cooks which take the stress out of cooking and bring a little joy to your kitchen.
Over 120 brand new recipes for everyday cooking.
From speedy pastas to decadent desserts.
A taste of the Mediterranean, using just 5 ingredients for each dish.
5 Ingredients Mediterranean
For those who couldn’t get enough of Jamie’s first book of five-ingredient wonders, this cookbook takes its inspiration from the flavour-packed dishes of the Med with over 125 super simple recipes.
Simple recipes designed to minimise fuss and maximise flavour
From crowd-pleasing dinners to simple fakeaway favourites
The perfect guide to creating delicious food for every occasion
75 fast and simple one dish recipes to revolutionise the way you cook
Leave the hard work to the oven with minimal prep and less washing up
From fast dinners to simple desserts
The Quick Roasting Tin
If you loved Rukmini Iyer’s The Roasting Tin and The Green Roasting Tin cookbooks, then you’ll love her third follow-up. Featuring straightforward, wholesome and flavoursome recipes with just a bit of hands-on prep, this cookbook offers more of Rukmini’s genius ideas. Our favourite recipes? Summer Sausage Traybake, Spiced Sweet Potato Curry and Pecan Chocolate Chip Banana Bread.
Over 100 simple one-dish recipes.
Make your life easier without any compromise on flavour.
Chapters include chicken, pasta, batch cooking and more.
One: Simple One-Pan Wonders
In One, Jamie Oliver turns his hand to the family cook’s secret weapon: the one-pan meal. With over one hundred new recipes all made in a single dish, there are plenty of family favourites, from frying pan pasta to sumptuous stews.
Mary’s quickest and easiest recipes yet
All the recipes from the BBC TV series
Fast and simple recipes, from breakfasts to bakes
Mary Berry’s Quick Cooking
If you enjoyed watching Mary’s no-fuss cooking on the BBC Two series of the same name, then this cookbook is for you. Find 20- and 30-minute recipes that’ll show you how to make midweek cooking a doddle, all with Mary’s signature flair for reliable, accessible, delicious family food.
Rediscover the joy of being together with 120 easy recipes for gatherings big and small
Find complete menus for every occasion with mix and match dishes
From summery feasts to winter comfort food, steak nights to picnics
Together
In Together, Jamie Oliver focuses on how to reconnect with your favourite people through good food and the joy that it brings. Together is organised by eighteen different menus for different types of occasion from picnics, to brunches, lunches and feasts, you’ll find a whole host of new recipes to add to your repertoire and wow your loved ones with.
Easy meals for weeknights
Fuss-free recipe inspiration
Cook in one pan – less to wash up!
One Pan. 100 Brilliant Meals
A family cookbook that does exactly what it says on the tin: 100 delicious meals that can each be cooked in just one pan. A simple idea, brilliantly executed, these are recipes that require no fancy equipment and only minimal washing up. With family-friendly recipes such as Cheat’s Frying Pan Lasagne, Sweet Potato Dahl and even pizza, it’s a cookbook the kids will love to eat from.
Fast one-dish family favourites
All-in-one creative vegan recipes
Easy one-tin vegetarian dinners
The Green Roasting Tin
Following on from the bestselling success of The Roasting Tin, Rukmini Iyer created an equally brilliant vegetarian and vegan family cookbook. The premise is the same: simple one-dish dinners that you can throw together with minimal prep, letting the oven to do the work for you. The only difference, of course, is that it’s all meat-free. Perfect for the vegans, vegetarians and flexitarians among you, dishes include Warming Sweet Potato & Mushroom Polenta with Tomatoes, Crisp Cauliflower Steaks with Harissa & Goat’s Cheese, and Oven-Baked Shakshuka.
Over 100 recipes from the much-loved Chris Bavin
Budget-friendly and time-saving family favourites
Easy puddings and bakes to please a crowd
Good Food, Sorted: Save Time, Cook Smart, Eat Well
Perfect for anyone on a tight budget, this practical guide to everyday eating is full of recipes and invaluable advice on how to plan, make the most of your freezer, batch-cook and use up leftovers all in the name of good, wholesome food that won’t break the bank. Inspiring, down to earth, easy to navigate, and refreshingly practical.
