Mother’s Day is tomorrow. If you still need to get your mom a gift, a magazine subscription is a great last minute idea. Here are some magazines that I currently subscribe to that are not fashion/buy more stuff focused.
| Everyday Food has become my absolute favorite magazine. I started with this magazine because I found the “Everyday Pantry” checklist towards the back of each issue to be helpful in figuring out what basic ingredients I should keep stocked in my pantry when I first moved in and my cupboards were completely empty. I usually tear out 10 or so recipes from each issue and actually make them and I have acquired a few absolute favorites from this magazine in the past year. I find the recipes in this magazine to be simple and quick to make, use easily available and affordable ingredients, and be very tasty. The recipes are well formatted for tearing out and filing. I look forward to receiving each and every copy of this magazine and I have renewed my subscription. | |
| I subscribed to Cooking Light after hearing raves for in on a cooking message board I read. The recipes in this magazine are a bit exotic and complicated for me, if Everyday Food is for every day then Cooking Light is for special occasions. Later on in my cooking adventures I may return to this magazine but I feel it is a bit advanced for my skills at this time and a bit vegetable heavy for my current vegetable eating efforts. I also don’t like the way the recipes are formatted. Recipes are sometimes split between multiple pages so it’s not easy to tear them out and file them for future use. I’ve only cooked a couple of items from this magazine. Some months I didn’t find anything useful in the issue at all. I won’t be renewing my subscription to Cooking Light. | |
| Sunset is a western living magazine that covers cooking, gardening, home remodeling, and travel. It has a local and green orientation. Since I don’t have a huge yard or own my own home, a lot of the material doesn’t apply to me. The recipes focus on utilizing local, in season, and home grown food. I discovered a couple good recipes (particularly Artichoke Sourdough Parmesan stuffing for Thanksgiving which I will be making again in years to come) but those recipes weren’t a large enough part of the magazine to maintain a subscription just for the recipes. If I spot a cooking oriented issue on the newsstand in the future, I may purchase that issue. |
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Thanks for article. Everytime like to read you.
Jinny
I’m going to look for Everyday Food….thanks for the reviews!
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Sunset is great, from cooking to home remodeling there are so many great ideas within the pages. It’s a real joy every time I get it and I have to limit myself to just reading a couple pages or I would go through the whole magazine too quickly
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