Giveaway – America’s Test Kitchen Healthy Family Cookbook & Lodge Dutch Oven Review

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The winner is Anne Marie! She said, “My favorite would be the dutch oven -really need one of these!”

Send an email to kelseyatvanillajoydotcom to claim your prize. Congrats!

THE PRIZE

One winner will receive a copy of the America’s Test Kitchen Healthy Family Cookbook with 800 recipes and more!

MY REVIEW

The Healthy Family Cookbook

America’s Test Kitchen cookbooks are my go-to. I have the 3 family cookbooks (plus a few others) and I use them almost exclusively. The recipes are perfect and there are hundreds to choose from.

My latest ATK Cookbook is the Healthy Family Cookbook, and I particularly love finding recipes that use healthy grains like barley, bulgur wheat, quinoa, wheat berries, amaranth, farro, and kamut, to name a few.

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