The Newylywed Cookbook
and other Books for Honeymooners
No bride and groom's bookshelf is complete without the latest books to make the Newlywed transition a smooth one. For your reading pleasure we review
The Newlywed Cookbook
The Nest Newlywed Handbook
The Newlyweds' Predictionary
For many couples the transition from dating to being married presents the newly-married couple with many challenges, such as cooking for two, fitting extended family into your newly-created family, and maintaining individuality while nurturing "coupleness." Sometimes it's good to get a little outside input.
The Newlywed Cookbook
No doubt one or both of you cooked for the other while dating. You remember that night, don't you? You slaved over some complicated meal in order to impress him or her. Well, guess what? Now you're having meals together every night. It's time to extend your menu! What's a Newlywed to do?
Enter "The Newlywed Cookbook"
The Newlywed Cookbook, written by Robin Vitetta-Miller, is chock-full with more than 200 original recipes. Did you receive a ton of kitchen gadgets as wedding gifts? Good, now you'll learn how to use them. You'll learn tricks and recipes that can be used for just the two of you, or for larger sit-down dinner parties. The book may be elementary to those who are old hats in the kitchen, geared more for the couple learning how to cook for two. So, if you do know the basics of cooking, and have many established recipes, perhaps you may want a cookbook which explores more adventurous cooking.
The Newlywed Cookbook does contain many recipes for two people, but it never hurts to have more, which is why we're also suggesting another cookbook, "Healthy Cooking for Two (or Just You): Low-Fat Recipes with Half the Fuss and Double the Taste." by Frances Price.
The Newlywed Cookbook also includes a section on holiday meals, such as how to prepare a Thanksgiving dinner. Of course, you might not be making many Thanksgiving dinners, as your family and in-laws will probably want, no, make that expect, you to come home for the holidays. But, which invitation do you accept? His family or your family?
Which leads us to the next Newlywed book...
The Nest Newlywed Handbook
"The Nest Newlywed Handbook" was created by the folks at TheNest.com to answer some of the dicier issues of married life, such as:
•Merging your finances
•Your in-laws (you gotta love 'em, right?)
•Decorating (he wants the ugly cow lamp - she doesn't)
•Dividing up the chores
•Keeping the romance alive
•Fighting nicely
•Talking about kids
•What to do with your single friends (even though they just don't get it)
•Holidays - stay home or spend it with family (and, whose family?)
"The Newst Newlywed Handbook" definitely contains real solutions to newlywed problems. We heartily recommend this book, which is put together from the editors of TheNest.com, culled from real-life honeymooners' experiences.
Why do you need insight on some of the difficulties of the first years of marriage? Because, quite frankly, the first years of marriage pose interesting dilemmas. It's not easy to go from being that free-and-easy single man or woman to being part of a union. As a single person, you're used to having things your way. You're used to your furniture, your dishes, your friends. Now it's our furniture, our dishes, and yes, our friends. He might expect his friends to become your friends. He might not understand why a night out with just the girls is important. She might not understand why you don't want her to become a regular at the guys' poker game. Marriage takes compromise - living as a unit, while maintaining your individuality. Because, isn't your individuality what attracted you to one another?
The Newlyweds' Predictionary
Another recommended Honeymoon book is The Newlyweds' Predictionary, described as "part time capsule, part hope chest and part parlor game." It's a packet of questionnaires that the bride, groom, family and friends fill out and seal, not to be opened until the couple's 10th wedding anniversary. The questionnaires are predictions about certain aspects of the marriage, such as, "how will fights be resolved." Ten years into the future you see how well the predictions held up.
Not only is it a great honeymoon gift to the bride and groom, but also a fun thing to pass down to the couple's children.
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