5 Reasons You Need to Use Copykat Recipes At Home

If you only recently heard of copykat recipes, then don't feel bad. Until recently I had never heard of them either. It wasn't until a friend bought me one of the recipe books that I became aware of them. The other day I asked my Mom, and she had never heard of them either. They appear to be a special little secret!

Copykat recipe books reveal the secret recipes that restaurants use in their best selling dishes. With these recipe books you can make these very same dishes at home. So let's take a few minutes and look at just why you should be using copykat recipes.

1. Save Money -- Saving money is always high on my list! By using copykat recipes to make your favorite dishes at home, you save the cost of a night out for dinner. Which as we all know, can be costly.
2. Save Time -- The typical family dinner out is quite the affair, especially if you have kids! Imagine how much time you can save by not going anywhere? A typical night out for our family wastes a good 2 or 3 hours.
3. Eat Healthier -- Ever wonder what sorts of ingredients restaurants use in their dishes? In most cases it is very unhealthy. Besides all the various fats used in the cookies, most of the ingredients are frozen, boxed, mega-preserved ingredients that will outlast roaches. They taste great but don't do a whole lot for your health. Using copykat recipes you can make the dishes using your own choice of fresh ingredients and less fats giving you a much healthier meal in the end.
4. Portion Control -- Are the portions they give you too small? Too big? At home you decide how much you get!
5. Impress Family and Friends -- Your family and friends can't help but be impressed when you serve these dishes to them. This is especially fun if you entertain often.

So there you have it. Five reasons why you just absolutely should be using copykat recipes at home. If you don't already have a good copykat recipe book, then you really shoudl look into getting one.

Copykat Recipes

Have you ever had a favorite dish or couple of dishes at a restaurant? Have you ever found yourself going back over and over again just to get that favorite dish? I know I have. I absolutely love Quizno's Chicken Carbenara. Its heaven. When they came out with that sub I was all over it (without the mushrooms please!), and I quickly declared it the best sub i'd ever had. But the sub was just a special sub for the month, and at the end of the month it was gone. No! I was distraught. I loved that sub! In fact I was so upset with them that I wrote them a letter stating quite firmly that I would not visit another Quizno's until they brought the sub back. I'm sure that letter didn't really have any effect whatsoever, but after a few months had gone by suddenly the sub came back, and has been here to stay since. While the sub was gone though I tried time and time again to reproduce it at home. I wanted that sub so bad, I spent all sorts of money trying to make it myself. I never succeeded, but I did learn that i'm no chef! I wish I had known about copykat recipes back then!

What are copykat recipes? They are recipes people have done that are essentially duplicates of the restaurant's recipes. They seem to be called by slightly different names, and i'm not sure which is the "right" spelling. I've seen them called copykat recipes, copycat recipes, and other similar spellings, but in the end its all the same. If I had known about these things during the carbonara days I would have been in heaven, but unfortunately I didn't. In fact I only heard about them a couple months ago when a friend got me one of the copykat recipe books.

These things are pretty amazing though. They're pretty easy to cook if you follow along, and most of these books have recipes for all the big places like Chilis, Applebees, Tony Roma's, etc, and even more fast food type chains like Subway, Wendys, and the like. One thing I especially like about them though is that when you have the recipe and make it at home, you can do so with better quality ingredients. This makes them taste even better, and they're more healthy. restaurants use prepackaged and frozen foods in most cases. Not the healthiest options as we all know, but in your own home you can use fresh foods, and cut back a bit on the fat!