Product Description

With food and gas prices growing more expensive each day, families are always looking for new ways to save. This cookbook offers delicious recipes that are great for a shoestring budget, including: Big Batch Guacamole for next to nothing; Spicy Thai Peanut Noodles that are cheaper than takeout; Sicilian Meatballs made from pantry items you already have; peach Foster Crepes for only 56 cents per serving; and more tasty and affordable options! In this comprehensive, all-purpose cookbook, families will find simple instructions, nutritional information, and the amount of money needed for each recipe. They’ll feel like their dining at a five-star restaurant - at a price they can afford!

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #127467 in Books
• Published on: 2009-01-17
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 336 pages

Features

• ISBN13: 9781605501093
• Condition: NEW
• Notes: Brand New from Publisher. No Remainder Mark.
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About the Author
Linda Larsen (Northfield, MN) is a professional home economist and the author of several Everything® cookbooks, including The Everything® No Trans Fat Cookbook, The Everything® Meals for a Month Cookbook, and The Everything® Quick and Easy 30-Minute, 5-Ingredient Cookbook. She has a degree in food science and nutrition from the University of Minnesota. Ms. Larsen has been the About.com Guide for Busy Cooks since January 2002.

Customer Reviews

Simple, elegant recipes on the cheap
I was really surprised by the quality of the recipes in this book. For $10, getting 300 recipes is quite a deal already. The use of fresh ingredients is a real bonus. I've been able to make quite a few of the recipes for under $7, which is a huge deal in these tough economic times. My family loved the Salmon Stuffed Potatoes and Greek Pasta. And there's even nutrition information!

And people say that convenience cooking is crap...
You know, when you compare this to crap like Sandra Lee's work or "A Man, A Can, A Plan", this book comes off as downright classy. It's not pure convenience cooking, just budget-conscious, but it seems to meet its objectives in a quick, easy, and most importantly cheap style.

The author figured out one thing about convenience food: overreliance on premades is bad news, and often unnecessarily expensive. As a result, a surprisingly large number of the recipes in here are from scratch, and while wouldn't take her cost estimates as gospel, the author does a pretty good job of taking both hip and traditional cooking and making them as cheap and tasty as possible. (And the book itself -- well, I haven't seen a non-bargain pile cookbook for less than $10 for a long time now, so hitting that price is quite admirable.)

So here's the deal: it's certainly worth looking into, and even if it's not what you want, you're still only out ten bucks. Give it a shot; can't hurt.

Great Little Cookbook!
We really have enjoyed using this cookbook. We have had it for several months and refer to it frequently. Many of the recipes have become our favorites. What I like most about the recipes is that they encourage the use of whole foods (IE: brown rice) and rarely use shortening or cream soups in the recipes. Also the recipes are not complicated and they don't require a lot of ingredients. They include price breakdown and the nutritional information with each recipe so you can easily decide how well and for what price each recipe will feed your family. That all being said -everything we have tried taste great!