Anna W. (annagrace) reviewed Cheap Eating: How to Feed Your Family Well and Spend Less on + 3 more book reviews
Helpful Score: 1
A great primer on eating inexpensively. Includes lots of ideas on how to cut your food budget. Gives you both basic and unexpected recipes for putting food on the table when money is very tight. The creamed peas on toast on page 136 and the Quencher on page 195 have been family favorites for many years now.
Recipes included are: Tuna Macaroni Salad, Cold Tuna Pie, Mexicali Casserole, Scalloped Potatoes, Spoonbread, Vegetarian Chili, Spaghetti Sauce, Autumn Casserole, Sausage and Rice Casserole, Polish Casserole, Shandy-gaff, Instant Breakfast Drink,Bagels and many, many others. Every recipe I've tried from this book (many) has been yummy.
Chapters include: 1) Ten Commandments of Cheap Eating 2) Are You Disorganized? 3)Where, When and How to Shop 4) Cutting Corners in the Smart Way ...plus....
Also included are gardening tips, ideas on how to save money shopping for household supplies and pet items, and a wonderful chapter called "Something From Nothing" where she gives you great ideas on using up bits and pieces of food to create something new and wonderful.
Recipes included are: Tuna Macaroni Salad, Cold Tuna Pie, Mexicali Casserole, Scalloped Potatoes, Spoonbread, Vegetarian Chili, Spaghetti Sauce, Autumn Casserole, Sausage and Rice Casserole, Polish Casserole, Shandy-gaff, Instant Breakfast Drink,Bagels and many, many others. Every recipe I've tried from this book (many) has been yummy.
Chapters include: 1) Ten Commandments of Cheap Eating 2) Are You Disorganized? 3)Where, When and How to Shop 4) Cutting Corners in the Smart Way ...plus....
Also included are gardening tips, ideas on how to save money shopping for household supplies and pet items, and a wonderful chapter called "Something From Nothing" where she gives you great ideas on using up bits and pieces of food to create something new and wonderful.
