Food - Budget (Low cost)
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From Warehouse to Your House: More Than 250 Simple, Spectacular Recipes to Cook, Store, and Share When You Buy in Quantity  by Sally Sampson
Warehouse club shopping is thrilling. Walking down aisle after fluorescent-lit aisle of impossible-to-pass-up bargains, you fill your cart and tally the money you’re going to save. Unloading the boxes and jugs, however, it becomes obvious that, while the way you shop for food may have changed, the scale of your refrigerator (and your stomach!) has not. So what do you do with the sixteen chicken breasts, the five pounds of oatmeal and the gallon of olive oil that you couldn’t afford not to buy? You turn to “From Warehouse to Your House: More Than 250 Simple, Spectacular Recipes to Cook, Store and Share When You Buy in Quantity” by Sally Sampson, veteran cookbook author, working mom and accomplished warehouse shopper. Utilizing the fresh and

Paperback,  336 pp,  $25.95. Buy now

Good Housekeeping Dinner for a Dollar: 50 Family-Friendly Recipes Under $1  by Good Housekeeping Institute
With Good Housekeeping’s help, it’s simple to serve low-cost and family-friendly delicious meals that go far beyond the ordinary. Forget the old standards like spaghetti with marinara or franks and beans! From Arroz con Pollo to Tomato and Cheese Pie, Italian Sausage Rosti to Jambalaya, these dinner for a dollar dishes are as varied and tasty as they are inexpensive

,  112 pp,  $13.95. Buy now

Cheap.Fast.Good!  by Beverly Mills and Alicia Ross
The authors, who helped us get dinner on the table in 20 minutes or less and showed us how to give stress-free parties, now help us feed our families well for less money. Beverly and Alicia are mealtime problem solvers. This time they turn their attention to preparing inviting breakfasts, lunches, and dinners that don’t wreak havoc on the family budget. Over 275 recipes for flavorful everyday entrees, soups and stews, skillet meals, pastas, salads and side dishes, and desserts; plus a full chapter on breakfasts and another on how to save money and time by cooking in big batches. All dishes are unrecognizable; they’re just yummy and worthy of second helpings

Paperback,  480 pp,  $23.95. Buy now

Cheap. Fast. Good!  by Beverly Mills and Alicia Ross
The authors, who helped us get dinner on the table in 20 minutes or less and showed us how to give stress-free parties, now help us feed our families well for less money. Beverly and Alicia are mealtime problem solvers. This time they turn their attention to preparing inviting breakfasts, lunches, and dinners that don’t wreak havoc on the family budget. Over 275 recipes for flavorful everyday entrees, soups and stews, skillet meals, pastas, salads and side dishes, and desserts; plus a full chapter on breakfasts and another on how to save money and time by cooking in big batches. All dishes are unrecognizable as inexpensive; they’re just yummy and worthy of second helpings

,  496 pp,  $49.95. Buy now

Fast and Fabulous!: Quick Cuisine  by Judy Gilliard
Fast and Fabulous: Quick Cuisine is one of three titles in the new Fast and Fabulous Series! This book provides time saving ways to keep meals interesting, healthy, and most important? great tasting! Lately, the media has been full of reports regarding how and what Americans eat. Obesity, in both children and adults, is at an all time high and can be considered an epidemic. With a culture that condones fast and convenient eating, it is easy to see how we got here, and is the biggest contributor to an unhealthy approach to food. The challenge is to create recipes that are fast, easy, and cost effective, and can be prepared in the time it takes to order in from a restaurant. The mission of this book is to give the reader solutions to the dile

Paperback,  198 pp,  $31.95. Buy now

Big Food  by Elissa Altman
Designed to help shoppers make the most of the money-saving and culinary rewards that megastores have to offer. Award-winning journalist and food writer/editor Elissa Altman tells readers how to shop, meal plan, and cook inventively, how to store food safely and how to use her 125 delicious recipes.

Paperback,  304 pp,  $29.95. Buy now

Students’ Microwave Cookbook: Stylish, Tasty, Nutritious and Cheap Recipes  by Carolyn Humphries
Some students are quicker than others to learn that the best way to save money for the pub is to buy real food in the supermarket and take it home to cook. But then they need books to provide the ideas. We’ve been testing and evaluating nutritious, healthy-eating recipes for several years. And we’ve learned that for students, the meals have to be imaginative, modern and exciting; they need to be quick and easy to make; plus they must look good. Recipes range from Tex Mex to Thai, and use microwave cooking for speed and convenience.

Paperback,  160 pp,  $15.95. Buy now

HARD UP AND HUNGRY, HASSLE FREE RECIPES FOR STUDENTS, BY STUDENTS  by Betsy Bell
Get your hands on a copy of HARD UP and learn to: * Cook delicious fool-proof food; economic eats; show-offish suppers. * Stay healthy, look buff. * Shop sensibly. * Plan weekly menus. * Lighten the load on the loan. * Understand food and the importance of eating well. * Make cooking, well, fun.

Paperback,  128 pp,  $30.95. Buy now

Student Vegetarian Cookbook, 150 Quick And Easy Vegetarian Recipes To Suit All Budgets  by Beverly Leblanc
Easy-to-follow advice on how to eat a healthy meatless diet. There’s more to being a veggie than just eating tofu and alfalfa, and there’s more to being a student than beans on toast and chips from the kebab van. With 150 recipes from cultures across the world, even the novice cook will be able to master the simple Indian and South-East Asian curries, Italian and Chinese pastas, South American vegetable stews, Spanish tortillas, Italian frittatas and stuffed vegetables and sun-kissed Mediterranean grilled vegetable salads, Full of ideas for munching through hangovers and eating to beat sore throats, blocked noses and pounding heads The Student Vegetarian Cookbook is a recipe for a tasty and healthy student life.

Paperback,  224 pp,  $29.95. Buy now

Student Grub  by Alastair Williams
A recipe book for students, this collection contains a selection of popular and easy-to-prepare recipes, with laid-back and witty instructions by a former student

Paperback,  176 pp,  $17.95. Buy now

Student Veggie Grub  by Alastair Williams
Bored with baked beans? It’s cheaper to eat vegetarian food when you are on a budget, but how do you make it more interesting? This is a guide to making vegetarian food, from the absolute basics to more adventurous recipe ideas. There is advice on cooking for yourself or the entire household.

Paperback,  192 pp,  $14.95. Buy now

New Classic 1000 Student Recipes   by Carolyn Humphries
It’s not true to say that all students can’t cook. So in constructing this book, the author has taken into account many levels of kitchen skill. At the most basic level, students won’t need anything more than a knife. When they’re really cooking, they’ll need a Microwave and/or an Oven or a Grill. The author has spent a lot of time creating good eating with mouth-filling flavours in no time at all and at half the cost of processed foods on the supermarket shelves.

Paperback,  464 pp,  $20.95. Buy now

Ruby Ann’s Down Home Trailer Park Cookbook  by Ruby Ann Boxcar
Showcases the eccentric residents of the fictional High Chaparral Trailer Park of Pangburn, Arkansas, a community filled with sex, murder, topless dancing, secrets, and adultery, as they dish the dirt on their neighbors and provide such cost-effective recipes as Spam Rolls, Mayonnaises Cake, All Day

Paperback,  224 pp,  $29.95. Buy now

Cheap as Chips, Better Than Toast  by Miranda Shearer

Paperback,  128 pp,  $14.95. Buy now

The Virgin Student Cookbook: 150 Quick + Easy Recipes to Suit All Budgets  by Beverly Leblanc

Paperback,  224 pp,  $29.95. Buy now

Use It Up Cookbook: Creative Recipes for the Frugal Cook  by Catherine Kitcho
If you have pent-up guilt…, if you were lectured by your parents…, or if you just want to be frugal about using all the food you paid for “The Use-It-Up Cookbook is just the book for you. By following its instructions, you will rid yourself of the guilt and use up what’s left of the package, jar, bottle, bunch, or can! Two bananas have become more brown than yellow. You’ve moved the half carton of buttermilk in the refrigerator yet again to retrieve something on the shelf behind it. Why not look up the recipes for bananas and buttermilk in “The Use-It-Up Cookbook to see how you might be able to incorporate, them into this evening’s dinner or tomorrow’s lunch? The same can be done with the bunch of celery that has at least one or two sta

Paperback,  256 pp,  $28.95. Buy now

Ruby Ann’s Down Home Trailer Park Bbqin’ Cookbook  by Ruby Ann Boxcar
Discusses techniques, tools, and terms of barbecue cooking, and offers trailer decoration advice and recipes for dishes including Baptist burgers, ambrosia pound cake, and Dr Pepper BBQ sauce.

Paperback,  256 pp,  $29.95. Buy now

Beyond Baked Beans  by Fiona Beckett
Fiona Beckett is one of Britain’s most respected food and drink writers. Beyond Baked Beans, is firmly geared towards revolutionising the way that students eat. Dispensing with patronising assumptions and cartoon-style design, this is a book for the student who wants to prepare meals that are worthy of the name, not just ‘grub’. Every angle is covered, from simple meals-for-one to communal kitchen banquets. A must-have cookery book for the post-Jamie generation in search of great food and fun times around the table.

Paperback,  160 pp,  $24.95. Buy now

Man a Can a Plan  by David Joachim
Presents sixty simple and inexpensive recipes featuring canned foods, providing easy-to-follow illustrated steps in a lay-flat design and offering suggestions for such occasions as cooking for a woman and preparing a meal for the morning after.

Hardback,  43 pp,  $47.95. Buy now

The $50 Dinner Party  by Sally Sampson
Recommends ingredients and equipment to have on hand, and shares menus of side dish, main dish, and dessert that are unusual, but economical and simple to prepare.

Paperback,  239 pp,  $34.95. Buy now