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Feed Your Family For £20 a Week: 100 Budget-Friendly, Batch-Cooking Recipes You'll All Enjoy
Simple ingredients. Straightforward recipes. Mouth-watering results.Now you can feed the whole family - and eat the food you love - without breaking the bank!Feed Your Family for £20 a Week is the hottest new cookery sensation on the block. Through Lorna Cooper's popular cookery blog fyf20quid, over half a million people have learnt how to meal plan, budget and cook for their families for just £20 a week - and now you can too! In Feed Your Family for £20 a Week you will find 100 deliciously simple, wallet-friendly meals the whole family will love. Each recipe is full of flavour, easy to follow and ready in minutes. This is stress-free cooking at its best - for less! A busy mum of three, Lorna understands how difficult it is to feed a family without breaking the bank, and when she didn't qualify for sick pay after a medical emergency, she really had to tighten the purse strings. Through savvy shopping, buying in bulk and batch cooking, she managed to slash her food bill from around £100 a week to just £20 - and now she wants to show you how. With this book, you · Plan 3 meals a day, every week - for just £20 · Stock up on freezer and store cupboard essentials· Get the most out of your ingredients· Discover simple substitutes and clever shortcuts· Love your leftovers· Waste less and save moreCook smart with MINIMUM FUSS and MAXIMUM FLAVOUR - and all for just £20 A WEEK!
291 pages, Kindle Edition
Published January 9, 2020
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July 28, 2020
I love this cookbook had it a while and cooked lots from it hence the five stars.
I made Lorna easy cookies first n they went down great.
Made the sausage meat loaf again went down great
Good soup recipes too made the chicken noodle n the minestrone again yummy.
For breakfasts we be made the baked oats but with blueberries n her bircher muesli n loved both so that's a good few recipes n they are all simple n worked n looked like the photos.
This book is full of so much advice n recipes a good first cookbook as it's full of basics as well as being a cheap ways book.
Sections are meal plan
Breakfasts
Soups n salads
Light bites
Meat n fish
Pasta n rice
Slow cooker
Takeaways
Sweet treats
Basics.
A really good index too.
A great family or couple or single person book as recipes can be frozen n reheated.
I made Lorna easy cookies first n they went down great.
Made the sausage meat loaf again went down great
Good soup recipes too made the chicken noodle n the minestrone again yummy.
For breakfasts we be made the baked oats but with blueberries n her bircher muesli n loved both so that's a good few recipes n they are all simple n worked n looked like the photos.
This book is full of so much advice n recipes a good first cookbook as it's full of basics as well as being a cheap ways book.
Sections are meal plan
Breakfasts
Soups n salads
Light bites
Meat n fish
Pasta n rice
Slow cooker
Takeaways
Sweet treats
Basics.
A really good index too.
A great family or couple or single person book as recipes can be frozen n reheated.
August 24, 2020
I wouldn’t normally include a cookery book in my reading but this is , I think the best cook book I’ve ever bought - and I have 43 on kindle and maybe around 40 on my shelves. And it cost me 99p!
I like that it’s got me organised. I’ve changed a few meals for my own in the plan as I don’t eat red meat, but to plan and shop instead of wondering what to have all the time. There’s only 2 of us and I know I do spend more than £20 a week but that’s as I shop weekly - and there’s a few extras in there - but I’ve just made 8 evening meals for £9 and that includes a free range chicken. I am definitely saving money.
I have loved some of the recipes. And they’re so simple to make! Cream cheese and stock for a pasta sauce- so much easier.
I like that it’s got me organised. I’ve changed a few meals for my own in the plan as I don’t eat red meat, but to plan and shop instead of wondering what to have all the time. There’s only 2 of us and I know I do spend more than £20 a week but that’s as I shop weekly - and there’s a few extras in there - but I’ve just made 8 evening meals for £9 and that includes a free range chicken. I am definitely saving money.
I have loved some of the recipes. And they’re so simple to make! Cream cheese and stock for a pasta sauce- so much easier.
January 26, 2021
I have this book on kindle but!!
I would love to have it in print as I would like to add notes and ideas for other recipes! I know that I will have this book for years as it is just what I have been looking for and now I have found it. Actually, I live alone but I cook almost everyday and freeze for later. Then I have a menu to choose from every evening and put my choices in the fridge to defrost for the next day’s meals.
Thank you Lorna, it’s great XX
I would love to have it in print as I would like to add notes and ideas for other recipes! I know that I will have this book for years as it is just what I have been looking for and now I have found it. Actually, I live alone but I cook almost everyday and freeze for later. Then I have a menu to choose from every evening and put my choices in the fridge to defrost for the next day’s meals.
Thank you Lorna, it’s great XX
June 14, 2020
All of the recipes I've tried have worked for me, and it is not a diet/healthy eating book, it's aimed at keeping household costs down, but I'd really have liked the nutritional values labelled to help towards a balanced diet, because I'm lazy and typing it all into MFP takes me ages!
August 28, 2020
Well worth a try
Easy to read very good idea receipies certainly going to try a a lot of them mainly for me and my husband but but brilliant when family costs with out breaking the bank I enjoyed it will recommend to family and friends
Easy to read very good idea receipies certainly going to try a a lot of them mainly for me and my husband but but brilliant when family costs with out breaking the bank I enjoyed it will recommend to family and friends
November 19, 2020
Feeding the Family for £20..... just got easier!!
I loved the ease of the recipes using store cupboard staples and every day ingredients. There’s something for everyone in this book. Love it!!
I loved the ease of the recipes using store cupboard staples and every day ingredients. There’s something for everyone in this book. Love it!!
January 3, 2024
Great read
Really enjoyed this book. Can't wait to try the recipes shopping list is a great idea will print them and work out what I need and what I already have. Start saving in 2024
Really enjoyed this book. Can't wait to try the recipes shopping list is a great idea will print them and work out what I need and what I already have. Start saving in 2024
March 20, 2020
Amazing
So noce read a cook book from a genuinely lovely person who has tried and tested all these recipes and still uses them with her own family
So noce read a cook book from a genuinely lovely person who has tried and tested all these recipes and still uses them with her own family
July 16, 2020
Fantastic
I can’t wait to get started doing this. Great book with great tips and recipes! Really easy to follow too!
I can’t wait to get started doing this. Great book with great tips and recipes! Really easy to follow too!
July 26, 2020
Great healthy recipes
Healthy recipes and brilliant meal plan helps you save money and learn lots more cooking skills and how to make best use of your freezer
Healthy recipes and brilliant meal plan helps you save money and learn lots more cooking skills and how to make best use of your freezer
October 12, 2020
Brilliant just perfect for family recipes will always stay on my shelf
November 9, 2020
Fab!
Easy, straightforward recipes with normal ingredients and cooking times to suit busy mums. Can't wait to try all the recipes out.
Easy, straightforward recipes with normal ingredients and cooking times to suit busy mums. Can't wait to try all the recipes out.
April 18, 2021
Some tasty ideas, though the savings seem to be largely acheived by simply not eating very much - the portions are very small for some of these.
March 3, 2022
so simple
Really easy recipes for a busy family . Great for a budget . It’s not frilly or fussy but really easy to follow .
Really easy recipes for a busy family . Great for a budget . It’s not frilly or fussy but really easy to follow .
February 29, 2020
This book is amazing can’t wait to make these recipes
Easy to follow recipes too and lots of money saving tips can’t wait to start saving.
Easy to follow recipes too and lots of money saving tips can’t wait to start saving.
February 17, 2020
Brilliant a must have
Loved the recipes, and most importantly saving money . Recommend this to all . Followed fb page for years looking forward to next book
Loved the recipes, and most importantly saving money . Recommend this to all . Followed fb page for years looking forward to next book
January 16, 2020
Most of the recipes sound great. I have made a couple and they’ve been delicious. Only negative thing for me is that the portion sizes seem a bit ‘mean’ eg there’s a recipe which says serves 8 but only uses 2 chicken breasts.
January 11, 2020
I think this is a good book and have made a couple of recipes out of it.
February 21, 2021
Fab book
Lots of variety for decent meals without breaking the bank, the chicken chow mein recipe is gooood. Thanks lorna for making this book
Lots of variety for decent meals without breaking the bank, the chicken chow mein recipe is gooood. Thanks lorna for making this book
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