The Batch Lady: Cooking on a Budget

by Suzanne Mulholland

The Sunday Times best-selling author The Batch Lady is back with a budget-busting book to create fresh and satisfying meals without breaking the purse strings. Shop once.
Get organised, plan ahead and create fresh and satisfying meals without breaking the bank. Cook once.
Over 100 delicious, simple and energy-efficient batch-cooking recipes that will satisfy the whole family and fill your freezer. Save money all week.
Learn to hack your monthly bill, save your hard-earned money and eat well on a budget.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction

256 pages, Kindle Edition

Published January 5, 2023

Reviews

[Spangles · Rating 4 out of 5]

I’ve now had three of The Batch Lady’s cookbooks on loan from my local library. The latest one has lots of good advice and good range of achievable recipes.

I think it is very difficult to please everyone with a cookbook because we all have different abilities, access to ingredients (for many reasons) and of course we all have our own food preferences and dislikes.

I feel that this book and her other two ate predominantly aimed at young families. My only criticism of all of these books is that the font size is small and much of it is set on vibrant colour backgrounds. Whilst this looks very pretty it simply isn’t practical when using them as a working cookbook. Not the author’s fault I’m sure, but it is frustrating. Realise that I’m substantially older than the target demographic so perhaps this isn’t an issue for younger readers.

Definitely worth loaning from my library but I probably wouldn’t use it enough to justify buying a personal copy. I always try and issue cookbooks from my local library first and this has substantially reduced me buying new cookbooks that sit on a shelf gathering dust!

[Sara Thompson Jones · Rating 4 out of 5]

I enjoyed this book. For those new to the Batch Cooking approach, I would suggest this is not your best starter book, and would recommend one of Suzanne Mulholland’s earlier Batch Lady books, or following her on social media first.
Her ideas are creative, family-friendly, practical and real. And now they are budget-friendly too. Perfect for 2023!
If you are an experienced cook, there will be little here that you haven’t cooked before. Will you have made it with a “one meal for today, one for the freezer” perspective before? Maybe not. And you probably won’t have made 10 Meals in an Hour before either; that’s the game changer!
So, clear your freezer space, buy your freezer bags and Pyrex dishes with lids, grab a notebook and a planner and claim your free time back.

[T · Rating 3 out of 5]

2.5 stars rounded up. This was a bit of a miss for me and I can’t figure out why. I love cooking in batches so this should have been right up my alley. Sadly, it wasn’t. I think it might have been because the recipes were, as a whole, underwhelming and not very inspiring.

[Vikki Herrett · Rating 3 out of 5]

Great easy to follow simple recipes with actual ingredients you can get or would have .