The Complete Idiot's Guide to Eating Well on a Budget

by Lucy Beale, Jessica Partridge

Eating both plentifully and nutritionally for less...includes 150 recipes.

The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Eating Well on a Budget is packed with tips, strategies, ideas, and more than 150 recipes for those who are either new to food budgeting or have had to greatly tighten their food budgets. Readers will not only learn how to do savvy grocery shopping, they will learn how to eat out on a budget.

•Features preparation and cooking strategies

•More than 150 budget-conscious recipes

•The current tough economic times more Americans than ever need to watch what they spend on food

•Addresses the challenge of buying healthier foods-which are often more expensive-and maintaining a careful budget

Genres: Cookbooks, Health, Nonfiction

336 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Alexandria · Rating 3 out of 5]

There's really nothing in this book that you can't find from any budgeting website. The big exception to that was the idea that every time you buy food, you're trading money for energy. So if you buy a food that doesn't give you nutrients and energy in exchange for your money, you're wasting your grocery budget.

That idea really got me back on track in terms of examining what we buy when we grocery shop. But other than that, I'd suggest doing some Google searches to find all the same information in more concise of situation-specific formats.

[Heather · Rating 4 out of 5]

There are some great tips to start the reader off on "Eating Well on a Budget." I mostly scanned through the book to see what I could do that I wasn't doing already. My state does not allow double couponing so some of the tips do not work for me. I looked through the recipe section and saw a few I would like to make later on.

[Nicole Spoor · Rating 2 out of 5]

Not that much interesting information. Most of it was common knowledge, but there were quite a few easy, tasty recipes.

[Aisha Oaktree]

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