$5 a Meal College Cookbook: Good Cheap Food for When You Need to Eat

by Rhonda Lauret Parkinson, B.E. Horton

Say goodbye to the dining hall!

Need a break from the monotony of your meal plan? Can't afford to waste money on lukewarm takeout? Well, now you can ditch the dining hall's soggy excuse for the Monday-night special thanks to this appetite-saving book packed with cheap, easy, and delicious recipes.

Offering up more than 300 hassle-free dishes, this cookbook will not only satisfy your hunger but your meager bank account, too! Whether you need a morning-after greasy breakfast, a cram-session snack, or date-night entree, here you'll find ideas for everything you crave,

Saving you from overcooked, overpriced, and dull dishes, if you have to buy a book for college, this is required reading.

Genres: Cookbooks, Cooking, Nonfiction, Food

224 pages, Paperback

First published January 1, 2010

Reviews

[Charlie Easterson · Rating 3 out of 5]

I mean, it's the kind of book you buy your college freshman in hopes that they'll eat something other than pop tarts and ramen for four straight years. It might be helpful for those who are truly out of their depth in kitchen but want to learn the bare basics, but for most others it's basic to the point of being pretty useless. Again, great if you need that additional hand hold, but for most these are things you already know or could figure out without an entire book. The pricing is also hopelessly outdated. I wish you could get ground chuck and the fixings for $0.98 per serving but, alas, no dice.

[Katie · Rating 2 out of 5]

No way can you actually cook those recipes for those prices - maybe if you buy in bulk in bulk and break the cost down you can get it for that price but you cannot buy all those ingredients for that price. You have to buy $15 worth of ingredients in order to make the $2 meal!

[Katthew · Rating 5 out of 5]

the kind of basic stuff my autistic self needs to actually feed myself

[Micaya Cannon · Rating 2 out of 5]

There was some good recipes in here, but also some really weird ones. I liked that it had the nutrition information. The prices were wildly inaccurate though.

[Brandi Bette · Rating 3 out of 5]

You don’t have to be in college to get good use out of this book. This has everything you need to create your own meal plans on a budget. It’s packed with cheap, easy, and delicious recipes.
Western Omelet
Asian Lettuce Wraps
Easy Eggplant Parmesan
Simple Pepper Steak

From Benicia High School Booktalks 2011-04
Benicia Public Library Call Number: YA641.5 LAURET PARKINSON
Three-Word-Book Review: Cheap, easy food

[Amanda [Novel Addiction] · Rating 3 out of 5]

Some good, easier recipes with ingredients that I would actually purchase and use again.

[Bethany · Rating 4 out of 5]

Cooking for one can be challenging. This book has lots of good ideas for people in college or just out of college.

[Andrea · Rating 2 out of 5]

Title is misleading. $1.76 for 2lbs of chicken? In what state!