Best Budget Cookbook?

spykey_uk

As above really!

I'm moving into my first home with my fiance at the weekend and we're looking for cheap ways to feed ourselves!

I was looking online and there's loads of cooking on a budget cookbooks, I was just wondering whether there are any you guys would recommend?

Thanks in advance,

Sarah x

Scarlett25

I like the Student Cookbooks...they're targeted at University students so they give good, economical and tasty recipes for low cost! You can buy them from Amazon, W H Smith, ebay etc......there are lots to choose from, I bought The Vegetarian Student Cookbook only the other day!

mouseymousey99

Why not go to your library? That way you can 'road test' a few and if you get on well with one have a look at amazon or e bay?? I liked 'Tha Paupers Cookbook' Jocassta Innes.

eilidh_s

See if your local highschool has a cook book for home economics and try and get a copy. When I baame a student mine was a god send!! I am proud to say I was a student for four years and never resorted to pot noodles!!

lizzyb1812

You could do without a cookbook completely if you are prepared to spend a bit of time on here. There are recipe collections and whole threads about how to manage on a tight food budget, including meal plans. I used to think I did pretty well but I've learned loads from the threads on Old Style and now eat very well for lots less than I used to spend.

thriftlady_2

If you do a search on this board you should find several threads about budget cookbooks;) Maybe a board guide will hunt them down for you.

These are some of my favourite money-saving cookbooks;

The Pauper's Cookbook by Jocasta Innes
The More With Less Cookbook by Doris Janzen Longacre (an American book so unlikely to be available in libraries here)
Feed Your Family For £5 a Day by Bernadine Lawrence -the author sometimes posts on this board.
Frugal Food by Delia Smith -just been reissued with colour photos but the old papaerbacks are still around.

Mrs_Thrify

How about Deila online?

foreversomeday

Second the recommendation for The Vegetarian Student Cook Book. I have got The Really Useful Ultimate Student Cook Book which contains all the recipes from the first one and some for meat eaters too.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Really-Useful-Ultimate-Student-Cookbook/dp/174196024X/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225447937&sr=8-1

thriftychick

I agree with thriftylady, Feed your family for £5 a day by Bernadine Lawrence. It's my favourite; without this book we wouldn't have saved the deposit for our first house 15 years ago (my copy is one with £4 a day on!). I still use it regularly now, its really inspirational.

thriftlady_2

Thriftychick, are you my younger, hipper sister?:D

Another recommendation are the wartime recipe books by Marguerite Patten. The recipes are a bit on the bland side but very cheap;) (the link is for 3 paperbacks in a slip cover).

Scarlett25

Another book I like is Bubble and Squeak: The Leftover Cook Book by Jan Arkless. It gives yummy recipes for using up odds and ends of food that are left in the fridge etc. There are also threads on here for leftovers recipes too.