cookery books aimed at money savers

*moggins*

I just wanted to add that when my Tesco food club stuff came through this morning they were advertising The Credit Crunch Cookbook, it's on sale on the Tesco website for £3.97.

Butterfly_Brain

thriftlady wrote: »

I think I used to have that -was it batch baking? I got it from Oxfam. Can you give me the exact title BB?

Certainly. It is The Family Circle Thrifty Cook's Book and I got mine from Oxfam too:rotfl:

babs2008

Can I recommend the Favourite Recipes series. There's loads of different types, from favourite vegetarian dishes, favourite chicken dishes, lakeland, sweets etc.

Cheap, small books too. Here's one on whsmith

Check out the series though. I love the biscuits one.

lovelovinghorses

I got Farmhouse Kitchen and Farmhouse Kitchen 2 at the weekend from a jumble sale for 40p the pair and they are absolutely brilliant, jam packed with frugal and delicious food; main meals, cordials, puds, beers, wine, preserves and masses more. I am so chuffed! They are well worth buying if you can find them.
More excellent books on my shelf upstairs so if I get time tomorrow I will get them down and write a list of the best ones.

maman

I got Delia's frugal book out of the library before Christmas and was just interested in 3 or 4 recipes. I wouldn't recommend buying it though. I have a few old cookery books for reference but most of my new recipes are cut out of magazines particularly freebies from Asda & Somerfield (that's all I go in there for these days). I try out recipes that take my fancy and if they pass the test (my OH!!) then I stick them in my recipe file.

For a recipe to appeal to me it has to be healthy, good value for money, not too fiddly and not contain tiny amounts of ingredients that I'd be unlikely to use for anything else.

mashup_2

Beki wrote: »

I'd really like to find one which has a lot of old-fashioned recipes in.. maybe wartime, or 50's & 60's. Like the stuff my nan learned to cook and still cooked until she died in the 80's.

You know the type... rib-sticking, yummy, home-made, warm, cuddly comfort food

I think I have said somewhere before here if you want recipes like that then look at the school dinner recipes thread. There is also a school dinners book out in the shops at the moment. Perhaps your library has that?:j

dolly_day_dream

From a quick glance through the original Frugal Food is the same as the re-printed Frugal Food. Mine cost 25p from Oxfam about 18 years ago and has never left my cookbook shelf. I have all of the Shirley Goode books which have some good ideas, the Farmhouse Cookbook recipes, and Meals Without Squeals and more Meals without Squeals (from the Isle of Wight Vegetarian and Vegan Society) which give lots of good tasty ribtickling recipes for vegans. These by their very nature tend to be very economical.

thriftmonster

I recently got Maw Broon's Cookbook and Maw Broon's But and Ben Cookbook and they're both excellent and thrifty - real traditional food

justpeyton4now

Beki wrote: »

I'd really like to find one which has a lot of old-fashioned recipes in.. maybe wartime, or 50's & 60's. Like the stuff my nan learned to cook and still cooked until she died in the 80's.

You know the type... rib-sticking, yummy, home-made, warm, cuddly comfort food

I love the older cookbooks also. I find a lot of them at car boot sales, table tops and charity shops. I think I'm going to have to put up more shelves soon. :rotfl:

OddjobKIA

cookery in colour is a 50's cook book and it is all you will ever need...

I have leant mine to a freind and am having trouble getting it back LOL

it tells you everything from cuts of meat through to jam making via pancakes and roast beef...

also

try

good eating..suggestions for wartime dishes...

Its a new print on an old fav..isbn:
978-0-230-1434-3