Tight wad gazette (merged)

culpepper

Right Ive ordered mine!
I've heard about this for years from 'The Dollar stretcher' website and often thought of buying it.
I bought Mr Thrifty a few years ago in a discount shop for £1, dont even know where it is now.
Look after the Pennies (Joy.O.I.Spozynska) is one Im constantly looking back to,I bought it in W.H.Smiths for 50p in about 1985 and its been so useful.

Chipps

I have The Goode Kitchen, too. She has much the same principles of costing things as Amy Da-whatshername. I love any books like these. I need to re-read TWG again, as I have been getting a bit off track! Every so often it comes out (I have the 3-in-one version) and I get inspired all over again!

kessik

A stick of butter is 4oz. If you use, or intend to use, a lot of American recipes I can fully recommend a book called American Cooking in England by Delora Jones. It's available on Amazon. Delora wrote it mainly as a guide for US ex-pats in the UK but it's great the other way round. There is a large section of ingredients - eg what they call organ meat we call offal; their egg noodles are our tagliatelle - and a measurements section - conversions of cups, liquid measures, sticks, food mass equivalents. It is such a great book that I use it all the time. I use a website called https://www.allrecipes.com that is great for different ideas, economical ideas too, that is American so this book is really handy.
Hope this helps someone

thriftlady_2

kessik wrote:

A stick of butter is 4oz. If you use, or intend to use, a lot of American recipes I can fully recommend a book called American Cooking in England by Delora Jones. It's available on Amazon. Delora wrote it mainly as a guide for US ex-pats in the UK but it's great the other way round. There is a large section of ingredients - eg what they call organ meat we call offal; their egg noodles are our tagliatelle - and a measurements section - conversions of cups, liquid measures, sticks, food mass equivalents. It is such a great book that I use it all the time. I use a website called https://www.allrecipes.com that is great for different ideas, economical ideas too, that is American so this book is really handy.
Hope this helps someone

I can vouch for this book too;) Think I may have mentioned it on here before.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/0953355705/202-8752875-9447034?v=glance&n=266239&s=books&v=glance

SusanCarter

Does anyone have an ISBN for this book? I'm trying to get it on Green Metropolis but I can't find the book when searching by author or book title.

moggins

0375752250 is the ISBN

Looks like they have stopped selling it new on Amazon now. You can get a second hand copy though.

SusanCarter

Thanks for that. Still can't find it on Green Metropolis (mustn't be in their system) so will have to consider buying it from Amazon. (Cheapest price currently £10.84.)

moggins

I'd still buy it at that price. I paid the full price for mine and it's worth every penny.

liz.._4

Thanks for this thread, you are all marvellous people! I have ordered from the library and noted all the yummy recipes (thanked as I went along) I don't know how I managed before I joined this forum and I thought I had all the tips too!

sandieb

I bought my (new) copy on Amazon and it arrived last week so still available from them. I think they have used copies too.

Very interesting reading.