Frugal/Thrifty / Old Style Books

mancbird

Hiya,

I'm trying to build up a collection of books about OS topics so will read the replies to this thread with interest!

Some of the books I have include:
- the hovel in the hills books by Elizabeth West
- the WI book of housekeeping
- the dairy diary housekeeping book
- reader's digest needlework and sewing books
- the tightwad gazette by Amy Dackzyn (I think that might be spelt incorrectly!)
- lots of books on sewing, knitting and crochet
- lots of cookery books, especially older ones that are specifically aimed at basic cookery skills or cooking on a budget
- how to be a kitchen gardener by Alan Titchmarsh
- most of John Harrison's books about growing veg, low cost living and preserves
- the wonderful weekend book by elspbeth .......can't remember her surname but this book is simply lovely

Basically I try to pick up reference books about the things I want to learn about. All my books have been picked up at charity shops or cost 1p from amazon. I have found amazon very useful as you can also see what other books people who bought that book also bought! I've found some wonderful books that way

Hope this helps,

Mancbird xxx

song_of_calliope

I love the Elizabeth West books, too.

At the moment I have two favourite cookbooks that are both old-style - The Pauper's Cookbook by Jocasta Innes and the More with Less Cookbook which is a compilation of recipes from Mennonites in the USA. Both are fantastic and the food from every recipe I've tried in each of them has been delicious. I highly recommend them both and they can be had cheaply on Amazon.

Oh, and an old favourite is Possum Living which you can read for free here: http://web.archive.org/web/20070630220508/http://www.f4.ca/text/possumliving.htm

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mancbird wrote: »

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- the tightwad gazette by Amy Dackzyn (I think that might be spelt incorrectly!)...

It's Dacyczyn. I can see it on my shelf from where I am sitting.

Books concerning supermarkets and food suppliers might be :

Shopped - Joanne Blythman
Trolley Wars - Judy Bevan
Not on the label - Felicity Lawrence
Fast food nation - Eric Schlosser
The Grocers - Andrew Seth.

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These threads should help:

The Complete Old Style Book Collection

What "Old Style" books should I reserve at my library???

Old Style Inspiration Books

Frugal/Thrifty / Old Style Books

Old Style Inspiration Books

I'll add your thread to one of those later to keep the suggestions together.

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