£30 to spend on cook books what do i buy?

elly2

My DD has given me some cash and i want to buy some cook books but as i don't have any i don't know what books will suit our family. We are a family of 6 (1 adult 3 teens and 2 little ones) we mostly have traditional meals and i have a budget of approx £60 for food. I am getting disheartened with the same old same old every week and would like to try more variety.
I am looking on amazon atm and have a small list which consist of

economy gastronomy (i loved the program)
How to Feed Your Whole Family a Healthy Balanced Diet, with Very Little Money and Hardly Any Time
The Pauper's Cookbook
Are these books good starting points? and can anyone recommend any favourites that they have, i have heard the delia books are also a good staple to any cook book can anyone recommend which of her books are best suited to my family?

funkymonkey849

I love the 101 collection from good food, easy recipes and instructions and a picture on each page. I love them

Sunnygirl_2

Delia Smiths Cookery Course. In true moneysaving style I borrow my mum's! There's a good variety of 'traditional' food if that's the kind of food you like. I'm also a lover of Gary Rhodes New British Classics but some of the recipe's aren't very moneysaving. Nigella Lawson's Domestic Goddess is another favourite of mine, but much of that book is sweet things with only a few savoury dishes.

HTH

sunflower76

I love the Jamie books up until Ministy of Food, Gordons Sunday Lunch and Nigella Express. I also have the Hamlyn All Colour Cookbook and the Curry Secret and Curry Bible. For baking I have Domestic Goddess. The Abel & Cole book seems good but I only had it a few weeks before Christmas so ahven;t really used it. I was given the James Martin book for Christmas but I'm not a huge fan.

Thriftlady is probably the best person on here to ask about books; she's my OS hero and has loads!!!!

If you have cash rather than vouchers consider using ebay, your money will go a lot further with second hand books. I've found used cookery books to be in great condition - if they were well used and loved then the owner wouldn't be selling! This doesn't mean they're no good; they just don't suit their current owner.

C_Mababejive

Hairy bikers cookbook

studentgirl_2

How about a subscripition to the bbc easy cook mag. Its every other month about £10 for the year. good easy food that is seasonal. I love this mag because of the simple recepies and that fact that you can buy all the ingreadents so easly.

HowlinWolf

Rachel Allen's Food for Living is excellent, actually all of her books are.

cooking-mama

Try WHSmith,they have some good cookery books on sale,i picked up this TanaRamsay one for only £3.45 http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tana-Ramsays-Real-Family-Food/dp/0007259336/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262549671&sr=1-3 and this one i got for £2.50 in Tesco http://www.amazon.co.uk/Tana-Ramsays-Family-Kitchen-Delicious/dp/0007225776/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1262549933&sr=1-1
Not tried any recipes yet,but hoping to do so during the week

shezza

I'd recommend Delia's 'Frugal food', I picked mine up un the Works discount bookshop for £4.99, and I would agree with Economy Gastrometry, one of the best cook books I've ever bought.

Also have a look on the Book People site, they have loads of cookbooks at huge discounts.

xpf

I have a cupboard full of cookery books and very rarely use them. If I were you, I'd buy one or two maximum and use the excellent websites to search for recipes according to what you want at the time. BBC/food is great as are most of the supermarket websites.
HTH

tessie_bear

i like delias complete cookery course ...perhaps u could get books from the library first to see which style u like