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Cheap recipes - free downloadable books

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This was posted by Greying Pilgrim on the Grocery Challenge thread but I think it deserves a wider audience :)
Thank you Greying Pilgrim :T
Hey Grocery Challengers!

Sorry you don't *know* me - I'm not currently doing the challenge - but I wanted to pass on some information/recipes that I've come across, regarding recipes for tight budgets.

Some of you may know that in the US, folks are issued 'food stamps' - although the program has now been renamed 'SNAP'. Anyhow, it only equates to about $4 per person perday for food - not a lot huh? So a gal - called Leanne Brown - who was doing a masters degree in food nutrition, noticed that folks on this program ate a lot of carbs to fill up. So she got practical, and devised a cookbook to make meals that were within the budget of $4 per day. Her efforts were warmly welcomed in the US, and she has sought to make it available to folk, so the PDF version of her book, called 'Good and Cheap' is free and you can find it HEREand she has also done another book called 'From Scratch' which you can find, for free, HERE. If you would like to find out more about Leanne, have a look HERE

I know you don't 'know' me, but the links are legit - and Leanne wants people to cook the meals and share the info. So if you, or someone you know, could use these recipes, then share them around. In the US, you can buy a print version of the book, and/or choose to donate $5 so that a print version could be given to a person in need. Pretty much like people bought version of Jack Monroe's book to give to Foodbanks.

Hope this helps someone - there are meat and veggie recipes, and I shall certainly be giving some of the veggie ones a go :D

Greying
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  • Thanks upsidedown bear - there are some really good, cost effective recipes in those PDF books, well worth viewing/downloading. I certainly hope that someone is helped by them.

    Greying
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  • Upsidedown_Bear
    Upsidedown_Bear Posts: 18,264 Forumite
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    Bumping this in case you missed it :D
  • PasturesNew
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    $4/day .... it'd be like Xmas every day!!
    :)
  • Good morning :hello:

    Just made breakfast from Good and Cheap (pg 18) as I needed to use up a well travelled banana :o Sorry about the picture quality, p'buket not playing ball today :(

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    The recipe was super simple - I only made half measure - and it yielded 8 and a 'half' pancakes. I used the 1/4 cup measure to spoon the mix into the frying pan.

    If you're put off making them as you've no cup measures, then find a converter HERE

    The blackberries were 'free' (foraged) so meet the OS criteria :D

    Greying
    Pounds for Panes £7,005/£10,000 - start date Dec 2023
     
    Grocery Spend July 2025 £105.95/£300 
    Non-food spend July 2025 £59.39/£50
    Bulk Fund July 2025 £9.10/£10 
  • Teg-Rem
    Teg-Rem Posts: 97 Forumite
    my computer won't let me have any of those pages, just goes to a blank page, any ideas how I might be otherwise able to get them??
  • Upsidedown_Bear
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    Teg-Rem wrote: »
    my computer won't let me have any of those pages, just goes to a blank page, any ideas how I might be otherwise able to get them??
    Can you open other PDF files?
    It's opening fine for me.
  • Greying_Pilgrim
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    edited 25 August 2014 at 7:09PM
    Teg-Rem wrote: »
    my computer won't let me have any of those pages, just goes to a blank page, any ideas how I might be otherwise able to get them??

    Teg-Rem - are you giving it a little time load up? It does initially go to a blank white page - the link tab says 'waiting for.....' and the legend tab will say 'blank page' if you give it a few seconds, it loads up the books.

    Please let us know whether you have had success, I have just retried the link and they work.

    However, you can go to Leanne's website HERE and the PDF files are sitting on there too.

    HTH - let us know!

    Cheers for reading and enquiring :D

    Greying
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    Grocery Spend July 2025 £105.95/£300 
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  • Upsidedown_Bear
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    Another bump :):)
  • Good Evening,

    I just thought that I would share make #2 from the 'Good and Cheap' recipe book (pg 156) - 'Peach Coffee cake' - which I know that you will know is cake made to go with coffee, and not cake that has coffee as an ingredient :D

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    This is only a 'half' recipe mix and I made it in a 2lb loaf tin. I hadn't got any peaches, but dropped on some YS'd plums - 1kg for 55p, so used them instead :D I think that there are 4 plums cut up in the cake. Haven't actually tried it yet, but it smells nice :D

    Hopefully the next trial will be of a savoury dish........ :D

    Greying
    Pounds for Panes £7,005/£10,000 - start date Dec 2023
     
    Grocery Spend July 2025 £105.95/£300 
    Non-food spend July 2025 £59.39/£50
    Bulk Fund July 2025 £9.10/£10 
  • ooh thanks for the links - some lovely ideas in there, I can't wait to make the pb & j granola bars for the kidaroos
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