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(More customer reviews)Good Housekeeping came up with an appropriate cookbook idea for today's lean economic times when food budgets are tight. The 100 well-tested recipes presented are all on low budgets drawn from an international food repertoire -- some simple and basic but many little more involved both in preparation and flavor.
Recipes are compiled into eight "strategies" using different cooking techniques ("A Big Hearty Pot of Soup," "Cook it Slow and Easy"). The recipes are well written, easy to follow and each is printed on a single page for convenience. Unfortunately, errors and omissions were spotted on these "triple tested" recipes. Preparation time and nutritional information accompany every recipe. Helpful hints on cooking, flavoring and saving money are practical and useful. All ingredients are readily available and inexpensive. They all stress scratch cooking both to save money and to make the food more flavorful. A table comparing costs of scratch vs. prepared food cooking is particularly useful (e.g. cost of ground beef vs. premade beef patties).
The photo illustrations are nice but needlessly repeated.
Appropriate to a budget book, binding is inexpensive metal wire binding with punched pages, not meant for long-term wear. Index is very good and cross-referenced.
Reviewed by George Erdosh
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Budget-friendly meals—many for $10 or lessThese days, we all want to spend less, eat better, and save time—and with this new cookbook, the experts from Good Housekeeping’s Test Kitchen show us how, with more than 100 low-cost, full-flavor, triple-tested recipes.Budget Dinners! goes beyond the usual "cheap eats.” With delicious dishes such as Pasta Ribbons with Chunky Vegetables, Chicken & Rosemary Dumplings, Braised Caraway Pork & Cabbage, and Szechuan Eggplant-Peanut Stir-Fry, no one will suspect that you’re making your dollars holler! But there’s more on the menu than just recipes. The Good Housekeeping experts also serve up creative shopping and cooking tips, including a 2-Week Super Savings Menu; Money-Saving Tips for Making Over Leftovers; Money-Wise Tips for Buying and Storing Food; How to Freeze Anything; and an eye-opening chart on What Convenience Costs You. This is simply an indispensable meal-planning guide for every family cook.
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