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The Frugal Foodie Cookbook: Waste-Not Recipes for the Wise Cook

The recession has put a lot of strain on the grocery bill, especially for those with families or friends to feed. But that doesn’t mean having to skip gourmet food and a balanced diet. Noted chef and “four-star frugal gourmet” Lynette Shirk shows readers how to creatively and cleverly use ingredients and leftovers to produce wonderful inexpensive meals for any occasion. This book has everything, from roasting coffee at home to concocting inexpensive crave-worthy casseroles to whipping up snacks on a shoestring. Chapters include “Bankable Breakfasts,” “Lunch for Less,” and “Dinner on a Dime,” and feature irresistible recipes from Shaved Shrimp Rolls and Gourmet PBJ to an “Exponential Chicken” that stretches the bird over five different courses. With hundreds of delicious dishes and expert advice (including fun ideas for serving), The Budget Crunch Gourmet Cookbook keeps hungry readers living well and eating better.

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Frugal Indulgents: How to Cultivate Decadence When Your Age and Salary Are Under 30

Frugal Indulgents offers clever, real-life advice on how to enjoy life on a low budget. Packed with quizzes, profiles, lists, and a glossary of cunning lingo, the book reveals how to score a low-rent apartment, buy elegant threads on a shoestring budget, perfect the art of country home crashing for free vacations, and enjoy swank urban scenery for hours by making one martini last a good, long time.

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Frugal Gourmet Cooks with Wine

The popular author of the 700,000 copy bestseller The Frugal Gourmet now offers this companion book to the new 26-part national public television series, “The Frugal Gourmet Cooks With Wine”. Includes over 400 recipes and tips on choosing, storing, and matching food with wine. Black-and-white illustrations.

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