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Frugal Food

This updated edition shows how to combine economy with elegance. With 170 recipes from soups to main courses and desserts, this book aims to show how to make the most of your cooking, and that budget buying and cooking can be fun.

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Not Just Beans: 50 Years of Frugal Family Favorites

How can you cut your grocery budget without depriving your family? This is the subject of author Tawra Kellam’s cookbook, Not Just Beans.

Not Just Beans is a collection of frugal recipes and tips from the cooking expertise of three generations of Tawra Kellam’s family. Using these tips and suggestions, Mrs. Kellam shows how anyone can tighten his or her food budget. In the book, Tawra shares the secrets of how she spends an average of $125 per month feeding her family of four.

This new revised Second Edition of Not Just Beans includes everything in the first edition but also includes healthy substitutions, Tawra’s pantry guide, 23 menu ideas (including ideas for picky eaters and quick dinners) and the much requested index of the 420 frugal tips included in the book.

Not Just Beans is designed for the beginner as well as the more experienced cook. It contains over 540 recipes and 420 tips explaining how to eat well while slashing your grocery bill. The recipes are easy to cook with ingredients readily found at your local grocery store. With hard-to- find frugal recipes like buttermilk, enchilada sauce and granola bars, classic favorites like slow cooked roast, hush puppies and apple crisp and old-fashioned comfort foods like watermelon pickles, lemon bars, rice pudding and fried green tomatoes, Not Just Beans has it all.

Not Just Beans teaches the reader how to cook frugally without eating beans alone. PLEASE NOTE THAT NOT JUST BEANS IS NOT A VEGETARIAN COOKBOOK.

Some topics covered in the book are:
-Changing the way you think about your food budget without feeling deprived
-Creative uses of leftovers
-Unique recipes to entertain the kids including slime, bubbles, face paint, finger paint, and tub crayons
-Gifts in a jar and suggestions for making frugal gift baskets
-Lots of humor and household tips that make Not Just Beans as entertaining as it is practical

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Frugal Gourmet

All the incredients that make THE FRUGAL GOURMET one of the most popular cooking shows on television are in this bestselling cookbook, including: a complete range of cooking techniques, advice on kitchen equipment, special hints and tips, exciting ideas for vegetarian meals, PLUS more than100 illustrations of recipes and techniques.

From the Paperback edition.

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Frugal Luxuries by the Seasons: Celebrate the Holidays with Elegance and Simplicity–on Any Income

All year-round, create lush beauty and quiet graces for home and family (without breaking your budget)

Tracey McBride’s first book, Frugal Luxuries, elevated frugal but elegant living to an art form. Now in this companion volume she shares all new ways to embellish cherished holidays and the timeless rhythms of the seasons. Here she shows how to use joined efforts, loving hands, and exciting ideas to create gracious touches and sumptuous celebrations, delicious meals and wonderful seasonal treats. Learn how you can enrich your home with timeless pleasures and lighten the spirits of those you hold most dear–without exhausting your bank account. Enjoy:
Emblems of spring: aromatic Irish linen sachets, warm scones drenched in jam and butter…and mysterious bunny tracks you can make to delight your children
Enchanted summers: floral wreaths as party favors, an Italian feast with homemade pasta…and bountiful gifts from the garden
Autumnal offerings: scented cinnamon pinecones as fire starters, fresh challah for Rosh Hashana…and a house warmed with fall bouquets and cozy paisley throws
Winter wonders: mood-enhancing music, illuminating with lights, inside and out…and a Christmas gift pantry–begun in January–to create stress-free giving
Plus an abundance of seasonal blessings, imaginative uses for yard-sale treasures, an appreciation of things old and marvelous…and creation of a life of beauty and simplicity.

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