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Post by Fi on Nov 4, 2008 11:12:39 GMT
My favourite recipe books are those produced by The Australian Women's Weekly. However, they pay little attention to the cost of ingredients. So this is for anyone who is looking to keep their food shopping bills down in the coming months or years. I was gorging myself in Australia when Delia's "Frugal Food" was first published in the 70's, so I wasn't aware of it. The good news is that her book is back on sale - with a few updates. The recipes sound/are both good and use cheap ingredients - just the thing for anyone trying to maintain a minimum exposure to capital expenditure, as we are. The other 'best buy' for cheap to make recipes that I'm aware of is Hugh Fearnly-Wosit's "Meat", which has dozens of recipes for bits of animals that never appear on supermarket shelves, and even in good butchers, are hidden in the fridge or under the counter. I recommend them both - they may sound a bit pricey, but can be found at much reduced prices in supermarkets and/or book shops.
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Post by clarevoyant on Nov 4, 2008 19:59:07 GMT
Katherine Whithorn's 'Cooking in a bedsitter' is still used a lot here, as are a number of my old student cookbooks. Great for frugal living.
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Post by Vesta Bules ♥ on Nov 5, 2008 18:36:04 GMT
Three examples of Delia's recipes can be found here: Clicky
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Post by Tigger on Nov 27, 2008 11:40:21 GMT
A good old Marguerite Patten book will have plenty of recession friendly but tasty recipes.
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Post by lauriepark on Nov 27, 2008 16:40:19 GMT
Ah but can you still get some of the Offal stuff our Mother's and Daxie, remember ;D
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Post by Dan Druff on Jan 12, 2009 21:58:50 GMT
The sticky tea loaf recipe in Delia's Frugal book is very nice...
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Post by bittymatriarch on Jan 31, 2009 18:02:50 GMT
A good old Marguerite Patten book will have plenty of recession friendly but tasty recipes. Especially her wartime/rationing cookbook! Another author to look for is Shirley Goode for cheap but wholesome recipes. HTH
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Post by tigerlily on Jan 31, 2009 19:08:48 GMT
The other thing that people don't seem to do any more is to use one piece of meat several different ways.
I loathe things like a casserole made with leftover roast meat from Sunday dinner, but recently I cooked a chicken (which I picked up for 2.69 euro from Lidl). For the two of us, this one small chicken provided us with dinner one night, with enough left over for the cats to have half a breast. There was then sufficient for me to make a chicken salad for lunch the next day, and finally the carcase was turned into soup.
My niece and nephew love a piece of gammon, boiled with veggies and barley. The liquid the gammon is boiled in is then served up as soup (you can chop some of the boiled gammon into it if you like), and the gammon carved and served with vegetables and a white sauce, if you like it, or without if you don't. With a larger piece of gammon, you then have leftovers for making sandwiches, or you can make a carbonara sauce to go with some pasta.
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