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Welcome to my cookbook, which is a collection of recipes scribbled on 3x5 cards, torn out of magazines, or (since the early 1990s) printed out on computer paper. It's time to get these unruly recipes whipped into shape. I have given credit wherever I can, but I don't know the origin of all of these recipes. If you recognize one of your recipes, please let me know so that I can give you a credit, the proper copyright notice, and/or add a link to your site.
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CHAPTER ONE: FOR CHEAPSKATES WHO LIKE GOOD FOODHey, anyone can spend a Franklin and fix a great meal. It's the chef who can prepare good food on a budget who has true financial security. No matter how dire the economic situation, the frugal chef can create a moment of honest nourishment and genuine pleasure as a part of every meal. There isn't any reason to become one of those sad, sorry, shuffling people eating Oreos out of a box just because you're broke...not with some of these recipes from a collection of my favorite frugal cookbooks.
Here are some sample recipes :
As a starving college student drifting about the Gentilly library, I discovered a book by Bill Kaysing promising to tell me how to eat for $1 a day -- and he told no lie, because I actually learned how to feed two people for $40 a month, and the techniques worked for quite some time, despite the pounding inflation of that era. The newest edition of the book is called Eat Well for 99 cents a Meal by Bill and Ruth Kaysing. At last report, the Kaysings were into their 70s using these techniques, and they don't hesitate to hop on a Harley or relax in a little-known Idaho hot spring. They aren't foodies. They are into healthy food, which can be quickly and cheaply prepared, so that they can get on with their fascinating life full of adventures. Sample these great recipes by clicking right here.:
When you must really, truly eat cheap, Kaysing suggests visiting the health food or feed and seed store -- the feed store will be cheaper -- for a 50 pound bag of whole wheat berries. Make sure you don't have a wheat allergy first, of course. To wake up in the morning to hot cereal, put 3 cups water, 1-1/3 cup raw wheat, 1/2 tsp salt in a small crockpot and let it simmer overnight. Tastes good with raisins added to the crockpot too. I'm on my second copy of All New Sophie Leavitt's Penny Pincher's Cookbook. It is a basic how to cook just about everything you would ever prepare in a home kitchen. Check out these sample recipes:
My battered copy of Better Homes and Gardens: Cooking for Two has deep brown, heavily age-spotted pages, while the front cover appears to have completely disintegrated. Yes, it is fair to say that this small 1976 edition of the book has been used and abused. The sample recipes I'm discussing are:
Strangely enough, for a book that is most likely a put-on, Jim Hoffman's The Art and Science of Dumpster Diving has a chapter of useful recipes that are fast, good, and cheap -- although not, I assure you, as cheap as he would have you believe. Grocery stores aren't really putting out perfectly good food for free, and there isn't really a Santa delivering goodies down the chimney either, but since I return to these recipes again and again, this book must be mentioned. Sample these favorites:
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