The Complete Idiot's Guide to Eating Well on a Budget : Fantastic Food on a Frugal Budget

You can cook nutritious, delicious meals, and also stick to your budget!The Complete Idiot's Guide to Eating Well on a Budget is packed with tips, strategies, ideas, and more than 150 recipes for those who are either new to food budgeting or have had to greatly tighten their food budgets. Not only will you learn how to do savvy grocery shopping, you'll learn how to cook to maximize your ingredients, how to eat out on a budget, and how to stretch your food dollar, while never sacrificing flavor or quality. Here's what you'll find inside: Preparation and cooking strategies that will help you stretch your food dollar, including tips for saving food, managing a food budget, making smart shopping lists, and eating out on a budget More than 150 delicious, budget-conscious recipes for everything from breakfasts, lunches, soups and stews, snacks and appetizers, salads, beef and pork mains, poultry mains, seafood mains, vegetarian mains, sides, and desserts Budget-savvy shopping and cooking tips for making healthier meals that won't bust your budget, while learning which ingredients are best for your budget and which are the worst

Eating both plentifully and nutritionally for less...includes 150 recipes.

The Complete Idiot's Guide(r) to Eating Well on a Budget is packed with tips, strategies, ideas, and more than 150 recipes for those who are either new to food budgeting or have had to greatly tighten their food budgets. Readers will not only learn how to do savvy grocery shopping, they will learn how to eat out on a budget.

•Features preparation and cooking strategies

•More than 150 budget-conscious recipes

•The current tough economic times more Americans than ever need to watch what they spend on food

•Addresses the challenge of buying healthier foods-which are often more expensive-and maintaining a careful budget

Need help finding good-for-you food that won't bust your budget? Learn how to prepare gourmet-style food on fast-food prices, as well as getting helpful hints for setting-- and sticking to-- a food budget