Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #245690 in Books
• Published on: 1995-07-10
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 160 pages

Synopsis
Following on from the success of the first edition of her book, and in response to viewers requests on LWT, the author has produced further recipes in this book. Expanding her range to cater for the single person, whether living on a student grant or a pension, this book takes into account the environmental implications of what people eat. By cutting down on our meat consumption, not only can we eat more healthily, we can also help to reduce the chance of famine in the Third World.

Customer Reviews

Simple, wholesome and tasty and cheap
I've been using this book since 1987 when it was 'Feed Your Family for £4 a Day'. £5 in 1991 when this edition was published is now worth about £7.75 meaning that if you follow the excellent advice in this book you will be able to feed a family of 4 for £31 a week.

Bernadine Lawrence has put together a collection of recipes using basic, everyday ingredients. These are all simple to prepare and easily adapted.

Chapter 1 -Basic Essentials-includes wholemeal bread, homemade yogurt, basic salad and ways to prepare potatoes.

Chapter2 - Breakfasts -includes ways to prepare eggs, porridge, muesli and other simple homemade cereals.

Chapter 3 - Lunches- lots of soup recipes, sandwich ideas, pancakes with fillings and omelettes.

Chapter 4 - Main Meals-includes recipes for beanburgers, lentil and cheese loaf, baked mackerel, roast chicken, quick quiche, spaghetti neopolitan, vegetable risotto (not a true risotto but a tasty veg and rice dish), spicy spare rib chops, liver and bacon, fish pie, chicken and veg pie.

Chapter 5 - Salads -includes recipes for orange and onion salad, rice salad, red bean salad and winter salad

Chapter6 - Desserts- not many of these, but there's fruity pie, humble crumble, flapjacks, scones and wholefruit cake

There are also 4 weeks of menus for breakfast, lunch and dinner.

These are not fancy recipes and it's true there are few recipes for 'extras'- snacks, cakes, biscuits and the like but there are no nutritionally empty recipes here. These recipes are made up of plenty of vegetables, lots of beans and lentils, good quality animal protein like eggs, liver, chicken and oily fish and whole grains like wholemeal bread, oats and brown rice. If I make the book seem a bit too worthy I don't mean to, me and my family enjoy everything I make from this book.

good food on a budget
I bought this book about 15 years ago I think.
We were on a very tight budget and this is a book with plenty of good ideas for healthy and filling food using kitchen staples and no fancy delicatessen goods. We ate very well on its contents,lunches,dinners and afters and even snack foods. My son still makes the whole fruit cake whenever he can .
I recommend the lentil flan and the no knead bread.
I guard my book carefully as it is much coveted.
The prices may have changed but it is still an excellent buy.
Mrs Lawrence was living in Chelsea back when she wrote this and was able to keep to her food budget despite the exclusive London prices.
I think you could still come in near the £5 mark if you shopped carefully even today.

Excellent but the £5 should be changed to a higher figure
My mum gave me this book when the council finally gave me a flat that i could rent from them.
Its brilliant! Bernadine Lawrence was a high flying business woman who went to resturants, drank champagne in the limos and didn't have a house as she stayed in Hotels all over the world. Then the business she was working for went bust she had no house and had children on the way. Having been used to the high-life she tells of how she had to survive, for the sake of her children, on hardly any money at all.
She tells her story of how she had to exhaust every money to its maximum. How she had to make bread, sausages, Ice-cream, drink etc...
If anything this book, even if you don't use any of it, is a good read of what she did to survive.
I gave it 4 stars instead of 5 (which is what it deserves) because the title now in 2006 needs to be changed.