Product Description

Eating on a budget doesn't mean a dull menu - with a little inspiration from the Good Food team, you can enjoy delicious food and save the pennies too. "101 Budget Suppers" is full of economical and creative meal ideas made with everyday ingredients, from quick snacks and comforting casseroles and pasta to new ideas for storecupboard staples, as well as inexpensive entertaining suggestions and penny-saving puds. Each recipe comes with a nutritional breakdown, full colour photo and step-by-step instructions. With every recipe tried and tested by "Good Food", Britain's best-selling cookery magazine, you can be sure of tasty, well-balanced meals that won't break the bank.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #3660 in Books
• Published on: 2009-03-26
• Original language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• 216 pages

About the Author
Jane Hornby began her cookery career with a year's training at Leith's School of Food and Wine swiftly followed by a placement as cookery assistant at Good Food. Jane has freelanced for various book publishers and food and women's magazines including Olive, Good Housekeeping and Family Circle. Before long the chance came to return to Good Food, where she's written, baked, stirred and styled her way up to food editor. She frequently works with the biggest names in food and regularly creates recipes for Good Food magazine.

Customer Reviews

One of the better budget recipe books available
I eagerly awaited the arrival of this book to add to my collection of other BBC Good Food recipe books. I have never had a failure with any of the recipes and this book is no exception.

There are six sections in the book:

Feed the family for less
Weeknight wonders
Entertaining on a budget
Money saving lunches and leftover ideas
Thrifty soups and side dishes
Value cakes, bakes and puddings

There are loads of tips to accompany each recipe and each recipe has its own glossy photograph. All the recipes are designed with economy and healthy choices in mind; today I made good for you bolognese sauce using 1lb of mince, 2 courgettes, 4 carrots, mushrooms and gravy granules - I ended up with at least 6 to 8 portions, perfect for freezing.

The recipes make good use of healthy convenience foods such as tomato pasta sauce, tinned lentils, tinned beans etc. A lot of the recipes use basic ingredients you probably already have in your cupboard and fridge.

Today I made sticky chicken stir fry with sesame seeds - it was a big hit with my teenage children, it was great making a simple stirfry sauce from cupboard ingredients plus carrots, and I followed the recipe's recommendations and used turkey to reduce costs further. As a avid soup maker I am thrilled with the soup sections: how about leek, bacon and potato soup, onion soup, carrot and coriander soup, pumpkin soup, tomato and pesto soup? The tomato soup uses 3 cans of plum tomatoes - not expensive fresh ones.

The bake section is good too; I have made plain unadorned chocolate cake using good old fashioned cocoa, nothing about "use 80% cocoa solids etc". The cake was light, moist and tasty.

Exciting meals on a shoe string budget!
As the previous reviewer, I too eagerly awaited this book. I own several of the GoodFood books and the 'Cheap Eats' is particularly a good buy as all of the ingredients are not only easy to get but cheap too. 'Budget Dishes' book is even better in that respect. I've only owned it for a week but already I've cooked a few recipes from it and I've already planned my meals for the next week from it!

As I cook mainly for myself but love cooking, it's exciting being able to browse the book, not having to consider the possible prices of ingredients and how I will get them. Every recipe looks really tasty and quick and fun to make. What's even better is that a lot of the meals, despite being for 4 or more people, can be easily kept in the fridge over a couple of days, making cooking from this book even cheaper!

I reccommend this book to anyone who cooks for themselves and enjoys cooking but is worried about how much they spend on their weekly food budget. Plus, if you're wanting to impress a few friends with your culinary skills, there is a whole section on entertaining on a budget, and the recipes are easy to do but still look really presentable.

A worthy addition to the series
Nice simple recipes whith cheap easy to source ingredients that even the kids will like. I have made several of these recipes now and they have all been very easy to follow, and they have all been successful! The recipes are all illustrated with a full colour photograph of what each dish should look like, which I find particularly helpful when the kids are choosing a recipe to make. Perfect for introducing your children to cooking and for anyone who wants a quick, easy meal to throw together after a busy day at work.

Unlike many recipe books, the 101 range is always well used in our house. It is a great little cook book for a great price.