Eat well on $4 a day

[Bob Of Burleson]

New cookbook proves that you
don’t have to spend tons to eat well

Download free at http://www.leannebrown.ca/cookbooks

LEE MARSHALL
The Globe and Mail

Healthy eating on a budget can feel like a herculean task – but a new, free, online cookbook may just be the hero to help to create balanced meals for way, way less.

Good and Cheap by Edmonton author Leanne Brown provides delicious, nutritious meal ideas that cost only $4 a day. Its 132 digital pages are bursting with vibrant photographs of recipes for everything from kitchen staples such as tortillas ($1.70 to make 24) and tomato sauce ($2.50 for two cups) to family-sized feasts like roast chicken ($1.50 per serving) to vegetable jambalaya (65 cents per serving). More than 100,000 PDF copies of the cookbook have been downloaded since it was released in April.

What’s unique about Brown’s approach to eating well for less is her emphasis on beautiful food and the joy of eating. She manages to make leftovers, toast and even oatmeal fun by sharing creative ideas for how to upgrade these kitchen mainstays.

“Cheap food doesn’t have to look lousy,” says Brown, who wrote the cookbook for the capstone project of her master of food studies degree at New York University. “I wanted to do something that was a little bit more like, woo! Celebrate food! Look how gorgeous it is.”

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[crackertoes]

Make my own tomato sauce for $2.50? I can buy it already made for $1.29.

[crocmommy]

Heh...I was thinking the same thing about the tomato sauce.

[LibraryLady]

Right up there with making one's own shampoo.

Thank you, I'll keep those producers in business.