Dinner for a Dollar

 

Shirley J.                           Adult Non-Fiction                         Making your food budget stretch    

Good Housekeeping Dinner for a Dollar: 50 Family-Friendly Recipes Under $1     112 pages    

Good Housekeeping puts out some of my very favorite cookbooks.   This one is also good but the title is just a little deceptive.   In fact the recipes ingredients break down to a $1.00 per person not $1.00 per meal, or so they say they did in 2006 when the copy I read was printed.  Still, the recipes use ingredients that can be bought in bulk and used for several meals so, even this many years later, it will be on the lower end in price and even if per meal it is now $5.00 or even a little more, it still gives the reader guidance on what to look for and several ways to prepare the ingredients to remain frugal in the post pandemic times when supplies are still a little iffy ie. I perused the shelves last night and was surprised by the sparse and sometimes empty shelves.  Are they still playing the shortage of supplies card when so many retailers are begging people to come in and buy up their bag log of supplies so they can purchase new ones?   But I digress.   The recipes are sometimes not things I personally would eat, sorry lentils, but, there is a wide variety here and many, many helpful tips included throughout.   I love Good Housekeeping so I would recommend this book to mature teens who may be out on their own, to college students who might like to supplement their Ramen Noodle diet, to newly out on their own and newly married folk trying to budget their own household spending and to all who wish to come up with creative ways to stretch their grocery budgets while keeping mealtime interesting.