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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 641.5
EAN: 9780761131762
ISBN: 0761131760
Label: Workman Publishing Company
Manufacturer: Workman Publishing Company
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 480
Publication Date: December 12, 2005
Publisher: Workman Publishing Company
Studio: Workman Publishing Company
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Editorial Review:
Not a penny-pinching cookbook—a "get smart!" cookbook.
No more staring helplessly at rising grocery bills or, too harried for time, shelling out twenty-five bucks for mediocre take-out. The work of two brilliant problem-solvers, Cheap. Fast. Good! cuts through both the budget dilemma and the time dilemma with 275 recipes for great, family-pleasing dishes, most of which take under 25 minutes to prepare and average out to cost less—and usually far less—than $2 a serving. Home Ec simplified
Saving money in the kitchen is as simple as one four-letter word: Cook. But cooking to save means cooking food you and your family are going to love—and cooking (and shopping) smart. In dozens of time-and-money-saving tips, techniques, strategies, and solutions, the authors show how to make the right choices again and again. They'll never know you're thrifty
Pan-Fried Pork Chops with Pepper Medley
Stuffed Peppers with Kielbasa Rice
Zesty Chicken Sauté
Bayou Stew
Catfish with Pecan Crust
Cinco de Mayo Skillet
Quickie Cacciatore
Perfect Spinach Pesto Pizza
Moroccan Meatballs Over Couscous
Salmon Pasta with Tomatoes and Dill...Even when it's time to s-t-r-e-t-c-h
Onion Chopped Steak with Easy Gravy
Oven-Baked BBQ Chicken Thighs
Fall Sausage and Cabbage Sauté
Ultra-Easy Veggie Quesadillas
Pasta e Fagioli
My Beef and Barley Soup
Ziti Mexi-Cali
Who doesn’t want to eat cheaper? And who doesn’t want to eat better? And who wouldn’t like to sit down to a dinner of Salmon Pasta with Tomatoes and Dill, or Pan-Fried Pork Chops with Pepper Medley, or Enchanting Enchiladas, or Moroccan Meatballs over Couscous—and know that any one of these meals (for four) costs less than $2 a serving? In their two previous cookbooks, Desperation Dinners! and Desperation Entertaining!—together with over 330,000 copies in print— Beverly Mills and Alicia Ross showed us how to save time in the kitchen without ever sacrificing flavor. Now the Desperate duo turns to the universally appealing idea of saving money, too. Cheap. Fast. Good! is not a penny-pinching cookbook—it’s a “get smart” cookbook. It’s about planning smart, shopping smart, cooking smart, and, not coincidentally, about eating smart. The work of two brilliant problem solvers, it presents 275 delicious recipes that are thrifty, quick to prepare, and intrinsically family-friendly and healthy, too: Barbecued Chicken and Black Bean Burritos, Sweet Onion Chowder, Bayou Stew, Ham and Asparagus Crostini, Basic Beef Brisket, Perfect Spinach Pesto Pizza, Gayle’s Country-Style Steak, Souped-Up Chicken Stroganoff. Recipes are filled with techniques for pushing flavor, substituting ingredients, and using what’s in the refrigerator or pantry already, and every chapter includes strategies for running a kitchen more economically—The When, Where, and How of Shopping, The Miracle of Menu Planning, Making Your Own Convenience Items, Cutting Up a Roasted Chicken, and more.
Customer Reviews
Average Rating: 
Rating:  - Best BUDGET Cookbook I've found!
Who isn't hurting financially? The first thing to cut is always the grocery list. So I started searching the library and bookstores for ways to make good food CHEAP! This is it. ANd it's fast and easy. Gone through at least half the cookbook and havent found a single bad recipe yet. These are foods that my kids will eat! My hubby doesn't complain about! Some great recipes, wonderful advice and many items are things I already have in my pantry or freezer.
Wish she'd come out ... Read More
Rating:  - The title doesn't lie...
The authors do a good job of creating a wide variety of dishes that are just what the titles says. And there are some great tips on shopping for the less expensive ingredients needed for the recipes. With food prices what they are, we need all the help we can get to put meals on the table without breaking the bank.
However, my original reason for buying the book was to couple it with 50 Ways to Leave Your Mother, a humorous book of advice for grown kids moving out of the house. I thought ... Read More
Rating: - One of the most useful cookbooks
This cookbook is wonderful! There are lots of really good recipes that can be prepared quickly and make a lot of food. One of the main benefits I find in the book, though, is the advice regarding saving money on food. There are many suggestions regarding freezing food: buying in bulk, preparing dish components, making your own stock. Not only are these prepare-ahead-and-freeze ideas less expensive, they also greatly simplify cooking during a hectic work week.
The book is invaluable for ... Read More
Rating: - I have easily already recouped the cost of the book, several times over
I bought this book this weekend, and it's a holiday weekend. Normally, we'd arrive back home and look around at our kitchen and lack of thawed meat, dismayed, and try and find something out to eat. That something would likely have fallen in the $12-15 range, which is about what I paid for the book. Because I was able to page through and pick out something that was not only fast, but nutritious and ready to make from staples on my shelf, I was ready to go.
I don't know what the other reviewer ... Read More
Rating: - Healthy - delicious - frugal - creative - easy
I haven't tried all the recipes, but so far so good. The lentil chili costs nothing and tastes delightful. Great book for families and also for single or divorced parents who sometimes find themselves having dinner for one. (Many of the recipes are easily dividable and freezable.)
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