Wednesday, February 10, 2010

A Book in Review: Family Feast for $75 a Week

Family Feast for $75 a Week By Mary Ostyn
Non-fiction: home economics, cooking 296 pages
Book Count: 8

Even though $75 is more then I usualy spent on food in a week, I thought that it would have some tips that would be helpful to me. And it did, just not as many as I thought it would. The first 77 pages were all on ways to save on your food bills. The rest of the book is recipes along with differnt little tips for how to save money. Although, most of the tips are good, she repeatily talks about how American eat more meat then you need and that cutting down on meat will save you money, but most of the recipes have about 1/2 lb of meat per person even in things like soups and caseroles that are easy to cut down on meat. It also has a lot of recipes that are from around the world, expecialy Ethiopian and Korean as she has adopted children from both countries. So, in short, it is a good book if you are starting on budgeting food as well as if you are looking for some low cost meals to make.

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