Miserly Meals: Healthy, Tasty Recipes Under 75 Cents Per Serving

by Jonni McCoy

Feed your family inexpensive, delicious, and healthy meals that are easy to prepare. Sound impossible? Jonni McCoy shows you how with step-by-step recipes for main dishes, desserts, soups, and baked goods, plus snacks, beverages, and money-saving mixes. She even includes the nutritional analysis for every recipe as well as a useful kitchen tip. Book jacket.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0764226134
• ISBN13: 9780764226137
• Release Date: August 2002
• Publisher: Bethany House Publishers
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.1" x 8.5"

Customer Reviews

My favorite cookbook!

I have owned this book for a couple of years and tried many of the recipies in it. It is the cookbook that is the most "used" looking on my shelf right now. Some of my favorites are the taco seasoning mix, ranch dressing mix, dough enhancer, broth powder, (No MSG like nearly every store bought ones), and Caesar salad dressing ...these are things I make over and over and end up saving $$ in my food budget. It makes me sad to read other reviewers who probably didn't give this book a chance. It truly has a frugality to it that is hard to find in other cookbooks. I checked mine out from the library and decided it was one I wanted to own. I have never been disappointed!

Excellent resource for budget cutting

I've re-frugaled my life after 10 years of being a spendthrift. I have to say the recipes offered in the book are basic- yes, but sometimes newbie frugal parents need that in order to understand the concept of cooking and baking from scratch or using the lowest priced items. One also needs to understand that you can interchange 'boneless chicken breasts' with the 'thighs' or just debone a chicken yourself. Which is the cheapest way. Or use tofu. It really doesn't matter. But she offers a nice array of meals from soup to nuts to offer your family. Nobody will like ALL the recipes- and that is true of EVERY cookbook- even Fanny Farmer or Betty Crocker. Take what you want... and leave the rest.

Great recipes!!!

My family loves the recipes in this book. Not only are they cheap to make but they are very good. I especially like the helpful hints about food placed throughout the book. They are a big help to those of us new to frugality.

Our family LOVED IT!

At a time when we need to save money, esp in the area of food, this book came in quite handy. We have tried around 7 and only one wasn't delicious! (And that may have been my fault for bad substitution of an ingredient) It has forced us back to more basic cooking, replacing eating out, fast foods, prepackaged, and expensive.

FABULOUS book! GREAT author!

Don't listen to the others on here that rated this book badly. This book is great! Yes, it does have some recipes for simple items but sometimes a little remedial cooking is a great way to save money. There are also a slew of other recipes not found elsewhere. The oat bran muffins were GREAT! I love this book. Check it out for yourself. I did and found out that this book was well worth the price.