traditional cookbook

[mumtoo3]

hi all

we are trying to live more frugal, since the shopping bills have gone up, i am looking for a cookery book which has receipes of how to live on the cheap, not all this fancy ingredients, which costs the earth and a book which is good for families i suppose its a book like our grandmothers would use so if you had a roast chicken on sunday, how to make it strech a few days.

i really dont know if there is one or not but i cant be the only one trying to save money but eat healthy.

any ideas are welcome

Why don't you trawl through a couple of charity shops and see what they have there? As you say, any older book might be good.

I think the WI used to publish cook books.

Delia Smith is also quite good at this. You may have to pick and choose recipes, but many can be done with left overs.

Also, cook books aimed at students often have simple ingredients which are cheap.

My mum used to have a cookbook / house keeping book called Mrs Beetons or something like that. It was acient and might be something like you are looking for.