has anyone a copy of Eat Well for Less or Save Money: Good food cookbook?

[lborgia]

I'm looking for a budget/leftovers conscious cookbook, and I have found these programmes quite interesting - several recipes that I could imagine us all eating...

so have any of you seen/used the books?

I don't have it, but ' love your leftovers' by Hugh fearnley whittingstall is very good, not just for using up leftovers but generally good on eliminating waste and cooking well.

Thanks Fluke - I do like Hugh FW, so I'll look out for that.

Hi, I've got Love your Leftovers and Eat Well for Less-both are really useful, there's even a recipe for Potato Peel soup in the HFW one (bizarre but strangely good?!) And another tip for using up last bits of various chutneys ext to make a fab "Brown sauce". I've heard the Jack Monroe one's good too, I'd be interested to hear from anyone who has this

I have the first a girl called Jack book. IMO it is very good, it does challenge you to go really cheap, so it's all about buying cheap in the first place rather than using left overs. I did my online food order from the book and my first weeks shopping was significantly cheaper (even when buying the 'core staples' that she advises) and I still had loads of food left unused for the following week. It does use a lot of items that you would see if you'd ever had food from the food bank, so a lot of tinned/jarred stuff (or you can substitute for fresh if you want).
I was tempted to order pizza over the weekend as I was too tired to cook, in the end I whipped up a meal from the book that cost around £2.60 for 5 (half of that amount was for fresh parsley).

If you are really tight for money she also mentions recipes that use the same ingredients so you are not left with an opened half jar of something, or turning a cake into mini cakes so that you don't have the oven on for as long (so hard core money saving).

According to the reviews her second book is a little more spendy and perhaps a bit more off the wall.