Take a look at our favourite recipe books for making delicious budget-friendly meals! Includes batch cooking tips, air fryer faves, as well as gluten-free and vegan-friendly dinner ideas. All these books and more are free to borrow with your library card.
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The Batch Lady: Cooking on a Budget
Suzanne Mulholland
Suzanne’s second book combines quick and easy recipes that give you the gift of time through batching and meal planning, with healthy meals that will be loved by readers and their families.
Master the power of batch-cooking with this cookbook of simple, freezable, store-cupboard recipes. Over 100 delicious, simple and energy-efficient batch-cooking recipes that will satisfy the whole family and fill your freezer.
Pinch of Nom Budget: Affordable, Delicious Food
Kate Allinson and Kay Featherstone
Pinch of Nom Budget is bursting with slimming-friendly meals and desserts that bring all the flavour for a fraction of the cost. From cheeky fakeaways and hearty one-pan meals to mouthwatering sweet treats, this food feels so indulgent that you’d never guess it’s also wallet friendly. There are simple methods for air fryers, slow cookers and electric pressure cookers, giving you loads of flexibility.
Thanks to bold flavours, delicious recipes and affordable ingredients, Pinch of Nom Budget has your mealtimes sorted.
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The Canny Cook: Freezer & Storecupboard Meals on a Budget
Phil Vickery
Nutritious and convenient, canned and frozen food can be used for a wide range of value-for money recipes. Phil Vickery has never been one to compromise on flavour, but he always looks for ways to save money and make the process of cooking easier. In ‘The Canny Cook’, he shows you not only how to spend and waste less, but also how to cook fast, fuss-free, good-for-you meals that are bursting with flavour – all from canned and frozen food.
From vegan and vegetarian dishes, to pasta, meat and fish, desserts and healthy snacks, Phil’s creative and inspiring recipes are perfect for anyone looking to feed a family using everyday supermarket ingredients, as well as anyone wanting to contribute to their 5-a-day or to save time in the kitchen.
In for Dinner: 101 Delicious & Affordable Recipes to Batch Cook, Share and Enjoy
Rosie Kellett
How can batch cooking bring everyday joy into your kitchen, save on costs and reduce food waste? For the past five years, home cook Rosie Kellett has been living communally with six others, making delicious seasonal food on a budget of £25 per person, per week.
In her first cookbook, she shares 101 low-effort, high-reward, veg-forward recipes for weeknights when you’re counting down to payday, busy workdays with short lunch breaks, mornings that call for hearty yet cheap breakfasts, and special days with your favourite people.
Feed Your Family For £20 a Week
Lorna Cooper
Simple ingredients. Straightforward recipes. Mouth-watering results. Now you can feed the whole family – and eat the food you love – without breaking the bank! Through Lorna Cooper’s popular cookery blog fyf20quid.co.uk, over half a million people have learnt how to meal plan, budget, and cook for their families for just £20 a week – and now you can too!
In ‘Feed Your Family for £20 a Week’ you will find 100 deliciously simple, wallet-friendly meals the whole family will love.
Budget Gluten Free: Over 100 Easy and Affordable Recipes for Every Day
Becky Excell
By using fresh, cost-conscious ingredients, making the most of ever-affordable pantry staples and sharing practical, easy-to-follow knowledge, Budget Gluten Free showcases how you can make the most of your weekly shop and live gluten-free for less.
Budget Gluten Free celebrates delicious dinners, exciting on-the-go lunches, decadent desserts and bakes (which won’t break the bank), all while providing dairy-free, lactose-free, low FODMAP, veggie and vegan options wherever possible. This deliciously varied collection of recipes will also show you how to harness the cost-saving benefits of putting your freezer to work, as well as small appliances, such as slow cookers and air fryers.
200 Air Fryer Recipes
Denise Smart
From the trusted Hamlyn All Colour Cookery series, this cookbook provides 200 easy recipes for you to enjoy with your air fryer, with delicious ideas for breakfast, light bites and sides, meat and fish mains, vegetarian and vegan meals and sweet treats.
Whether you want a healthier alternative to traditional frying, or a faster and cheaper way of cooking than the oven, your air fryer will help you save time, money and calories – all with minimal clean-up.
Easy One Pan Meals
Molly Shuster
Discover the magic of effortless cooking with ‘Easy One Pan Meals’ – your ultimate guide to simple, delicious meals. This innovative cookbook transforms everyday ingredients into mouthwatering dishes, all crafted with just four ingredients in a single pot.
Meat, fish, beans, vegetables – even delicious desserts – there’s something here for all tastes and all styles of cooking. Perfect for time-poor people and busy family life, it offers a variety of recipes that are quick, budget-friendly and full of flavour. From shakshuka to spicy chicken wings, and braised-ribs to peach tart, there are recipies to suit all tastes and budgets.
Budget Air-Fryer Cookbook
Jenny Tschiesche
The popularity of air fryers looks set to last, and why not with its amazing list of benefits not just to the household budget, but for the time-poor cook too. Using an air fryer drastically cuts down on cooking times, making these recipes fantastic for anyone cooking in a hurry.
The recipes cater for a wide range of tastes and needs, exploring ideas for using tins, jars and cartons, cooking from frozen, using up leftovers, using cheaper cuts of meat, grains and pulses, vegetable-based dishes and much more.
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