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This book is not about buying fresh, organic, sustainable, free-range ingredients. It is not about creating picture-perfect dishes or even super-healthy ones. It is not about wowing guests with slick menus and asymmetric flower arrangements. It's about the bit that comes afterwards, the bit about eating it all up. We Britons throw away 6.7 million tons of food a year - that's a third of all the food we buy, and a fifth of our total domestic waste. And about half of it could be eaten. Imagine saving several hundred pounds every year (about GBP20,000 over a lifetime) and creating a carbon saving equivalent to taking a fifth of all cars off the road. Amazingly, we could do both simply by eating up our leftovers instead of consigning them to methane-belching landfills. The French know how to do it, and our grandparents did too. In this timely and much-anticipated book, acclaimed writer and journalist Kate Colquhoun explains how to make the most of our food.Included are recipes for meat balls and fish cakes, simple stocks and soups, inventive rice and pasta dishes, and great British pies and pickles, as well as sensible ideas for spare egg yolks and whites, wrinkly fruit and veg, and stale bread and cakes. Kate tackles frequently asked questions such as whether it is OK to reheat rice and how much mould we can scrape off the jam, and shows how some well-chosen store cupboard basics can transform any leftover carrot or bacon rind into a satisfying meal. She also takes us on a weekly shop that steers clear of the misleading BOGOFs and ready meals that are the cause of so much of our national waste. Stylishly packaged and printed on 100% recycled paper, The Thrifty Cookbook will reconnect us with our kitchen, leaving us with more time on our hands, more cash in our pockets and more space in our fridges - not to mention a great big environmental brownie point.
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Kate Colquhoun is the author of A Thing in Disguise: The Visionary Life of Joseph Paxton, which was shortlisted for the Duff Cooper Prize and longlisted for the Samuel Johnson Prize, and of Taste: A Biography of British Food. She reviews regularly for the Daily Telegraph and has written for The Times, the Financial Times, BBC History Magazine, Saga Magazine, The (RHS) Garden and Country Life Magazine. She lives in London.
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15 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book is all about how you actually cook day to day. It's so clear. Look in the fridge to see what you have. Go to the relevant chapter, and there you have lists of ideas for things you can do with it. So it's great for inspiring you to expand your usual repertoire of dishes.
I made gnocchi today for the first time ever, because of this book, (I have no idea what I would usually have done with the surplus of BOGOF potatoes my husband bought - a lot of mash probably) and it tasted amazing, and the children loved it.
I love this book so much that it is my bedtime reading at the moment!
I made gnocchi today for the first time ever, because of this book, (I have no idea what I would usually have done with the surplus of BOGOF potatoes my husband bought - a lot of mash probably) and it tasted amazing, and the children loved it.
I love this book so much that it is my bedtime reading at the moment!
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
A great book, that gives great ideas for leftovers as well as cheap meals to feed the family. A must in this day and age of having to cut costs. Here, you can learn how, while feeding your family good, wholesome and filling meals at the same time. Straightforward without being condescending, no frills, just getting on with it.
13 of 15 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
This book looks lovely and the recipes are too. I loved the style of presenting recipes which essentially are about saving money in such a glamorous style. I am no cook and yet can use this book to make things from my fridge no problem as they are simply presented and use ingredients I know very imaginatively. Perfect for the credit crunch and just a great read too.
Most Recent Customer Reviews
the thrifty cookbook
I felt a little bit disappointed with this book as I expected more recipes using up leftovers. What was printed was OK, but I felt it could have been better
Published 17 days ago by bsrney
Eat well Spend less
I found this to be an excellant book with everything well laid out.Some recipes even show picture by picture on how to do it. Well worth the money in todays economic crisis.
Published 8 months ago by K. P. Trott
Beautifully designed and handy
This book is beautifully produced with charming line drawings and no photos. It's designed to discourage you from throwing away food, but instead using up every scrap. Read more
Published 8 months ago by Alison Scott
rubbish
I made cauliflower cheese using the recipe in this book which was lovely but there are thousands of books with that in, I just wanted to test it out as I made the shepherds pie... Read more
Published 23 months ago by keennovicecook
Most useful cook book I have
This is a book to browse, to allow to inspire. It's the book I always wanted since cooking for a family (18 years and counting). Read more
Published on 1 Oct 2009 by S. Graham
The thrifty cook book
disappionted with this, found it hard to use, not in the precise order that I like i.e. pork with pork, whatever the dish pie, casserole etc. etc. Read more
Published on 11 Sep 2009 by Mrs. Muriel R. Webber
Eat Well and Save Money.
Thank you for a unique, useful, straight forward and in all ways excellent book. The recipes are easy to follow, varied and delicious.
Published on 12 May 2009 by Mrs. Edwina Parker
Fantastic!
I love this book. Not only does it have loads of recipes and ideas for leftovers such as cottage pie,soups, salads, bakes etc.. Read more
Published on 30 Mar 2009 by Gal
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