Good and Cheap (again)

Good and Cheap: A Cookbook by Leanne Brown. Print your own copy FREE! Follow the link in the blog post.

I found these great free cookbooks a while ago. But I just discovered the author’s website and the links to print PDF copies of both books FREE! The photography is absolutely gorgeous. The recipes look delicious and seem quite easy overall. It is refreshing to find this resource for inexpensive meals and snacks using fresh vegetables, fruits, and whole grains. Let’s get inspired to try something new this week that is good for OURSELVES and good for our WALLETS, too!

(Hah! The joke is on me. I DID apparently already know about the links to print. Here is the blog post I wrote about this same topic last summer)

What is Good and Cheap?

Good and Cheap is a cookbook written by Leanne Brown for people with very tight budgets, particularly those on SNAP/Food Stamp benefits. It is also a great resource for anyone wanting to eat healthy meals without spending a fortune. The PDF is free and has been downloaded more than 800,000 times.

Is the PDF really free? Can I print some recipes?

Yes it’s really free. Sharing the power of cooking is the whole point of the Good and Cheap project. Because the 1st edition is under a Creative Commons license, you are free to use the recipes however you like so long as you give Leanne Brown credit and you don’t make money off her work. Enjoy it!

Can I save the PDF to my computer?

Yep! To save a copy of Good and Cheap on your computer, right-click this download link instead of left-clicking. You should see a menu with an option like “Save Link As…” or “Save File As…”. If you select that option, you’ll be able to save the PDF to your computer. If that link doesn’t work, try this one.

From Scratch: A Cookbook by Leanne Brown. Print your own copy FREE! Follow the link in the blog post.

Leanne Brown’s first cookbook! From Scratch is a vegetarian cookbook intended for people just becoming comfortable in their own kitchens. Download a FREE pdf copy HERE.

These books are distributed under a Creative Commons Attribution – NonCommercialShareAlike 4.0 license. For more information, visit http://www.creativecommons.org/licenses/ by-nc-sa/4.0.

Good and Cheap

image by Owen Jones, via Flickr CC license

I am always on the search for inexpensive, healthy meals that also taste really good and don’t take forever to make (or have a hundred ingredients).

I read this article by NPR entitled “Cheap Eats:  Cookbook shows how to eat well on a Food Stamp Budget.”

The best part is that you can get this great cookbook with a lot of great “cheap eats” for FREE here.

“It really bothered me,” Cheap Eats cookbook author Leanne Brown says. “The 47 million people on food stamps — and that’s a big chunk of the population — don’t have the same choices everyone else does.”

Brown guessed that she could help people in SNAP, the federal government’s Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program, find ways to cook filling, nourishing and flavorful meals. So she set out to write a cookbook full of recipes anyone could make on a budget of just $4 a day.

The result is Good and Cheap, which is free online and has been downloaded over 200,000 times since she posted it on her website in early June. A July Kickstarter campaign also helped Brown raise $145,000 to print copies for people without computer access.

 

The recipes in Good and Cheap are organized into several categories:  Breakfast, Soup, Salad, Snacks and Small Bites, Handheld, Dinner, Big Batches, Staples, Drinks, Desserts, Sauces and Flavor and several generally informative sections about shopping and planning are included as well.

In looking through the recipes, I found several that I plan to try. They look simple to prepare, flavorful and as advertised — good and cheap! The photography is excellent, too!  Nearly all the recipes have beautiful, full-color photographs to help you see what your finished product will (hopefully) look like.

I hope you’ll check out this great little cookbook. Please let me know if you do, what you make and how you like it. Thanks!