Cookery

[diamond lil]

Maybe only of interest to the ladies - but you never know. I bought a book on Amazon last week that is awesome, am really enjoying it.
"Cookery and Kitchen Book for slender purses" written by Emelie Waller, first published in 1935. How to run a house on 27/6 a week and feed your family and menfolk well! Full of commonsense hints on how to store food, cook it, find it.

[jansman]

Not only of interest to the Women. I will have a look at that. Thanks.

[diamond lil]

It's very commonsense I like it. And it has real food in it lol. And btw Jansman your turnips are delicious, I've had 3 so far Quite wee but cook in ten minutes, so tender.

[ForgeCorvus]

Ditto Jansman

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Wallers-Cookery ... B007SFOZQA

[Deeps]

Unfortunately my purse is too slender to afford the 18 quid.

[diamond lil]

I got it for £6.

[Deeps]

I got it for £6.

Fair one, the link was asking for 18. I'm chief cook and bottle washer in Casa Deeps so always looking for options. I'm a pretty decent cook (although I say it myself ) but always open to new ideas. If its a 30's book then I'd appreciate the thrift side of it but I'm a 'world food' kind of a cat, I'm big into cooking Italian, Chinese and especially Indian so I guess there aren't many recipes I would use.

[diamond lil]

No, it's very much old-fashioned food, which is why I like it.

[jansman]

It's very commonsense I like it. And it has real food in it lol. And btw Jansman your turnips are delicious, I've had 3 so far Quite wee but cook in ten minutes, so tender.

That is great. Mine are racing away too!

[nickdutch]

Sounds like a great idea to get some inspiration on how to do it, but you can also shop around and use a calculator.
When I was even more skint than I am now, I did usually find away to eat. Ok i did the occasional day without food, but if things were really bad I had things like rice cooked up and with a gravy sauce on it and that's all. Sure it lacked all nutritional value, but at least I was eating and I was keeping my cost of living down.
After that i discovered the benefits of lentils and the fact that 2Kg of lentils could be purchased for £3 and I also learned about sprouting, so i had a diet that was mainly lentils and rice with the sprouted lentils as my "microgreens".
It was still a nutritionally deficient diet and at that time the idea of spending £1 on a bag of spinach was out of the question. But its true, you can feed yourself on very little, but it can make you ill through