Andrea Dekker

Weekend Giveaway: Cheap Appétit Cookbook

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UPDATE: this giveaway is now closed.

Congrats to:

Melinda (melinda.d.ott@…)

Pam (macandpam@…)

Kristy (smithgirlskak@…)

Look for an email from me shortly

As many of you know, I’m quite frugal in my approach to, well, EVERYTHING!  I love clipping coupons, finding the best deals, and stretching my dollar as far has I can.

However, with Nora around, it’s a bit more challenging to make time to clip coupons and find every deal. I’m sure those of you with small children and/or busy lives can relate!

If you’ve ever wished you could spend less on groceries but still feed your family healthy, nutrutious meals, then today’s giveaway might be JUST what you’re looking for!

Karen McLaughlin from Abundance On A Dime wrote a cookbook, Cheap Appétit: The Complete Guide to Feeding Your Family for Less Than $400 a Month (While Eating Better Than You Ever Thought Possible) which includes over 125 kid-tested recipes using basic, inexpensive ingredients. Karen claims that the recipes and strategies inside her cookbook will help most families decrease their grocery budget by 40-60% *without* using coupons!!

Cheap Appétit will teach you: 

  • How to organize your pantry so you never buy food you don’t use again
  • How to shop efficiently and on a weekly basis, reducing daily trips to the store
  • What basic, inexpensive ingredients you need to always have on hand to make tasty, nutritious meals
  • How to dramatically reduce your grocery bill, food wastage, and spoiled leftovers
  • How to use everything you buy
  • How to shop locally and make your local purchases last all year long
  • How to stretch your food dollars and still eat healthy and delicious food
  • How to easily do simple things, like bake your own bread, without a lot of time and effort
And more…

Sounds pretty good doesn’t it!

You can buy Cheap Appétit from Amazon.com today… and you can enter to win one of 3 free copies of this amazing cookbook below!

The Giveaway:

Today, three lucky readers will win a copy of Cheap Appétit: The Complete Guide to Feeding Your Family for Less Than $400 a Month (While Eating Better Than You Ever Thought Possible)!

How to Enter:

1. {required} Leave a comment on this post. What is your favorite frugal meal?

2. {optional} Like Simple Organized Living on Facebook, and then leave a separate comment letting me know you did {or that you do already}.

If you are reading this in your email or feed reader, please visit the actual blog post to enter. Email entries, Facebook comments, and Twitter messages will NOT be counted.

Prizes:

(3) Cheap Appétit Cookbooks as described above.

This giveaway ends at 10:00 pm on Monday, 7/02/2012 and is open to US residents, 18 years or older. I will use And the Winner Is to select the winning comments at random. Winners will be notified by email and noted at the top of this post. Winners must respond within 48 hours of notification to claim their prize or I will choose a new winner. Please contact me with any questions you have. Good luck!

Reader Interactions

Comments

  1. Catherine L. says

    my favorite frugal (and fast) meal is spaghetti. we always make a ton of sauce and freeze some for later.

  4. Jenny says

    My favorite furgal meal has to be spaghetti. It’s cheap, fast, and even my 13 month old will eat.

  7. Pam says

    Our favorite frugal meal is tacos. We use venison (which my husband has harvested and we have butchered and ground ourselves), tortillas, cheese, lettuce and tomato’s. We enjoy about once a week.

  8. Dana says

    I love just a plain pasta with a little meat and sauce. Just throw in some lettuce from the garden and you have a full meal!

  9. Renee says

    One of my many favorite frugal meals is a meal that is partly made in a slow cooker and oven. The beef casserole contains a roast (made in the slow cooker) with beefy onion soup mix, a box of stuffing mix and mozzarella cheese. The beef, stuffing and cheese are layered and then baked for approximately 45 minutes in the oven. I love the combined taste and of course, a vegetable is served with it!

  10. Amy says

    My favorite frugal meal is a stir fry. Great way to use up whatever veggies I have on hand. I just “liked” you on Facebook.

  12. Barb says

    My husband and I enjoy omelettes and they don’t cost hardly anything to make since I can & freeze all our own vegies, plus makes a healthy meal along with fruit or whatever.

  17. Jessica says

    Honestly Kraft Mac n Cheese is my favorite frugal meal 🙂 I also love putting the cheesy smokey links in it sometimes too!

  19. Jody Long says

    Those frozen skillet meals! We’ve been without a kitchen for over a month now … at $6/bag, they are quick, delish, and affordable too.

  20. Christie says

    We enjoy tortilla chicken soup as our frugal family meal. We usually have the ingredients on hand and it can be made in the crock pot!

  21. Bron says

    My favourite frugal meal is pasta with homemade sauce. My hubby’s would definitely be chilli on rice!

  27. Natalie P. says

    Spaghetti – – I always have the ingredients, and my recipe makes a ton of leftovers that can be frozen!

  29. April says

    I bought 9 packages of spaghetti and 3 jars of sauce from Costco specifically for the frugality (and ease)!

  30. Sabrina Gardner says

    We like a pasta dish with some meat and red sauce. It makes a lot and we eat it for lunch the next day.

  31. Shiann says

    I like to make venison roast (since my husband hunts) with vegetables. It is easy and can span more than one meal.

  35. Michelle says

    One of our favourite cheap meals is Slow Cooker Baked Beans (vegan) – yum!

  36. Corey says

    My favorite cheap meal is garlic black beans and rice with spinach…fast and cheap!!!

  39. Brandie Curtis says

    Our favorite frugal meal is Taco Soup. It’s so easy to throw together and makes a TON!

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