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

  3. Heather P says

    We love Mexican. I make my own taco seasoning and put beans in the meat to help stretch a buck. U have a lot of options with the meat, tacos, enchiladas, nachos, burritos, etc!

  4. Portia Phillips says

    hamburger ,potatoes, carrots and onions in skillet seasoned with a little worchester sauce

  5. heidi says

    I like to make waffles for dinner. Very cheap and more special than pancakes. I would love to get our food bill down to $400 and eat well!

  14. Lianne S. says

    Fresh fish caught that day cleaned then served !!!!!! My very favorite dinner I could eat every night.

  20. Julie C says

    I make chicken and rice… or potato soup I just found your site a week ago and have been on it non stop since then

  23. kristin says

    In the winter, ‘clean out the fridge soup’. In the summer, a cold bowl of cereal for dinner. My husband hates it, but sometimes it is the perfect meal!

  24. kelly says

    I guess I’d have to say our #1 frugal meal is soup & popcorn & grilled cheese; #2 is BLT’s on pumpernickel bread!

  25. Michelle H. says

    I love serving breakfast casserole for supper. Eggs, cheap breakfast meat and hashbrowns come together in a cheap but satisfying meal! Love your site. Keep up the good work!

  27. Donna G says

    Probably spaghetti and sauce, but maybe red soup & yellow sandwiches (tomato soup, grilled cheese). I’ve never figured the cost of either.

  30. kathy w says

    This sounds like a great book. Pasta is usually our go to frugal meal.

  34. Dani L. says

    Pasta! A $1 can of sauce and $1 box of pasta will feed my family and still give me enough leftovers for lunch the next day. You can’t beat $2 to feed 3 people.

  36. Susan says

    Do sammie’s count? There is nothing better for dinner in this hot weather than cold cut sams!

  40. Katherine says

    I like making soups. I use veggie peelings to make homemade broth, and I buy veggies when they’re on sale, chop them up, and freeze them. Then I just pull out a few different kinds, add some of the broth and a few spices, and simmer for awhile. Done!

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