Bad economy = Budget home cooking
As more and more people chose to cook at home to save money, budget recipe sites are flourishing while gourmet recipe sites are taking a hit.
Photo: lulu/Flickr The number of cookbooks published in 2008 rose to 3,277 new titles up from 2,836 in 2007, according to the most recent data available from Books in Print, which is owned by R.R. Bowker.
How about you? Are you cooking more at home? Have you found any recipe sites that you find really helpful or any particular recipes that are fabulous, budget-friendly, and hopefully eco-friendly (remember many recipes can be made more eco-friendly just by using organic and local ingredients)? Please share them in the comments.
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Considering the fact that economic have been hard hit by crisis. It isn't surprising anymore why there are lot of moms cook at home. Instead of buying cooked food they prefer to buy good and cook at home. Most mainstream economists believe that recessions are caused by inadequate aggregate demand in the economy, and favor the use of expansionary macroeconomic policy during recessions. Strategies favored for moving an economy out of a recession vary depending on which economic school the.... More
I like them because you can enter the ingredients you want (i.e. the ingredients you have on hand) and they can find recipes that way. Got frozen peas, ground beef, cheddar cheese, and Ritz crackers? They probably have something you could make from that. Mmmmm now I'm getting hungry!
I've been a fan of allrecipes.com for years; now that I have food allergies to deal with (daughter) I'm loving it even more. I've found many traditional recipes with alternatives for her her allergen triggers on the site and my daughter is oh so thankful.
