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Table of Contents

Lucy: To my husband and best friend, Patrick.

Jessica: To Schabe and my Momar, for everything.

Introduction

Eating well is important for your health and physical well-being. Budgeting is important for your financial health and peace of mind. In this book, weve combined the twoeating well and budgeting. Your body, mind, and spirit will benefit, and your family will benefit, too.

Initially, budgeting can seem intimidating, complicated, and restrictive. However, as you use our step-by-step process, youll soon be confident and in control. Youll learn how to budget for meals at home, eating out, and school lunches. If you choose, you can even budget for impulse purchases.

Youll learn ways to adapt the budget to your lifestyle and personal preferencesand how to gain buy-in from family members to assure your budgeting success.

The recipes dont taste as if youre eating on a restricted budget, they just cost less to prepare and are designed to save you money. You wont be eating fewer vegetables, fruit, or meat. In fact, you may be eating more healthful foods as you learn how to shop sales and spend wisely. Weve even included a chapter of vegetarian main dishes to give you more money-saving options.

You can cook these recipes with confidence for guests and potlucksthey are delicious. And if you like, you can brag about how you saved money while preparing such delectable foods.

Eating well works for everyoneand so does budgeting. No matter what shape your financial situation, youre bound to benefit from budgeting, careful shopping, and delicious, healthy eating. As weve written this book, weve benefitted from using the concepts presented in this book. We hope you do, too.

What Youll Find in This Book

This book is divided into three parts:

Part 1, Creating and Managing Your Budget,shows you step by step how to set up a budget. Youll determine what amount to spend every month based on the size of your family and your net income and how to write a weekly menu plan. Youll adapt your budget to fit your eating style and review options for cooking mealsonce a week, once a month, daily, or in a neighborhood cooking group.

Part 2, Shopping for Groceries and Saving on Food,explains how to create a shopping list before you go to the store. At the store youll know how to avoid the emotional and impulse pitfalls that inflate your food bill and perhaps your waistline. Youll be comfortable eating out within your budget guidelines and find ways to add gourmet touches to your meals with gardening, fresh herbs, and preserving food.

Part 3, Recipes for Eating Well,offers you delicious recipes that fit your budget and satisfy your food and taste desires. Youll avoid wasting food and avoid taste boredom. The recipes provide varied tastessome traditional, some ethnic, some pop culture. The recipes call for basic and healthy foodsvegetables, meat, fruit, butter, cheese, and legumes. Each recipe contains nutritional counts so you can adapt the menu to meet your dietary preferences and restrictions.

Extras

Budgeting while eating well requires careful balancing. To help you accomplish your goals, weve added special messages that offer tips, suggestions, and warnings. Look for these sidebars to help hone your skills.

Kitchen Wise

With these suggestions, youll save time and money when eating well.

Money Matters

Youll spend your money wisely when you use these tips.

Dont Get Burned

Gain information to avoid budgeting, spending, and cooking mistakes.

Tasty Tidbits

Use these suggestions to create delicious meals.

Acknowledgments

Lucy thanks her husband, Patrick, for his encouragement and enthusiasm. She thanks her mother, Ann, who cooked and baked for their family of seven on a tight budget while teaching Lucy how to cook. Lucy is thrilled to have written this book with her daughter-in-law, Jessica Partridge. She enjoyed Jessicas enthusiasm and joyful can-do participation.

Jessica thanks the love of her life, Patrick, and her mother, Trish, for all their support and encouragement, for all the meals enjoyed together so far, and for all the meals to come. Many thanks to Lucy, who believed in Jessicas love of food and made a terrific writing partner. Thanks also to Dr. Rebecca Hunt and Dr. Cynthia Wong of the University of Colorado at Denver for helping her find her path.

Lucy and Jessica thank their terrific agent, Marilyn Allen, and knowledgeable editor, Tom Stevens, for guiding this book from inception to publication. Special thanks to their recipe editor, Jennifer Anderson, who reviewed every ingredient and procedure to assure that the recipes are technically correct.

Special Thanks to the Technical Reviewer

The Complete Idiots Guide to Eating Well on a Budget was reviewed by an expert who double-checked the accuracy of what youll learn here, to help us ensure that this book gives you everything you need to know about eating well on a budget. Special thanks are extended to Jennifer Anderson.

Trademarks

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Part 1

Creating and Managing Your Budget

Sharpen your pencil, get out a spiral notebook, and keep your calculator close at hand. Its time to create your family food budget.

First of all, dont be intimidated. Even if math isnt your favorite pastime, you can easily create a workable and realistic budget. The calculator does the arithmetic, and we show you where to write the numbers.

Having a clear food budget focuses you and allows you to spend your food money wisely and feed your family well. That means eating healthy food that provides energy, well-being, and mental acuity.

Chapter 1

The Best Nutrition at the Best Price

In This Chapter

Making the best use of your food dollar

Good nutrition is a good investment

Enjoying your food preferences

Using business principles

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