Budget Bytes: Over 100 Easy, Delicious Recipes to Slash Your Grocery Bill in Half: A Cookbook by Beth Moncel

  • Banana bread baked oatmeal

    from Budget Bytes: Over 100 Easy, Delicious Recipes to Slash Your Grocery Bill in Half Budget Bytes by Beth Moncel

    • Categories: Breakfast / brunch; Cooking ahead
    • Ingredients: bananas; ground cinnamon; nutmeg; milk; old-fashioned oats; walnuts
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  • Cheri on May 14, 2015

    Lentil/Sausage Stew was healthy and good. 40 minutes total. Finished with parm which was good. Used lentil mix and chicken Italian sausage. Will definitely repeat.

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  • Banana bread baked oatmeal

    • abrownb1 on January 25, 2022

      Delicious way to use up some bananas. I've made it both with milk and unsweetened almond milk and it works well with either. I reduced the sugar to 1/4 c but might reduce even further next time depending on how sweet the bananas are. Added 1/4 c ground flax and it was undetectable. Nice change of pace for breakfast!

  • Autumn delight baked oatmeal

    • Carrie84 on March 11, 2026

      The kids and I loved this one!

  • Cranberry-almond granola

    • Carrie84 on February 28, 2026

      One of our favorite granolas!

  • Honey-wheat sandwich bread

    • Carrie84 on February 28, 2026

      This was a good, simple recipe. The whole family enjoyed it.

  • Multigrain rolls

    • Omnivorous on October 12, 2024

      The flavor was very good. However, these rolls were overcooked at the stated cook time of 30 minutes.

  • Italian breadsticks

    • Omnivorous on October 12, 2024

      The recipe calls for cooking the bread sticks for 15 -18 minutes. At 15 minutes they were very hard and overdone. It was a decent amount of work to make them and the result was mediocre. I would not make this recipe again.

  • Chicken tamale pie

    • Omnivorous on October 12, 2024

      This was very good. I made the roast carrots and zucchini accompaniment to go with it. The cornbread was not cooked through at 25 minutes (cooked in a 10" cast iron skillet). It needed another 10 minutes.

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Reviews about this book

  • Kitchn

    Moncel tackles a wide range of foods in over 100 low-cost recipes — everything from coconut chicken curry and huevos rancheros bowls, to lemon-Parmesan pasta and five-spice pork chops...

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  • ISBN 10 1101617152
  • ISBN 13 9781101617151
  • Published Feb 04 2014
  • Page Count 257
  • Language English
  • Countries United States
  • Publisher Avery

Publishers Text

The debut cookbook from the Internet expert on making eating cheap dependably delicious

As a college grad during the recent great recession, Beth Moncel found herself, like so many others, broke. Unwilling to sacrifice eating healthy and well—and armed with a degree in nutritional science—Beth began tracking her costs with obsessive precision, and soon cut her grocery bill in half. Eager to share her tips and recipes, she launched her blog, Budget Bytes. Soon the blog received millions of readers clamoring for more.

Beth's eagerly awaited cookbook proves cutting back on cost does not mean cutting back on taste. Budget Bytes has more than 100 simple, healthy, and delicious recipes, including Greek Steak Tacos, Coconut Chicken Curry, Chorizo Sweet Potato Enchilada, and Teriyaki Salmon with Sriracha Mayonnaise, to name a few. It also contains expert principles for saving in the kitchen—including how to combine inexpensive ingredients with expensive to ensure that you can still have that steak you’re craving, and information to help anyone get acquainted with his or her kitchen and get maximum use out of the freezer. Whether you’re urban or rural, vegan or Paleo, Budget Bytes is guaranteed to delight both the palate and the pocketbook.

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