This website features articles about how to eat healthier for less money. They are excerpts of and a companion to a book I'm writing about this topic. For more information, see my About page.
All in Cooking
Eggs are one of those foods that the media have named angel, then devil and then angel again. What should we believe? Are they healthy or not? Spoiler alert! Deviled eggs aren’t the devil anymore.
The dead of winter is alive with citrus. It is sweet and juicy, being picked at the peak of ripeness. The simplest thing to do is just eat it. But if you want to take citrus a bit further and stretch your dollar a bit more, consider saving the peel and making it into candy.
Regardless of the headlines of the last 5 years or so, butter is loaded with saturated fat, which is not good for your health…but it tastes sooooo good! What to do? Read about why saturated fat is still bad for you (despite the optimistic press) and how you can still get that buttery taste while saving your arteries and your money. Now that’s hard to beat.
During the holiday season, I like to find ways to add a little special sparkle to my recipes without resorting to lots of saturated fat or sugar. Fried sage is a garnish that will make your savory holiday dishes taste richer with a bonus crunchy texture, but its 100% healthy. Delicious!
Fresh ginger is soooo tasty, but it’s not the easiest spice to work with. It took me years to develop a method that saves me time while cooking and also helps me save money by conserving what I have before it spoils or dries out.
