Wallet-Friendly Recipes from the "Biggest Loser" (nbc.com)
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Tip Hero 01/27/2009 3:04 PM
"The Biggest Loser Family Cookbook; Budget Friendly Meals Your Family Will Love" by Devine Alexander is a collection of 125 healthy, wallet-friendly recipes based on the hit NBC show. Most recipes are designed to fit a budget of $175-$215/week for a family of four to keep you and your family eating right. This book is particularly relevant as we continue to see food prices soar:
Frustratingly, eating healthfully these days doesn't always come cheap. Even the cost of basic staples such as bread, milk, and eggs has climbed significantly - not to mention the price of produce and other wholesome foods. A trip to the grocery store has become an exercise in sticker shock, while the low prices of many unhealthful, processed foods and fast foods has remained relatively stable.
Mixed in with the recipes are money saving tips such as shopping locally, dining in, meal planning, substituting ingredients based on what is on sale, shopping with a list to avoid impulse buys, buying generic, stocking up on non perishables, adding more budget foods, like beans, to your diet and buyer beware warnings like calculating the unit price and shopping below or above eye level.
The book also indulges in following up the show's alumni to see how they are coping out in the real world. Here is some sound advice from a Biggest Loser contestant:
"We have found that since we're not eating out like we used to, we actually have more money to spend on good, healthy food," says Stacey Capers, another Season 6 member. "So we've moved the 'dining out' part of our budget over to groceries. And we're always on the lookout for a good sale!"
You can read the table of contents and index and purchase your own copy of this book for $13.17 at Amazon.com or, better yet, preview some of the recipes online before investing in this book:
The Biggest Loser - NBC.com for detailed recipes for family-sized smoked sausage breakfast scramble, simple grilled chicken, chicken smothered nachos and enchilada chicken
Oprah.com - recipes for roasted tilapia with fire-roasted tomatoes and olives; chicken salad dijon with grapes and apple spinach; egg and cheese breakfast wrap; chocolate-peanut butter graham-wiches
Goodcooking.com - scroll to the bottom for recipes from the first cookbook for Pecan-Crusted Chicken with Cajun "Squash Your Waistline" Fries and Melinda's Holiday Spinach recipes
