Eat to Your Heart's Content: Healthy Eating on a Budget

Jo-Anne Hall is a freelance writer living in Whitby, Ont.

The word that best describes this cookbook is “utilitarian.”
Although it is very easy to read with the standard spiral binding used
these days, there are no pictures of individual recipes to excite the
appetite.

Still, if ever there was a cookbook for a recession, this is it. The
dedication, to the Single Parents Association of Newfoundland and
Labrador, probably explains the devotion of the book’s first 50 pages
to budget shopping (including basic nutrition for welfare mothers) and
the good, basic money-saving recipes that follow. In the section
“Making Your Own Bread,” however, the step-by-step process runs to
four pages and may intimidate some. More accessible is the “Treats and
Tricks” section on how to stimulate hard-to-please children’s
appetites.