Kitchen skill, not budget, is the key to great food. If you're living on a tight budget, Brown shows you how to maximize every ingredient and gives you tips on economical cooking methods; shopping and kitchen equipments; and much more.

"Cash or credit? This helpful book explains both! Readers will learn the different ways we spend money through a clear, simple narrative full of playful illustrations. In addition to its practical uses, this unique text teaches readers how money can sometimes make us feel: happy, disappointed, satisfied, and more. This essential emotional element will help readers relate to the text as they learn responsible spending habits. Educators will appreciate...

Television cook Sandra Lee presents three hundred cost-conscious recipes for semi-homemade meals based on seventy percent store-bought ingredients and thirty percent fresh foods, including such family favorite selections as curried bow tie salad, spaghetti with garlic meat sauce, beer brats and kraut, beef pot roast, and frozen English toffee cake.

"Understanding how to wisely budget money is an important part of everyday life. In this book, readers will learn the most important financial literacy rule: Spend less than you earn. Learning about wants vs. needs will help readers make choices on how to spend, save, and invest money, especially during pandemic times. Colorful and clear graphics, such as maps, charts, and infographics, give readers an alternative to text-heavy sources. Action-based...

Presents a collection of recipes, drawing on the expertise of chefs and the authors' own experiences to provide adaptations of classic dishes, old favorites, and one-pot convenience meals that can be prepared on busy weeknights. A "keeper" is a brag-worthy, reliable, crowd-pleasing recipe that you confidently turn to again and again. The authors share their keepers, and provide adaptations of classic dishes, old favorites, and one-pot convenience...

"It's 1992 in Bleak Creek, North Carolina, a sleepy little place with all the trappings of an ordinary Southern town: two Baptist churches, friendly smiles coupled with silent judgments, and an unquenchable appetite for pork products. Beneath the town's cheerful façade, however, Bleak Creek teens live in constant fear of being sent to The Whitewood School, a local reformatory with a record of putting unruly teens back on the straight and narrow--a...

This book offers suggestions and advice for surviving what the author says is a future massive collapse of the economic and financial system in the United States, caused by years of Federal borrowing.