Eating on Budget: Nutrition and Recipes
Cookbooks
How to Be an Everyday Kitchen Magician by Learn what you can make from the most uninspiring food at the back of your fridge or cupboard. It's about making the most of what you have, reducing your waste dramatically, and discovering how to create spontaneous, delicious dishes in minutes.
Well Fed, Flat Broke by Offers great recipes, ideas and advice on how to prepare imaginative and delicious meals without having to spend a lot of money.
Dinners on a Dime by Filled with easy, budget-friendly recipes for hearty, satisfying family meals.
The $5 a Meal College Cookbook by Offering more than 300 hassle-free, low budget options.
- The Good and Cheap CookbookOffers recipes and advice for how to eat well on $4 per day. Recipes are easy to prepare and healthy.
- MyPlate KitchenSearch for recipes by aid program, cuisine, cost, course or food groups
Cooking and Nutrition Basics
- Cooking BasicsFrom the Department of Agriculture
- What’s Cooking? USDA Mixing BowlProvides recipes and resources to support building healthy and budget-friendly meals.
Nutrition
Eating Well, Living Better : The Grassroots Gourmet Guide to Good Health and Great Food by Presents a cooking and dining program that recognizes our desire to eat great food without gaining weight and without sacrificing our health along the way, offering original, kitchen-tested recipes, and information about various food choices.
Eating Well for Good Health by Explores basic concepts of good nutrition, health and healthy diets.
Why Calories Count by Sorting through a great deal of the misinformation put forth by food manufacturers and diet program promoters, this book takes readers through the issues that are fundamental to our understanding of diet and food, weight gain, loss, and obesity.
Nutrition Basics
- Fast Food NutritionFind calories and other nutritional data from 19 national fast food restaurants
- Health Source: Consumer Edition This link opens in a new windowConsumer health information on many topics including the medical sciences, food sciences and nutrition, childcare, sports medicine and general. Source materials include health science magazines, pamphlets, and reference books.
Vitamins & Supplements
- Health and Wellness: Gale This link opens in a new windowTrusted information on the role of vitamins and other nutrients in diseases and conditions and maintaining good health.
- Nutrients for Optimum HealthUp to date research on vitamins, minerals and other nutrients in promoting good health and preventing disease
- Vitamins and Minerals(From MedlinePlus) Latest information from the NIH Office of Dietary Supplements