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Links - Cooking and Recipe Sites

5DollarDinners -Good blog with $5 dinners that serve 4. Nice cookbook by the same name.

All Recipes - Great for searching

A Year of Slow Cooking - Nice blog full of slow cooker recipes. Also a book by the same author.

Better Times Cookbook - "Cookbook and Almanac of Useful Information for Poor People"

Cooking Light - Healthy recipes

USDA Food Plans - This government run site has a booklet of frugal recipes plus budget guidelines for feeding your family.

The Cook's Thesaurus is a wonderful online reference guide for all kinds of things. For example, use it to look up different shapes of pastas when you run across some unfamiliar name in a new recipe. Not sure what some unfamiliar vegetable even looks like so you can find it in the produce bin? Try here.

Desperation Dinners aka The Kitchen Snoop- I love the book by the same namet The newsletter is fantastic. Quick and easy meals.

Ellen's Kitchen - Ya gotta love the name! Useful "big pot" (quantity) cooking, among other things.

Hillbilly Housewife - Money saving "from scratch" recipes

Home Cooking - more than just recipes, lots of articles on cooking from About.com

Ramen - More ramen recipes than you can imagine

Student Cooking in the UK - helpful articles and recipes for students trying to cook on a budget, share kitchen duties, and eat healthy.

TasteSpotting - Browse through food photos and then click through to the blog that posted the photo. If you like to pick your recipes visually, this is a fun site!

Thirty Day Gourmet: Freezer Cooking Recipes and EBooks

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