Better Meals For Less Money

By Marietta McPherson Greenough

A practical beacon for modern households and curious readers alike, Better Meals For Less Money proves that thrift and flavour can walk hand in hand. In lucid, inviting prose, Marietta McPherson Greenough turns everyday kitchen challenges into a creative discipline of home cooking, planning, and restraint. This domestic science guide reveals how families can stretch groceries, plan meals, and elevate simple ingredients into nourishing, satisfying dishes. It blends clear guidance with warm storytelling, offering themes of frugality, resourcefulness, and care that resonate in today's world as strongly as they did in early twentieth-century America. The book's spirit-restful routines, clever substitutions, and steady schemes for budget households-speaks to both the casual reader and the connoisseur of classic literature. Historically significant as a window into small town America kitchens and the era's broader thrift ethos, the work stands as a precious record of culinary ingenuity and social history. It invites modern readers to see past pages as practical lessons for today: meal planning on a budget, economical cooking tips, and family meal planning ideas that still sing with relevance. Out of print for decades and now republished by Alpha Editions, it is more than a reprint - a collector's item and a cultural treasure, restored for today's generations and for those who treasure historical cookery guides and the timeless art of thrifty, nourishing meals.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9354841449
• ISBN13: 9789354841446
• Release Date: July 2021
• Publisher: Alpha Edition
• Length: 250 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"