Dining On A Dime Cookbook
Eat Better and Spend Less with Real Food for Real People!
Save $10,000 a year on food?
Without cutting coupons! Unbelievable? Read Tawra Jean Kellam and Jill Cooper’s advice in their Dining on a Dime cookbook and find out that it really is possible.
Tawra has told her story to millions of listeners and readers on the radio, on the web and in women’s magazines (including Woman’s Day and Woman’s World) and now she’s put her best tips and tricks into a 476 page book. Using these tips and suggestions, Tawra shows how anyone can tighten his or her food budget.
Dining on a Dime is packed with over 1,200 money saving recipes and tips, kids tips and snack ideas, gift baskets, menus, food storage directions, Cleaning Cents and Pretty for Pennies. The recipes are easy to cook with ingredients that you probably already have in your pantry. To make shopping easy and economical, Tawra has also included a pantry list and a shopping list.
- Did you know that dirty dishes cause debt? See page 385 and read how to save money just by doing the dishes.
- Need fast snack ideas for hungry kids? Check out page 28.
- Want to clean your bathroom in a flash? Check out page 398 for a 7-step plan.
- Got leftovers in the fridge? Use them up!!! Dining on a Dime has a complete index of recipes using nothing but leftovers.
- Drive right by the pricey gift basket boutique– Go home and make your own for pennies. Check out page 339 for ideas!
- Need to cut down on meat? Tawra has pages of tips for eating better and spending less.
- Need a specific money saving idea? Dining on a Dime has a special index just for tips.
- Make three meals from one chicken? Yes, Dining on a Dime has this, too! (Page 176)
According to Tawra, “real families don’t eat shitake mushrooms.” She’s spiced up the book with plenty of anecdotes, quips and quotes that make the book worth reading just for entertainment. Don’t just read the jokes – if you use just one or two of her ideas and recipes, you will recover the purchase price of the book!
Dining On A Dime is a collection of frugal recipes and tips from the cooking expertise of three generations of Tawra Kellam’s family.
Dining On A Dime is a great resource for beginners and experienced cooks. It contains over 540 recipes and 420 tips explaining how to eat well while slashing your grocery bill. With hard-to-find frugal recipes like buttermilk, enchilada sauce and granola bars, classic favorites like slow cooked roast, hush puppies and apple crisp and old-fashioned comfort foods like watermelon pickles, lemon bars, rice pudding and fried green tomatoes, Dining On A Dime has it all.
“Generally, I’m an AWFUL cook – But Dining On A Dime has changed that!”
“Every recipe I’ve tried has been delicious… I can’t believe how much money I’ve been saving on groceries.”
“Thanks again for publishing Dining on a Dime! I can’t believe how much I’m enjoying cooking and my family is no longer afraid to come to the table.
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-Jeannie
“Dining On A Dime is my absolute favorite. I am going on a cottage vacation in the next couple of weeks and I am taking your cookbook with me. I have never taken a cookbook on a vacation. At least I am not sleeping with it yet….hehehehe”
-Deb
“OH MY GOSH this is exactly the book I have been looking for! I have loads of cook books from expensive recipes to Amish style cooking and this one is my FAVORITE!!!
Better than Betty Crocker). I recommend this book to EVERYONE I know. I WON’T dare go without my Dining On A Dime cookbook!
-A Reader
“I just want to say a BIG thank you for making this WONDERFUL cookbook its exactly what I was looking for. I am teaching my teen age daughter to cook with this book.
Michelle in Washington
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“Our Family Testers found Dining On A Dime to be an awesome asset to their home library. The recipes are well-written and truly loved by all. It’s probably the only realistic cookbook out on the market today that actually helps to save money — which is so important to families in today’s society — without omitting savory delectable recipes. These two goals are quite hard to accomplish. We get literally hundreds of cookbooks submitted monthly to our team and this is one of the best ever…a true treasure!” -Jodie Lynn, syndicated parenting/health expert, CEO/founder of www.AddingWisdomAward.com, and author of parenting book, Mom CEO. |
Dining On A Dime is great for:
- Teaching your kids to cook (don’t forget teenagers and grandkids)
- Wedding and Bridal Gifts
- College Students
- Teachers’ Gifts
- Bachelors
- babysitters
- single moms and even more desperately important, Single DADS!
- ANYONE you want to help get out of debt, or just give a “thank you” gift
Click Here to order now and find out why 200,000 satisfied readers can’t be wrong!
“If you like the Tightwad Gazette Books, you’ll love Dining On A Dime.”
-Kim Tilley, Editor, Frugal Moms Newsletter
“Thanks for such a great book! Single income families and Stay at Home Mom’s can use all the help we can get!”
Elease, Washington
“I just wanted to say how much I really love your book. I found it at the library, and found it so useful that I thought it would be cheaper to buy it than to pay library fines for never returning it! It is really a wonderful resource!”
-Shane
Some topics covered in the book are:
- Changing the way you think about your food budget without feeling deprived
- Creative uses of leftovers
- Unique recipes to entertain the kids including slime, bubbles, face paint, finger paint, and tub crayons
- Gifts in a jar and suggestions for making frugal gift baskets
- Lots of humor and household tips that make Dining On A Dime as entertaining as it is practical
- Secrets of how Tawra spends an average of $350 per month feeding her family of six
Dining On A Dime Cookbook: Eat Better, Spend Less!
The award winning Dining on a Dime is packed with over 1,200 money saving recipes and tips, kids tips and snack ideas, gift baskets, menus, food storage directions, Cleaning Cents and Pretty for Pennies. Read about it here.
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Dining On A Dime Cookbook: Eat Better, Spend Less!
The award winning Dining on a Dime is packed with over 1,200 money saving recipes and tips, kids tips and snack ideas, gift baskets, menus, food storage directions, Cleaning Cents and Pretty for Pennies. Read about it here.
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[...] general cooking is pretty easy. I was excited to realize that about 1/2-3/4 of the recipes in Dining On A Dime are gluten free. So I don’t have to change too much. I have started a gluten free category on [...]
[...] general cooking is pretty easy. I was excited to realize that about 1/2-3/4 of the recipes in Dining On A Dime are gluten free. So I don’t have to change too much. I have started a gluten free category on [...]
[...] Cooper and Tawra Kellam are frugal living experts and the authors of the Dining On A Dime Cookbook. Dining On A Dime will help you save money on groceries and get out of debt, by cooking quick and [...]
[...] Cooper and Tawra Kellam are frugal living experts and the authors of the Dining On A Dime Cookbook. Dining On A Dime will help you save money on groceries and get out of debt, by cooking quick and [...]
Tawra/Jill, I commend you for all your work trying to help people live more frugally. Everyone is trying to keep their heads above water. It is the want want want attitude getting us into trouble, including my own family. We go along well for a short time and then something will come up, a repair or necessity or an extended family event that we really want to attend. But your website keeps me going and trying to save and pay off the debts. We have only used cars 10 and 11 years old. Also we have a kid in college and another starting in the fall. But I have faith that we will eventually get there. I am so glad you sold your house and can move where you want. I love Colorado also. Thanks for your updates and pointers!!! Marcia
Oh no, any chance bonus downloads can be extended? thru midnight 21st? We’ve been sick & I did not even get to look @ email until 21st…was so excited about getting bonus’ too, then saw the date…aaagh!
Hey, my book arrived in the mail today–thanks! But I thought I ordered in time to get the E-books as well. How was that supposed to work?
It came in an email right after you ordered and is probably caught in your spam filter. Thanks for ordering.
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Last year you had these on sale but I missed it because I was out of town. Do you think you might do something similar again this year for the holidays? I’d be interested in purchase three, one for me, my daughter and son.
Maggie we are having a pre order sale next week. The books with it’s new cover is at the printers now so we are giving evey one a special deal it they order in advance and then we will be having another before Christmas sale after that.
Typo, Purchasing three.
Am I showing my age, in that I already know the answers to the majority of the ‘questions’ you posted? Growing up, my Mom & Nana would ‘explain’ these little tips/tricks to me, throughout our days. I guess this doesn’t happen enough, now. Ah, the times, they are…well, you know the rest.
I’m going to order/download the e-book… and subscribe, as soon as I finish here. And for sure, I’ll be waiting for the hard copy to hit my mailbox. From only your ‘blurb’, I can see so much of what I was taught. This book seems to me, to be the exact thing needed … especially in these ‘trying’ times ~ October 2011.
I am so thrilled to have found this site…this book… AND the facebook ‘like/share’ icon!
can you please do the bundle like you did at Christmas. It was such a good price then and I didn’t have the money then but now I do have some money. I really want to get some of the print books soon. Please do the bundle discount again.
Thanks and I love your website. you guys are the best living frugally. Happy New year to you and your family
Karen
We will run it again. I’m not sure when, I know for sure on Mother’s Day but it may be before then.
Yes, I would also be interested in the print books. Please make up a new deal soon. I would like to be able to give these out as gifts to my family members and friends.
Please do the printed book bundle.
I’m sorry, but what is difficult about sending a book to Canada? I hate reading off the computer and I’m really interested in your book. Looks like I can only get your e-book.
Sara it is not so much that it is difficult to send them (although we do have to spend extra time filling out extra forms and things) but we had problems with 2 things – first the cost to ship 1 book is $15 which is one and a half times the cost of the book when it is on sale plus if you ordered 2 books because of the size of the books it would be $35. The second reason is the post office.Most of the books we sent there they either messed them up really bad or didn’t deliver them etc. We had to eat the cost on that each time that happened and it happened most of the time.
We for years tried sending them there but we not only lost money but but time and effort. We had so many people mad at us because they couldn’t get their books at all or they were messed up.
Now we have people mad because we don’t ship at all. We can’t seem to win for losing. : ) We do love our Canadian readers and every so often try to find another way to ship to them but it just doesn’t seem to work through no fault of our own.
Really am sorry because I too love reading a real book more then an e book especially a cookbook.
Jill a lot of Canadians have stopped ordering anything from the states unless the company pays the shipping because a simple $20. item ends up costing somewhere in the $80 range so not worth it.
I do not blame you for not shipping to Canada.
If someone here knows a friend in the States they can have the order sent there and then get the friend to put it in the mail.
I just went twice to the post office today. I have about 6 outfits for a toddler and 2 sweat shirts to ship to China. The first was going to cost me nearly $100. so I took it home and took out the sweat shirts and put it into a much smaller box and it cost me $30.
Will repack the other things along with some small items and maybe some more little outfits next week.
As a grandma we can now afford the cute things we couldn’t for our own children but the shipping is keeping me from having lots of fun sending them to Anqi.
Just can’t win. unless they make it home to live next year. Oh well will have to send things home for christmas when they come in the summer. Just doesn’t feel like HO HO HO weather in june though.
Yes postage is getting awful. I was going to send the grandkids in Colorado a little package but by the time all was said and done it was going to cost me 4 times the amount to send it as what the items cost. I hate it too because I remember how much I use to love getting letters and packages from my grandma when I was little.
Jill check out the price to send things by bus.
that is how I do it with my son 10 hours away.
I pack the box take it to the bus depot and it costs a fraction of what it would by mail.
I sent my mother 4 hard cover books in Florida for christmas and it was $24. canadian by mail.
More than the books cost me because I sent her used books that I had enjoyed.
I would have sent them by bus but our town doesn’t ship to the states as there are too many stops to get it to the border.
Anyway grandchildren are fun to send stuff to even if it is expensive.
Next year I think I will use gift cards more they all like reading so chapters and the eldest now has an Ipad or Ipod so he wants music for it so he got a gift card this year. But he said the little kids got more stuff to open. Then he figured out the gift cards were worth a lot more than the toys and he could pick what he wanted.
For a joke next year I will get him dinky toys and leggos with the gift card tucked in he is 11 now so the toys will appear to be too young for him but he will like getting something silly from his fun grandparents.
hope your new year is good and your blog keeps being as interesting as it was this year.
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My mom bought me this cookbook a few years ago and I haven’t put it down since. I’ve loaned it to many friends and shared the tips w anyone who will listen. I had a newborn baby at the time and I washed my hands at least 20x per day. My favorite tip was to use bubble bath vs. regular hand soap. Not as expensive, not as drying, and smelled great. Sooo many wonderful tips and money saving advice. Recommend it to anyone interested in being practical with their time and money.
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A great collection of tips and usable information to save money and better care for your family.
I just purchased Jill’s Penny Pinchin’ Mama and started reading it after I quickly scanned the comprehensive table of contents. Very happy to know all these great tips are in her book, as we are senior citizens who live basically on Social Security after losing all our money in a stock-market scam. It was a very educational experience to down-size seriously in our golden years, I’ll tell you! I am surely looking forward to putting into practice all the wonderful tips in this book, and you can bet I’m looking forward to Dining on a Dime!
I love your newsletters! You also share pertinent information and tips with your readers. Thanks so much!
I would love to win a cookbook to help with my cash-flow problem. Thanks for the opportunity.
I have a copy of your book. It is a great resource for me. It would make a wonderful gift for someone just starting their independent living experience. Like having mom at their fingertips!
I would love to win this book. I would be able to learn something new and pass it on to someone else.
I would really love to win this cookbook!
Winning Dining on a Dime would be awesome!
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Do you ever make over any of your recipes for gluten free/celiacs? I have been just diagnosed and could use a little help with it. I just got your dining on a dime cookbook and love it!!
Thanks, Pat
Pat we have some gluten recipes on the web site and as far as adapting our recipes from Dining we haven’t done that so far because it would be an almost impossible job to do that. We have people who need gluten free, diabetic, egg free, milk free, citrus free, fat free, sugar free, meat free diets just to name a few so it would be very hard for us to cover everyone’s special needs.
That being said so many of our readers like Dining because the recipes are so simple and easy they find it very easy to adjust them to their own special needs. I know it is hard because Tawra is on a gluten free and everything free diet at the moment so I do understand.