This post is about 9 Inflation beating cookbooks plus 5 YouTube creators offering amazing money-saving family-friendly recipes!
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Hey Y’all, thanks for stopping by booked and bewitched! This week we are talking about all things Cookbook related.
This time around we’ll be exploring the worlds of jar meals, pantry meals, freezer meals, instant pot meals, 5 ingredient meals, and much more!
So without further ado, let’s get into these money-saving cookbooks!
Must-Have Money & Time Saving Cookbooks
1. The Meals in a Jar Handbook: Gourmet Food Storage Made Easy
Food storage can be delicious!
Stephanie Petersen (a.k.a. Chef Tess) and Honeyville Farms are back with The Meals in a Jar Handbook. Filled to the brim with tips, techniques, and recipes, this cookbook will teach you everything you need for family-sized meals stored in jars, including Chef Tess’s dry-packing method. And don’t mistake the long shelf life for bland, tasteless food that’s difficult to prepare. Just add water and cook! You’ll love the
Booked & Bewitched Babbles- This jar meals cookbook is a wonderful addition to every kitchen! Full of wonderful goodies like country-style stew and lemon-lime cheesecake pie, who could resist?
2. The Instant Pot Meals in a Jar Cookbook
The wildly popular Instant Pot has made cooking delicious meals quicker and easier than ever. However, you still need to prepare the food that goes into your Instant Pot. This book shows how to create pre-prepped, mason-jar-filled entrees that make mealtime as easy as 1-2-3: dump the jar’s pre-measured contents into your Instant Pot, add water, and pressure cook. It’s easier than microwave mac and cheese but way better tasting and far more healthy.
The Instant Pot Meals in a Jar Cookbook offers a wide selection of meals in a jar, including breakfasts, lunches, dinners, and desserts. It details the specific meal prep needed to stock your pantry with mason jars full of all-natural foods that are ready to cook at a moment’s notice. Some recipes include combining the shelf-stable meal in a jar with fresh vegetables or meats from your fridge for an even more delicious entree that still requires almost zero meal-time work.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles- I would be lost without my Instant Pot, so when I came across this jar meals and Instant Pot cookbook it was a match made in heaven!
3. 100-Day Pantry
By Jan Jackson
One constant family can count on is the possibility of life-altering change. You never know when you may face unexpected unemployment or become the victim of extreme weather conditions or other natural disasters.
But even in the wake of all this uncertainty, you and your family can enjoy peace of mind with this invaluable emergency preparedness cookbook by Jan Jackson. Complete with customizable recipes that use only ingredients you can store for up to two years in your pantry and helpful tips on how to rotate your supplies so you’ll never have to worry about wasting food.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles: So I can’t wait to dig into this pantry meals cookbook!
4. It’s in the Bag
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Gathering food storage can be overwhelming! It’s in the Bag: A New, Easy, Affordable, and Doable Approach to Food Storage will teach you a fast, convenient, delicious, and inexpensive method for “baby stepping” your way to family food security.
Even if you already have a year’s supply stored away, you’ll learn how to save space and time by organizing your food storage using this convenient new bag system.
With over 100 recipes for breakfasts and dinners, you’re sure to find something even your pickiest eaters will enjoy. When you’re finished, you’ll be able to simply grab a bag, follow the recipe, and enjoy a delicious meal your family will love!
Booked & Bewitched Babbles: So I love this pantry meals cookbook. Not only is it full of amazing easy-to-make recipes, but it also covers a range of other things such as canning and food storage.
5. Meals in a Jar
A unique spin on the popular canning trend, this cookbook shows how to make scrumptious homemade meals that are jarred and saved for future use. These shelf-stable, just-add-water recipes are perfect for camping trips, busy evenings, or even disaster events. Stock your pantry with homemade meals that offer you quick and easy, everyday dinners as well as a delicious, long-lasting supply of emergency goods.
Pull it off the shelf. Mix with water. Cook. Serve. It’s as quick and easy as preparing a box of mac and cheese–but it’s not store-bought junk, it’s your favorite dishes made from scratch. With Meals in a Jar and a little planning, you’ll have your pantry stocked with healthy, delicious ready-to-cook meals, like:
Booked & Bewitched Babbles: So this cookbook brings homemade meals, everyday meals, easy to make ideas! Perfect for busy moms and dads with minimal cooking time!
6. Seriously Good Freezer Meals
In Seriously Good Freezer Meals, Karrie shares 150 recipe photos that will change the way you think about freezer cooking. You won’t find your mother or grandmother’s freezer meals here (except lasagna, of course). Her recipes include Morning Energy Bars, Empanada Hand Pies, Coconut Cashew Basil Curry Soup, Smoky Grilled Louisiana Turkey Legs, and Layered Chocolate Mousse Cake with tons of vegetarian, gluten-free, and vegan options, too. Plus, she adds a bulk-batch chart for ease in making large quantities of each freezer-meal recipe.
Karrie gives you all the tools you need to become a freezer-meal genius: information on shopping, cooking, freezing, thawing, and everything in between. The book includes beginner, intermediate and advanced meal plan programs to guide you in cooking 7 to 50 meals in a day. You read that right: 50 meals in a day.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles: So I have set a goal that once the holidays are over, I will fill my freezers with freezer meals. And this cookbook promises to help me do just that!
7. FlavCity’s 5 Ingredient Meals
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Cooking doesn’t have to be complicated. Food Network champion Bobby Parrish shares the ins and outs of their 5-ingredient meals and assures us his quick and easy dinner recipes are doable for all.
By keeping the recipes to five ingredients, Bobby demonstrates just how easy cooking can be. From savory snacks to easy weeknight dinners packed with flavor, this easy (and healthy!) recipe book is just what your kitchen needs.
Booked & Bewitched Babbles: So, some days I just don’t have it in me to make a huge complicated meal. Enter this wonderful five-ingredient cookbook!
8. A Year Without the Grocery Store
by Karen Morris
While everything around us is in disarray and filled with confusion, you can take control of this area of your life and know that your family will have plenty of food, no matter what your circumstances. More importantly, if you’re consistent, you can accomplish this in fifteen minutes a day or less!
Booked & Bewitched Babbles: So for those of us looking to make more, and purchase less this cookbook is a must-have!
9. Feed Your Family for $50 a Week! Complete Guide to Budget-Friendly Meal and Menu Planning and Preparation
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Are you Looking for Ways to Trim your Food Budget?
Have you found yourself in a situation where there’s too much month and not enough money?
Are you tired of running out of food (or food money) before the next paycheck appears? If you’ve ever experienced that sickening feeling in the pit of your gut when you’re worried if you can provide a healthy meal for your children, then this book is for you.
In this Feed Your Family for $50 a Week! book, you will learn sensible, realistic tactics for planning and executing a menu, and grocery list, and tips for making that stretch as far as it can.
Booked and Bewitched Babbles- So we’ve all been there. Money is tight, and every penny has to work double. This fabulous budget-friendly cookbook helps you do just that!
5 Wonderful YouTube Suggestions
1. See Mindy Mom
I’m Mindy, welcome to my channel! Here I try to encourage, inspire, and entertain by giving you a glimpse into this busy season of family life. My mission on SeeMindyMom is to be kind and helpful; my platform is a place where families can find genuine encouragement, practical strategies, and realistic inspiration. We aren’t perfect by any stretch of the imagination, but we try to lead a joyful life full of generosity, kindness, and love. Come along for the ride!
2. Feeding The Byrds
We are the Byrds and we spend a lot of time in the kitchen. We hope this channel inspired and encourages you in your life and your kitchen.
3. Julia Pacheco
Welcome! I’m Julia, a wife, and mother to two lovely daughters who LOVES cooking for my family! On my channel, you’ll find delicious and easy family-friendly recipes + tips for creating a simple home cooking menu. You only need basic kitchen items to cook with me! I post new videos weekly!
4. She’s In Her Apron
Hello friend, I’m so glad you’re here with me in my kitchen. I’m sharing how to shop your Shelves and build a rotating pantry. Any size of food storage is important right now. We all want to have food in our pantries so I’m sharing tips, shortcuts, make-ahead meals & how to use those long-term products from your food storage to put a yummy meal on the table. Grab your apron, and let’s get in the kitchen together. Apron’s on let’s go!
5. Frugal Fit Mom
My name is Christine – I am a mother to 4 amazing kids, I love to ride my bike, and eat cookies. Join me for frugal living tips, saving money ideas, and random shenanigans, and I am only here for the food.
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