BUDGET BYTES

Many people assume that eating on a budget means compromising your standards; here Beth proves that isn’t the case. Whether you shop at seasonal organic farmers’ markets or at a megachain, eat vegan or paleo, live in the city or the suburbs, Beth’s recipes and principles will help you eat well and save money. BUDGET BYTES is the perfect book to help you break in your kitchen without breaking the bank.

In 2009 Beth Moncel found herself, like many recent college graduates, barely making ends meet. Living in a run-down apartment, being eaten alive by student loans, having to choose between buying toilet paper and filling her car's gas tank, Beth decided to cut down the only expenditure she could: food. By tracking her costs with obsessive precision, Beth learned which ingredients helped stretch her funds and which burned through them fastest. Armed with this knowledge, she started a blog: Budget Bytes.

Beth was in the right place (broke) at the right time (world economic disaster). Word of Budget Bytes spread like wildfire and before she knew it, Beth’s recipes were receiving over a million page views per month. Her inbox was flooded with emails from grateful fans who told her that the Budget Bytes blog had slashed their grocery bills in half. Loyal readers clamored for more recipes, and always, the question popped up: When will you write a cookbook?
Beth Moncel earned her B.A. in Nutritional Science and Dietetics from Louisiana State University in 2007, and went on to earn a second degree in Clinical Laboratory Science from LSU in 2011. She started Budget Bytes as a broke recent college grad, trying to track her food expenses, and soon taught herself to turn simple ingredients into big flavor on a tight budget. Her straightforward, delicious recipes, crisp, clean photographs, meticulous cost cutting, nutritional expertise, and friendly, quirky voice quickly garnered an enormous, devoted following. Budget Bytes has been featured in the Martha Stewart Everyday Food Magazine, The Huffington Post, Buzzfeed, BlogHer, LifeHacker, Jezebel, Glamour.com, Consumerist.com, TasteSpotting.com, FoodGawker.com, and countless more.