
- Publisher: Da Capo Lifelong Books
- Available in: paperback, Kindle
- ISBN: 978-0738214689
- Published: May 31, 2011
Wildly Affordable Organic: Eat Fabulous Food, Get Healthy, and Save the Planet—All on $5 a Day or Less
If you’ve wanted to eat like it matters but felt you couldn’t afford it, Wildly Affordable Organic is the cookbook for you. It’s easy to think that “organic” is a code word for “expensive,” but it doesn’t have to be if you do it the Cook for Good way!
Learn the incredible secret of how you can eat well every day—from blueberry pancakes for breakfast to peach cobbler for dessert – averaging less than two dollars a meal. It’s a cookbook and more, with ingenious cooking plans, shopping lists, and month-long menus for every season.
Find out how to eat organic food even on a food-stamp budget. If you can’t find organic food or need to save even more, choose wholesome conventional food. The menus and shopping lists track prices for green and thrifty meals.
Get ready for wild savings!
You’ll discover how to:
- Ease your family into a greener lifestyle with the 20-minute starter plan
- Go organic on just $5 a day—or go thrifty and spend even less
- Take advantage of your freezer and freeze your costs
- Find the best deals at your local farmers’ market or grocery store
- Cook easy, scrumptious, seasonal dishes from scratch
Packed with tips for streamlining meals, from shopping and cooking to washing dishes, this book shows how sustainable living is within everyone’s reach.
Slow global warming with delicious dinners? Lose weight, save money, and save the polar bears at the same time? When you live the Wildly Affordable Organic way, it is possible! Join the movement to change the way you eat and keep the change.
Readers Love Wildly Affordable Organic
WAO is a regular on Amazon’s list of top 10 organic cookbooks. I spotted it there for 29 months before I quit checking regularly. As I write this, five years after publication, it’s number 4. It frequently makes Amazon’s list of top 10 budget cookbooks too.
Readers say:
I would have given ANYTHING to have had your book in my kitchen when I was raising 2 kids on crappy pay and spurious child support. — Leslie H.
Read the entire thing cover-to-cover in one sitting, very inspiring. I already do many of the things in the book habitually (make my own granola, bread, and yogurt, cook every day, pack lunches…) but she’s got a few tidbits even for crazy people like me. Great book, really loved it. I’m glad someone finally wrote this book! — Megan S.
I love this kind of cooking. Easy to follow menus and delicious. My family has loved everything I’ve made, especially the desserts! Highly recommend!! — Margie F.
Praise for Wildly Affordable Organic
Mark Bittman, New York Times:
A compelling set of instructions for how to shop and cook inexpensively enough to live on food stamps. Well thought out and presented.
John Mackey, CEO of Whole Foods Market:
This is the book I’ve been waiting for!
Sierra Club GreenHome Editors Gift Guide
There’s something about a real, tangible, pick-it-up-and-make-it-yours cookbook that lives on. Give a guide to good, green, wholesome food … with penny-saving ideas from Wildly Affordable Organic.
WOA made the Long List for the 2012 SIBA Book Awards, given by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance:
Inspiring, meticulously researched and tested, great recipes and improves everyone’s health, pocketbook, lifestyle, and is good for the environment!
For signed and personalized copies
Order WAO from Quail Ridge Books, my local bookstore. Check out their discounts for educators, seniors, and more.