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From the author of the UK's best selling gardening books, Vegetable Growing Month by Month and The Essential Allotment Guide, Low Cost Living is about a lifestyle of practical self sufficiency.

Being frugal is not about being mean or settling for second best - it's about making the best use of your resources and getting the best from your life.

Live Better - Spend Less

When things are tough, we all need to save money and this book will help. Our simple, tried and tested methods will help you to enjoy a better standard of living while saving money and helping the environment.

This isn't a book for dreamers - it's real practical advice that you can use in an ordinary home just as we do.

The chapter list will give you a good idea of what's covered:

  • Low Cost Eating
  • Beating the Supermarkets at Their Own Game
  • Cooking Your Food
  • Food Waste
  • Storing Vegetables (how to store your harvest)
  • Storing & Preserving Food
  • Making Your Own Chutneys and Jams
  • Baking Your Own Bread
  • Making Your Own Butter, Cheese & Yoghurt
  • Making Your Own Wine, Beer & Cider
  • Food for Free
  • Grow Your Own
  • Keeping Chickens
  • Bees in the Back Garden
  • Pets (Save money and have a happier pet)
  • Cleaning
  • Energy (includes solar, wind and heat pumps)
  • Water (Save & Store where it makes sense)
  • Transport
  • Recycling
  • Skills
  • Money (Turn a hobby into a mini-business)
  • Index

Paperback - 224 pages published by Constable & Robinson

Low Cost Living

Low Cost Living - Live Better Spend Less

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Comment on Low Cost Living

I love the way this book shows how a less consumerist, more ecological lifestyle can also be more economical. I am also impressed by how it is helpful to those who are new to the concept as well as to those (like me) who are already converted.

It's very well organised and also indexed, so can be read cover to cover and just dipped into when you want information about something specific, and the basic guidance is nicely laced with interesting facts and background information.

The first half is all about food, (including recipes), and the second half covers the other aspects of our lives where savings can be made, and the environment treated a little more respectfully.

I am sure that anyone buying it will save the (minimal) cost of the book many times over by following the advice within it!

S Robb

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This fantastic book guides you through the simple way of living your life at a low cost! There is NO fancy, fluffy talk just straight forward information. Easy read, easy to use, just pick it up and away you go! If you havn't got this book you should get it!!

If you have not got this book, you should get it for your family!!!!

Mrs S Collett