How to Feed Your Whole Family a Healthy Balanced Diet

By: Gill Holcombe

Full Title (bless) How to Feed Your Whole Family a Healthy Balanced Diet, with Very Little Money and Hardly Any Time, Even If You Have a Tiny Kitchen, Only Three Saucepans ... - Unless You Count the Garlic Crusher

It's really rather good, full of good recipe ideas and practical ways to do what it says on the tin (or in the title!)

Wish I'd written it!

 Frugal Living for Dummies

By: Deborah Taylor-Hough

Back to basics, home economy. Maybe a bit American for UK readers though.

The dummies series of books are consistent in style, quality advice delivered in a readable and understandable way. This is no different. Packed with tried-and-true techniques for cutting costs and stopping the insanity, Frugal Living For Dummies is the ultimate financial survival guide for many of us but look for a second hand copy, so you start as you mean to go on.

 Precycle!

By: Paul Peacock

On the cover it says "Discover the simple pleasure of making things yourself and banish the need for recycling by not buying all those plastic containers, bottles, tins and cans from the supermarket"

Well, fair bit of hype in that! However, there's an awful ot in here that is of interest to those who want to take control of their life and be self-sufficient and to those who want to save money. Better written than some of his books - I think his heart was in this one.

 Choosing Simplicity: Real People Finding Peace and Fulfillment in a Complex World

By: Vicki Robin (Foreword), Linda Breen Pierce

Life is getting faster and more complex - well this is the antidote.

Personal stories from people who live a little more richly by spending less. Inspirational rather than a practical guide. Perhaps for the more spiritual side.

 The Penny Pinchers Book Revisted

By: John and Irma Mustoe

The sub-title really says it all "Living Better for Less".  It's simply a huge collection of tips and hints on how to save money by re-using, make do and mend.

Some of the ideas in here are better than others but it's a book you'll read through and go "Aha, that's a good idea" as well as laughing at a few. Some you will think are just basic common sense but one man's common sense is another man's revelation.

I would be amazed if you could read this book without finding ideas to save yourself money and it is really an enjoyable read. This quote sums up the style brilliantly: "Our food processor is over 20 years old, still wonderful, but the oft-replaced bowls are rubbish 'built-in obsolescence'. I was never afraid of flying until the booklet mentioned they were made of the same material as aircraft windows."