Better Meals for Less Money

"Better Meals for Less Money" by Marietta McPherson Greenough is a cookbook from the early 1900s that teaches people how to deal with rising food prices by being smart about buying, cooking, and serving food to make healthy meals without spending too much. The book focuses on planning cheap meals and gives recipes that use affordable ingredients to make tasty dishes. Early in the book, Green discusses how food costs are going up and how cooks need to change how they cook and plan meals to stay within a budget. Green's introduction explains how the book is set up, with sections on different kinds of foods like soups, appetizers, and sweets, focusing on recipes that use little meat or cheap ingredients. The first parts also teach basic things like what foods are made of, how many calories people need, and tips for shopping and making meals, all to help readers spend less on food while still eating well.