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We review this bible of thrift By Fiona Beckett, with Signe Johansen, Guy Million and James Ramsden Even after close inspection we cannot confirm whether the small oval items on the cover are eggs or lone baked beans. The red background indicates the latter, and this, combined with their nod towards the ‘young people, put down your beans and let’s make an omelette’ school of cookery, put us right off. Our aversion may or may not be thinly veiled bitterness at people with so much ahead of them, they are only just managing to progress beyond baked beans. But anyway, beyond the maybe-beans, this book is brilliant. For less than a tenner, you get three years’ worth of meals, plus genuinely useful tips, tricks and ideas to wow your peoples with. It seamlessly combines the stuff we might not want to admit we need help with (cooking pasta, barbecuing, making mash) with stunning recipes and plenty of gawp-worthy pics. There are easy lunches in the shapes of wraps, subs and jacket potatoes; full-on, full-house dishes like spring onion and sweetcorn chowder, black bean chilli, and sausage and butterbean casserole; plus a whole chapter dedicated to ‘flashy show-off recipes’ – spring vegetable and goats cheese risotto, slow roast lamb, and Irish soda bread. Last come the cocktails, puds and all the baked goods you could bear to rustle up in a grizzly shared oven. Best of all, every recipe comes with a price guide (£ - ££££), and the opening section (after a foreword by Heston B, which seems to imply that if you use this book you might be equipped to take over the Fat Duck) has tips on what to buy where, store cupboard essentials, and what you need to build a basic kitchen kit. This is a fantastic cookbook-come-compendium whether you’re a student or wish you still were – we’re packing our student siblings off with the rubbish ones and keeping this for ourselves. - http://www.thriftygobbler.com/54/

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