This cookbook is so useful! I really enjoyed reading through it and seeing the different recipes included by the author, Kevin Tatar. This cookbook is especially helpful for those looking to make cheap meals with minimal and healthy ingredients. These recipes are simple to make and all look and sound delicious. I love budget friendly cookbooks/recipes, and I am a big fan of this one. These recipes will definitely save me a lot of money when I am making meals for myself and my family.

Thank you to NetGalley for an ARC of this book in exchange for an honest review.

This book is a perfect gift for college students who are about to go back to school. It is targeted towards people who need to stick to a budget and are learning how to cook. However, experienced cooks can also read it. The recipes are diverse in flavor and are relatively healthy.

Like most cookbooks, it also lists equipment and ingredients that might be necessary for the recipes. For new cooks, this is a good start, especially if they are not familiar with going to the grocery store. And the “basic techniques and terminology sections” is appropriate for the audience.

It also has my favorite thing in cookbooks: a PICTURE FOR EVERY RECIPE

I highly recommend this book!

Thank you to Netgalley for an ARC in exchange for the honest review.

A great guide for budget friendly meals. The book is full of recipes that are well set out and easy to follow. I would recommend this highly

Yummy, quick and easy meals. I loved cooking some of these recipes, they were delicious and overall just a wonder book!

This recipe book has so many interesting and budget friendly recipes that I look forward to making for a long time. We loved looking through and picking different recipes out to try.

Tasty, healthy, and cheap are pretty much the three most important words for me when it comes to food so this is the perfect cookbook! It's set up really well, with a great layout and photos and easy to follow recipes. This is a great guide for anyone who is on a budget but still wants to make healthy and delicious meals! I'll definitely be purchasing a physical copy for myself, and this would also make a great gift!

Thank you to the publisher and NetGalley for the review copy!

What more could you ask for in the kitchen?! Healthy, affordable and delicious meals! This is what dreams are made of for me. I loved these easy to make and deliciously satisfying recipes. I like plenty of pictures in my cookbooks and this one did not disappoint!

If you're living on a budget, it's always a good idea to have affordable eating options. However, relying solely on the internet might not be the best choice, as it often offers a lot of fried and unhealthy food. Therefore, having alternative choices is consistently valuable. The available options here are fantastic, particularly for individuals who live alone and have demanding work hours.

This cookbook seems great for beginners like myself and I cannot wait to cook some of the recipes. Not to mention great for being on a budget. I loveddd the photos as well!

I loved this. It has helped me meal plan for my family without breaking the bank and without picky eater complaints. So fun!

I accessed a digital review copy of this book from the publisher.
This book has easy-to-understand recipes with plenty of pictures. The portion sizes are smaller, which is not always the case. While I would suggest some familiarity with cooking, the recipes can be done by a beginner.

With over 55 different recipes I was hoping for more from this Tasty Healthy Cheap cookery book, but it missed the spot for me.

After the introduction to the author, there are eight chapters in this cookery book which include:

- Basics
- Breakfast (11)
- On the go (10)
- Classics (8)
- Dinner (7)
- Pasta & Bowl food (8)
- Party Essentials (7)
- Sweet Treats (8)

Each recipe comes with an introduction, ingredients list, serving yield, instructions in blocks, and a colour photograph. Both imperial and metric measurements are used in the recipes

When the author talks about it being cheap food, he seems to compare it to what he would pay when he was eating out, or in one comment the instructions suggest you can purchase hard-boiled eggs from the store - I feel perhaps a little mislead by the title; it's cheaper to cook at home than eat out or buy it ready-made, it always is! Also, I think what's missing from the book is cost (plus there are lots of ingredients for each recipe making it more expensive) and why it's healthy - there are no nutrients included.

Overall it's an interesting cookery book, but not something I would want to add to my shelves - its more aimed at the younger generation cooking for themselves or a partner rather than family cookery.

I received this book from Netgalley in return for an honest review.

This book delivers on its title - delicious, cheap and healthy recipes that don't require ridiculous ingredients and utilize pantry staples. Attractive layout and easy to follow directions ensure appeal. My patrons could use and enjoy the recipes in this book. Well done!

This well-done recipe book had eye appeal as well as taste appeal. Kevin introduced recipes with anecdotes of creating the recipes as a college student and young adult. But the recipes themselves transcend college “cheap eats.” In addition to basics, he includes tempting versions of stir-fry, risotto, and the shareable My Special Shakshuka. I highly recommend this enjoyable and useful entree!

Fantastic cookbook!! There is zero I can say bad about this book. And that is extremely unusual!

Pictures with every recipe.
Easy, affordable ingredients.
Well written instructions.
Easily accessible ingredients.
Unique recipes for healthy eating.

If you like your titles to match your books, this one is for you! Tasty, Healthy, Cheap - it's all there. Straight forward, clear recipes that cut through all the mystery surrounding wholesome, tasty meals. This one has nice, easy to follow recipes for beginners and a couple change-up ideas for those who have more experience. I would definitely recommend this to anyone looking for a down to earth approach to eating well!

Thank you to NetGalley and the publisher for the advance review copy, all opinions are my own and freely given.

Yes, there's the shakshuka. I was worried for all of five minutes that this recipe book would break the inherent law in such things and leave it out. But the reasoning here is that this is for those getting to know their way round the local stores and the kitchen, and so can rustle up a decent plate of food with reasonable benefits to one's health and one's budget. And before people think I dislike shakshuka, which I certainly don't, it is funny how it is so dominant in cookbooks these days. I bet if I opened up "101 Spring Rolls" next it will have a shakshuka-flavoured one.

And there's the SECOND shakshuka recipe, in the same chapter no less. This is great news for me, as I have "101 Ice Creams" to read and I was actually not sure about that, so it's all averaged out. No, I jest, of course – but this shows that you can oomph up a book staple with just a few tweaks. This is the real philosophy here, that mistakes are soon forgotten, that more things go with other things than you might think, and that any half-decent kitchen cupboard or skill set will contain enough to a hundred per cent cater for the week.

I didn't know this was from some youtuber until I opened it, but that made little difference to me. I wanted to see if this was a decent cookbook, and if it could teach me anything eye-opening. And it very much is decent – no food porn of people hugging condemned chickens in the prologue, no fifty pages of pretending to be the world's best nutritionist, no waffle about finding the recipes halfway through a personal 'journey', just giving what we need instead. Yes, every dish has a preamble in the text, but the directions are easy to understand, the ingredients are clear – and perhaps if space demands overlaying the full-page photo each plate gets.

We even skip from hand-held snacks to salads without the usual spread of empty space and contents page, in what I saw, meaning we are cutting fat right at the beginning. We then go into the college communal kitchen, showing how much this is concerned with the quick and easy standby. Here are the typical ramen noodles pimped to look like a proper bowl of the stuff. Here are noodles served on a slate, apparently. Here – finally – is something you bake, so much of this being stove-top and convenient.

So did I snaffle a lot of this for future reference? Well, no, but I can see the benefits on every page of keeping this by one. I did take a certain unusual family recipe, bearing in mind the author's Romanian heritage, for future trial. And that was very late in the day. But I did that knowing there was little to quibble with elsewhere – this was clear, crisp, concise, and not done with the intention of upselling one's kitchen gear or having to find really oddball ingredients.

This is for the young or novice chef mindful of the flavour per cost ratio, and with a head only for the easier process. And it's a brilliant example of same, for it will lose nobody with its demands, and have people bopping round their kitchen in no time. In being a little too safe with the amount of standards it includes it might not be a perfect five star book, but there is little to fault.

A great cookbook for beginners that's easy to follow and with recipes that won't break the bank.

The book starts with some the foundations of cook and how to. The more experienced cook can easily skip this section.

The recipes are easy to follow but more importantly are tasty and won't break the bank with expensive, hard to find ingredients.

Tasty. Healthy. Cheap. Budget Friendly Recipes with Exciting Flavors by Kevin Tatar. Quarto Publishing Group Inc., 2023.
Thank you Quarto Publishing Group Inc. for providing an e-book copy through NetGalley.

Rating: 1-5 (5 being a starred review) 5
Genre: Cookbook

What I Liked: This beginner-friendly cookbook is a must-have if you are a new adult or a struggling twenty-year-old who wants healthy meals that also taste great, as the combination is hard to make yourself. Thankfully, Kevin Tatar, or Kwook as he is known on the internet, has got you covered. Just like his meals, his cookbook is simple, with a basic description that gives you the background of the dish, different styles and options, and leeway if your situation isn’t exactly like it appears in the cookbook. This is helpful as sometimes cookbooks have either expensive, time-consuming, or just impossible standards if your kitchen isn’t up to par. Perfection is not necessarily the key here, and Tatar doesn’t expect you to make the dish perfectly either, as “perfect dishes” which is a nice refresher and makes cooking from the book less stressful, as you don’t have to worry about messing up.. Ingredients are, as advertised, healthy, green, light in fat and sugar, and salt can be regulated easily. This cookbook is not vegetarian or gluten free, but does take much inspiration from cuisines around the world (for example, Mediterranean, as Tatar admits he is a huge fan of Greek yogurt in everything). With simple instructions, easy ingredients, small prep, and hearty pictures, this cookbook will help you set your diet on a healthier track and won’t deplete your wallet every time you try a meal.

Bias: I had watched Kwook on YouTube before and had already tried some of his meals there. But I loved what he made so much that I grabbed the cookbook on NetGalley and started making some of his bigger entries. I have made about ⅓ of the dishes in the cookbook so far, and honestly, I’m just really impressed by 1) how easy the meals are to make 2) how good I feel when I eat them 3) how little it costs me to buy ingredients. Thank you Tatar - You have saved a struggling late twenty-year-old from eating out all the time!

What I Didn’t Like: Nothing!

Who Would I Recommend This To: College students & 20-30 year olds who want cheap but healthy food that is not a hassle to make.

Review Date: April 17, 2023
Posted to Goodreads: May 3, 2023

I enjoyed exploring this cookbook so much! I am somebody who likes to cook but I am still not skilled enough to go for really difficult recipes with unusual ingredients. So the recipes from Tasty. Healthy. Cheap. were just want I am comfortable with and want to master before moving on to more advanced dishes. All the recipes have some interesting twist to them, yet still seem easy enough to try.

Every recipe was clearly explained with brief introductions that sell the food so well! I wanted to try them all at once. I liked the selection too, from breakfast food to pasta and many more.

Overall, a welcoming and easy to enjoy cookbook for everybody!