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Depression era cooking videos from a 93 year old woman. Fun to watch and very frugal!

All Culinary Schools - Interested in going to culinary school? Use this free database of U.S. culinary schools to search for everything from culinary arts to restaurant management by location, degree type or specialty.

All Recipes - Great for searching

Benjamin Christie - Australian culinary consultant and chef from TV cooking show, Dining Downunder includes Australian native foods, recipes, ingredients, cookbooks, restaurants, menu development, bush tucker cooking.

Better Times Cookbook - "Cookbook and Almanac of Useful Information for Poor People"

Cooking Light - Healthy recipes

Cooking By Numbers - What's in your pantry? Enter a few ingredients and this site will give you a recipe.

CNPP - USDA Food Plans - This government run site has a booklet of frugal recipes plus budget guidelines for feeding your family.

The Cook's Thesaurus is a wonderful online reference guide for all kinds of things. For example, use it to look up different shapes of pastas when you run across some unfamiliar name in a new recipe. Not sure what some unfamiliar vegetable even looks like so you can find it in the produce bin? Try here.

Desperation Dinners aka The Kitchen Snoop- I love the book by the same namet The newsletter is fantastic. Quick and easy meals.

Ellen's Kitchen - Ya gotta love the name! Useful "big pot" (quantity) cooking, among other things.

Expendable Edibles Home - Fun site here with lots of ideas on using up those bits and pieces of things.

Friendly Freezer - Cooking for the freezer. There's a great discussion group focused on freezer cooking as well.

Hillbilly Housewife - Money saving "from scratch" recipes

Home Cooking - more than just recipes, lots of articles on cooking from About.com

Hot Sauce HQ: Everything you ever wanted to know about hot sauce--plus recipes!

InsaneChicken - Gourmet hot sauce, salsa, bbq rubs and BBQ sauce online from InsaneChicken.com, plus recipes using a variety of sauces

Ramen - More ramen recipes than you can imagine

Student Cooking in the UK - helpful articles and recipes for students trying to cook on a budget, share kitchen duties, and eat healthy.

Thirty Day Gourmet: Freezer Cooking Recipes and EBooks

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