Blogs We Love: Budget Bytes

Whoever says you can't eat well on a budget has clearly never run across our most recent entry for "Blogs We Love." Good food is much more about starting with whole, healthy, delicious ingredients than it is about price. At least that is the mantra of Beth M, author of Budget Bytes.

Beth is a NOLA native, a self-proclaimed foodie, and a bargain hunter who takes issue with the word "cheap." Her food is certainly inexpensive, but not lacking in quality as most foods assigned the adjective. As a fine-food lover and a broke, recent college-graduate, I have to give her credit - she can turn five bucks into a three course meal - and a fresh, healthy one at that. 

The recipes for cucumber riata (above, and $0.20 per serving), rosemary and pepper drop biscuits, and lemon raspberry granola prove that good food needn't be pricy, and in light of how much the average American spends on processed food, checking out the blog might not be the worst idea.