250+ cost-busting, simple, healthy recipes for great meals and more—which can be prepared in your slow cooker or your conventional oven.

Food is taking a bigger bite out of our budgets these days. We can’t fight that fact. But we can enjoy meals at the end of a day that stretch that budget while providing both savory tastes and top-notch nutrition. Best of all, the “secret ingredient” to most of these delectable dishes is in your house: It’s a slow cooker. If you don’t have one yet, don’t fret—your stove will also do.

In $3 Slow-Cooked Meals, Ellen Brown dishes up more than 250 simple, easy-to-follow, family-pleasing recipes—from thick and healthful bean dishes, myriad hearty soups, and luscious meat and poultry stews, to sinfully rich bread puddings. Main courses are priced so that the cost of a WHOLE meal— including side dishes and a dessert—costs less than $3 per peson! So dust off your slow cooker, open up $3 Slow-Cooked Meals, and get ready for some exotic aromas, followed by fabulous flavors!

Recipes include:

• Mushroom and Italian Sausage Frittata
• Cheddar Potato Chowder
• Southern Vegetable Stew with Cornmeal Dumplings
• Cajun Fish Gumbo
• Moroccan Sweet and Sour Chicken
• Spanish Pork with Garbanzo Beans
• Apple-Raisin Pudding Cake