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The $120 Food Challenge Win a Cookbook

Following the huge popularity of the website of the same name, The $120 Food Challenge is the first cookbook by Sandra Reynolds. Packed full of tried-and-tested budgeting tips, menu planning, advice to keep your shopping manageable and stress-free and old-fashioned kitchen wisdom, this book has more than 100 family friendly and mouth-watering recipes. It is the perfect cookbook for single and low income families, students, children just leaving home, housewarming gifts and baby shower presents and for anyone who wants flair and variety in their food for a lot less money.

Sandra is never one to back away from a challenge, she took on this project as the latest episode in a long culinary life. It started as it so often does, at her mother’s side making jam tarts and playing with the pastry offcuts. By the time she was a young teenager, she was cooking dinners for the family and her Mum had the good sense to leave her to it.

In February 2010, Sandra quit her job. She did so with $15 in her purse and no new job lined up. She cleared her desk, took down the photos of her kids, packed up her coffee cup, a box of earl grey tea and some two minute noodles out of a drawer and cleared the computer cache of a bunch of recipes she had drafted.

Yes, recipes.

Sandra is a foodie from way back. She cooks so well, people have moved to the other side of the world to live with her so they can eat her food! (True Story)

Sandra says “I had $15 in my purse and an empty pantry and fridge. My last pay was banked a few days after I left work and my immediate needs were to pay the rent. So, with a heavy heart, and still no job lined up, I went to Centrelink, as mendacious and Kafkaesque as any bureaucracy in the world, and signed up for Newstart Allowance.

It became quickly apparent that the allowance was barely enough to cover my rent and utilities. It left me with just $120 per fortnight with which to feed my family.”

And with that, this project was born. The Challenge began with one purpose – to feed Sandra’s family – an 18 year old boy and a 17 year old girl – 14 meals for $120. Sandra refuse to resort to frozen meals, highly processed foods or calorie-dense, nutritionally poor meals. She doesn’t do margarine.

The $120 Food Challenge consists of seven main meals. Breakfast and lunch. Some snacks for lunch boxes. The occasional sweet treat. No margarine and no bad food.

To Win one of Sandra's Cookbooks "The $120 Food Challenge" Click Here

To find out more about The Challenge visit Sandra’s Website HERE

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