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4 Ingredients on the iPhone

A quick addendum to my earlier post on thrifty cooking: yesterday I noticed that the “4 ingredients” book also has an iPhone App that you can buy for A$4.99. The advantage that the App has over the dead tree version is that you can search for recipes by scrolling through an alphabetical list of ingredients (and although it’s called “ingredients” the list also includes categories too, such as “Breakfast”). It’s also a funny co-incidence is that the App is “rated 4+” (as in the age classification, not the customer ratings). Buy now from

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A dash of this, a splash of that … thrifty cooking

MasterChef is finally over, and the Julie-rage is slowly subsiding. So what’s for dinner tonight? Coming up with tasty meals that are also easy on the hip pocket can be hard (who can afford to splash out on a bottle of Moet for cooking with like they were doing on MasterChef!?) I personally find it difficult to get inspiration from recipes books, because there’ll almost always be at least one ingredient that you don’t have. I used to live in an apartment that was right upstairs from a supermarket so I could just pop down and grab something, but who […]