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Wildly Affordable Organic: Eat Fabulous Food, Get Healthy, and Save the Planet—All on $5 a Day or Less

If you’ve wanted to eat like it matters but felt you couldn’t afford it, Wildly Affordable Organic is for you. It’s easy to think that “organic” is a code word for “expensive,” but it doesn’t have to be if you do it the Cook for Good way!

Learn the incredible secret of how you can eat well every day—from blueberry pancakes for breakfast to peach cobbler for dessert – averaging less than two dollars a meal. It's a cookbook and more, with ingenious cooking plans, shopping lists, and month-long menus for every season.

Get ready for wild savings! You’ll discover how to:

  • Ease your family into a greener lifestyle with the 20-minute starter plan
  • Go organic on just $5 a day—or go thrifty and spend even less
  • Take advantage of your freezer and freeze your costs
  • Find the best deals at your local farmers’ market or grocery store
  • Cook easy, scrumptious, seasonal dishes from scratch

Packed with tips for streamlining meals, from shopping and cooking to washing dishes, this book shows how sustainable living is within everyone’s reach.

Slow global warming with delicious dinners? Lose weight, save money, and save the polar bears at the same time? When you live the Wildly Affordable Organic way, it is possible! Join the movement to change the way you eat and keep the change.

WOA is on the Long List for the 2012 SIBA Book Awards, given by the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance, to be given on July 4: "Inspiring, meticulously researched and tested, great recipes and improves everyone's health, pocketbook, lifestyle, and is good for the environment!"

Top Ten Cookbooks of 2011

 

A Top-10 Cookbook of 2011: "This is simply fascinating stuff."

 

Eight months & counting in the top 5 in Organic Cooking on Amazon.

"A compelling set of instructions for how to shop and cook inexpensively enough to live on food stamps. Well thought out and presented." — Mark Bittman, New York Times.
Wildly Affordable Organic cover the Cook for Good book by Linda Watson

Buy at your local bookstore or through Barnes & Noble, IndieBound (for your local independent bookseller), or Amazon. See below for bulk orders.

For signed or personalized copies, order WAO from Quail Ridge Books, my local bookstore. Free shipping on orders over $20!

"Read the entire thing cover-to-cover in one sitting, very inspiring."
"My husband said: "I'll save money and lose weight—what's not to like?"
"You will even do significantly fewer dishes—what cookbook has ever offered that?"

More media reviews.  More reader reviews.

  • For bulk orders of 20 copies or more, contact Nissa Bagelman at Perseus Books: nissa.bagelman <at> perseusbooks <dot> com or (617) 252-5251. Book clubs, community groups, and businesses are all welcomed to the bulk-order discount. Makes a great "green" gift for clients, useful donation to food banks, and gift for friends.
  • For signed or personalized copies, order WAO from Quail Ridge Books, my local bookstore. There is no extra charge for a signature or inscription. Get free shipping on orders over $20 (one copy of Wildly Affordable Organic for you and one for a friend!). Thanks for supporting a great independent bookstore!

Companion Video

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Bonus Material for WAO Readers

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