The Prudent Chef: Over 300 Air Fryer Recipes for Hard Times

Food prices rise. Paychecks don't always keep up.The Prudent Chef: Over 300 Air Fryer Recipes for Hard Times is the companion volume to The Prudent Chef: Eat Well for Less, a practical cookbook built around affordable ingredients, shelf-stable staples, and foods available in almost any grocery store. These recipes show how to keep cooking well when budgets are tight and options are limited.Inside you'll find over 300 air fryer recipes, including:• Potatoes transformed into complete meals, breads, soups, chips, and casseroles• Beans, lentils, eggs, and other low-cost proteins that stretch a food budget further• Meat and fish recipes for when they're available, and alternatives when they're not• Flatbreads, tortillas, bagels, hardtack, and pantry staples made from scratch• Complete meals from five ingredients or fewer• Preservation recipes, dehydrated foods, and long-storage provisions• Desserts and comfort foods, because morale matters too• Emergency preparations for your dogs and catsThis is not a book about gourmet cooking. It is a book about resilience, about feeding a family when money is short, making good use of what is already in the pantry, and building skills that remain valuable whether times are easy or difficult.The air fryer is simply the tool.Keeping the people beside you fed is the mission. Read more