Deals On Meals: Big Gains For Websites Offering Low Cost Recipes

Los Angeles Times:

Here's an upside to soaring food prices: big gains for certain websites.

At www.allrecipes.com, traffic to low-budget and quick-and-easy recipes has nearly doubled over the last three months. Www.thriftyfun.com recorded more than 4 million page views in March, almost twice the number than in the same month last year. And www.hillbillyhousewife.com, not known for recipes involving truffle oil or sauteed chanterelles, has more visitors too.

People who get a kick out of saving are eager for ideas.

"We've had more tips than at any other time in our site's history," said Jessica Stewartmaize, editor at ThiftyFun, which began in 1997 as a weekly e-mail newsletter called the Coupon Clipper and evolved into a website two years later.

It's quite a departure from the old days -- a couple of years ago -- when it was "an embarrassment" to talk about being a penny pincher, said Pamela Munro, an actor and ThriftyFun blogger who lives in Hollywood. "You were supposed to spend money, not talk about how to save it."

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Comments

[Paul]

You can do a lot to reduce your grocery bills by avoiding prepared foods.

Forget about buying that $5 box of Frosted Sugar Bombs for your kid's breakfast and get something healthy - it will probably cost much less. You can make soup for less than Campbells is selling it for.

Who knows, if child care and food costs go high enough, it may pay for one parent to stay home and do actual cooking and housework.

Might be better for family values...

[thepoliticalcat]

Actually, because of the enormous rise in the cost of basics between the 1970s and today -- food, housing, health care, and education -- couples who plan to have children must be dual-income. A single income can no longer support the cost of a single child in most urban areas, which is where jobs are. An excellent presentation on this topic is available from UC Berkeley's Jefferson Memorial lectures, available on YouTube.