Serving Size: 3/4 cup
Yield: 6 servings

Ingredients:1/2 cup tomato juice, low sodium (low sodium V8)
1/4 teaspoon black pepper
1 medium onion
1 medium tomato

Serving Size: 1/5 of recipe
Yield: 5 servings

Ingredients:
8 ounces fettuccine noodles
1 cup broccoli, fresh or frozen
1 pound chicken breast, boneless

Serving Size: 1 1/2 cup
Yield: 8 servings
Time: 30

Ingredients:
1/2 pound ground beef
1/2 cup chopped onion
1 can (15 ounce) tomato sauce

Do you love fresh delicious meals but don’t think you have the time to make them? Do you want to expand your vegetarian cooking while saving money? Then Fresh Food Fastis for you. If you haven’t eaten out of this cookbook you are in for a treat.

I first saw this cookbook on the old high school music stand that my friend Tina puts by the stove when she cooks. I must have eaten half a dozen fast, easy and cheap recipes out of it before I finally picked it up. …

Steve Bolden stood in the aisle of Wally’s Supermarket in Marysville holding a print out showing the items at the grocery store on sale.
Bolden, with two boxes of Spartan brand cereal in his cart alongside packages of ramen noodles, said when he shops, “I’m looking for the deals” — and skipping local eateries.
“Eating out is not in the budget plan anymore,” the 31-year-old Marysville resident said.
Bolden isn’t alone.
Grocery store sales across the country increased 6.1% in the first 10 months of this year, compared with the same period in 2007, …