Recipes and Tips for Healthy, Thrifty Meals (pdf) is n ebook cre­ated by the US Depart­ment of Agriculture’s Cen­tre for Nutri­tion Pol­icy and Pro­mo­tion. It con­tains a wealth of infor­ma­tion includ­ing: best buys for cost and nutri­tion; some nice, sim­ple recipes; and food lists for two weeks worth of meals.

If you don’t have all the nec­es­sary ingre­di­ents, head over to The Cook’s The­saurus to see if some­thing else you have would make a suit­able replacement.

If you have ingre­di­ents but no clue what they can pro­duce, Cook­ing by Num­bers allows you to input what you do have, and will tell you what you can make from it, and how.

Once you know what you’re mak­ing, this sim­ple list of Cook­ing Con­ver­sions will come in handy trans­lat­ing those pesky Amer­i­can mea­sure­ments into British units, or vice-versa.

Also use­ful is the Ency­clopae­dia of Spices, Ingre­di­ents Guide, and these Cook­ing Tips.

Cook for Good is a site that pro­vides recipes and menus for healthy, thrifty meals that “use less energy and cre­ate less waste”. The Hill­billy House­wife is sup­posed to be a good resource too, but I haven’t had the time to have a browse.