title: Taste of Home: Dinner on a Dime: 403 Budget-Friendly Family Recipes
author: Taste Of Home
description: Launched in 1993, <B><I>Taste of Home</B></I> magazine has nearly 4 million paid subscribers-North America's most popular cooking magazine. There are more than 75 recipes in each issue and all are family favorites contributed by <B><I>Taste of Home</B></I> readers. <B><I>Taste of Home</B></I> is published six times a year and has three sister magazines, <B><I>Simple & Delicious, Cooking for 2</B></I> and <B><I>Taste of Home Healthy Cooking. </B></I> <BR><BR>
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  ## CONTENTS
  
  ### Introduction
  
  
  ### Breakfast and Brunch
  
  
  
  
  
  For the Love of Lunch
  
  
  Midweek Meals
  
  
  Friends Over
  
  
  Party Time
  
  
  Pudding
  
  
  Something Special
  
  
  Thanks
  
  
  Follow Penguin
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  ## INTRODUCTION
  
  
  
  
  
  As a first-generation Brit, born to Bangladeshi immigrant parents, I grew up
  in a household where family was not just your mother, father and siblings, but
  also the grandparents, uncles, aunts, cousins, first-, second-, third-,
  fourth-cousins and even the neighbours. Everyone was family. If you knew us –
  or knew our father – you were family. It was an open-door policy in our home.
  If my parents were cooking and the smell wafted out of the kitchen window,
  then you were welcome.
  
  
  For me growing up, the food I ate was the only food I knew of. Forget shopping
  lists, or menus, or special events – food for us was the excitement my dad
  felt when he walked through the door with a freshly bought tiger fish on his
  shoulder. It cost him a week’s wages but it reminded him of home. 