FAST · CHEAP · CONFIDENT  ·  RÁPIDO · BARATO · CON CONFIANZA
Fast, Cheap & Confident

Fast dinners. Cheap groceries. Confident cooking.

Grandma Myrtle and her star family cook real budget dinners from real books — and you can peek inside every book before you spend a penny.

Grandma Myrtle — illustrated portrait, floral apron, wooden spoon
Grandma MyrtleThe teacher. Voice of every video.
The dog — illustrated scruffy tan mutt with a burnt-orange bandana
The DogChief taste-tester (in his dreams).
The cat — illustrated plump orange tabby with green eyes
The CatSupervises. Purrs at the end of every episode.

Meet them properly on the Star Family page.

Free doors — start here, spend nothing

Eleven free plans and tools, one for every table. The free 7-Day Meal Plan is the front door; the audience plans tailor the same real recipes for diabetics (general information only), seniors, fitness, meatless tables, Daniel Fast–friendly tables, families and solo cooks — plus a Spanish edition.

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Why folks trust this kitchen

  • Peek before you pay — our Peek Inside the Book videos flip through the real pages first.
  • Plain prices, honest math — every bundle saving on this site is real arithmetic, and where there is no saving, the copy says so.
  • Real numbers, even small ones — we publish our actual counts, not rounded-up dreams.
  • No fake reviews, no fake scarcity, no income promises. Ever.

Read: Peek Inside the Book — why we show you the real pages first →

For organizations

Senior programs, gyms and employers: guided portals at $79/$89, site licenses at $499/site/year, and the Senior Nutrition Program Kit at $999/site/year.

Tell Grandma what to cook next

Our cookbooks grow from your wishes — they never sit still. Tell Grandma the dinner you wish was fast and cheap, and the most-wished recipes get cooked and folded into the next cookbook updates.