Feed Your Family for Under a Fiver is the debut cookbook from TikTok sensation Mitch Lane, saving your family's mealtimes, and your budget! But having been convinced to join the platform by his step daughter, he's now the most famous chef you've never heard of with more than ten million views on his videos. And it all started with a simple chili con carne. Going by the username ' mealsbymitch', the nuts and bolts salesman from Wolverhampton still cannot believe how his profile has blown up and become so popular.

Feed Your Family for Under a Fiver: Over 80 Budget-Friendly

One day I was cooking up a chili and I thought: 'You know what, I’m going to record this and give people a bit of insight into how I make it'. The next thing you know it’s completely blown up.” Feed Your Family for Under a Fiver is the debut cookbook from TikTok sensation Mitch Lane, saving your family’s mealtimes, and your budget! Mitch Lane AKA @mealsbymitch is one of the UK's most-loved home cooks, providing quality budget recipes and helping families up and down the country to cope with the cost-of-living crisis. Committed to providing help to as many people as possible, Mitch's debut cookbook, Feed Your Family for Under a Fiver, includes 80 accessible, delicious, and nutritious recipes to feed the whole family, with no complex equipment or unusual ingredients necessary.

Mitch Lane is best known for @mealsbymitch, one of TikTok's most loved home cooks, providing quality budget recipes and helping families up and down the country to cope with the cost-of-living crisis. The book is described as an “authentic, inclusive and accessible budget cookbook committed to providing a crucial lifeline to every family in need of quality but cost-effective recipes in these unprecedented times, regardless of their experience, equipment or time constraints”. It was an intense, busy process in putting it altogether. I put all my recipes together, cooking them all and took photos of the meals once done.

Feed Your Family for Under a Fiver: Over 80 budget-friendly

First, a warning: do not watch Mitch’s videos if you’re hungry - or on a diet. Proceed with caution. You see videos where people need expensive ingredients and tools to make their videos look all good but I thought to just make videos of nice, wholesome food being cooked. Around the festive period, families tend to spend more than usual and feel the pinch of the cost of Christmas, but that along with the cost of living crisis, can really put people under pressure, but Mitch Lane wants to send the message out there that there is no set rule to what to cook on Christmas day, and people should instead cook to their taste and budget. Ever since he was young, Mitch had dreamed of being a chef, but after falling into a sales job at the age of 17, he thought those dreams were over. Despite having never worked with food in his life, Mitch has built a loyal audience of 650,000 followers who tune in every week to watch him rustle up some "absolute filth".

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I started off with basic, simple foods that anyone can follow. Everyone loves food, and I love cooking - it got crazy views straight away and a good reception and so I kept doing it.