Great post highlighting an important topic @brianphobos! Have you ever seen Leanne Brown's book "Good and Cheap: Eat Well on $4/Day"? It focuses on nutrition and cost, without skimping on flavor! It's an awesome book and you can download it as a free PDF from her website: http://www.leannebrown.com/
Good and Cheap is a cookbook for people with very tight budgets, particularly those on SNAP/Food Stamp benefits. The PDF is free and has been downloaded more than 1,000,000 times.
After the PDF went viral online, I launched a Kickstarter project to fund a print run, using a "get one, give one" system (like TOMS Shoes) so that people who bought a book for themselves could give another copy to a family in need.
The campaign was tremendously successful — I asked for $10,000 to print a small batch, but I ended up with 5,636 supporters who raised $144,681! That made it the #1 cookbook ever on Kickstarter.
Generous backers have given over 70,000 printed copies of Good and Cheap to people in need. We've distributed the books through organizations across the US and Canada that work with low-income families, and have also sold more than 86,000 copies to those groups at huge discounts.
Wow! I haven't seen this book! This is so awesome! Thank you for sharing! If people would do this it could change the world!