{"id":701,"date":"2026-08-20T22:37:12","date_gmt":"2026-08-20T22:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/burntbutter.ca\/?post_type=download&#038;p=701"},"modified":"2026-08-21T02:34:57","modified_gmt":"2026-08-21T02:34:57","slug":"the-broke-cooks-survival-manual","status":"publish","type":"download","link":"https:\/\/burntbutter.ca\/?download=the-broke-cooks-survival-manual","title":{"rendered":"The broke cook&#8217;s survival manual"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><strong>The Broke Cook&#8217;s Survival Manual<\/strong><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">You&#8217;re not a bad cook. You&#8217;re just broke, and nobody taught you how to cook like it.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Twenty-five years in professional kitchens taught me one thing restaurants never admit: the best food isn&#8217;t made with the most expensive ingredients \u2014 it&#8217;s made by people who know what they&#8217;re doing with whatever they&#8217;ve got. This guide is that knowledge, stripped down and handed straight to you.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">Inside, you&#8217;ll find how to stretch a single protein across three meals without anyone noticing, which &#8220;fancy&#8221; techniques are actually just free (browning, deglazing, using the whole damn vegetable), and how to build a pantry that survives a bad month without surviving on ramen. No recipes that need nine ingredients you&#8217;ll use once and throw out. No pretending a $40 grocery haul is &#8220;budget-friendly.&#8221;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">This is real kitchen knowledge for people counting their grocery money to the dollar \u2014 because I&#8217;ve been there too, and I got good at cooking specifically because I had to.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">$27. No fluff, no filler, just what actually works when your bank account is the real kitchen disaster.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The Broke Cook&#8217;s Survival Manual You&#8217;re not a bad cook. You&#8217;re just broke, and nobody taught you how to cook like it. Twenty-five years in professional kitchens taught me one thing restaurants never admit: the best food isn&#8217;t made with the most expensive ingredients \u2014 it&#8217;s made by people who know what they&#8217;re doing with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":702,"template":"","edd-categories":[],"edd-tags":[],"class_list":["post-701","download","type-download","status-publish","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","edd-download"],"blocksy_meta":{"styles_descriptor":{"styles":{"desktop":"","tablet":"","mobile":""},"google_fonts":[],"version":7}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/burntbutter.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/edd-downloads\/701","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/burntbutter.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/edd-downloads"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/burntbutter.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/download"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burntbutter.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/burntbutter.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/edd-downloads\/701\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":707,"href":"https:\/\/burntbutter.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/edd-downloads\/701\/revisions\/707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burntbutter.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/702"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/burntbutter.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=701"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"download_category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burntbutter.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fedd-categories&post=701"},{"taxonomy":"download_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/burntbutter.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fedd-tags&post=701"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}