I love cooking.

After many years of being a picky eater, I've recently discovered that I am more likely to enjoy food if I make it myself. My fiancé was the first to introduce some unlikely foods into my life. Gooey fried eggs on toast, yellow Thai curry, and Vietnamese pho were some of my first introductions to foods-I-thought-I-hated but hadn't given a chance at all. My most significant food breakthrough was discovering budgetbytes.com. The food photos and glowing reviews drew me into recipes I never would have touched mere years before.
(See BudgetBytes' smoky white bean shakshuka, a dish originating from the Middle East and North Africa, pictured above 🤤 )

BudgetBytes offers delicious recipes for the money conscious, but don't be fooled; every recipe I've had the pleasure of cooking has been a banger!