Beth Moncel

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Beth Moncel is a home cook turned recipe developer, food photographer, and cookbook author who created Budget Bytes in 2009 as a way to manage her own health and budget. Over the course of fifteen years, she shared her recipes, budget hacks, and food knowledge on Budgetbytes.com, social media, and in the book Budget Bytes: Over 100 Easy, Delicious Recipes to Slash Your Grocery Bill in Half, as a way to help other people learn these vital life skills and regain control over their health and finances. After a thrilling and fulfilling career as a food influencer, Beth retired to pursue a more private life and other passions.

Beth started her cooking journey as a child in the kitchen, where she watched her mother feed a family of seven on a very small budget. It’s there that she learned that cooking could be fun, creative, and didn’t have to feel like a chore. At an early age, she recognized that cooking was the perfect combination of her two favorite subjects: art and science.

As an adult, while earning degrees in both Nutritional Science and Clinical Laboratory Science, Beth once again turned to cooking as a creative outlet, a way to manage her health, and for survival as she attempted to pay back student loans. It was during this time that Budget Bytes was born. It started as a simple documentation of her journey, which quickly gained followers as many other Americans were experiencing the same struggles after the economic crash of 2008.

Helping other people learn how to prepare quality food that tasted good without breaking their budget quickly became Beth’s passion and purpose. She loved watching people discover the joys of cooking and gain agency over their lives through an increased skill set.

Over the course of her 15-year career with Budget Bytes, she developed approximately 1500 recipes, published one cookbook, and created a mobile recipe app. While she still loves all things food and cooking today, Beth is now enjoying a slower life with more friends and family and less social media.

• NPR’s Life Kit –
  To Save Money on Groceries, Try These Tips Before Going to the Store
• NPR’s Planet Money –
  The Origins of the Influencer Industry
• PBS News Hour –
  Are You A Smart Shopper?
• Eater.com –
  When Times are Tough, I Turn to Budget Bytes

• Heated from Medium.com –
  This Thrifty Blogger Dishes on Her Least Expensive Meal
• MarketWatch –
  This woman slashed her grocery bill using tricks she picked up working at Whole Foods
• Thekitchn.com –
  Budget Bytes Shares Her Week of Inexpensive Dinners
• Buzzfeed –
  Here’s What a Food Blogger Actually Eats in a Day