Elise Cooke has been an unabashed tightwad and gardener most of her adult life. Her first book, Strategic Eating, The Econovore's Essential Guide, shares valuable tips and techniques that explain how she's able to feed her family of five for about $300 a month. Her second book, The Grocery Garden, How Busy People Can Grow Cheap Food won the 2009 National Best Book Award in Green Living. Her next book, The Miserly Mind, 12 Secrets of the Freakishly Frugal, will be out soon. Visit her website and subscribe to her free newsletter!