Mimi Harrison
Mimi Harrison is the recipe developer and cookbook author behind Beat the Budget, sharing affordable meals, practical meal prep and recipes that make a weekly shop go further.
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Beat the Budget
Beat the BudgetOverview
- Known as
- Beat the Budget
- Started
- 2018, while at university
- Work
- Recipe developer, food creator and cookbook author
- Book milestone
- Beat the Budget became a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller
Mini bio
How it started.
Mimi started Beat the Budget in 2018 while at university. Faced with a £20 weekly food budget, she began planning meals around ingredients she could spread across several dishes. She shared the results for other students and people cooking on a budget.
Finding her audience.
Her publisher credits Beat the Budget’s growth to simple recipes and viral meal prep ideas, with recipes featured by ASDA, Sainsbury’s Magazine and the Daily Mail. By 2023, she had turned that approach into her debut cookbook, Beat the Budget, which became a Sunday Times top 10 bestseller.
From the feed to your kitchen.
Her cookbook pairs meals costed at £1.25 a portion with meal plans, shopping lists and tips for using slow cookers and air fryers. On her website, series such as Salads That Last focus on lunches that can be prepared ahead, while her noodle and pasta recipes stretch a small shop into several portions.
Creditschronological, newest first
Online recipes
- 2026Salads That LastRecipe creator
- 2026Chicken Hoisin NoodlesRecipe developer
Quotes
Never shop hungry and without a plan.Mimi Harrison, The Happy Foodie
In her May 2023 cookbook interview, Mimi shared her advice for avoiding impulse purchases.
Trivia
- Beat the Budget was originally called Mimi Makes and covered budget travel as well as food.
- She lived in Washington, DC, between the ages of two and seven.
- She calls her system of freezing individual meal portions a “freezer-cycle”.
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