Knowing how to make simple, tasty meals from cupboard staples is a life saver. It saves on shopping as there are no expensive ingredients, and keeping it simple means no technical cooking methods. A few [...]

I made myself an omelette today. Before I added the eggs, I sauted some radish tops with garlic and onion leaves, and added a bit of spinach. There are so many second crops that we [...]

Everything is going up, except our incomes. Most people are having to tighten their belts. I find that reducing household spending works best when you target the few categories that usually consume most of a [...]

There’s something people don’t talk about enough when it comes to money, and that’s the embarrassment when you find it hard to make ends meet. I definitely felt it when I was younger. It is [...]

One of our favourite meals is chicken strips in a wrap with salad. These are some thing that we make regularly and these chicken strips make a great, healthy alternative to the McDonalds ones that [...]

I have been asked to share some frugal meals that we make. These are links to some of them, but there are many more on the website. These are old blogs and so prices of [...]

For months now I have been telling people to slowly stock up their pantry.  2 months ago I got called a conspiracy theorist, and a scaremonger.  Hopefully people are waking up now with what is [...]

A lot of people have asked me how I produce so much food in a small urban garden, mostly using containers. One of my tricks is to use successional planting. It sounds technical but it [...]