When the News Feels Frightening this is a little reminder to breathe
There seems to be a lot of frightening news at [...]
The Frugal Things that You Can’t put in a Shopping Basket
There is a strange contradiction at the heart of modern [...]
The Social Cost of a Frugal Life: Finding Out Who Your Real Friends Are
One of the unexpected things about becoming more frugal is [...]
Not perfection, but consistency
I don't want to live like a pauper. This blog [...]
16 Meals from One Tin of Beans
I make my own baked beans sometimes, but always have [...]
Switching up a tin of cheap rice pudding
This is the third in a series of blogs about [...]
Don’t panic about food prices.
I have people saying to me that they are scared [...]
Meals from a tin of tuna
I always make sure that I have some tins of [...]
Briquettes for free fuel
We have a wood burning stove. I have been meaning [...]
Radish pods.
Radish pods are a very under rated vegetable, and I [...]
Food from a tin of peaches
Every ingredient is precious to me and I often stretch [...]
Simple bread sticks
I was having family over for a meal the other [...]
Black currant tarts
As a child, I used to gaze through the window [...]
Making the most of the sun.
I like to make the most of the free resources [...]
Vegetable fritters
We often make vegetable fritters at this time of year [...]