Reducing household spending.
Everything is going up, except our incomes. Most people are [...]
Being embarrassed about money
There’s something people don’t talk about enough when it comes [...]
Home made chicken strips
One of our favourite meals is chicken strips in a [...]
Frugal Main Meals
I have been asked to share some frugal meals that [...]
Spread the risk
For months now I have been telling people to slowly [...]
Successional planting.
A lot of people have asked me how I produce [...]
Entertaining yourself for free.
Frugal fun isn’t about deprivation, or as boring as some [...]
Why we break our diets and overspend
We tell ourselves that this month will be different. We [...]
Cookie tray bake
I made this for the first time this week and [...]
Make this the first year.
The price of food continues to go up. The television [...]
Rhubarb recipes
Rhubarb is a perenial and grows every year. It is [...]
Simple living isn’t a place to move to
For a long time, I thought simple living meant leaving. [...]
What if less is already enough?
Much of modern life is organised around the assumption that [...]
A resilient kitchen
To provide myself with food at low cost, I tend [...]
When Every Day Service Disappeared
I have been thinking back to my childhood in the [...]