I was contacted and asked if I knew a recipe that someone could make as a homemade sweet treat that didn't involve baking.  They are homeless and living in a bedsit.  All they have for [...]

Christmas is approaching and so we will be using sausage meat in stuffing, sausages rolls and maybe in a sausage plait.  It is often difficult to find good quality sausage meat at a reasonable price, [...]

I think that my expectations of Christmas have always been too high as an adult. Every year, I have built up to Christmas, but then it has been a bit of an anti climax.  This [...]

I sometimes write content for other frugal bloggers, and one was asking me to write some content for her about living a slow, frugal life.  She was kind of wanting a blue print of how [...]

So many people tell me that they can not cook from scratch because they do not have time, don't have enough money, or it is too much bother.  Here is a cheap, quick meal that [...]

I have decided that I need to be more like the plants and animals and not fight winter this year.  In the past I have always felt that winter made me lazy, and tried to [...]

Once upon a time there were no such things as supermarkets.  I remember visiting my first superstore in France in the early 1980s, and thinking how amazing it was. Unfortunately now we have lost most [...]

We had made a curry with all of our vegetables for the meal tonight, including some pureed pumpkin.  As it is the weekend, I decided to make the samosas as an accompaniment to make the [...]

I preserved a lot of pumpkin puree this week from pumpkins that I bought at cheap prices during Halloween.  I hate waste of any kind and so decided to make a snack with the seeds [...]

One of  my friends was giving away food as unfortunately her freezer had broken and everything was defrosting.  She gave us some white fish fillets.  They are the kind of ones that you find frozen [...]

I asked my Face book group what they do to keep their sitting rooms cosy whilst remaining frugal.  These are some of the things that they come up with. Have different cushion covers to the [...]

Mince pies are sweet treats that are traditionally served at Christmas. Some people make their own mince meat to fill them, but I don't at the moment.  The main reason is that I can buy [...]

My gran used to make this for me when I was a child and so I am going to used her basic recipe which is frugal.  I will then offer ideas of how to make [...]

Some one commented on another forum, asking me to share my home made, no churn, ice cream recipe. It doesn't cost much more than cheap icecream, but it is gorgeous.  Our guest, my children, and [...]

We all deserve to enjoy ourselves and being on a tight budget does not mean that we have to miss out on leisure and entertainment opportunities.  Being frugal does not mean the end of your [...]

These are an easy activity to make with a child and the saltiness of the pretzel sticks with the chocolate tastes lovely.  If I had some lolly sticks I would have made this into a [...]

It is estimated that globally over 900,000 tons of bread is thrown away each year.  Often people throw it away as soon as it goes slightly stale.  As long as there is no sign of [...]

Semolina milk pudding was really popular in the 1960s and 70s.  I remember having it at school with a big dollop of jam in it and mixing it up until it was a pink colour.  [...]

We do not eat a lot of meat now for financial, and health reasons, but do still enjoy some simple meat meals with the classical potatoes and vegetables, and sometimes gravy. This is a great [...]

Once upon a time our ancestors knew what they had to eat to give themselves enough fuel to work, and the medicine to keep healthy.  We have since lost that knowledge.  We have also lost [...]

Malt Loaf I love a malt loaf but they seem to have doubled in price in the shops in the last 18 months and so I refuse to buy them.  I therefore decided to make [...]

I have been told by people that have known me for a long time that I am a different person since I retired.  I really believe that it is because I have found a kind [...]

I hear people tell me that they are too tired, or can not be bothered to cook after a long busy day at work and so that is why they use ready meals or pick [...]

We have squashes that we have grown in the garden, but they are also cheaper to buy in the shops as well at this time of year as they are in season.  Our favourite is [...]

A fruit salad is one of our favourite desserts and we eat a lot of it. We have it with home made ice cream in the summer or custard on a cold day. We also [...]

I need to reduce my weight for health reasons as I have not lost some of  the weight that I gained during the pandemic.  It has made me examine more closely what I consume, and [...]

  My Autumn meal plan for this week is all about eating from the fridge, cupboards and garden whilst providing hearty meals.  The temperature has dropped dramatically and it is starting to feel chilly.  I [...]

I wanted to make something nice for lunch to have with salad from the garden.  I  needed to make something quickly and have been meaning to make this air fryer smoked cheese and apple quiche [...]

We are officially into Autumn now and the last of my summer crops are finishing.  I am still hanging on hoping that some of my tomatoes may go red but I have harvested a lot [...]

I grew a new crop to me called Amaranth. I had heard that you could grow it like Quinoa that I tried for the first time last year. I am always interested in things that [...]

A memory came up on my FB from 2 years ago when we made short bread to take as a present to my great, great aunt, and for the neighbours who had been keeping an [...]

My friend said that she needed to go to the supermarket as she had nothing in to feed the 3 of them tonight.  However, she had no money. I had none to lend her. She [...]

It took me a long time to learn to be gentle with myself when I was feeling down.  I felt like a failure, and guilty. I am writing this today for a friend in the [...]

I have a conservatory on my house. I bought it with some of my retirement money in 2015. It was an extravagance but I had always dreamed of having a garden room. Every one warned [...]

If we can avoid the supermarket and make things ourselves, we will.  This is especially true if they are made out of home grown produce.  Baked beans are really cheap from the shops but they [...]

I tend to spend less time outside in bad weather and in winter.  This is mainly due to the great British weather. Although I have all the correct wet weather gear, I hate getting wet [...]