I don't often go in to supermarkets, but when I do I notice how much most things have increased in price.  The cost of many items has nearly doubled, and yet our incomes have hardly [...]

The brambles are finally out.  They provide a lot of treats and free nutrition for us during the winter and so we go foraging for them nearly every day when they are abundant.  Blackberries (called [...]

We had an air fryer Spanish Omelette for breakfast this morning as I was trying to use up bit and pieces in the fridge, including some previously boiled new potatoes left over from dinner a [...]

People seem to think that they have to buy lots of different ingredients to make a meal  plan for the week that is not boring. This is not true.  In order to save money I [...]

We have foraged for apples this week.  They are abundant in our neighbourhood, and a free food.  Some I will store for use in winter, but every year I try new recipes to find different [...]

We love fish but it is very expensive.  We therefore stretch it by making a fish pie.  A pie will feed 4 people with one piece of fish, some vegetables, and a hand full of [...]

For most of my adult life I had a full on, stressful career, was a single parent, studied, and it felt like my life was travelling at a hundred miles an hour and I hardly [...]

My red onions did really well this year and so Mr S made some of his favourite chutney.   He likes it with a cheese toastie and I like it with quiche.  I even add a [...]

What is a prepper? A prepper is someone who prepares for the worst case scenarios and future catastrophes.  I am a bit of a prepper. That doesn't mean that I think that there will be [...]

I had read about making courgette flour, apparently the Amish do it. It is gluten free and has low carbohydrate.  Since the shortages of flour in 2020 I have been interested in finding flour from [...]

We use a lot of fresh herbs in the summer but our grand daughter asked me why we bother making our own mixed herbs.  She pointed out that they don't cost a lot to buy [...]

Have you ever read the ingredient label on a Doritos chip packet?  I have heard that some of the ingredients are actually carcinogenic, and can cause cancer.  We love our nachos but I have stopped [...]

I had a message from some one saying that they were giving up growing food as they were useless at it.  Seeds hadn't germinated, pests had destroyed crops, things had been slow to grow. and [...]

This recipe reminds me of many happy holidays in Greece when I was younger. We serve these on their own or with potato wedges and salad.  It is lovely on a hot day and a [...]

I get bored with routines or anything that is repetitive.  We therefore like to switch up our breakfasts so that we have something different most days.  At this time of year I like to use [...]

I have been accused of being extreme about my frugal living, and yes I am.  I still have 3 years before I get my state pension (if they don't change the rules again!) and I [...]

We were eating from the cupboards, fridge and freezer, again, last week and stretching what we had.  Luckily I still had quite a lot left from going to a community fridge the week before, and [...]

I always make quiche when I have some left over pastry and the oven is on.  It is a good way of using up bits from the fridge as you can add any thing that [...]

I didn't start growing courgettes until about 9 years ago.  I didn't think that they tasted of much and they took up a lot of my growing room.  When I retired, my food budget drastically [...]

We decided to go to the beach for the day and so I got up early and made some sausage rolls for the picnic. They are my grandson's favourite.  I always try to make sausage [...]

We got 6 peppers reduced to 10p each the other day and so we decided to make stuffed peppers as it is something that we have not been able to afford to make recently.  I [...]

I have been a bit down recently, and am trying to shake myself out of it.  I don't know if it is just my age, and my grandparent's felt this way in the 1960s and [...]

My ice cube trays used to sit at the back of the cupboard all winter until I discovered that I could use them to reduce waste. Using ice cube trays and then freezing is a [...]

Sweet and sour kebabs are one of my favourite recipes at the moment.  The meat melts in the mouth and they are so tasty.  I first made it when we had friends coming round to [...]

I am witnessing so many unhappy and bitter people around me at the moment, most of them living much easier lives than I am. One of the reasons that I believe that I feel happy [...]

This is a lovely, bright salad which is full of colour. It uses what is in season and growing in the garden. Ingredients 1/3 of a red cabbage shredded, or thinly sliced. 1/3 of a [...]

We have just started to visit a community fridge in a village nearby and this week we received lots of lemons and limes.  As we were having friends to dinner on the Sunday we decided [...]

We entertained friends at the weekend and had made a couple of things that only needed egg yolks.  I therefore needed to use up the egg whites so that they were not wasted.  I had [...]

The last few years have not been particularly good years for growing crops. This year has probably been one of my most unsuccessful years ever.  I am normally harvesting and eating most of my food [...]

My lemon balm is really doing well this year. I make hot drinks with it but I don't really utilise it enough.  It has a number of medicinal uses and so I am keen to [...]

Orzo is something new to us.  I had never eaten it until we had it in a cafe on the Shetland Islands.  In fact I had never heard of it.  I managed to get a [...]

I have just come back from a break a way on my own and I am determined to improve my eating habits.  I have got into some bad snacking habits.  The trouble is, that if [...]

It is the weekend tomorrow and this is when I do my meal plans and preparation. Every week I make a loose meal plan by looking at what I have in the cupboards, what is [...]

One of the reasons I went away recently was to do some 'grounding' or what some people call 'earthing'. Grounding is when your body has  direct contact with the earth's electronic charges which helps one [...]

I wanted a healthy substantial breakfast today, and I have so much spinach to use up.  My perpetual spinach is going mad this year.  I therefore decided to make some spinach wraps.  We eat a [...]

I love making  cous cous salad as it is a quick healthy meal. I make it on the days when I can not be bothered to cook or if I have been busy in the [...]