• Air fryer quick, cheap, quiche

    Published On: November 27, 2024Categories: Healthy food, Light Meals, Recipes

    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 [...]

  • Samosas

    Published On: November 17, 2024Categories: Light Meals, Recipes

    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 [...]

  • Spiced pumpkin seed snack

    Published On: November 16, 2024Categories: Recipes, saving waste, Snacks

    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 [...]

  • Mexican Fish

    Published On: November 16, 2024Categories: Mains, Recipes

    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 [...]

  • Mince pies

    Published On: November 14, 2024Categories: Baking, Frugal Festivities, Recipes

    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 [...]

  • Treacle tart

    Published On: November 10, 2024Categories: Desserts

    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 [...]

  • Home made no churn ice cream

    Published On: November 7, 2024Categories: Desserts

    Some one commented on another post asking me to share my home made, no churn, ice cream recipe. I have put this on before, but I thought I might as well post it again as [...]

  • Stuffed chicken breast

    Published On: October 23, 2024Categories: Mains, Recipes

    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 [...]

  • Stuffed butternut squash

    Published On: October 13, 2024Categories: Mains, Recipes

    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 [...]

  • All year frugal fruit salad

    Published On: October 13, 2024Categories: Nutrition, Recipes

    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 [...]

  • Air fryer smoked cheese and apple quiche

    Published On: September 29, 2024Categories: Light Meals, Recipes

    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 [...]

  • Home made ‘Twix’ biscuits.

    Published On: September 21, 2024Categories: Baking, Recipes

    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 [...]

  • Mediterranean garlic crust pie

    Published On: September 18, 2024Categories: Mains, Recipes

    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 [...]

  • Home made baked beans.

    Published On: September 18, 2024Categories: Growing Food, Recipes

    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 [...]

  • Making different compotes and how they frugally add joy to our diet.

    Published On: September 15, 2024Categories: Desserts, Recipes

    We have a very tight food budget and so there is not a lot of spare money for sweet treats.  Compote has therefore become a treat that we make every week for very little cost. [...]

  • Scrumping for apples

    Published On: September 12, 2024Categories: Foraging For Food, Recipes

    The fruit that we forage plays a massive part in our nutrition over the winter and means that we can have lovely desserts at low cost. Locally we find black berries, cherries, raspberries, pears and [...]

  • Crispy cheese, onion, and bacon wrap.

    Published On: September 11, 2024Categories: Light Meals, Recipes

    We felt like something 'dirty' and unhealthy to eat the other day for lunch.  We have been trying so hard to stick to a healthy diet but some times I just need something 'forbidden' to [...]

  • Apple pie cake

    Published On: September 11, 2024Categories: Baking, Foraging For Food, Recipes

    We made this for Mr S the other day as it is low in sugar but does not have any bananas in it (which he hates).  It is a healthy recipe that Mr S learned [...]

  • Gluten and sugar free apple cake

    Published On: September 9, 2024Categories: Baking, Healthy food, Recipes

    I am on a quest to eat more healthily. I especially want to cut out sugar. We have an abundance of foraged apples, and I bought some reduced over ripe bananas the other day which [...]

  • Water bathing tomatoes

    Published On: September 7, 2024Categories: Growing Food, Preserves, Recipes

    At last I have built up enough tomatoes to make some sauce to use during the winter and so we canned some yesterday. Last summer was the first time that I had tried water bathing [...]

  • Black Berry Balsamic Vinegar/glaze

    Published On: September 4, 2024Categories: Foraging For Food, Preserves

    I am still trying to find ways to use the blackberries so that I don't waste them.  This black berry balsamic vinegar/glaze makes a lovely dressing for salad, is nice with game, or can be [...]

  • Apple Scones with Caramel Drip.

    Published On: August 31, 2024Categories: Baking, Desserts, Recipes

    We are still using up the apples that we have foraged on a couple of occasions and have picked from our garden.  I have stored some wrapped in newspaper and preserved some by dehydrating, making [...]

  • Apple Fruit Leather

    Published On: August 25, 2024Categories: Foraging For Food, Preserves, Snacks

    I make fruit leathers as a healthy treat for myself and my grandson.  My own children used to love the bought ones put in their lunch boxes for school and so I thought that I [...]

  • Apple Chutney

    Published On: August 25, 2024Categories: Preserves

    I have never made apple chutney before but I thought that it would be nice with our home made sausages, in a toastie with cheese, or in a pork mince burger.  We have foraged lots [...]