My brother bought me a burrito salad from Morrisons  a few years ago when we were doing some gardening and sorting out my Mum's house after she died. It was delicious.  They are too expensive [...]

Have you noticed that the chicken that you get from the supermarket seems to have a more rubbery texture now? Marinating it in yoghurt makes it more juicy and tender. You can marinate it in [...]

I have started cooking baked potatoes in the slow cooker as I can just forget them whilst gardening or going out, and it costs less than using the oven. I didn't realise until recently that [...]

This fish finger pie meal is one we make when we want to all eat at the table and have a meal that we like, but also the children will eat.  It is relatively frugal [...]

I am using up all those bits in the freezer that the labels have fallen off as I am decluttering my freezer and shopping from home.  I thought that I had cooked pork but it [...]

To reduce cost and to keep within our food budget we are eating a lot more food without meat.  I have always made vegetarian curry using chickpeas but was short of them the other week [...]

It was a lovely sunny day yesterday and so we cooked a curry outside.  I prefer cooking curry outside as it stops the smell lingering in the house. It also makes me feel like summer [...]

I made some beetroot burgers the other day. We are eating more vegan and vegetarian food to save money and hopefully to be more healthy.  I don't like the taste of beetroot but Mr S [...]

This is a one of our favourite family meals.  It is also frugal because you can make one large chicken breast stretch to 2 or 3 people.  We always had it when we needed a [...]

Apparently those that follow a Mediterranean diet have higher cognitive function and it helps protect against Alzheimers, heart disease, cancer and Parkinson's Disease. A lot of the food that we eat is similar to a [...]

It is shrove Tuesday.  The day when every one traditionally uses up all the things in their pantry that they are giving up for Lent (if they are religious) or just an excuse for eating [...]

The other day I had forgotten to get any thing out for our meal.  I had about 200g of left over mash potato in the fridge and a small tin of salmon (105g) that I [...]

My daughter asked for a dish with little gluten in it and there were five of us to feed (one a toddler). I actually made this with a couple of fresh salmon fillets as that [...]

We first made these last year to use up some of the Christmas vegetables that were wilting in the fridge. I usually put this mixture in our Cornish pasties, but decided to put them in [...]

These burgers that Mr S made were really tasty and we will definitely make them again. He used Jamie Oliver's recipe but we added some more flour as they would have been very sloppy, and [...]

When we went away, earlier this week, we took a large pizza with us. I had frozen one after making it for dinner after Christmas, using bits of turkey on top. Pizza is one of [...]

The picture isn't very good as I forgot to take a photo before we had eaten most of it, but this is a lovely, simple way to make a different chicken meal for a change [...]

People think that Ravioli is complicated to make and that you need special equipment to make it.  It is easer to get the pasta thinner f you have a pasta machine, but we made it [...]

Christmas is the one time of year when we splash out on food. We like to make it special, entertain, and spend time with family. Mr S loves pork pies (I am not so keen [...]

Winter is here and it is freezing.  There is nothing nicer than a hearty, warming stew or casserole on a cold day. Using the slow cooker is now widely know as the cheapest way to [...]

This recipe is great for using up leftovers or wilting vegetables in the fridge (fridge gravel). If you have cooked vegetables left from a meal you can add that to left over mash and add [...]

Omelettes are a versatile meal and reasonably cheap still, though not as cheap as they used to be. They are great for making a meal out of anything that you have in the fridge.  They [...]

Mr S loves burgers and so we sometimes make them as a ‘fake away’ on a weekend.  Sometimes we will just shape minced beef into patties and cook, but other times we will make the [...]

I often have to make my toad in the hole with only 4 sausages. This is to save money but also to reduce the amount of meat we eat for health reasons. I therefore enhance [...]