It was a horrible, damp, dismal day yesterday and so we fancied some comfort food.  We are on the pantry challenge and so I am trying to use as few ingredients as possible.  We first [...]

I wanted something filling for lunch and we have a lot of bits and pieces around to use up, including a small chicken breast that I had taken out of the freezer a couple of [...]

Whenever the oven is on, I try to fill it. We are always baking ahead, not only to save money, but to save time. I will often cook some pastry pie lids or some tart [...]

We are doing a pantry challenge, and so I am using up things from the freezer and cupboards for the next few months.  I have lots of Christmas left overs, including a ham joint that [...]

My easy chocolate trifle is another dessert that I made at Christmas from what I had in the cupboards.  It is a good way of using up chocolate sponge.  I tend to make tray bakes [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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. [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]