We had our family Christmas last weekend with my side of the family, and have another one on Christmas Day with the family of Mr S.  This week we have therefore been living on the [...]

I love salmon, or any kind of fish, but the price of it means that I can not eat much of it out of my £750 a year food budget.  However, Mr S and I [...]

People who have followed me for a while, know that I have a stock of food that really helps me to keep ahead of inflation, but is also there for the months that we have [...]

Do we need to worry about being food secure? There is a lot of disruption in the world at the moment, and some natural disasters that are putting a strain on food supply.  Farmers are [...]

One of my older pals who popped in when I was making pickles the other day, and picking and freezing berries, said that she didn’t know why I bothered preserving these items of food for [...]

I have become a lot more conscious about my nutrition and what I eat as I have got older. I want to stay healthy as I age, and am aware that the NHS is not [...]

Today was bread making day and when use the oven, I don’t want to waste any energy and so I cook a few things at the same time using the same base ingredient.  Today it [...]

My last weekly menu plan attracted a lot of FB comments and seemed to be helpful for ideas to some and so I thought that I would put my planned menu for this week up [...]

Each week I make a meal plan but I do not have set days for meals as how we feel, and what we are doing changes, and we might not want to eat what is [...]

I hate waste of any kind and so make onion powder from the skins of onions and garlic, and the bits of onion that I had taken off when preparing onions to cook.   I dehydrate [...]

In these times of rapidly rising prices the last thing that I want to do is waste food.  Any left overs I will turn into another meal, but once upon a time I would throw [...]

I am always looking for cheap sandwich fillings and something different. I am putting this post on to remind myself of things we have had in the past so that I put some more variety [...]

I make fruit compote every week as it is easy, uses up gluts of fruit, it can be made from frozen fruit straight from the freezer, and it is so versatile to have in the [...]

I get bored of eating the same food regularly. I plan my frugal food spend around my main meals, and lunches are usually left overs, soups, sandwiches, something on toast or, in summer, salads. There [...]

On money saving  sites here in the UK you will often hear people talking about yellow sticker items.  These are things that have been reduced because they are going out of date, the packaging is [...]

We made some ricotta cheese today with two litres of blue top,  yellow sticker, reduced milk that was going out of date. Recipe 2 litres of full fat milk 100ml of white vinegar 1 tsp [...]

  If you have been entertaining this Christmas, or entertaining a large family and you are anything like me, your fridge will be packed with Christmas left overs. It is important that you freeze things [...]

I don't shop at Morrisons much as I do not have one near me but my favourite reduction is the whole half priced salmon which they do at Christmas and Easter each year.  It is  [...]

I am not a prepper, but last December I started to build a stock of extra food. I was aware of the impact that the Ukrainian war was having on food and was hearing that [...]

I was chatting to a lady in the park yesterday whilst baby-sitting my grandson. As is usual recently, the conversation turned to the cost of living. I was talking about some of the frugal foods [...]

The last 5 times I have been to the community pantry I have got a bag of rice. We don't eat a lot of rice but like many others I am trying to adapt what [...]