• Prepping frugally

    Published On: August 10, 2024Categories: Prepping, Saving money on food

    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 [...]

  • Is it worth making Courgette Flour?

    Published On: August 7, 2024Categories: Growing Food, Preserves, Saving money on food

    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 [...]

  • Homemade Doritos type chips and their uses

    Published On: August 3, 2024Categories: Saving money on food, saving waste

    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 [...]

  • Stretching what I had last week

    Published On: July 20, 2024Categories: Nutrition, Saving money on food

    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 [...]

  • Everything about courgettes (zucchini)

    Published On: July 20, 2024Categories: Growing Food, Recipes, Saving money on food

    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 [...]

  • A beginning of June meal plan

    Published On: May 31, 2024Categories: Saving money on food

    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 [...]

  • Another meal plan (adapting to what I have)

    Published On: April 25, 2024Categories: Saving money on food

    This is my third week of just eating what we already have in, except for milk.  I have still been buying some staples and some reduced meat with my food budget, but have only been [...]

  • Different ways to serve one dish to add variety

    Published On: April 17, 2024Categories: Mains, Saving money on food

    About 3 times a month I make what I call a pauper's stew.  This is a stew that I make in the slow cooker with any thing that I have that needs using up (or [...]

  • My 7 day meal plan using as little as I can

    Published On: April 16, 2024Categories: Saving money on food

    I am living out of the cupboards, fridge, freezer and garden at the moment.  I am buying some food like flour and oil, but it is not for use this month.  It is to replace [...]

  • Savoury Nests from leftovers

    Published On: April 13, 2024Categories: Light Meals, Recipes, Saving money on food

    We never buy food especially for lunches.  We use what we have in.  Often this means using left overs.  The other day we had a bit of spicy stew left and some mashed potatoes,  There [...]

  • Thinking about food security.

    Published On: March 28, 2024Categories: Living Simply, Saving money on food

    I think about food security a lot at the moment with everything that seems to be happening in the world. My time line, the media. and my YouTube seem to be filled with scary stories [...]

  • Batch cooking

    Published On: February 24, 2024Categories: Saving money on food

    Batch cooking is great for saving  time, saving waste, and saving money.  It gives me the ability to have a nutritious meal on a day when I don't feel like cooking. I also don't want [...]

  • Things I no longer buy from the supermarket

    Published On: February 1, 2024Categories: Saving Money, Saving money on food

    Over the last few years I have become more and more aware of the chemicals and rubbish that is in the food that we buy from the supermarket.  I used to think that I was [...]

  • A bag of flour can fill your bellies

    Published On: January 29, 2024Categories: Saving Money, Saving money on food

    People are always asking me what are my priority ingredients when building a prepper pantry. If I could only have 5 ingredients to feed myself, for me, one of them would be a bag of [...]

  • How I organise my cupboards, fridge and freezer to save on waste.

    Published On: January 7, 2024Categories: Saving Money, Saving money on food

    One of the things that has had the biggest impact on our food budget has been reducing food waste. I will do a separate post on the ways that I use items that I used [...]

  • Living on a low food budget

    Published On: January 2, 2024Categories: Saving Money, Saving money on food

    People often ask how I feed the two of us on such a low food budget.  I don't have a weekly or a monthly food budget, but have an amount I am able to spend [...]

  • How to store 15p Christmas vegetables so that they last a few months

    Published On: December 22, 2023Categories: Saving money on food

    In the UK all the supermarkets compete with each other and a way they tempt people into the shop is to sell cheap Christmas vegetables.  Most things are 15p each.  I take advantage of this [...]

  • Christmas left overs meal plan

    Published On: December 22, 2023Categories: Saving Money, Saving money on food

    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 [...]

  • Affording salmon on a low income

    Published On: December 10, 2023Categories: Saving Money, Saving money on food

    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 [...]

  • Getting ready to build my food store for next year.

    Published On: December 4, 2023Categories: Saving Money, Saving money on food

    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 [...]

  • Ways I stay food secure

    Published On: October 10, 2023Categories: Saving money on food, Wellbeing

    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 [...]

  • Cheap, tasty, healthier bread and butter pudding.

    Published On: September 2, 2023Categories: Desserts, Recipes, Saving money on food

    Bread and butter pudding is a favourite of Mr S.  I usually only make it in winter, but a friend was throwing lots of crusts away after making an afternoon tea, and, hating waste I [...]

  • Why I still preserve food for winter

    Published On: July 26, 2023Categories: Preserves, Saving money on food

    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 [...]

  • 9 cheap ways I add extra nutrition to my meals when on a tight budget

    Published On: July 23, 2023Categories: Healthy food, Nutrition, Saving money on food, Wellbeing

    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 [...]