• Operation no waste food

    Published On: December 27, 2025Categories: saving waste

    Today I decided to start operation no waste. The Christmas holiday is over and my fridge is full of food that is going out of date. Mr S has been ill and hardly eaten anything [...]

  • Use it up day.

    Published On: July 8, 2025Categories: saving waste

    During the 2nd World war there was a slogan in the UK to help people to save resources. "Use it up, wear it out, or do without," posters were prominent. I still live by this [...]

  • Stretch sausage and bean pie

    Published On: July 7, 2025Categories: Mains, saving waste

    It was a use up what we have in the fridge day today. I will often have half a tin of beans in the fridge and one or two of our thicked, cooked sausages. If [...]

  • Thankful for WWll cookery knowledge

    Published On: May 8, 2025Categories: Growing Food, Saving money on food, saving waste

    Today is the 80th anniversary of VE day. Spending a lot of time with my grand parents as a child, I automatically picked up some of the war time habits and knowledge in my food [...]

  • 5 quick tasks that saved me money and food waste

    Published On: April 3, 2025Categories: Saving money on food, saving waste

    We have been away on a small break and I had brought back left over food. We were sell catering and cooked all of our own meals to save money. So many people tell me [...]

  • Ways to reduce food waste

    Published On: March 17, 2025Categories: Saving money on food, saving waste

    This week is food waste action week here in the UK. I pride myself in having no food waste in my house.  We use everything that we buy, get from the community fridge, or we [...]

  • Repurpose meals from 3 classic favourites.

    Published On: December 5, 2024Categories: Saving money on food, saving waste

    We always have left overs.  I like to repurpose left overs to make other meals. I don't like to eat the same thing two days running. Sometimes I will make  on extra on purpose.  It [...]

  • Easy 3 ingredient Christmas scones

    Published On: December 3, 2024Categories: saving waste

    Most weeks we make a batch of yoghurt in the slow cooker.  We use this for breakfast, puddings, to make pizza bases, and for flat breads.  This is the first time that I have used [...]

  • The benefits I get from cooking from scratch

    Published On: November 18, 2024Categories: Saving money on food, saving waste

    Once upon a time there were no such things as supermarkets.  I remember visiting my first superstore in France in the early 1980s, and thinking how amazing it was. Unfortunately now we have lost most [...]

  • 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 [...]

  • Reducing the cost of your meal plan

    Published On: August 19, 2024Categories: Saving money on food, saving waste

    People seem to think that they have to buy lots of different ingredients to make a meal  plan for the week that is not boring. This is not true.  In order to save money I [...]

  • 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 [...]