I was contacted and asked if I knew a recipe that someone could make as a homemade sweet treat that didn't involve baking.  They are homeless and living in a bedsit.  All they have for [...]

We all deserve to enjoy ourselves and being on a tight budget does not mean that we have to miss out on leisure and entertainment opportunities.  Being frugal does not mean the end of your [...]

Semolina milk pudding was really popular in the 1960s and 70s.  I remember having it at school with a big dollop of jam in it and mixing it up until it was a pink colour.  [...]

Once upon a time our ancestors knew what they had to eat to give themselves enough fuel to work, and the medicine to keep healthy.  We have since lost that knowledge.  We have also lost [...]

Malt Loaf I love a malt loaf but they seem to have doubled in price in the shops in the last 18 months and so I refuse to buy them.  I therefore decided to make [...]

I don't often go in to supermarkets, but when I do I notice how much most things have increased in price.  The cost of many items has nearly doubled, and yet our incomes have hardly [...]

Rhubarb season is well under way and we have already made pies, crumble, and frozen some and so I wanted to make something different today. I made this recipe for the first time.  I had [...]

WHY DO PEOPLE GET INTO DEBT? Debt can happen to anyone, especially in these unpredictable times. It can be because you lose a job, a relationship breaks up, you lose track of money, unexpected repairs, [...]

A lot of people are planning their gardens for growing some food now. You might think that you can not grow vegetables in your garden due to shade.  Luckily , there are some vegetables that [...]

If  you are like me you are wanting to sort out your seeds for planting next year.  I don't know about you, but I often have seeds that are out of date that I have [...]

You have probably seen in the shops all the Valentine Day meal deals.  Some of them are really good value but they are outside of my food budget, and Valentine's Day is not a big [...]

I had it in my head that I was going to make a spicy lasagne for my main meal today, which we both love. I have some wrinkled peppers that need eating up and I [...]

I don't plant many winter vegetables as, to be honest, I like a break from all the hard work of growing food, and I am a bit of a 'fair weather' gardener as I do [...]

I must admit that I find it harder to motivate myself nowadays. My motivation in the past was always to get a better life for my children or I had to be forced to make [...]

  Every year we make gingerbread reindeer. They are easy to make and and are great for a buffet or for putting in cellophane bags in our hampers that we give as gifts some times. [...]

I put a hummus recipe on the other day and said that I would post different ways to use up hummus and so here are 10 ways that we make sure that no hummus is [...]

I have just been making some food for a friend who is ill. Although I could easily buy things from the supermarket I wanted to bake and make things, as the effort is me showing [...]