Bread Crust Croutons Recipe – 3 Ways

I have a confession to make. I still don’t eat my crusts. Yes, I am an adult and I still don’t like or very often eat my crusts. However, being the frugal and thrifty person I am I don’t like letting them go to waste either. With shops selling out of bread regularly in recent weeks, it’s more important than […]

Cheap Two Ingredient Cheesy Pasta Recipe

Nothing says comfort food quite like my two ingredient cheesy pasta dish. This recipe uses just two ingredients to create a delicious and thrifty pasta dish which is perfect for using up odds and ends of cheese or when you don’t have the time or energy to make a proper sauce from scratch.

Super Easy and Cheap Flatbreads

These cheap flatbreads are super easy to make, only use three ingredients and are perfect for topping with a multitude of different foods. Because they are so cheap to make and can be used to use up lots of other ingredients they are the perfect thing for any frugal cooks repertoire.

Thrifty Three Ingrdient Dough Sticks

Making bread can often seem like a complicated or difficult process, and while there’s nothing quite like the smell of fresh bread baking in your oven, there is a lot that can go wrong. I like to keep things super simple with these three-ingredient dough sticks that can be made from ingredients you’d typically have in your cupboard and fridge.

Southern Spiced Potato Peel Recipe (Reduce Food Waste)

Continuing my mission to reduce our food waste, today I bring you a recipe for southern spiced potato peel. According to the Guardian, almost half of potatoes bought in the U.K are thrown away. Producing 15 million tonnes of waste per year costing consumers £230million. So, when potatoes come into my household, I’m making a concerted effort to not let […]

Cheap & Easy Potato Peel Soup Recipe

One thing I’m keen to cut down on in our household is food waste. I do try, but there are some areas I could do a bit better on. While a roast dinner is a staple in most British homes, we do tend to eat more Italian and Asian food, so it’s not something I cook particularly often. As there […]

47p Slow Cooker Beef Curry

This week we had a slow cooker beef curry which cost just 47p each with enough to feed our toddler too. While this post isn’t a recipe (I used a packet sauce and some sieved tomatoes!) it is a brilliant example of how you can use food from the reduced section, combined with offers from elsewhere – such as the […]

Cheap & Easy Tomato Pasta Sauce Recipe

I’m a huge fan of Italian food and will often make myself a quick pasta lunch rather than a sandwich when I’m working from home. I love this easy pasta tomato sauce recipe as it’s much quicker than making a full-blown tomato sauce (which I like to leave simmering for a couple of hours!)

Healthy Tortilla Chips (Use Up Leftover Wraps)

In recent months I’ve been trying really hard to limit my food waste – it’s good for the environment as well as being money-saving too. Sometimes we’re left with a situation where we’ve bought an ingredient to make one dish and are left with a fair amount leftover. In this case, it’s tortilla wraps. So, I’ve been looking for ways […]

Healthy Crispy Potato Skins Recipe (cheap too!)

One of the things I’m really keen to do is completely eliminate food waste in our house. Cutting back on food waste is not only good for the environment but also really good for our wallets. I’ll admit to not always cooking the healthiest recipes but these healthy potato skins are cheap and use up potato skins which might ordinarily […]