Frugal Food Fridays, from Fuss Free Flavours!
Frugal Food Fridays are all about saving some money, whilst still enjoying great food.
To take part, blog about a food related money saving idea and add your post to the round up Linky.
Please use the logo and also link to this post.
Money saving topics could be:-
- Dishes using cheaper ingredients – cheap cuts of meat or vegetarian
- Meals using leftovers
- Meals using up the ends of packets
- Substitutions of cheaper ingredients
- Packed lunches
- Meals that use less energy to cook
- Pressure cooking
- Slow cooking
- Faster cooking – less oven time for example
- Batch cooking for the freezer
- Sustainable foods
- Food you have grown yourself
- Meals from reduced food in the supermarket
The list is endless! Feel free to suggest and I’ll add them in! My current money saving idea is to get through all my non perishable foods, and not spend more than £3 a week on anything that is non perishable.
By request I am also expanding this to include frugally styled food photos. You know – no ribbons, no baubles, no artfully placed crumbs. Just plain photos of great food.
Hopefully it will become a great money saving resource!
Anyone is welcome to host! Mail me if interested! helen at fussfreeflavours dot com
March 2012 – Tales of Pigling Bland
I grow my own tomatoes and chillies every year.
I started off by putting seeds from shop bought vine cherry tomatoes into a clear pot, lined with tissue and added a little water. I left them on a sunny windowsill and added water when necessary. Much to my surprise, they started to grow and and I carefully planted them in compost in an ice cream tub. They grew and grew and as they got taller, I separated them and ultimately they needed to grow in a bucket – each! The vines take up a lot of room so beware if you try this in your living room (like me!)
I tried the same thing with bird eye chillies and hey presto – my own chillies growing in my dining room! (I still have five or six plants with plenty of ripening chillies – in December)
If you feel like trying this, I’d start in February or early March. In the height of summer, they can go outside (expect funny looks when the neighbours see you taking plants for a walk!) but make sure you bring them back inside if there’s any chance of frost.
I often have a half a tomato hanging around in the fridge. They always ended up in the compost because I waited for some tomato based dish to add them to. Well, I can’t remember what I added it to first but I quickly came to realise that tomato used in small quantity almost like a spice or onion is really fabulous. It just adds something in the background that can bring a dish from OK to fantastic. So don’t throw them out, throw them in!
A great idea but with my sons enthusiasm to plant seeds we’d end up looking like Kew Gardens
Using leftover mashed potato – Much Ado About Gnocchi…http://avillagepantry.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/much-ado-about-gnocchi/
Much Ado About Gnocchi- using leftover mash potato
http://avillagepantry.wordpress.com/2012/01/18/much-ado-about-gnocchi/
Hi All,
You can find March’s Frugal Round-up at https://talesofpiglingbland.wordpress.com/2012/04/01/frugal-food-fridays-march-roundup/
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