The Frugal Cook

And frugal eating on the 5:2 diet

Thursday, 31 January 2008

Pizza night

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Yesterday My Other Half was on cooking duty. "Shall we have pizza?" he asked. Actually that wasn't a total cop-out. He always ...
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Wednesday, 30 January 2008

Who buys a pressure cooker these days?

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The world and his wife, it seems. And I'm wondering whether I should too. Will I actually use it, however? I don't normally ask this...
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Tuesday, 29 January 2008

A Baldrick moment

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Yesterday would have been a successful No Food Shopping Day if I hadn't had a Baldrick moment and succumbed to a few turnips to go with ...
Monday, 28 January 2008

Can you be frugal and ethical?

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Heated discussion over the lunchtable yesterday as to whether you can be frugal and ethical? I.e. if you're on the breadline you're...
Sunday, 27 January 2008

In praise of smoked haddock

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Phew! I was so busy planning and shopping and cooking yesterday I didn't have time to post. A productive day, though. First, I managed t...
Friday, 25 January 2008

Cutting the cost of eating out

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Tonight was supposed to be the first frugal meal of a well-planned weekend's eating but . . . er . . . it didn't quite work out that...
Thursday, 24 January 2008

One up to 'im indoors!

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Back from London to find my other half beaming smugly. "Our dinner tonight cost 73p" he said. He'd been to the organic butcher...
Wednesday, 23 January 2008

I manage a No Food Shopping Day

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The main thing that stands in the way of my becoming a Frugal Cook is that I adore food shopping. Any excuse. And I'm incapable of comin...
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Fiona Beckett
is an award-winning food and drink journalist and author - or co-author - of 23 books. She writes a weekly wine column for The Guardian and also has her own website www.matchingfoodandwine.com
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