The Frugal Cook

I hesitated before uploading this recipe because it's much longer and more time-consuming than the recipes I normally post and also rat...

As my husband's been away this week I've been exceptionally frugal, living largely off the contents of the storecupboard. (I eat a ...

It's never occurred to me to join the WI (I'm not much of a joiner, to be honest) but they certainly seem to be putting the 'Jam...

News in the papers today that Lidl is selling £4.99 lobsters. And - not surprisingly - that they're being snapped up. It's a bit l...

I've got a bit of fixation about sprouts at the moment having discovered they are quite ridiculously healthy. Not only does an average ...

Annoyingly my husband is just as smart a shopper as I am, if not even more frugal (unlike me, he doesn't get easily distracted from the...

I finally managed to track down some ox cheek, not from Waitrose which has so far failed to stock it locally despite a barrage of publicity...

The food news story of the past few days is that we're all getting back into baking . I'm not sure that isn't one of those slig...