You may have been following my bargain buys over on Facebook or Instagram (#FabFoodBargains) which has lead to a lot of recipe development, so much that I have have lost track! So yesterday I found a recipe for Kale Soup in my notepad which I’d forgotten what the family thought of, so with another bag…
Soups
Cheat’s Fat Free French Onion Soup & October’s #CreditCrunchMunch
It’s October so we’re well into Autumn and heading on our way to Halloween. I do love this time off year, the rustle of leaves, the golden colours, pumpkins, it’s all so warming. So for October’s Credit Crunch Munch I’d love to see your autumnal dishes but as usual you can enter any thrifty recipes….
Easy Roasted Celeriac Soup
I recently bought a 1p celeriac on one of my bargain shops and put out a call on Facebook to see what ideas I could glean from my readers. I couldn’t remember the last time I’d bought a celeriac so along with ideas for things like Remoulade the one that jumped out at me was…
July’s Credit Crunch Munch Roundup
It was my pleasure to host Credit Crunch Munch during July and I was blown away by the wonderful number of entries – 34 in total!I have found there is so much money to be saved just by changing the time I go shopping and in turn this has inspired so many recipes because there’s…
Caramelised Courgette Soup
Having the children at home for the holidays means more mouths to feed than usual and with all the bargains I’ve been finding in Tesco lately (see my Facebook page) I’ve been making lots of spur of the momentr soups for lunch. I wasn’t intending to post this Caramelised Courgette Soup so didn’t write it down…
Green Soup with Sea Spaghetti & my 1p bargains!
Last Sunday I popped out for some sugar to make some Gooseberry Jam as my dad, ever the fruit magnet, had been invited to pick gooseberries at a local allotment and kindly delivered a carrier bag full to me. I thought I’d time my visit to my local Tesco to be about an hour and…
Simple Fat Free Spinach Soup
Sometimes you know you have been over indulging in the wrong types of food and you just want to put the brakes on and treat your body to something really nutritious, tasty and simple. So with this in mind I made this Simple Fat Free Spinach Soup the other day. I thought I’d try making…
Cream of Leek, Potato & Carrot Soup
As a mum I am always trying to make sure my family gets their 5-a-day of fruit and vegetables and hopefully more. As adults we have no problem eating most fruits and vegetables (ok my husband’s not keen berries because of the seeds) but children can be a bit more picky and difficult to please….
10 Healthy Recipes to get you motivated!
10 Healthy Recipes After the excesses of Christmas there is always much talk of diets, detox and New Year’s resolutions. I’m not really a fan of any of these things especially the term diet. To me diets were invented to sell books, classes etc and the problem with them is that as soon as people…
Courgette Soup
Courgette Soup I was recently asked if I had a Courgette Soup (aka zucchini) recipe on twitter so after flicking through some old recipes of my mother’s I came up with this recipe. Back in the 70’s my mother went to cookery evening classes as she was a very keen cook and always wanting to…
