Stylish Food on a Budget

Frugal Recipes

Money saving tips and advice

Buy Quality not Quantity - Eat Healthily

Never throw food away; you are just putting money in the dustbin.  Plan your shopping so that you only buy what you need.

It is possible to eat very cheaply and healthily with a little planning.  Home made soups can be a meal in themselves and very nutritious.  Use whatever is in season and inexpensive.  Potato and Leek can be thick and filling and very good indeed.  Carrot and Orange is also excellent.  Onion soup is great, especially with a slice of toasted french bread with grilled cheese on the top.  This is warming winter food.

Recipe Ideas

Roast Peppers Stuffed with Aubergine

Coarsely chop a whole aubergine and finely chop 2 cloves of garlic, fry in olive oil until brown and tender.  Place in a mixing bowl and chop further, combine with one cup of breadcrumbs, some herbs such as basil or marjoram and some parmesan cheese plus one beaten egg.  Take 6 yellow or red peppers, cut the tops off and remove the insides.  Stuff the mixture loosely into the peppers.  Place the tops back on the peppers, drizzle with olive oil and roast in a medium oven.

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Recipes on a Budget

Macaroni Cheese is a really good inexpensive dish to make.  If you use a strong cheese it is really delicious, or try adding two or three different cheeses.

Jacket potatoes are good, as you can fill them with whatever you have left over in the fridge, or make a coleslaw salad to go with them, delicious and very cheap to make.

Bubble and Squeak is an old favourite and can be made from leftovers in your fridge, this is a very cheap meal.  It can be served alongside meat of any kind, it is good with grilled bacon, or serve alone as a vegetarian dish.  For a really satisfying meal you can sprinkle some cheese on the top and melt it under the grill.

Old fashioned egg mayonaise can be made into an interesting meal and it looks good on the plate.  Please use free range eggs.  You can buy a good cheap mayonaise.  Hard boil the eggs, peel, cut in half, display on top of a green salad.  Put a teaspoonful of mayonaise on top of each half egg, sprinkle with paprika and garnish with anchovies.  Serve with fresh crusty bread.                                                                                                                                                                                                  

Ways to save money on food - Go to market

Go to your farmers market and buy some free range eggs, you can make so many dishes with eggs.  Omelettes are a cheap and easy meal and can be filled with so many different things such as cheese and onion or herbs, ham, mushrooms.

Ways to save money on food - Supermarkets

If possible try to shop later in the day when the supermarkets have reduced a lot of items that are about to go out of date, this can save you a lot of money.  Do not buy too much, go with a shopping list and only buy what you need.  Never buy so much food that you end up throwing stuff away.  Plan your meals and buy carefully to save pounds.

Use the cheaper supermarkets like Lidl and Aldi, you can often buy surprisingly good quality at very reasonable prices.  Use your local market also and start growing your own.

Where possible buy the cheap supermarkets own brands, don't pay a fortune for premium brands that use expensive tv advertising, it is just a waste of money.  Over a year, buying the value brands can save you hundreds of pounds. 

Don't Buy Preprepared Meals

Ready prepared meals are very expensive, forget it.  Walk away.  It is cheaper and healthier to buy fresh food and prepare your own.  Cook in batches so that you have your own ready made meals already in the freezer.   A piece of fish can be poached or grilled in just a few minutes, easy.

Cooking in batches - Save Time and Money

Cook four lots of casserole in one batch and freeze three lots for another day.  This will save on time and electricity or gas.

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Eat less meat

Eat less meat and more vegetables, meat is expensive and vegetables are cheaper so you will not only save money but you will be eating a much healthier diet.