Cheap Easy Meals – Onion and Thyme Tart

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I figure its time for some healthy quick recipes in this series of cheap easy meals.  I’m looking at some quick healthy meals that are suitable for lunch or supper.  Alone they make fine lunches, but with the addition of some vegetables or salad and potatoes or bread they make great supper dishes too. To start we’ve got a really simple Onion & Thyme Tart recipe.  Yes there is pastry involved but this is a pretty damp scone type mixture that doesn’t even need meaning getting the rolling pin out.  This is pastry making for those who just do not […]

Cheap Easy Meals – Brunchtime Spiced Muffins

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One of my absolute favorite Brunch-time Cheap Easy Meals has to be Spiced Muffins.  They put me in such a lovely mood.  Cinnamon and nutmeg wafting about the kitchen.  But cunningly they only take 30 mins to make all in.  With 20 minutes of that being those muffins left alone in the oven, you only have 10 minutes of anything to do!  Well you do have to eat those magnificent muffins for your brunch-time cheap quick meals too.  Not too much of a hardship! These muffins are not too sweet as they’re a morning muffin rather than a tea-time one.  […]

Cheap Easy Meals – Chapatis

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Homemade Chapattis are the thing we use instead of bread the most.  They really make cheap easy meals in no time at all.   There are many ways to personalise chapattis but all are healthy quick recipes for frugal food.  Of course you could serve chapattis with meat but I find they really lend themselves to Vegetarian Quick Easy Meals.  So all the ideas below are Vegetarian.  And, yes we eat chapattis for supper too, but they make fantastic frugal brunch recipes too. In my search for a substitute to bought bread I do occasionally make real bread.  But I wouldn’t […]

Cheap Easy Meals – Homemade Crumpets

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Continuing frugal food for breakfast.  I have to confess a deep admiration for the humble crumpet.   Try them and you will see why!  Homemade crumpets really do make cheap easy meals.  All you need are some store-cupboard ingredients and you’re off! Cheap Easy Meals – Homemade Crumpets I know you can buy perfectly good crumpets in the shops. But though I cannot deny they are quick and pretty cheap, they are usually packed with preservatives too. Homemade crumpets are better for you, even cheaper and pretty darn quick too. There are many ways of making crumpets. Usually yeast is used […]

Cheap Easy Meals – Homemade Yogurt & the Cheapest Muesli

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We’re starting off the cheap easy meals for breakfast or brunch with homemade yogurt and muesli.  This truly is a luxurious but healthy and quick recipe.  Totally flexible too, add what you like, there’s no need to get precious about breakfast!  Not entirely self sufficient, but this is definitely frugal food. Okay, homemade yogurt is not a quick healthy recipe to consider first thing in the morning.  But, make some homemade yogurt on a Sunday evening and it’s ready and waiting on Monday morning (and all week if you don’t eat it all before then).  And, one thing you can […]

Cheap Easy Meals for Breakfast or Brunch

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I guess it makes sense to start a series on frugal food, cheap and easy meals with a look at cheap quick meals for breakfast.  If you are a serial cereal eater at breakfast time, consider these cheap quick meals as brunch recipes instead! With our purse strings tightening we have been consuming far less bread than usual. The bread in our local village bakery is baked in wood fired ovens and tastes divine.  In fact, we believe it may well be the best bread in the world!  But, it costs to get good bread, so rather than eat it […]

Cheap Easy Meals

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Cheap Easy Meals I shall be taking over a Self Sufficient life for the next few weeks.  We shall be having a Cheap Easy Meals theme.  Lately the  Dirty Boots household has been going through an even more frugal period than usual.  Much the same as the rest of the planet I imagine. The lack of funds, combining with the end of winter and a time with less variety available on the vegetable plot has inspired me to come up with more cheap easy meals than usual.  And, luckily (or not?) for you, I shall be sharing! Cheap, Quick Healthy […]