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Cheap Easy Meals – Vegetable Tian Recipe

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Another cheap one of those quick healthy meals you can customise easily depending on what’s in the fridge or garden.   This is very loosely based on a recipe my mother makes regularly.  She followed a proper recipe for Spinach & Courgette Tian which is wonderful.  I am the only courgette (sorry zucchini) lover in our house so tend to make it with other vegetables instead. The addition of a few rashers of streaky bacon adds some more texture and a cheap way of convincing carnivores they’re not being too hard done by.  More often than not I leave the meat […]

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 […]