Frugal Cooking

Frugal cooking is all about making more with less, saving energy and reducing carbon emissions whilst enjoying a good wholesome diet.

slow cooked casserole

Our grandparents ate frugally, they didn’t waste and throw away perfectly good food. They made more from less and the free recipes for low cost meals on this site will enable you to feed your family for less by making the most of what you eat. Learn how to get more for your money and help the planet at the same time.

We eat too much meat for our own health, never mind our purse or the planet and our vegetarian recipes will taste just as good as any meat or fish meal. Learn how to stretch the meat you eat with vegetable protein and to cook with low cost cuts of meat.

Find out what to do with leftovers to produce meals you and your family will enjoy.

Learn how to slow cook with our crock pot recipes and how to make fantastic and filling soups.

Tell me what you think

Underneath each recipe there is a comment box – if you’ve tried a recipe why not tell everyone how it worked out or if you’ve made a variation on the recipe let us know. If it didn’t work out for you, that’s valuable to know as well. Maybe I can help tell you where things went wrong. Your email is required to make a comment but will not be published or given to anybody but us. It is only so that we can reply directly to you if required to clarify a point etc. Comments will not appear immediately, we check things first before they appear to ensure they are appropriate.

We’ve only just started this site – there will be a lot more soon!