Here’s our fourth week of simple, tasty recipes to plan in advance and save cash while you’re at it. Happy cooking! day one – gammon steak served with tomato and cabbage mash (using fresh cabbage and tomato puree) with melted cheese on top day two – a simple beef mince curry with rice day three…read more
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Planning meals ahead for a month – Week 3
Here’s another bunch of seven recipe suggestions for our third set of weekly main meals. When you plan ahead you waste less, spend less and eat better. And because you plan an entire month’s main meals up front, you don’t get bored. If you’re a creature of habit and tend to cook the same stuff…read more
Planning your meals in advance to save cash on food
Yesterday I mentioned a load of easy ways to cut the cost of your weekly shop. Today I’m going into more detail about planning meals in advance: a great way to get properly organised, reduce waste and spend less on food. I don’t really care about food. I’d be perfectly happy eating the same thing every…read more
Use up all the food in your cupboards, freezer and fridge…
… and see how long you can last without going shopping! We’ve had a hot few weeks and it’s difficult to imagine being cold. But during last winter’s big freeze my seventy two year old Mum was snowed in, high up in a remote Yorkshire Dales village, for two weeks. Because she couldn’t get to the shops she set…read more
Take ‘sell by’ and ‘use by’ dates with a pinch of salt…
In the UK we waste huge amounts of food, much of which is thrown out just because it has passed the supermarket ‘sell by’ or ‘use by’ date. Some people feel the food industry uses sell by and use by dates to force us to buy more. Others think it’s because the industry’s terrified of being sued if someone…read more
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