Author: Ruth Johnson

For visitors to this site I hope you will find this site useful in budgetting, inspiring you to cook, saving money, and bringing an opportunity for you and your family to be healthy, wealthy and wise.   I am not a

Thank you for journeying with me on this experiment and hope you have enjoyed the recipes we eat on a regular basis.  The last few have been more time consuming, but well worth it.  To begin with I didn’t take

Feeds 4   (with meat for enough of 2 x 4 more meals) Ingredients:  £2.42 920 grams joint of beef  (£6.88) This meal uses a third of joint:  371 grams     (£2.29) Beef stock cube               (13p) Method: 1 .Place the

This is a family favourite, made by our son in 1986 aged 10. The picture above has sprinkles on the chocolate topping, and shows only half the amount these ingredients make in a 12 x 15 inch tray = 48

          Feeds 8  (Makes 8, freeze 4 for another day) Ingredients:  £3.95 Pocket Contents:   £3.02 250 grams of cod fish   (£2.75) ½ pt of milk                   (12p) 1 knob of butter Pepper A handful of frozen

An age old recipe, but with a twist that the children will love. Feeds 6 Basic Crumble Ingredients:  60p 230 grams/8 ozs  Plain Flour     (12p ) 180 grams/6 ozs hard margarine chopped into small cubes (42p) 100 grams/4 ozs ozs

            Feeds 6 Ingredients:  £3.64 8 sheets of Lasagne Pasta       (39p) 500 grams of mince                (£2.00) 1 large onion                             (10p) 1 tsp Oregano 1 finely chopped garlic 1 beef stock cube                   

In helping to cook for the elderly in 2007 I learnt the Lemon Curd version of this recipe and have used it many times since. Feeds 6 Ingredients:   90p 8 slices of bread buttered        (10p) 4 eggs                                      (32p)

Feeds 4  –  (Freeze 2 chicken breasts from pack of four) Ingredients:  £2.99  (using chicken leftovers £2.15) 2 tablespoon of oil 225 grams rice                         (20p) 1 large onion chopped              (10p) 2 chicken pieces                      (84p) 100 grams chopped mushrooms  (65p)

Feeds 4    (2 chops left from packet of 6 – freeze and use another day)   Ingredients:  £2.68  4 pork chops 2 tablespoons of Orange Marmalade 2 cups of Orange Juice 1 tsp of cornflour mixed with water Pinch of