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Home » Frugal Recipes

Frugal Recipes

Our frugal recipes are perfect to rummage through when the month feels longer than the paycheque.

Using cheap, basic ingredients you can create millions of easy, tasty meals to feed your family when money is tight.

With both sweet recipes, like this fancy but oh-so-cheap-to make Cardamom Treacle Tart, to our delicious savoury Cowboy Stew, a filling and budget-conscious meal is only a click away.

woman tipping liquid, white elderflowers and lemon slices from a large saucepan into a sieve lined with white muslin cloth

Easy Elderflower Jam Recipe

Womans hands sprinkling brown sugar over muffin batter in a pink paper cupcake cases

Blackberry and Coconut Muffins

Womans hands pouring hot cream of nettle soup from a blender jug into a white serving bowl

Silky Smooth Cream of Nettle Soup

Woman pouring rosehip juice from a large silver saucepan into a bowl lined with a sieve with an old cookbook and bowl of sugar

Wild Rose Hip Syrup Recipe

Woman in grey spreading fresh homemade butter onto a pieces of sourdough toast on a wooden chopping board

How to Make Butter – both electric & hand power methods

Woman sprinkling toasted sesame seeds over a white plate of honey lemon pepper chicken wings

Honey Lemon Pepper Wings – Easy Sheet Pan Meal

Woman spooning thickened fruit juices from a silver pan with a silver spoon over a puff pastry rhubarb tart

Easy Homemade Rhubarb Slice (with Puff Pastry)

Woman holding cheese and baked bean toasty over wooden platter

Cheese and Bean Toastie (no sandwich toaster needed!)

Overhead shot of creamy bean dip in brown bowl on wooden chopping board

Easy Butter Bean Dip – creamy / nutritious / vegan

Woman’s hands peeling a green apple with a black peeler with several more apples and plums in the bottom of the image

Easy Apple and Plum Crumble

Womans hands slicing a refried beans quesadilla into triangle with a large silver knife surrounded by tomatoes and fresh coriander

Easy Refried Beans Quesadilla – 10 minute meal ideas

Black bowl piled high with crispy pieces of baked sweet potato and little slices of green spring onion

Crispy Breakfast Sweet Potatoes – Quick One-Pan Recipe

Woman’s hands sprinkling smoked paprika from a white tub with a red lid onto a bowl of homemade pumpkin dip

Easy Pumpkin Dip : Healthy Halloween Recipes

Creamy mushroom stroganoff in a pan with a wooden spoon

Easy One pot Mushroom Stroganoff (Vegan – Whole30 – Paleo)

Dark grey piece of slate with 2 slices of fresh sourdough bread topped with home made blackberry jam

Easy Homemade Blackberry Jam Recipe

White saucepan on grey slate containing halved red plains in a red grape sauce with a cinnamon stick and vanilla pod

Quick Stewed Plums {No Added Sugar}

Crispy baked chicken drumsticks in a white pan hot form the oven

Easy Baked Drumsticks (Paleo / Keto / Whole30)

inside of a baking tin of oven baked corn, shallots and chicken thighs

Honey and Mustard Baked Chicken Thighs

woman in grey holding a piece of slate stacked with triangles of flapjack oat slices

Healthy Flapjack Recipe

womans hands spooning icing onto fresh cookies on a baking sheet

Ginger and Lime Cookies

little coconut pyramids on a baking sheet lined with baking paper

Soft and Chewy Coconut Pyramids

womans hands cutting a homemade tray bake cake on a wooden kitchen counter

Easy Almond Slice Recipe

wooden board with fresh salads scattered around and a pitta bread stuffed with salad and two beef kofta kebabs

BBQ Beef Koftas {Campfire Kebabs}

white enamel bowl of sausage and bean cowboy stew on a wooden counter with a black cooking pan and garlic cloves in the background

Cowboy Stew – Campfire, Stovetop, Oven and Slow Cooker Method!

womans hands sprinkling fresh herbs on a bowl of bright green broccoli soup

Broccoli and Almond Soup

black bowl filled with colourful roast veg couscous against a natural fabric background with fresh veggies

Roast Vegetable Couscous

glass bottle of homemade elderflower cordial with lemons, flowers and glasses piled high with cordial and ice

How to Make Elderflower Cordial

glass jug of beated eggs being poured into a white baking tin filled with frittata ingredient

Chorizo and Sweet Potato Frittata

woman with red hair and grey apron holding a small bowl of bright green wild garlic soup in a kitchen

Wild Garlic Soup Recipe – dairy free/keto/vegan

womans hand holding a warm ginger cookie against a kitchen that is messy with baking supplies

Ginger Biscuit Recipe

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