The Cottage Smallholder

There is a recipe for this or something similar in one of my preserving books, can't remember which one, keep meaning to have a go at it.

Thank you for finding all these frugal websites, TA

And another frugal food blog I found yesterday.......some really interesting ideas on there which I am definitely going to try, like the Beetroot and Feta Tart.  I've just made her Fruit Loaf, it's in the oven now.

Don't know if anyone watched the Great British Budget Menu programme on BBC1 a week or two ago - the idea being that 3 celebrity chefs (James Martin, Angela Hartnett and Richard Corrigan) would each live for a couple of days with a family struggling financially to feed themselves.  The chefs were supposed to cook them meals according to the food budget the families each had.  Well, I thought it was pathetic, the chefs clearly weren't used to even shopping in supermarkets for themselves (they obviously get their minions to do it for them), let alone sticking to a budget.  One chef, Richard Corrigan, didn't even make a decent attempt to stick to his family's budget and blew more than £11 on a huge piece of salmon!  The chefs didn't seem to understand that if someone has just, say for the sake of argument, £20 to spend on food, then that is it - once that £20 limit is reached, there is no more money so blowing the budget simply isn't an option.  Lesley who writes the above blog mentioned it, as have several other frugal food bloggers - all of whom would have had a much better idea of how to feed a family cheaply but well.