#nogoogleads {display:none !important;} [ReviewAZON asin="B0014JCY1E" display="inlinepost"] This is a guest post from Andy. He lives and works in Japan and has certainly fully embraced both the culture and the way of life. Read on for lots of very good information on Japanese Rice Cookers and why they really are such a great little idea. This

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Another cheap one of those quick healthy meals you can customise easily depending on what’s in the fridge or garden.   This is very loosely based on a recipe my mother makes regularly.  She followed a proper recipe for Spinach & Courgette Tian which is wonderful.  I am the only courgette (sorry zucchini) lover in our house so tend

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1. Cheap Easy Meals
2. Cheap Easy Meals for Breakfast or Brunch
3. Cheap Easy Meals – Homemade Yogurt & the Cheapest Muesli

I figure its time for some healthy quick recipes in this series of cheap easy meals.  I’m looking at some quick healthy meals that are suitable for lunch or supper.  Alone they make fine lunches, but with the addition of some vegetables or salad and potatoes or bread they make great supper dishes too. To start we’ve got a really simple

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1. Cheap Easy Meals – Chapatis
2. Cheap Easy Meals – Homemade Crumpets
3. Cheap Easy Meals

One of my absolute favorite Brunch-time Cheap Easy Meals has to be Spiced Muffins.  They put me in such a lovely mood.  Cinnamon and nutmeg wafting about the kitchen.  But cunningly they only take 30 mins to make all in.  With 20 minutes of that being those muffins left alone in the oven, you only have 10 minutes of anything to do!  Well

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1. Cheap Easy Meals – Chapatis
2. Cheap Easy Meals
3. Cheap Easy Meals – Homemade Crumpets

Homemade Chapattis are the thing we use instead of bread the most.  They really make cheap easy meals in no time at all.   There are many ways to personalise chapattis but all are healthy quick recipes for frugal food.  Of course you could serve chapattis with meat but I find they really lend themselves to Vegetarian Quick Easy Meals.  So

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1. Cheap Easy Meals – Homemade Crumpets
2. Cheap Easy Meals for Breakfast or Brunch
3. Cheap Easy Meals – Onion and Thyme Tart

Continuing frugal food for breakfast.  I have to confess a deep admiration for the humble crumpet.   Try them and you will see why!  Homemade crumpets really do make cheap easy meals.  All you need are some store-cupboard ingredients and you’re off! Cheap Easy Meals – Homemade Crumpets I know you can buy perfectly good crumpets in

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1. Cheap Easy Meals – Homemade Yogurt & the Cheapest Muesli
2. Cheap Easy Meals – Chapatis
3. Cheap Easy Meals for Breakfast or Brunch

We’re starting off the cheap easy meals for breakfast or brunch with homemade yogurt and muesli.  This truly is a luxurious but healthy and quick recipe.  Totally flexible too, add what you like, there’s no need to get precious about breakfast!  Not entirely self sufficient, but this is definitely frugal food. Okay, homemade

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1. Cheap Easy Meals – Homemade Crumpets
2. Cheap Easy Meals for Breakfast or Brunch
3. Homemade Yogurt – Creamy or a Bit Runny?

I guess it makes sense to start a series on frugal food, cheap and easy meals with a look at cheap quick meals for breakfast.  If you are a serial cereal eater at breakfast time, consider these cheap quick meals as brunch recipes instead! With our purse strings tightening we have been consuming far less bread than usual. The bread in our local

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1. Cheap Easy Meals – Homemade Yogurt & the Cheapest Muesli
2. Cheap Easy Meals
3. Cheap Easy Meals – Chapatis

Cheap Easy Meals I shall be taking over a Self Sufficient life for the next few weeks.  We shall be having a Cheap Easy Meals theme.  Lately the  Dirty Boots household has been going through an even more frugal period than usual.  Much the same as the rest of the planet I imagine. The lack of funds, combining with the end of winter and a

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1. Cheap Easy Meals for Breakfast or Brunch
2. Cheap Easy Meals – Vegetable Tian Recipe
3. Cheap Easy Meals – Homemade Yogurt & the Cheapest Muesli