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Organise ‘08 - Stretching the Food Budget.

“I’m hungrrrrrrrrrrrrrrryyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyyy!!!!”
I hear that an awful lot in our house. My children seem to be bottomless pits when it comes to food… that is, food that they like… they just can’t get enough! This month we’ve been trying to see how far we can stretch our food budget and still satisfy the hungry hordes that […]

In Celebrations of Eggs!

Our chooks have started laying again!
I refuse to buy eggs. We have six perfectly good chooks - well ok the two new ones are a little young and are just getting started on the whole egg thing, but we have four perfectly good chooks which we feed and water and love, so the idea of […]

Questions and Answers…

Following on with our recent theme of deep and meaningful questions from our resident four year olds… Today we were having a chat while we ate lunch (last nights left over chile and tortillas turned into nachos of sorts) about food and friends, which may seem an odd combination of topics but we are having […]

So many biscuits…

Thanks to the lovely Alissa who posted this recipe over in the forums at PBP we’ve been gorging ourselves on biscuits since last Wednesday! These are too good, too easy and too cheap to keep to myself so I thought I’d share the secret around a bit more!

Simple Savings biscuits
(if anyone knows the original […]

Lets Make Bread!

We like to make bread.
Sure we could go into town and pick up a loaf for around $2 but somehow it is not the same thing. Maybe it is the fact that we never have bread when we want it? Or that getting three kids dressed and in the car and then out and […]

Mincepuffs!

I know this blog has been a bit ‘food food’ of late but I just have to share this news with you all. I will never make regular hamburgers/rissoles ever again!
Earlier this week the Saving Mum newsletter popped into my email in box and it had a recipe in it for mince puffs. Since we […]

Food Porn??

I dunno.. maybe I am juvenile but the term ‘Food Porn’ just makes me giggle. It conjures up images of an over the top, slightly tacky, couple sitting at a dinner table loudly ‘mmmm-ing’ and ‘aaah-ing’ and oooooooooh-ing’ over every mouthful like some B grade movie. Still, I’ve been tagged for this Food Porn (*giggle*snort* […]

Organise ‘08 - Winter Menu

I only cook because of my kids. Well ,my kids and my husband, if I lived on my own I would live off corn chips and mayo. Lucky for me I have a family who needs to be fed, and lucky for our tiny food budget, I am steadily learning to make an ever growing […]

Cheap and Easy - Beef and Veggie Triangles.

‘Cheap and Easy.’
That is pretty much my goal for most meals we eat around here. We are on a rather tight food budget and I am not a whizz in the kitchen, so if I can combine those two things I am happy. Even happier if it’s tasty.
Beef and Veggie Triangles
This recipe is adapted […]

Zucchini Bread

The hail the other day made a total mess of our veggie patch. I am not sure what will survive and what will not recover from the loss of leaves, and whether the fruit that is all pock marked will be okay or not. Time will tell I guess. We are still eating zucchinis though!

I […]

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