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simple potato salad

This potato salad is easy and inexpensive but is always popular when entertaining.

homemade chips

Almost as easy as store-bought frozen chips, the homemade variety are tastier and healthier and you can jazz them up with different herbs and spices.

basics, sides · frugal recipes

the ‘all i want to eat now is salad’ salad dressing

I recently read a wonderful Australian book called Healthy Family, Happy Family. Not only does it have some great ideas for ensuring children are eating healthy meals, and tips for encouraging fussy eaters, it also has many excellent recipes (like mango French toast, strawberry, honey muffins and parsley and cashew pesto). The salad dressing below [...]

basics, sides · environment, frugal recipes

Capsicum salsa steak sauce

This is a guest post from my husband Colin. I’m the guy who used to pick the capsicum off his pizza. When Mel’s talking food and makes comments about ‘fussy partners’ it’s me she’s talking about. My wife is a good cook who uses ingredients well. A quick search through the recipe section will show [...]

meat dishes, sides, vegetarian · frugal recipes

‘they shouldn’t taste this good’ vegetable side

Meat and veg. Easy. Healthy. And really tasty with this simple recipe. Cook all the vegetables together in one pot to save on washing up. If you use pumpkin and overcook it a little it goes mushy and spreads over the other vegies. Yum. A favourite I had forgotten about for a while.

sides, vegetarian · frugal recipes

roast vegetable pate

I admit that the photo doesn’t look all that appetising, but this recipe is actually quite tasty. And as a bonus it is healthy and quick to make. I would say it is also quite inexpensive, but as someone has poisoned the winter crops up north, tomatoes and eggplants are going to get a little [...]

sides, vegetarian · frugal recipes