Category: Frugality
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Bread As A Quiche Base
Quiche is a quick and easy meal, and a great way to use up leftover food. Using bread as the base makes it even quicker and easier!
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Free Firewood
You can save a lot of money by heating your home with wood, especially if you can get the wood for free. Here’s where I get mine – where do you get yours?
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Head Cheese Recipe
It’s a boiled pig’s head, meat removed and diced, then set in a terrine mould with jelly made from the cooking broth. What’s not to like?!
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Pig Trotters In Sweet Vinegar
We’re getting towards the end of the pigs we raised for meat – literally! I’ve never cooked trotters before, so this was an interesting meal.
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Digging Up Potatoes
Whenever we have potatoes sprout in the cupboard, we plant them out in a spare garden bed. It costs nothing, and you typically get back about 5-10 times as many potatoes as you plant! Potatoes are also amazing for establishing new garden beds. They break up the ground, attract lots of worms, and leave a…
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Illawarra Freecycle
FreeCycle is a great way to give a new life to stuff you no longer want, and to divert still-useful waste from landfill tips. Here are some of the useful things I’ve picked up…
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How To Store Pumpkins (Winter Squash)
With proper storage and a little care, many varieties of pumpkins can be kept for 6-12 months without refrigeration. In fact, they get sweeter and tastier the longer you store them!
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Mulch Delivery
We had 9 cubic metres (4.6 tons) of mulch delivered – and I have to move it all by wheelbarrow!
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Duck Egg Yolk Pasta With Pesto
It sounds really fancy, but it’s actually just a practical way to use up duck egg yolks after making lots of meringues with the whites! Home made pesto is quick and delicious accompaniment that does the pasta justice.