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In Season In March

If you’re anything like me, by March you’re itching for spring but still watching every penny. The good news? Seasonal produce in the UK in March is some of the best value you’ll find all year — and it’s proper filling food too.

Vegetable bake

A tasty vegetable packed bake with a tomatoey base and crispy sliced potatoes on top. Delicious! 

Budget Root Vegetable Dauphinoise (Gluten-Free & Vegetarian)

If you think comfort food has to be expensive, this budget root vegetable dauphinoise is here to prove otherwise. Made with humble carrots, swede and potatoes, this creamy, layered bake transforms some of the cheapest vegetables in the supermarket into something that feels rich, cosy and properly satisfying.

Basic Chia Pudding

Chia pudding is one of those foods that sounds far more expensive and complicated than it actually is. In reality, it’s cheap, filling, endlessly adaptable, and very good for you – which makes it exactly the sort of thing I like.

Super simple frozen mixed veg soup

This is a very simple soup using a pack of frozen mixed vegetables and not a lot else. Tasty, filling and very variable, depending on what you have in.

Leftover Chicken Curry

Chicken curry, a top dish in the UK, made and enjoyed by millions. This recipe is one that has evolved over the years and comes out often. It's simple, quick, flexible, cheap and, most importantly, delicious! 

Don’t Toss the Giblets: A Rich, Old-School Turkey Liver Pâté Recipe

This turkey liver pâté is old-fashioned in the best way—simple, thrifty, and packed with flavor. It’s perfect spread on toasted bread, served with pickles or mustard, or brought out as a starter / appetizer while the rest of the meal is still cooking.

Split Pea Soup - a 3 ingredient soup recipe

A soup that uses minimal ingredients, is very delicious and just 19p a portion

Poach A Chicken

How to stretch a chicken to make it last the family the whole week with seven budget stretching chicken recipes

Budget meal plan with lentils and chickpeas

A cheap 7-day meal plan using red lentils, chickpeas and bacon. Frugal, nutritious and easy to cook

Week Seven Meal Planner – minced beef, bacon, red lentils

Need to feed your family with the minimum of cash? This meal plan is based on minced beef, bacon & red lentils. As at 27th August 2025, £1.46 each, per day! Everything you need, three meals a day plus cakey extras

Meal Plan 4 - butter beans, oats and parsnips

How to eat well on a teeny, tiny budget! A weekly meal planner to serve 2 adults for 7 days at a cost of £1.34 a day each as at August 2025

Meal Plan 3 - chorizo, chick peas and dried mash

A weekly meal plan based around chorizo or salami, chick peas and dried mash. Feed yourself all week for £1.40 a day - priced in August 2025

Meal Plan Two - salted cashews, black olives and soft cheese

First written in September 2013, re-priced annually since then. I'm so  pleased this meal plan is still pricing up at just over £1 a day in August 2025 - 12 years old, and still going strong!

Meal Plan 7 - Lasagna

This recipe uses a third of an easy beef ragu made for use in Meal Plan 7.  We use the other 2 thirds for a spaghetti bolognese and a cottage pie.

Meal plan 7 - Beef Ragu for 3 different dishes

Make 1 big ragu and you can make a cottage pie, a lasagna and spaghetti bolognese with it!

Cheese and Onion Sandwich Filling - how to copy a deli filling, much cheaper!

Do you love those little deli pots of cheese and onion sandwich filling sold in the supermarkets? If you do, then this post is for you - you can make an even more delicious sandwich filling at half the price!

Crunchy Broccoli Salad

This is a delicious salad that takes just a few minutes to make. It is creamy from the dressing and has a wonderful balance of flavours, with little pops of sweetness from the currants and savouriness from the sunflower seeds. It doesn't taste particularly vegetabley strangely, probably because of the dressing, so might be liked by those not especially fond of veg.

Three Bean Salad

Three Bean Salad - an absolute classic dish. It's super easy to make, is absolutely delicious, can be used as a main or a side and is very adaptable.

Chicken and Sweetcorn Sandwich - how to copy a deli filling for a third of the cost

Just mix three ingredients together to make a delicious copy of a chicken and sweetcorn deli filling from a supermarket - and for a third of the price!

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