A quick headsup for our fellow Sydney-siders…the cheapest place we’ve found to buy frozen berries is Manly Freezers in Balgowlah.
When we popped in today, they had Chilean raspberries for $9.50/kg, Australian blueberries for $17/2kg and New Zealand boysenberries, pictured above, for just $7.50/kg. The warehouse has a retail shopfront, filled with freezers packed with mostly [...]
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Frozen Berries
Posted in Food & Friends, Frugal Living, tagged cheapest frozen berries, frozen berries in Sydney, frozen NZ boysenberries, Manly Freezers on February 18, 2010 | 4 Comments »
Herb Garden
Posted in Frugal Living, tagged herb garden, oregano, sage, thyme on February 5, 2010 | 20 Comments »
Peter, Peter, couldn’t be sweeter
How does your garden grow?
With sage so fine…
And crops of thyme…
And sweet-scented o-reg-ano!
PS. Our herb garden is only three weeks old! Pretty good, eh?
PPS. I’d love any suggestions on what to do with all these herbs…
Cheap Lunch
Posted in Frugal Living, tagged cheap lunch, Frugal Living, lamb breast, lamb offcuts, using meat offcuts on January 29, 2010 | 5 Comments »
On a whim, I picked up a discounted tray of lamb offcuts at the Italian butchers this morning. At $1.41, they looked like nothing more than fat, bone and gristle, but there was a thin promise of pink meat in the middle of each piece. I suspect they were lamb breast offcuts, but the labelling [...]
Frugal Living #3: Time = Money
Posted in Frugal Living, tagged Frugal Living, kitchen saving tips, time is money on January 24, 2010 | 8 Comments »
Time = Money
If there is one thing that has helped us to live more frugally – in a happy, contented, non-miserly way – it was getting our heads around the fact that time is money, particularly where food is concerned.
It’s pretty simple maths:
Least Time Spent → Most Time Spent
Eating Out → Cooking Prepared Meals → Making [...]
Frugal Living #2: Waste with Angst
Posted in Frugal Living, tagged Frugal Living, kitchen savings, tips for saving money, waste not want not on January 12, 2010 | 11 Comments »
I was going to call this post “Waste Not Want Not”, but that’s a hard maxim to live by in the modern first world. We try not to waste anything, but it’s almost impossible to never throw anything out, and I’m not about to force my boys to eat mouldy bread for the sake of [...]
Frugal Living #1 : Bread and Milk
Posted in Frugal Living, tagged bread and milk, Frugal Living, homemade bread, make your own bread on January 5, 2010 | 9 Comments »
It’s really not about the money.
We started our journey into homemade not for financial reasons, but because we wanted to eat better. It was also a challenge – can we make this ourselves? How far down the production ladder can we reasonably go? We’re certainly not diehards and, whilst we don’t buy pre-prepared or packaged [...]

