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Home » Recipe » Food Blogging Challenges » Credit Crunch Munch » Credit Crunch Munch – THE Frugal Food Link Up!

Credit Crunch Munch – THE Frugal Food Link Up!

Published on January 31, 2015 by Elizabeth Atia 22 Comments
Last Updated on July 22, 2017

Credit-Crunch-Munch

For the month of February I have the pleasure of guest hosting Credit Crunch Munch, the frugal food recipe sharing challenge developed by Helen over at Fuss Free Flavours and Camilla over at Fab Food 4 All!

This challenge features:

  • Dishes using cheaper ingredients – cheap cuts of meat or vegetarian
  • Meals using leftovers
  • Meals using up the ends of packets
  • Substitutions of cheaper ingredients
  • Packed lunches
  • Meals that use less energy to cook
  • Pressure cooking
  • Slow cooking
  • Faster cooking – less oven time for example
  • Batch cooking for the freezer
  • Sustainable foods
  • Food you have grown yourself
  • Meals from reduced food in the supermarket

Credit Crunch Munch

To take part, simply blog about any money saving idea that is vaguely food related, we are especially keen to hear about substitutions for when you run out of something this month.  We do do a full round up so I will be mentioning all the recipes that are submitted.

There are a few rules

  • Please link to the Credit Crunch Munch pages on Fuss Free Flavours and Fab Food 4 All
  • Please link to the current host (ME!)
  • Please use the Credit Crunch Munch Badge above
  • Tweet using #creditcrunchmunch
  • Closing date – last day of the month – so 28th February 2015
  • You are welcome to link up one or two old posts, but please republish them
  • By entering you are agreeing to let us use an image from your entry on this site, and to pin to Pinterest
  • If blogging a recipe from elsewhere on the internet or a book please be mindful of copyright

But feel free to

  • Send to as many other events as you like, let’s help everyone save money!

Tell me about your money saving ideas on the linky below! I am also making this a blog hop, so feel free to grab the code and add to your post too. Let’s spread the money saving meme!

We’ll be looking for guest hosts later in the year, so please mail Helen if you are interested. helen at fussfreeflavours dot com


Follow Helen Best-Shaw’s board Credit Crunch Munch on Pinterest.

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Comments

  1. Richard says

    March 9, 2015 at 9:57 pm

    Hi I’ve added the logo to the post, sorry I didn’t realise all the rules, is there anything else I need to do. I’ll be more mindful of them in future. Great link up though.

    Reply
  2. Helene @Croque-Maman says

    February 26, 2015 at 12:04 pm

    Wow! Such an amazing collection of new recipes to try! Thank you for sharing. I think I am going to start from the top with the tinned fish post!!!

    Reply
  3. Chloe Griffiths says

    February 2, 2015 at 6:39 pm

    such a good post to share tips 🙂 x

    Reply
  4. Emily @amummytoo says

    February 2, 2015 at 3:10 pm

    I think I have something for this – I shall be back to link up!

    Reply
  5. Sadhna Grover says

    February 2, 2015 at 4:55 am

    Thanks for the party in February again, I have added my slow cooker recipe of “Whole black lentil curry”

    Reply
  6. Kavey says

    February 1, 2015 at 11:36 am

    We’ve been pretty frugal this month, must look at entering!

    Reply
  7. Margot @ Coffee & Vanilla says

    February 1, 2015 at 1:29 am

    Sounds good, will try to take part this month finally 🙂

    Reply
  8. Lilla says

    January 31, 2015 at 6:56 pm

    With my husband training to be a barber full time at the moment, I have had to get frugal – last month I batch cooked lasange, cottage pie, chilli and homemade chicken nuggets for the freezer, as well as stocking my freezer up with various frozen vegetables, and other stuff – I spent far less than my usual shop and we actually have quite a lot less, which meant less work and less spending this month!

    Reply

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