For the month of November 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 30th November 2015 at 11:59 pm
- 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!
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Lynda says
November 9, 2015 at 11:39 amBalsamic roast potatoes using basic range tinned potatoes from my store cupboard. Cheap and tasty! http://www.frugallywell.co.uk/search/label/Balsamic%20roast%20potatoes
I can’t make the linky work 🙁
Sarah James says
November 3, 2015 at 2:18 pmLooking forward to checking out his month’s frugal recipes Elizabeth, thanks for hosting. I’ve always got plenty of dried lentils & beans in my pantry, they’re perfect for adding to meat to make a meal go further.
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Dom says
November 1, 2015 at 12:25 pmgreat that you’re hosting!
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Rhian Westbury says
November 1, 2015 at 11:26 amI tend to use frozen quern mince instead of meat as it’s much cheaper and with the right seasoning can taste just as nice. x
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