Granny's Frugal Kitchen Tips to Save Money -

[@gretelwhite8088]

My mum is an expert at what she calls 'making a sixpence do the work of a shilling' and I have inherited her ways. I can do all the basics and I can read a recipe and decide which of the expensive ingredients can be replaced with cheaper alternatives. Also, as a dear friend once put it 'what goes into the soup is nobody's business but the cook's'. Turning those veggies that are getting a bit sad in the bottom of the fridge into a tasty, hearty soup is a speciality of mine, and it always feels like a victory.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Absolutely right there Gretal.

[@pigletsbank437]

That is victory indeed! Works magic doesn't it✌️☺️

[@gailmiler2797]

That could be kind of scary, " What goes into the soup is nobody's business but the cook's"! 😆 Better keep an eye on the cook!

[@patmartin9727]

I make what I call bottom of the fridge soup. It comes out a different colour every time. Thankfully it always tastes yummy with a small whole meal bread bun a good filling meal.

[@trishgibbons8726]

Gretel, your soup sounds like mine, we call it fridge soup. 😅😅😅 xx

[@verabell3388]

I've forgotten to tell you about my grandma who was a house wife during WW2 and lived through rationing. For all of her life she said it was "criminal" to waste food. The last crust of bread was used to make sage and onion stuffing to go with Sunday dinner. Yesterday's leftovers were reheated over a pan of boiling water for dinner the following day as I do now, only we have microwaves for that. She would have loved that! She had a sideboard in the front room and I never realised until I was grown up why she stored bags of sugar, tinned fruit, evaporated milk and other tinned goods in there, but it was because they were rationed during the war and this was the mid 50s and they were off ration. We used to have tinned fruit and evap for Sunday tea with a slice of brown bread and butter and it was always in lovely fruit dishes and used a fancy spoon from her well looked after canteen of cutlery. I can still remember the smell from opening that sideboard door to get a precious bag of sugar or tin of fruit from it. Right, enough reminiscing. I'll clear off now 😂

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks for watching

[@colleensill1848]

I remember my grandma doing the very same thing. I grew up in the 1960's and she used to give us fruit and carnation milk with bread and butter ❤️ I still love this. We also had mashed banana with bread and butter too..

[@helenwilkins4337]

When I was teaching WW2 we went to a farm shop to learn about rationing. The farm shop gave us sausages, potatoes and apples. The next day we made a WW2 meal - used an apple corer to make a hole in the potatoes and stuffed the hole with sausage meat and baked them. Then used the leftover potato to make potato pastry and made apple pie. The children ate the lot and loved it. I had so many sausages left over so I froze them. On the last day of term I made sausage meatballs in tomato sauce and spaghetti. The sauce had blended carrots, courgettes, onion, celery and parsnips - not a scrap of food was left. I had comments, “This is better than my mum’s” “Can I have the recipe?” Xx

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Secret sauce

[@michelehagerman216]

Jane, thank you for being practical! Especially about busy people needing easy to make or semi convenience foods. I do a lot of canned soup. It’s still cheaper than getting take out or hitting the drive thru! Too many frugal bloggers/channels make like it’s a sin if you don’t make everything from scratch. Busy people may not have the time or energy for that!

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Exactly, nothing is wrong if it's what needed

[@saundrajohnson1571]

My mother was an excellent cook and baker. I was born with many more than one sweet tooth. My suspicions were aroused one day when I arrived home after school, and my mother offered me some chocolate cake. Normally, things like that were put under lock and key to protect and preserve them from me. I happily ate the offered piece of cake, but noticed a rather sly smile on my mother’s face once I had finished it. It took a bit of doing, but she finally explained that I had just eaten chocolate zucchini cake. ZUCCHINI??? She had put a green vegetable in my chocolate cake??? I was horrified! Regardless, it was still delicious. Chalk that up as a win for my mother, learning a new (at the time) technique to get me to eat vegetables. Man, I miss that woman.

[@nicB7777]

Hellu Jane 👋 I adore these types of videos when you do them *and when i finally see them! They are very appreciated. My mother couldn't cook too save her life, but my dad's mum was a good cook as long as she had a recipe in front of her and followed it to a T. I am an avid home cook, and have cooked some in restaurants, but it is just so fun to come up with things without having to shop. Thank you again 🧡

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Wonderful!

[@verabell3388]

Hi Jane. I've recently found your youtube channel and I'm very much enjoying it, so thankyou. I realised that for many years when the 4 children were growing up and money was tight that I was always thinking of ways to feed them and the priority was on filling them. I made stews with a large yorkshire pudding, pies from a tin of corned beef or a bit of mince and potatoes and veg, dumplings with a meatball in the middle and veg, home made soup and chips, fishcakes made with 2 slices of potato and a bit of fish in the middle and then battered or sausage with lots of mash and baked beans, porridge and toast for breakfast. I baked twice a week making cakes in a roasting tin and flavoured with orange, lemon or coconut or cocoa, biscuits from oats and golden syrup or jam tarts made from leftover pastry. I could go on but you get my drift ! I'm now widowed and the kids are independent and I now bake when my grandchildren are coming and it's a treat for them to have home baking, they love what I make, yet it's still fairly plain stuff. My youngest daughter brought her partner's 7 year old last week and on the way he asked her if Granny Vee would have made some buns (I live in England and still call them buns) . Plain buns with icing and a Smartie on the top and kids still love them over anything shop bought. I realise I'm content with my life and my sewing and painting and gardening in the warmer weather, walking through the local park and visiting the East Coast of Yorkshire a couple of times a year and you can't put a price on that. I've rambled on a bit there so apologies for that ....onwards and upwards with frugal living and loving it.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

All good food therr

[@maureenmannion6748]

I enjoyed your rambling!😂

[@patrice1966]

My parents were young children during the Great Depression. My grandparents immigrated to the USA in the early 1900’s from Poland. They came from small farming villages and they didn’t waste anything edible. I watched my grandmother and my mom cook and feed a large family on very little during the 1970’s energy crisis. We had a lot of soups, stews, casseroles. Potato pancakes were something my dad made often when he cooked. We ate them with sour cream, apple sauce or maple syrup. My mom would make a version of a “poor man’s meal” using chopped up hotdogs and diced potatoes and onions coated with a bit of oil that was baked in the oven. What kid doesn’t like hot dogs and fried potatoes? Another family favorite was chicken pieces dredged in seasoned flour, fried to golden brown and crispy but not fully cooked. Once browned the chicken was removed from the pan and set aside. The fat from frying the chicken was used to cook chopped mushrooms and onions. Once tender the fat , mushrooms and onions were stirred through a pot of boiled and drained egg noodles. That mixture was transferred into a Dutch oven or baking dish. The chicken pieces were nestled (skin side up) into the noodles, the lid or aluminum foil was put over the pan to trap the steam and it put into the oven to bake. It was cooked just long enough to finish cooking the chicken thoroughly. The chicken released its juices into the noodles and everything was delicious and comforting when it was done. Bone in pieces of chicken are preferred because they have more flavor than boneless pieces. My mom and grandma water bath canned fruit and vegetables. I taught myself to water bath can while I saved up for a pressure canner. I now can using both methods to help keep my pantry full. I buy tough cuts of meat, cut them up and pressure can them for making quick cooking meals.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

We had an expression growing up. Poverty is a very exacting teacher and we were well taught.

[@colleenwood8220]

I grew up in a Polish/ Italian area and love the food and make it a lot.

[@pammentzer3584]

My Grandmothers were both very thrifty. They passed down the skills of a well-stocked pantry, simple, wholesome meals, and gardening to the generations behind them. Seed savi ng and tapping trees for maple syrup were also common practices for them. They had so many beautiful skills and I aspire to learn each one.

[@2Beldam]

Thank you so much Jane for distinguishing picky eating from food allergies/intolerances ❤ as an autistic person with food allergies I really appreciated that. I was called a “picky eater as a child.” My grandma (& her dog Dixie) was my favorite person in the whole wide world. She could always get me to try a new food simply by plating herself a “snack” & saying stuff like “oh this is so good. this is my favorite food. I’m so lucky to have this” etc..really playing it up as she ate a small bite 😂 since there was never any pressure to try the food & the fact that she loved it made me want it every time 🤣 I’d say “grandma can I please try a bite of your snack?” & she’d say “sure” and slyly slide it over to me to try. Grandmas are so clever. She even use to use the dog too & say “Oh no worries if you don’t want your carrots. Dixie loves carrots! We’ll just give your carrots to her.” (But then I would want them & gobbled them all up, because Dixie was cool & I wanted to be like her 😂 autistic people bond more to animals than people sometimes). She easily got me to eat 30+ new meals/foods this way. She really helped me in a big way & changed my life for the better. I was a healthier kid thanks to her

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks for watching

[@karenpiete6970]

Smart grandma and such a sweet way to get a kid to try something new!!!!

[@2Beldam]

@@karenpiete6970 right? Now as an adult I’m so impressed by how she never once yelled or got frustrated or cross with me. She had the patience of a saint 🤣👍I was so lucky to have her

[@TPayne-fm8ie]

My autistic daughter became allergic to potatoes when she was 22 years old. She was 28 years old when we finally figured out what was causing all her intestinal problems (similar to celiac) She is nonverbal. could not communicate symptoms.

[@2Beldam]

@@TPayne-fm8ie I’m so sorry to hear that dear 😢 that must have been so frustrating and challenging (not to mention scary). Great job figuring it out. You had to be a super sleuth! Sherlock Holmes. We are lucky to have parents who go the extra mile for us ❤️ (especially when we can’t communicate in traditional ways)

[@bria2596]

I learned some new things today. Thanks so very much.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

I'm so glad!

[@StephanieGiese]

I lived with my grandmother for years. She was a teenager in the Great Depression and a young mom on her own while her husband fought in WWII. I lived with her while I was in college, just the two of us. She naturally did so many things that are trendy and “minimalist” now, but just made sense to her. She was putting small amounts of money aside in envelopes for certain things before Dave Ramsey was born, haha. But what I remember is she always had a plan for everything she brought into the house. She could make one cucumber stretch for 3 meals. She’d put some on a salad for us one day, then slice some thin to make us cucumber and cream cheese sandwiches the next day, then slice the rest to have as a side dish for her lunch on the third day. I suppose she had a capsule meal plan, but she never called it that. She would just stick to the same familiar ingredients and use them in different ways. For example, now I buy many kinds of nuts, but maybe I don’t need to. I only remember her having walnuts, never any other kind of nut. But they might go on oatmeal, be a snack, top a salad, and be a dessert topping soaked in some maple syrup, etc. She would have found it very silly and wasteful to spend money buying a different type of nut when she already had walnuts in the house and she could do so much with the one kind she already had.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks very much

[@laurenj.5312]

I chuckled about the cucumber because my great-grandma would do the same with a tomato. She picked it from the garden and it lasted 3 meals. It was sliced for a sandwich, sliced for a salad and topped eggs. I do the same.

[@oliviafox6745]

My grandmom encouraged me to cook with her during summer visits. My favorite was gnocchi. This summer we plan to visit family and teach the grandkids how to make gnocchi.

[@fionahilcke8737]

I learnt to cook from my Mum, but she is a food snob and will only buy the best brands and the best cuts etc. I had to learn to be a frugal cook myself. Before KZbin I hounded the library shelves and borrowed recipe books. I wrote down useful recipes and learnt to substitute. My mum is an amazing cook, albeit and expensive one 😍

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks for sharing!

[@nettiefoo383]

Hi Jane, thank you for another great video. This is the way I've always cooked having spent a year deal of time with my grandparents who lived through the WW2 occupation of the Channel Islands. One extra trick I learned was that potatoes will "boil" in residual heat, as soon as the water is boiling pop a lid on and turn off the heat, they only take a few minutes longger to cook but it saves energy.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks Nettie

[@sueprice8190]

My mom was always talking about 'residual heat' - don't just heat the oven to make one dish. I put another dish in the oven when the first one comes out to save the cost of reheating the oven. Also make double/triple quantities

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks Sue

[@yellownightjar]

Yes always room for sweet potatoes, potatoes in the oven

[@belindacopson2390]

My mother was a good family cook when I was young and I still use many of her baking recipes. She gave me her 1960s budget cookbook 500 Budget Recipes, that she had when a young mother - it's a great resource and I still use it often.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

That is awesome!

[@mongedagain]

Pearl barley, dried peas and lentils to expand a stew, yummy

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Sounds great!

[@jeannettesmith1005]

Yep I do the same plus oats in mince to stretch and bulk it out

[@brendafarris7590]

Dear Jane, thank you for the giggle with a side of good sense. The young ones haven't been through this before, but every thirty years keeps us from losing the knowledge. Hope you and Mike have a restful weekend.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

You are so welcome!

[@carolbarnes5736]

Hi Jane. This was a great video. I was taught many of the things you have mentioned by my Mother when I was younger. I always add a good handful of porridge oats into mince when cooking it as it adds another portion at a much lower cost, it absorbs the cooking flavours and my husband and girls were oblivious to this trick for years. Another tip was to serve bread and butter with meals to fill those tummies. Mum would also give us peas as snacks at home as they were cheap to buy and we all loved peas, a real treat was peas in the pod. 2 of my sisters never ate crusts from bread, instead of stressing, Mum would freeze these in a bread bag (before the days of buying zip lock ones) when she had a bagful she would make a bread pudding, my family love a good bread pudding :)

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Well played mummy

[@shereebarends1997]

Raising a child as a single mother taught me some skills such as emptying the veggies drawer every Friday and making a huge stir-fry with noodles. I also made a hearty fish head cookup with lots of onions and tomato seasoned with cayyene pepper salt. That is still a treat in snoek season I make. You can boil those snoek head till it comes off the bone. Delicious.Stews can be bulked up with red lentils or sago. That sweet and sour curry is another favorite where you mix up a spoon of curry powder turmeric vinegar and sugar and taste till its right and cook up some chicken mutton or beef pieces. Whole portions of chicken are only for the big family dinner and not for during the week. Making a large pizza with the overripe tomatoes and leftover cheese also helps to lift the mood. In fact I ask the shopkeeper to sell me those overripe tomatoes and make a tomato sauce with herbs and freeze small containers full to use as a base for other meals such as pasta. I never bought the bottled tomato sauces but made my own. You can always use your oven to make muffins and bake your veggies such as onions butternut sweet potatoes at the same time. Spices keeps you warm and is added to a lot of stews to add flavor.

[@lindawhite5006]

Always a joy to watch your videos and at 65 I still learn a trick or two. One thing I learned from Grandmother was you can put anything in a pie crust and it becomes special! I remember as a child when she made pie crust she would bake the scraps of dough for me as a treat and they were delicious! Thank you for taking your time and sharing with us. 🇺🇸

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks for watching

[@jewelgaither1504]

My mom baked the pie crust scraps for us, too! She would sprinkle them with sugar, and we would eat them like cookies with home canned or frozen fruit for a special treat!

[@trishblack2418]

Hi ya Jane! You’ve nourished my soul today. I can tenderly remember my mom ( she was a depression era orphan) sharing some of the same wisdom

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks Trish.

[@alandoman-ig4oe]

Suet pastry. Absolutely wonderful stuff. Sweet or savoury it's a godsend. Almost any leftovers can go in a savoury pudding, then a couple of minute in the microwave and you have filling meal. One of my favourite dinners from my wartime childhood was steamed bacon and onion roll. Three slices of back bacon would feed a family. I still treat myself to the updated ( microwaved ) version now. Love your show. Thank you.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks very much

[@TheLongRunwithJoelandChristy]

Joel's mom used to mince up the celery, onions, and bell pepper for her cornbread dressing, because Joel didn't like onions. My parents had a different method. "You either eat what I cooked or you don't eat!" Needless to say that when I got hungry enough, I would eat whatever my mom made. lol

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

I’ll eat anything too.

[@gailm1230]

My parents both worked, so what was on the table was quite regulated. Mondays was ground beef, Tuesdays was pork chops, etc... It was always served with boiled potatoes and an orange or green veggie except for Sunday roast-- then the potatoes were mashed. This way of meal planning was boring for us kids, but when I became a mother, I understood the reasoning behind it. What was spent weekly could reliably be predicted based on this system. I stayed home with my kids, so was able to expand. My most extravagant memory from my mother was home made pizza, and fruit salad with home made bread. Or she'd take hot dog buns and fill them with celery, carrot, cold cuts, cheese and mustard/mayo. Today, balance seems to be what I concentrate on. And portion sizes!

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks Gail

[@evansbowen6897]

I'm a good plain cook and I am unapologetic about feeding home cooking to my guests. I found people love just having simple comfort food and are hungry for it when there is too much restaurant food. I also don't like to over feed my guests--enough with a treat for dessert but not so much that people feel stuffed. That is just a waste

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Love that! Healthy too.

[@janetharrah8407]

I am also a good plain cook. No one has ever complained about being served meatloaf and mashed potatoes, spaghetti and meatballs, chicken and biscuits, sausage and lentil soup, or chili and a baked potato. My kids love homemade mac n' cheese served with steamed broccoli. When given a choice, my kids rarely opt for restaurant food. Mom's dinner is best.

[@Cat-ik1wo]

Simple home cooking is the best. Food for the soul.

[@gladyschandler6724]

Thank you, Jane. I learned how to cook watching my mom at 12. From home economics class, I learned how to bake and would make it at home for us.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Wonderful!

[@sandramorton5510]

Thank you for sharing. Four children growing up I witnessed your tips many times. My family, many meals were in the slow cooker, always loaded my spaghetti sauce and meatloaf with veggies.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

All good home cooking

[@TermiteVideo]

Tip for your rendered beef fat; cooked your Yorkshire pudding in it- heaven!

[@katewalters6977]

My Mum became a wife and mother when my Dad came home from the war (I was an afterthought baby in 1960 😂). She often talked about those frugal days, living in two rented rooms, and her tip was that you could make most meals stretch further if they went in pastry 😉 Sausage plait was a big favourite. Thank you for your inspirational videos 😊 p.s. I could look at your kitchen tiles all day ❤

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks Kate

[@tikacalifornia7876]

Wow! you really hit the high points but one thing you left out is the one thing my Grandmother taught and that was to always serve a first course 15- 20 minutes before the main course. Things like salad and bread, soup and bread, other appetizers. This took the edge off of the red-raving hungries so that when the main meal arrived, smaller servings were satisfying. We would have a sweet at the end of the meal, but not always. Flour and sugar are relatively affordable, so the dessert course might be what's necessary for an otherwise small dinner. In my house, meat for meat's sake - like a steak, or slice of roast or piece of poultry don't see the table as often and more vegetarian meals are showing up here. Overall, I have been able to hold the line on the grocery bill, but I don't know for how much longer.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks for sharing

[@patricianorton3908]

Jan, our mothers learned well from our grandmothers. One of the best "treats" she made for us was 'special' potatoes. Because she hated carrots my grandmother came up with a solution called special potatoes. She would cook the potatoes with the carrots and then mash them together with butter and milk and salt. she didn’t hide the fact that carrots were on her least favorite list, but she made these and ate them with us. In my late teens I asked her why, if she hated carrots she ate this blend with us. She told me that she didn’t want to pass on her aversion to us kids, so she passed on this 'special' blend as a treat for us while being able to actually enjoy the carrots herself. Except for this one orange veg, she was not a picky eater. I caused her to sigh a lot because I certainly was!🙄. Patricia from New Hampshire 👵🏻

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks very much

[@alisonanthony1228]

I was the fussy eater in my family (still am if I'm honest). My Mum would use the "mashing other vegetables in with the potatoes " trick on me - she called it her Magic Vegetable which, if I ate it all, would magically produce extra pudding for me. It worked for years until I understood what was happening and refused to eat it any more!

[@barbaramonroe9110]

Another way of hiding nutritious foods is in smoothies. 😊 I love the idea of plain cooking, too. It is my preferred way of making meals. Thank you for your videos!

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

So true!

[@peterleprevost2154]

I’ve always been a plain cook. Here in US once cheaper cuts are now priced beyond practicality! This has slowly been happening over many years now. Shin bones etc for soup if available at all ridiculously expensive. Any bones saved after initial cooking still make excellent broths. Cooking meats bone in gives much better flavor. Thank you for sharing. Susan

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks Susan

[@stephenbertus5671]

I enjoy making stock / broth, but it is so hard to get animal bones from the butcher in The UK these days.

[@peterleprevost2154]

@@stephenbertus5671 I keep a bag in freezer and save all bones from chicken etc til there is enough to make a kettle of stock. Most meats now in our supermarkets come in all precut and wrapped. We do have a small butchers corner in the store but even they have little to offer for us old fashioned folks! 👵🏻 Susan

[@peterleprevost2154]

@@debbieframpton3857 We don’t have Kroegers here in my corner of the northeast...and the stores available have little to none marked down meats, but I do grab them when I can. Thanks. Susan

[@momof2momof2]

My son was a fussy eater when he was growing up. But when he became an adult he was willing to try everything. Now he eats everything ! My daughter has always eaten everything. Well thought out and presented video. Have a lovely day 🥰🌷❄☃💗✝

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks very much

[@tondamccarthy6537]

Love your experiences and that you share

[@mak2867]

We are grateful for your videos. TY. We make 10 lbs. of mashed idaho potatoes. We add in: carrots, butter, cream cheese. We freeze 6 family size individual portions. We make potato cheese pancakes, potato salad with the remainder.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Sounds great!

[@corinneleppard1933]

I am so thankful for pasta, it's not something I had growing up, other than occasional spaghetti. I remember my mum hiding cabbage in mashed potato as my brother didn't like greens, only for him to spend ages picking it out. She tried it again another week, adding in some tomato ketchup, which he also loved, and the whole lot got eaten! We ate lots of potatoes and root veg and my mum used to cook dumplings, mainly in the colder weather. My grandad used to insist on a steamed suet roll with almost every meal. My poor nan, but luckily she was a very good cook and taught me so much about how to squeeze pennies out of the food budget; she knew that the suet roll he insisted on would mean less need for meat.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks for watching

[@maureenmannion6748]

He'd eat the suet? Wow!

[@LauraMacMillan-el2kc]

As one of the ingredients in a bread roll. Yes.

[@janecopeland2306]

We lived far from my grandmothers and only saw them every few years so I didn't learn any cooking tips or tricks from them. I do remember my maternal grandmother used to make creamed mushrooms on toast. Toasted day old bread, liberally slathered with butter, with these lucious creamed mushrooms on top ..... It was SO delicious. And my paternal grandmother -- it was peaches. She lived in the Niagara region in Canada which is known for it's fruit. If we were visiting in peach season, she would get me scalding and peeling a bazillion peaches to make into pies, to can, to freeze, to make jam, cobblers. Everything peach. I loved it! Thanks for bringing back those fond memories.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

I only saw my grandparents once a year, thankfully granny taught my mum, she taught her kids and I taught mine

[@elisabethkalkman]

An absolute great subject! And I repeat seriously: why do you not write a book about all the things you are talking about?

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks for watching

[@gladyschandler6724]

I used leftover sauce from brisket to make a very rich lentil & farro soup.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Delicious

[@cindym4946]

Fabulous video Jane! I think there are many in my children’s generation who need to know more about cooking. This gives them a great start.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

They can and do learn to cook from tik tok

[@gladyschandler6724]

Cooking skills are important, and we have so many options and ways to learn how to cook anything. Be adventurous and find a new recipe that is frugal and tasty.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Yes! Thank you!

[@gladyschandler6724]

My culture we ate rice & beans, a small piece of meat, maybe a few Tostones fried plantains, and a slice of avocado is an amazing low-budget meal. Or we make a rice that has ham or pieces of beef (you use less and stretch your budget).

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Sounds great!

[@vivyvv3624]

Where are you from Gladys ?

[@samanthal562]

Absolutely love pilchards in tomato sauce on toast, and another of my favourite meals is liver and bacon casserole, so good for you. We are having beef stew and dumplings tonight, good old fashioned plain cooking, filling and nutritious and made in the slow cooker so it was effortless to make, popped it in this morning before work. Thanks for another great video Jane.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Sounds great!

[@barbaraboom5377]

Lovely video! About the skills and culinairy historie; I just made a little booklet with old family and friends recipes and photo’s. Now also the younger generation knows my culinairy history and can always look up the recipes of my grandmothers, mother, me and my friends. Loved to do it and they are delighted with it ❤️

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Sounds great!

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks for watching, please hit the like button 🎉

[@jenniferchapman9645]

When I first got married over 40 yrs ago I always cooked a good meal but never could be faffing with a pudding (had a busy job always late home ) my husband went on and on about his mums home made rice pudding so I bought a tin of rice pudding put some cream in it and nutmeg on top said it was just as good as mum's doesn't know to this day !!!😂

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks for sharing

[@janelockwood347]

As a child, my mother and father were given Yorkshire puddings and gravy BEFORE the meal was served- that partially filled their tummies so less meat was needed! Lots of vegetables and some meat were the norm!

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

We had yorkies with most meals.

[@lorrainelove6533]

This is one of my most favorite videos you've made and I love all your content. I too grew up in hard and frugal times and am so grateful for those slkills now. I appreciate all you and your husband do :)

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thank you so much!

[@carinacheralley1345]

OMG you forgot the most important reason for keeping beef drippings--the best meal extender--Yorkshire puds, lol. Loved this vid. Thank You from Alberta, Canada.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

So delicious

[@rachaelhearn6957]

As a mother of 2 boys with autism i agree with all your food hiding techniques and have used them all. My youngest would easily of just eaten nuggests, chips and ketchup if i had let him but now ages 6 he eats a very varied diet some hidden and some not.

[@rosemarydoran9907]

Fussy eater here! There are some things that I don't like in their own mustard and onions for example) but I can tolerate mustard and onion in potato salad because neither are the primary flavor. I agree that blending vegetables into dishes is a great way to hide them in soups and casseroles. And "decanting" generic and store brands are wonderful for hiding the plain label brand! My parents were raised in the 1920's-1930's and my grandmothers' raised 5 and 8 children. Times were tight and my mom and aunts could pinch a penny and stretch a dollar. They taught me well. Being a one-person household, I am not as likely to make big meals very often. But when I do I save extra portions for later meals either over the next day or two or I will freeze portions for later so I don't get too tired of eating the same thing. I frequently will just have toast and coffee in the morning and then maybe a sandwich later in the day. I've learned I need to eat less now that I no longer work. My dad loved liver and onions! Maybe he ate it growing up in the 1920's? I grew up eating canned tuna and salmon. Salmon is my favorite fish to this day. I live in the Midwest United States so we are very landlocked. Fresh fish has to be imported and therefore is very expensive. I don't get it very often but I will buy a large piece of salmon at a good price at our area Club stores. I cut it into individual portions and then freeze them to use at later times. It's very easy to bake up a piece of salmon with a little bit of dill sauce on top of it and it makes a wonderful meal. I am around your age I believe and I grew up in the 70s and actually had home economics classes in junior high school as well as in girl scouts so I not only had some educational training on cooking I also helped my mom in the kitchen a lot. I was more of a baker than a cook but I've evolved into doing more cooking than baking now. I'm certainly no expert but I can certainly put together a decent, tasty and nutritious meal. It is a little more challenging now since my stroke and I only have the use of one arm so I've had to rely on things like my stand mixer and food processor more to do the shopping and mixing for me but fortunately I had many of those items prior to my stroke so I have just put them to use. Thank you for such a wonderful video with all of your encouraging tips and opportunities to show us how you do stretch a dollar in the kitchen. We had a pretty tight food budget when I was growing up and I used to get so upset with my mom when she would buy the store brand of most items at the grocery store. Now that it's my money paying for the groceries and I think that store in generic brands have gotten much better over the last 20 years, I primarily only by generics. I can count on one hand I don't even need all five fingers to do it to tell you the number of store brands that I didn't care for over the name brand. There are a few things that I do by the name brand of either because there isn't a generic of it or I didn't care for the generic but most of the time I'm buying the store brand unless the name brand is on sale and it's a better price. If you do this, you're going to save here in the US I would say 15 to 30% over always buying the name brand. Most store brands in the US offer you a money back guarantee if you don't like it so you really aren't out anyting. If you buy the cereal and your kids find out it's a store brand and they say they can't stand it you can always return it and get your money back. But if you put it in a Tupperware type canister I bet they won't know the difference! As long as they don't see that it's the store brand they probably won't taste a difference. Hello to Mike and also to the adorable Mary & Dolly!

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks for watching

[@azgardenlover370]

My mother taught me to hot water bath can when I was young. Later she had to start working, so I took over the shopping and a lot of the cooking when I was 12 or so. It was very good experience for me. My son took cooking classes in high school so he can cook quite well. My daughter was only interested in the baking side while she was growing up, but when she moved out, I hand wrote her a cookbook of all her favorite dishes from when she was growing up, even the ones that were " a pinch of this and some of that" since there are very few things I use a written recipe for. Now she is a very good cook, but she still asks "how do I do this"? I enjoy being able to share that with her.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks for watching

[@bobbieJ777]

My parents didn't start their family until they were in their forties. So in a sense, I was raised by parents old enough to be my grandparents. During the depression, my mom had to drop out of school in eighth grade to work and help support the family. She was frugal due to necessity and her frugality carried over into their marriage. My mom was an excellent cook and knew how to make food stretch. Nothing was ever thrown out. I don't remember her experimenting with new recipes. We had the same rotation of meals every week or two. I liked what you said about not trying something new during these economic times. That really makes sense. You don't want to waste your money on food that isn't going to be eaten. My husband and I starting canning again this past year. It is something both our moms taught us to do. I love making my own jams, jellies and pickles. We just bought a freezer and we plan on growing and freezing vegetables this summer. It also comes in hand when we can get meat at a really good price. Thanks for sharing your life with us. We enjoy your show.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks for watching

[@margaretthompson5491]

I remember my grandmother serving huge yorkshire puddings and gravy before the meat and veg to fill up hungry tummies. M x

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Absolutely delicious

[@SolaLuna67]

Hello Jane & Michael, What you presented was very useful, and it acknowledges the wisdom of our parents, grandparents, etc. I wasn't a fussy eater, quite the opposite 😆. But my mother was a great, plain cook of tasty everyday meals too. By the way, I really like your kitchen wall tiles and the variety of patterns that are present. The colors are lovely and pleasant to look at.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks very much

[@ksewald91]

Raised by a depression era mom that was a teen as WWII rationing hit. I learned to cook, bake, sew, knit, crochet, and embroidery from her and her mom. Most of my kids are good cooks too. Lots of old fashion skills passed down through the generations.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Good stuff

[@judyreynolds305]

Same here!

[@zblingcreations6445]

My dad used to make liver with onions 🧅 and it was delicious we made a sandwich 🥪 ohh delicious 😋

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Sounds great!

[@queenmarymullin7345]

Save potato,carrot skins for vegetable broth

[@amynau3904]

We have so much food snobbery nowadays many people do not know how to cook some of these basics. This was great video-thank you!

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

You are so welcome!

[@gwenfehr9156]

When my children were small I had a problem getting them to eat their vegetables. When I made lasagna I would put broccoli, mushrooms and peppers in a food processor and blend them very small. Then I added it to the meat sauce. The kids never saw the vegetables in the lasagna, and enjoyed eating it. I didn’t tell them about it until they were adults, well into their 20’s. They realized they had a very sneaky mom.

[@ivanahanus5101]

Hi Jane. thank you for a great video. I used to hide the veggies in soups and gravies by blending them so that my children would not suspect it. I would also make "meat balls" from chicken livers for the soup and they loved it, without knowing what was in them. Chicken livers are much cheaper than the meat so I learned to cook these from my mother/grandmother. We always had a very tight budget so I would find ways to make frugal meals to keep the family happy. Left overs were/are re-used to make another meal.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks so much for sharing

[@arlenedowdall2011]

Any small amounts of cooked leftover vegetables, gravy or canned tomatoes go into a container in the freezer and are added to my soups. The soup is very good with my tea biscuits....cheap and healthy.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks for sharing

[@cyclingonplants7444]

Hi Jane and Mike 🤗I remember my mom who was French Canadian making things like a big pot of spaghetti sauce and not just one but two meatloaves at a time so we could eat it for many days(can we say meatloaf sandwich? so good!) also a lot of soups and stews with meatballs and a roast of pork on special occasions (Roti Blanc). She would also batch cook pancakes and then my sister and I could just pop a couple in the toaster to enjoy for breakfast or an after school snack with a bit of butter and jam. We ate a lot of tinned fish as well. Sardines on toast was a fave of mine. I remember my dad doing a lot of cooking too. He came from Madeira Island and cooked a lot with salt cod. This is when it was super cheap nowadays it's more than steak! but he made a lot of casseroles and fish cakes with it. All so delicious Dad also made a boiled dinner type of thing with fresh cod fish, cabbage wedges and potatoes. We never had desserts much but she would make a French Canadian Tourtierre( meat pie) and always took some extra pastry to make some little jam tarts as a special treat! Yum!😋

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

All great meals

[@grandmafreeman6618]

Food allergies are so real because I suffer from so many allergies and it is so difficult to pin point which foods are causing my allergies. Also, certain foods do not mix well together and could cause digestion problems. When I was little, My mother cooked a pot of beans every Monday. And then, when I was raising my family that became my specialty.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Sorry to hear that. Take care.

[@abbeyl6115]

One of my autistic grandsons about toddler age started violent vomiting after certain meals. After the dad's several moves with his construction work both in and out of state, my daughter realized there is a chemical preservative sprayed on soft breads and desserts. This includes the deli aisle and also the cookie aisle. He can have homemade from box recipes or hard cookies. An occasional PopTart as a treat is fine. Years before he was borne, I also was having stomach issues from digestion. Dave's Organic Killer Bread and Ezekiel bread from the fridge-freezer section I can eat a lot of, no problem. Cannot eat dairy foods unless organic which is from fresh grass and not the cheapy dairy which the various grains to feed the cows from seed to warehouse storage are chemical and pesticide heavily laden. My hot and cold cereals are either Muesli or oat based. Granola is the same as Museli but loaded with sugar and about 145calories more per serving. My daughter and grandsons are following my diet changes slowly and appreciating better health. Yesterday at the grocery store, the deli has a fresh sushi section and I treated them to lunch. They like sushi anyways and we chatted about the comparison of price for sushi about the same as fastfood. Plus we did not have to burn gas waiting in a fastfood line. I also bought a side of seaweed salad bowl for $5. Three ingredients. Grandma has not gotten much into cooking yet they are taken aback when I told them I am getting the book for our area beaches and going to extend the food budget a bit by seaweed foraging. Hope this info helps you to start a better way of focusing and narrowing down 'trouble on the stomach' problematic foods. As for milk, I switched to oat milk but make smaller batches with oat flour with a circular wire blender whisk but it's a bit grainy so a personal blender on the list. Depending on the cost of all ingredients, this milk can be made about half the cost than purchased at the grocery stores.

[@gretelwhite8088]

I admit I can't boil and egg or make omlettes or quiche, but I wouldn't be able to eat it either, being allergic to eggs!

[@georgiawise8375]

Spicy jalapeños lentil and ground beef cooks quick amount and healthier.

[@katiefranklin5055]

We did not eat out often. When we did eat out, we usually went out for breakfast. It is the cheapest meal to eat in a restaurant. My father, who lives in a nursing home, still prefers to go out to breakfast (instead of lunch or supper) because it is so economical. Sometimes we ordered take-out pizza on a Friday night. We only got one large pepperoni pizza for the four of us, so we each got 2 pieces of pizza. And if we got McDonald's, we each got one hamburger and one small fry. Basically, we did not order big portions of anything. I never saw anyone in my family order a Big Mac. We rarely ordered soft drinks in a restaurant, and if we did, it was only one per person. We were not allowed to have a second soda, or dessert. I still remember the first time that we took my friend out to dinner with us, and she ordered a second drink. My parents were polite and did not say anything. I know that they were a bit taken aback, however (as were my sister and I). These are just little things, but it did save money in the long run. To this day, I almost always order water to drink in a restaurant. And we never order appetizers or dessert.

[@marypeterson1053]

Thank you for helping stay on the road to eating well and saving money.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

You are so welcome

[@colleenwood8220]

Our oldest son refused to eat potatoes unless they were French fries- I’m American and yes, we eat way too many of them- but when he went to college, he learned to eat what they had. He refused to eat mayonnaise and I found a recipe for a grilled roast beef sandwich that had mayonnaise and green chilis on them. I made them once a month and it took him three years to figure it out. He’s 33 and still brings up my “deception”. He’s now married to a dietitian and she really has an interesting time making meals. This is one tip I have- when the crash of ‘08 happened, we were blinded-sided by a huge cut in pay. We had 3 teenagers at the time. I looked up how to cook dried beans and made refried beans in the crockpot. They smell like beef cooking! I decided that if no one ate them, I’d have them for myself, no harm done. I made burritos and everyone loved them. Beans freeze well, so I went onto lots of other beans and they went over well in soups. This was a wonderful video. Thank you!

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks for sharing

[@sandrataylor3723]

Here in the USA, ox tails cost more per pound than steak does. I'm 67 and grew up eating ox tails because they were cheap but in the past 15 or so years, they have shot up in price so much that a poor person can't buy them just like steak is out of their reach. I only buy canned sardines, canned tuna, the least expensive hamburger meat and chicken leg quarters. Sausages, pork, beef roast, pot roast, and fish are just way too expensive for me. I'm frugal and I too follow the ways of my grandparents when it comes to frugality. It's a lifesaver.

[@shawna620]

My mom taught us girls how to cook. Also was in 4-H cooking & took home economics classes. I know the basics.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Good to hear that

[@jenniferwang3489]

My dads mom taught me how to read a recipe, set up ingredients, clean as you go. My moms mom showed me how to make frugal foods for a crowd. She showed me how to make homemade egg noodles and Donkey Dough. Donkey Dough was the leftover pie crust pieces that you baked off and got to munch on while the rest of the pie cooled off.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Love that!

[@mrssomuchmore7193]

When we were kids the excess pie crust dough got rolled out and then buttered and sprinkled with cinnamon and sugar and baked. We called them elephant tracks!

[@jenniferwang3489]

@@mrssomuchmore7193 that sounds good. I think she may have used a little butter, and possibly a little sugar. She (mom's mom, aka Grammy) grew up around the middle of 13 kids, her mom died in childbirth with the youngest. So her job as part of the middle was making meals, as the older kid shad to work the farm. I don't think they had much extra sugar, so even as an adult she didn't use a lot of sugar in things. She told me many times when they went to school all they had was biscuits with butter on them for their lunch. But all the other kids were poor too, so no one ever acted like they were better than anyone else. My dad's mom was an only child. Actually both my grandmas grew to be great friends, even after my parent's split up.

[@lorrainreed3378]

My grandmother was a young woman in the depression. My mom always said that she could make a penny squeal. My favorite meals that she cooked were fried potatoes and cabbage, sometimes with sausages. My mom learned a lot from her. My dad and his 8 brothers took a potato to school for their lunch and ate them raw. When I was a child, we had a large garden and chickens, berry bushes, and the neighbors had an apple tree. My mom would trade them some homemade strawberry jam for apples. My mom canned everything. My dad made sauerkraut. We had many meals without meat, but we always had plenty of eggs. I learned a lot from my mom and her mom.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Great lessons

[@stephenbertus5671]

Dear Jane, last weekend I invented a meal that is a variation on a vegetable stew that I eat daily because I love it so much. I have a 20m x 10m garden and an allotment of about the same size. I grow enough veg, tobacco, fruit and duck / duck eggs to see me in food, smokes and wine all year around. My meal invention is a veg stew with a hard boiled egg as animal protein substitute. mmm, I've solved my main meal of the day for life. P.S. I also generate my own electric and heat with wood / coal, toasty warm.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

You’re living the dream.

[@stephenbertus5671]

Oh yes, I also have four cats that only like shop food - help please anyone !

[@stephenbertus5671]

Apart from thee four cats, yes I am living the dream, but they are the nightmare, lol.

[@martinaj.9266]

It's all about skills. And - as you mentioned - using cheaper cuts of meat. I watched my parents cook from scatch. I learned a lot. And I'm a bit proud that my three children (all in their 20ies) also are able to cook meals on their own. They see me growing a vegetable garden every year. They see me canning. They learned that it is not too difficult to bake cakes. Your advice with you tube videos is good but buying an old fashioned cook book seems to be better. I made the experience that recipes from videos often don't work so well.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks Martina

[@kamicrum4408]

My sin lived kefiver backed pitaties as an after svhool snack with a little butter!😊 EZ and filledbhis bottomless pitvtummy!

[@lk9637]

My grandmothers and mother taught me to grow a garden, pressure can and freeze the harvest, raise and butcher chickens, and turn simple ingredients into nutritious meals. Living through the depression and rationing gave them skills and knowledge that was passed on to me. I was taught that if food is good enough to be on the table, it is good enough to eat without turning up my nose. I am forever grateful for them.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Those were great lessons

[@kaykrausman8012]

I love my slow cooker for cheaper cuts of meat, as they come out very tender. There's a difference between your area and ours in that chicken here is much cheaper than what your chicken sells for, but oxtail here is as high as a premium steak, per pound. 😥 homemade cookies ARE so much cheaper than store bought and so much better. Basic cooking skills are so very helpful😊 I didn't have a mother or grandmother to learn cooking from,and could literally burn water😖 but when I was older, I learned the basics from my Dad and then, got a few used cookbooks from the thrift shops and just tried new recipes. From there, it grew. I went to Culinary school when I was 54 and learned so much. But, I'm still learning. Currently, I am learning how to cook Korean dishes. You are never too old to learn something new.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks for watching

[@bettyhowatt8167]

Awesome ideas as usual! Love those fur babies!

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks so much!

[@pigletsbank437]

Fish cakes are soo dilicious with some fresh chives or parsley from the balcony or a drop of fish sauce, thanks for reminding me👍

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

So good!

[@garygnagey3569]

A great video! Our one son only likes chicken breast, but I use thighs instead by taking the cooked meat off the bone and mixing with black beans for chicken enchiladas, stir fry’s with lots of vegetables, soups, and casseroles with gravy or sauce. He is none the wiser. Lettuce is outrageous here in Pennsylvania, USA. I have replaced it with cabbage not only as coleslaw but as tossed salad mixed with on sale vegetables like radishes and carrots. My mother made a simple salad dressing by sprinkling wine vinegar over the surface of your salad. It doesn’t matter how big or small just sprinkle over the top. Drizzle with olive oil the same. Light salt, pepper, sprinkle with pinch of sugar. Add any seasonings you like. Toss. This is much cheaper than commercial dressings. We also ate chicken and beef liver. I recently tried beef heart which was pleasantly like steak. I found out how to prepare it on KZbin. I still have a jar of broth from cooking it in my slow cooker to use in vegetable soup. The beef flavor is delicious!

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

You can lea4n everything from you tube

[@kamicrum4408]

I raise my 3chikdren in stire brands if well, everything pancake syrup. Ect. To this day they still prefer the store brands, to the name brand! At every meal my grabd ma served a plate if sliced bread on the table. If still hungsry after eatingbyourbplate, have a slice if bread with butter, growingnup,I thought this was the norm!

[@nata3467]

Bean based soups in crockpot...cheap ,varied and low effort

[@karen2494]

Growing up my frugal mother could feed a family of six, three meals with one chicken. We would have baked chicken for Sunday dinner, along with potatoes, gravy & , a vegetable. The next day she would make a potpie with the leftovers. Then she would cook the chicken bones & skin in water to make broth, & get the last bit of meat off the bones. Then she would make it into a delicious soup.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Love that!

[@robinkline5600]

I can get my grandaughter to eat broccoli if I melt velveeta cheese on top of it. My mother was born in 1914 so I learned to cook from scratch from her. There was no packaged food back then. I still make salmon patties, tuna melts, tuna cassarole, etc

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks Robin

[@pamplant3610]

Jane, I had a nice chuckle at you suggesting hiding foods so picky eaters won't know. Well, no matter how my mother tried, I could always tell when she added celery and I still wouldn't eat it. Another thing she tried to fool me with was milk straight from the cow. I wouldn't drink it. Couldn't get past the smell. She said it was all in my head until she went so far as to put the milk into an empty milk carton from the grocery store. I took one sip and told her that the milk smelled and tasted funny and refused to drink it. That's when she realized I actually could tell the difference. Hope you got a good chuckle from this.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks for sharing

[@ohmcintyre2067]

Ha! Me, too! When very young we would visit a great-aunt in the country who milked her own cows and the milk … tasted funny. Later she would buy small cartons of “store-bought” milk for me - never shaming me for not liking fresh milk. It was so kind of her to do that. (I loved “helping” her milk the cows - not that I ever got much out - and churning the clabbered milk into butter!)

[@elizaC3024]

I always soaked the liver in milk to tenderize it, and then after cooking the liver in bacon drippings, then remove liver and use the milk in the roux made from flour in the bacon drippings to make a gravy for over the potatoes and liver, no waste. 😊

[@elizaC3024]

Bulk with oats, rice, bread crumbs all ground meats.

[@wildthing6668813]

When I was young I would only eat egg and chips, now I eat almost anything. The grandson will only eat certain things, he once wanted chicken nuggets so I chopped up a chicken breast battered them and he wouldn't eat them claiming they weren't real chicken nuggets and in a restaurant he ordered a cheese pizza but when it came with sliced tomato on the top he wouldn't eat it because he said he didn't like tomato but once the sliced tomato was taken off he ate it then was told he had eaten the tomato as that was the base under the cheese.

[@gretelwhite8088]

I remember a friend seeing she hadn't got enough lunch prepared for the hoards that were about to descend. I asked if she had some tinned beans, butter beans and baked beans were added to bulk out the stew. We called it 'cowboy stew' and it went down a treat with the kids and adults alike.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks for sharing

[@MsChannigan]

I learned basic cooking skills from mother... These days, I keep a small repertory of cheap but great tasting meals. I rely on buying pork tenderloin or loin which I flatten thinly for breaded schnitzel... it is cheap and delicious. Hamburger meat which I often find at 30% off these days, because I think the stores are not selling through as people are strapped. I mix it with chopped sautee'd onion and spices and make them into croquettes, fry them, add wine or any liquid and two spoons of tomato puree, and let them stew till tender (because hamburger meat often has gristly bits in it... this avoids this problem entirely as they become very tender). Fish filets which I bread or steam. Canned sardines are great for work lunches with salad. Chicken which I cook as fajitas and serve in keto tortillas... tasty and easy. And liver... I have begun serving it once a week. My Mum's way of making it is to cut it into thin strips, marinate the strips of liver in a mixture of chopped garlic... lots of it, and powdered coriander, lots of that too, plus salt... let it marinate for 24 hours in the fridge then slowly fry in la mixture of oil and butter. It is so good for you and about 2 Canadian dollars serves 3 meals of this. Then you have all the egg dishes you mentioned... there's bout a week of meals that I rotate with sides of sautee'd and slow cooked veg, and this is how we are getting through this difficult time without spending too much more than usual.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks for watching

[@sharonparsons9804]

Had to stop the video and relate the story of the stealth veggies 😂 My grandson had an aversion to veggies of colour (he would only eat the white ones…potato and cauliflower with white sauce….putting little bits of onion, carrot and mushroom on the edge of his plate, just like his dad) My daughter was beside herself, thinking that he wasn’t getting all the nutrients he needed. We invented the ‘Stealth Spaghetti Sauce’ It had onion, garlic, grated carrots, mushrooms, zucchini, pumpkin, capsicum etc., all blended with the tomato sauce base. ‘Ah!’ my grandson would say ‘I really like Grandma’s Spaghetti Sauce best’ Sharon from Australia 🇦🇺 🦘

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Great story

[@gladyschandler6724]

Air fry, any root veggies are tasty.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Yes they are

[@lil-al]

Pretty much any leftovers can go in a pie.

[@stacel1972]

Thank you both😀

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Our pleasure!

[@sharonmcgee8178]

Thank you for your frugal tips in the kitchen.❤️

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

You are so welcome!

[@kenneth7610]

Very informative video-thank you!

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Glad it was helpful!

[@harmonyln7]

I forgot to say, one great meal we had was bubble and squeatk, or even sausage and mash. I've got some potatoes hanging around, so as well as everything else I'm thinking to mash what's left of the potatoesand get some vegan sausages and make sausage and mash, then put this tin of baked with it. What do you think?

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Good stuff!

[@decdavey6470]

Fussy eating has never existed in any branch of my family. It's not allowed.

[@FrugalQueeninFrance]

Thanks for watching