Homemaking & Living on a Budget in South Africa

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Tomato Sauce for Pasta & Pizza

Tomato Sauce & Pasta

    This easy-to-make, cheap yet so delicious tomato sauce is great as a pasta sauce and for topping homemade pizzas. I’ve been using this recipe for as long as I can remember and I’m sharing it with you today. I think most homemade tomato sauce recipes are very similar and it’s probably a matter […]

Baba Ganoush Recipe (Roasted Brinjal ...

Baba Ganoush

    Baba Ganoush, or roasted Brinjal dip, is one of our favourite dips/spreads. It is so easy to make and can also be quite cheap to make as well.   If you’ve read my post Fruits & Veggies on Special This Week (12/06/16) you’ll know that I bought a 5kg box of brinjals for […]

Freezing Lemon Juice & Rind

Lemons

    If you’ve read my post Marmalade: It’s cheaper to make it at home you’ll know that our lemon tree produced fruit for the first time since we planted it four years ago. We couldn’t have been happier to see it finally bear some fruit! Some of the lemons I used to make marmalade […]

Quince Konfyt (Preserve)

Quince

  I don’t normally buy quince. This week, however, I received a few as a gift. I was delighted! And it didn’t take me very long to decide what to do with them: make quince konfyt (preserve). As the days get colder and colder, I seem to yearn for comfort foods and the lovely aroma […]

Marmalade: it’s cheaper to make it at...

Oranges and Lemons

  Our beautiful lemon tree has produced fruit for the first time since we planted it four years ago. It was growing so slowly for the first three years and we thought we were never going to see any lemons on it. We were wrong. We had beautiful white flowers bloom last spring and sometime […]

Is Homemade Bread Healthier and Cheap...

Homemade Bread

  Is homemade bread healthier and cheaper? Yes to both! Should we feel guilty about having a slice of freshly baked, wholesome bread? Yes? No? Well, maybe only a little, and only if you make it at home using the right flour. When we made our very first loaf of bread in the bread maker […]

Overnight Oatmeal with Chia & Ra...

Overnight Oatmeal

  If you’ve read my post January Finds & Grocery Savings, you’ll know that I received some freebies from my very first order at Faithful to Nature. One of those freebies was a packet of Oaty Chia Raw Cacao which sat on the kitchen counter for a couple of days while I wondered what to […]

Chicken Broth in the Slow Cooker

Chicken Broth in the Slow Cooker

  I’ve been making chicken broth in a very large stock pot on the stove for as long as I can remember. But, having a pot of anything boiling on the stove for several hours uses up electricity, and money, plus there is a whole lot of hovering over the stove, stirring, sipping and adjusting […]

Roast Chicken in the Slow Cooker

Roast Chicken and Potatoes

  The more I use my slow cooker, the more I love it! Would you believe that the slow cooker can actually roast a whole chicken to tenderness and perfection, and with no oil? I almost couldn’t believe it! My husband thought it was just going to burn in there with no liquid at all. […]

Make Sushi at Home: It’s Much C...

Sushi

  Not everyone is a fan of sushi, I know, but we love it! If you do as well I’m sure you also know how much it costs to have sushi for a takeaway or as a sit-down meal or even a snack at a restaurant in South Africa. For us, as frugal as we […]

Welcome to Frugal in SA

 
Living life more frugally and more economically in South Africa is what Frugal in SA is all about. I love to cook and bake on a budget and I’m always looking for ways to save on household expenses each month. My faith encourages me to live a life free from debt, to be less wasteful and ever more resourceful. I hope you will find inspiration in these pages. Happy Frugal Living!

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