Skip to content

Forgotten your password?
Not yet a member? View benefits and register here

Frugal yet fantastic...

As Delia reissues Frugal Food, we thought it timely to focus on eating cheaply without sacrificing taste: 20 recipes from the book, cheap eats from the site, advice on buying frugally and a special offer to buy the book for just £14 incl p&p.

Buy Frugal Food for thrify eating

Cheap but cheerful!

herring
Feast your eyes on these fabulous recipes from Delia's Frugal Food, including casseroles, week-night chicken and pulses.

Beat the credit crunch...

How to cut your food bills

From buying foods in season to seeking out cheap custs of meat and offal, there are plenty of ways in which you can reduce the costs of eating - why not think wartime rationing and cut out all those unhealthy snacks too?

Click here for advice on eating economically

All about ingredients...

Raw Oxtail 230Visit our ingredients section where Delia covers over 200 ingredients, telling you what to look out for when buying, how to prepare and cook and when they're in season, including such money savers as oxtail (left), oily fish and cheap cust of meat. Frugal cooks should also take a look at our cookery school, where there are step-by-step techniques for casseroling and over 60 other skills.

Ingredients
How to...

competitions