The Penurious Kitchen

Happy New Year, everyone! My New Year's resolution is to cook more beans, chickpeas, and lentils. (The added advantage is that they'...

No, I didn't push my thriftiness to new brilliance, but $15.01 was all I needed to spend because of the giant amounts of food I still ha...

Further to my resolution to cook more with beans and lentils, I present my much-experimented, hard-won split pea soup. I was raised on split...

Christmas came and went, and with it, my super-generous mother-in-law. I know we claim to be hard up, but really, we are so lucky to have th...

I would write a long post about how to make a thrifty Christmas dinner, but it would be a bit disingenuous of me given that our house is ful...

For a few years, during my student days, I was a vegan. It was mostly out of laziness and dislike of making an effort to cook fancy food for...

This week I made a concentrated effort to keep prices down. Christmas is coming, and Christmas eats money. With this in mind, I tried to f...