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Tasty meals on a frugal budget. #mealsoftheweek #frugalfood #clafoutis
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Tasty meals on a frugal budget. #mealsoftheweek #frugalfood #clafoutis

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In France, cooking on a budget during a heatwave becomes less about elaborate meals and more about getting sensible, filling food on the table without turning the kitchen into a furnace or bankrupting yourself at the supermarket. With food prices steadily climbing, a lot of people are quietly abandoning the fantasy of beautiful market-table spreads and going back to simple, practical meals that work in hot weather. The French have long understood the value of eating seasonally. You also learn very quickly during a heatwave that nobody wants heavy food or a boiling kitchen. The reality now is that many households are adapting not out of some romantic rustic lifestyle, but because rising electricity bills, expensive meat, and eye-watering supermarket prices leave very little room for waste or convenience foods.

Clafoutis BBC Recipe:

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/cherry_clafoutis_18623

Frugal Queen in France

We are a British couple living in the south of France on a budget.
Frugal recipes, days out, home renovations and day to day making do in France.

We’ll give you hints, tips, advice and an insight into our life in France.

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48 Comments

  1. @davidn1375

    Hi both. Your meals look delicious as always 👅 😊
    Hope it's not too hot down there…. It's been roasting here in southern England for a few days, with record May temperatures, and although things are cooling slightly it is still forecast to hit 26 degrees C tomorrow here in Hampshire. News reports suggest the heatwave has hit most of Europe! Yikes!!

  3. @BrittanyLucy

    Really enjoyed the clafoutis making session; I've not tried to make it for years and when I did it was too floury and chewy, like you said, more like batter pudding with cherries in! I'm so glad you stoned your cherries; I gather some French purists maintain you should leave the stones in for the almond flavour, the very thought of which makes me begin to choke!

  5. @sarahhowell685

    My pup's mum is called Mary Puppins ,my pup is Pip Puppins you may remember I commented before ,Pip is now 10 months old .Lovely meals btw x

  6. @kelliesayers2202

    Jane, such a classic we had it this week in Melbourne Australia. Beans, eggs, chips and the required sauso added for hubby.

  9. @elaineatthecraftshed1993

    Another varied selection of meals. Like you we didn't want to heat up the kitchen in our UK heatwave. I made big bowls of minty cous cous salad, a chickpea, potato and green bean salad, roast vegetables and a large foccacia loaf and with hummus that served us well for a few days keeping it all well refrigerated. Definitely worth the effort at the beginning of the high temperatures.

  11. @cherryknott7233

    Thanks, Jane, for sharing your tasty & inspirational recipes, I'm going to try making your gluten free pizza the crust sounds interesting, always up for a new taste experience, and as cherries are my favourite fruit & I have a lot of frozen cherries going to make the cherry clafoutis for this week's desert treat! Lovely to see you in the sunny warm garden with Mary Poppins

  12. @aaac1561

    very courageous to do that much cooking during the canicule!! the cherries i bought weren't great. I heard from French friends that you need to leave the pits in the cherries as they impart a better flavour…. but I would also pit them as I hate having to spit them out from cake!

  19. @Funandfrugalinretirement

    Thanks for sharing!! We ( 2 of us) bought a 6 lb chicken for 11$ and are planning to make a traditional chicken, potato and carrot and stuffing meal / stuffed peppers and vegetables/ chicken pot pie/ chicken and fried rice/ and soup/. Multiple meals for an 11$ chicken! Now mind you we don’t use the chicken as the main part of the meal! Love that you cook frugally and you share your meals!!! Thanks so much for sharing! 😊

  20. @kfranklin9

    Yummy looking soup, nice and thick, at first I thought it was lentils, which I love. When I do my beans I use pinto beans and make what we call pot beans, just onion garlic water beans and salt and pepper…cook till tender. Every time I watch your food videos I get hungry LOL.

  21. @debbiegnagey2095

    Monday we had fried eggplant, corn, roasted cauliflower, tossed salad. Tuesday was turkey tenderloin, mashed potatoes, gravy, mixed vegetables. Wednesday was a simple lasagna with salad, Thursday was chicken cacciatore with an arugula salad and Today was chicken soup with and carrots and watermelon.

  22. @AK-gh6cp

    Ooooooh, that clafoutis looks so decadent and delightful! Thank you for sharing. 🙂 It isn't cherry season here yet (I live across the pond in eastern Canada), but I will be making this in a month or so. <3 Thank you!!!

  27. @kakelinga

    Thank you so much for showing us how you make your custard. I am gluten free and wanted to see your recipe. Very creative and some simple healthy meals. Thank you for reminding us how to make a gluten free crust for pizza. I always love the look of your pizzas.

  29. @lynnoorman2144

    Jayne imo – folks like your 'what I bought'/ 'what Ive eaten' videos for inspiration as to what to cook each week! For someone who doesnt like cooking you make an amazing variety of interesting and healthy meals. U do admire how you keep on at it!

  35. @Barneysma

    Thank you for sharing your meals and the cherry dessert. I am always concerned that your food is going cold while you film for us 😊

  38. @TamsieBingham

    Jane what a fantastic assortment of meals🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉. I love how yoi can think on your feet when the weather changes, and have to say i would happily sat i would be well chuffed to eat any of them. Really appreciate and enjoyed this.
    Many thanks guys.🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉🎉❤❤

  39. @sandram5664

    What a great string of yummy meals! I tend to rotate between only about 10 menus so I love your variety. I’m definitely going to try that clafoutis recipe. It looked gorgeous!

  41. @iriswelch3553

    Everything looks wonderful! Tonight I am making a red lentil soup with African spices, which will also give us several lunches.

  42. @Dinks7

    Thank you Jane for sharing your most delicious, colourful , healthy & inspiring meals with us.

  48. @clydare

    Such delicious ideas for us all to try out. Thank you so much for the inspiration 😊😊😊

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