over plain rice, and was very happy with it – she loved the coconut-milk sauce. Frugal diner note: you get a TON of food for $8 – I ate the rest for dinner the following night. True Thai for Laab and Papaya Salad and...

that if you are not frugal by nature (and I am not) it can be very easy to be taken in by marketing and hype. Memo to self – be more cautious about buying expensive products. Yes, quality is worth a premium, but are you...

Did you seriously mean $4.00 (US?) a WEEK?? WOW! I bow to you, frugal gourmet!! Although I’m confused about this comment ... —-> “a five day meal ticket”. <——- ??? Can you elaborate ???

, but most definitely will go out of my way for a superb more expensive one. It’s just hard to part with the money if i’m not guaranteed a successful purchase...i mean, i’m adventurous, just a bit frugal as...

. The prices for full tasting menu with wine etc are easily out of range of many people in Toronto, if not most. Particularly those without the benefit of expense accounts. In my student days I had a wonderful time eating...

getting to where I ONLY shop by the per unit cost. There aren’t many staples in our home that are associated with a specific brand so it is easy for us to enter a store and go for the most frugal option without feeling the...

I think it is more about the culture of the times. And the single dominant cultural issue of people in their 70’s and above was the frugality imposed first by the depression and after that by the second world war. For most...

of food. A frugal, budget limited cook can still cook wonderful things. Focus on this, not on the limitations of your pocketbook.

the local dairy farm. Anecdotal perhaps,or superior handling for freshness I don’t know.For us taste clinches it,my frugal streak is hard to overcome.There has to be a "value"reason.

slow simmering of soup meat and bones was really evident. There were also veggies and a dense, but tasty, dumpling in the soup. My favorite Jerk, aside from the jerk that I make at home with my not so secret recipe (an amped up...

and not dare to reciprocate, but I make sure I tell them how frugal I am and suggest its not reallly all that grand, anyone can entertain.

On a Frugal Gourmet TV show, an elderly Chinese gourmet declared that the Chinese a couple of thousand years ago ate with a fork, but gave it up in favor of chopsticks. Another item: one time I had dinner with a Chinese-American...

whoosh! ;) i can’t make the comparison, since we were trying to travel frugally in france and didn’t get to eat at any of the really nice places (i.e. we survived mostly on cassoulet joints in bordeaux and paris, which...

was on a cooking show and I was his audience. We also watched Julia Child and The Frugal Gourmet and he also would take me to various food tasting events locally, etc. I was 13 or 14 at the time. And food has been my passion ever...

Frugal Gourmet argued for China, Greece, Rome.