Frugal Veggie's Profile

After they are cooked I use them like any grain. Add them to pancakes, put them in omelettes, add them to salads or put them in soup. Lots of options.

I used to be a feather but I discovered ear plugs and now, as long as I have those I can sleep in the middle of a dance party. And have.

We have lots of BBQ with a mix of attendees. Vegetarian, vegan, meat lovers etc. All guests are asked to bring something to grill. And then a big batch of sangria and some sides are provided. Always works out great for us.

I took weird lunches. Mainly the fact that I rarely took sandwiches made me an outcast. They were always little homemade individual pizzas, or salad all in different individual containers to be mixed together later so nothing got soggy, or homemade soup in a thermos. I got bugged a lot. But was always then asked if I could share.

It makes a wonderful base to an asian inspired salad dressing. It is nice if you like making your own oven roasted nuts, a little miso and some tamari mixed together and tossed on the nuts before coating is super tasty. And we make a lot of miso soup.

We freeze all our food scraps. Onion peels, ends of leeks, cores of apples, carrot peels, kale stocks etc. When it gets too much, everything goes in a pot and we make veggie stock from it. It is a darker stock due to the skins of everything, but it is flavourful and no extra veggies have to be bought to make great tasting stock. Almost nothing is wasted in our house anymore.