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Places like Poundland, 99p Stores, Home Bargains, Family Bargains, B&M and Poundstretcher often have cheap canned wild fish, eggs, milk and nuts. You may find cheap dried herbs and othe useful things like 6 kitchen rolls for 99p and lidded foil dishes so you can batch cook and freeze.
The yellow-stickered scrum is often just reduced price ready meals and sugary fruit yogurts but if you can get cheap veg, they make great stews and soups. Stir fry veg packs can be really cheap, I've seen them for 10p. Reduced price growing herbs can often be saved with a bit of a trim, water and a sunny windowsill.
Frozen veg can be cheap and more nutritious than fresh. Canned though, can be very salty.
At markets you can often get bargains if you go at the end of the day. I got a box of tomatoes for £1 and made tomato sauce.
Many libraries will have books on foraging and if you check with your local adult education centre, you might be able to get a concession to go on a foraging course/day. Sometimes you'll find nature and wildlife organisations doing foraging walks too. There's a lot of free food out there - eg sorrel, nettles, chestnuts, damsons, sloes, crab apples, apples, blackberries, beech nuts, rosehips, mushrooms, fennel, blueberries, bilberries, elderflowers, elderberries, wild garlic.
If you live near a clean beach or estuary, no license is needed for seafishing and you can sometimes get seafood too e.g. crabs and eels. Plus you may find cockles, winkles, shrimps, samphire and seaweed.
In the UK it's really difficult to get a license to shoot, but elsewhere non-vegetarians may be able to hunt rabbits, pigeons, hares, squirrels, foxes, pheasants, deer etc. In the UK, to fish on inland waters, you need a license.
If you're lucky, you may be able to get an allotment or get on a garden share scheme to grow your own veg. Having done that, my tip is to buy seeds from Lidl and grow the more expensive vegetables. You don't need a garden or allotment to grow herbs in pots on windowsills. A sunny but sheltered balcony and a grow bag would do fine for tomatoes.
Village fetes, boot fairs and jumble sales - anything with a produce stall, can get you cheap surplus veg from gardens in spring and summer and in date canned food.
The yellow-stickered scrum is often just reduced price ready meals and sugary fruit yogurts but if you can get cheap veg, they make great stews and soups. Stir fry veg packs can be really cheap, I've seen them for 10p. Reduced price growing herbs can often be saved with a bit of a trim, water and a sunny windowsill.
Frozen veg can be cheap and more nutritious than fresh. Canned though, can be very salty.
At markets you can often get bargains if you go at the end of the day. I got a box of tomatoes for £1 and made tomato sauce.
Many libraries will have books on foraging and if you check with your local adult education centre, you might be able to get a concession to go on a foraging course/day. Sometimes you'll find nature and wildlife organisations doing foraging walks too. There's a lot of free food out there - eg sorrel, nettles, chestnuts, damsons, sloes, crab apples, apples, blackberries, beech nuts, rosehips, mushrooms, fennel, blueberries, bilberries, elderflowers, elderberries, wild garlic.
If you live near a clean beach or estuary, no license is needed for seafishing and you can sometimes get seafood too e.g. crabs and eels. Plus you may find cockles, winkles, shrimps, samphire and seaweed.
In the UK it's really difficult to get a license to shoot, but elsewhere non-vegetarians may be able to hunt rabbits, pigeons, hares, squirrels, foxes, pheasants, deer etc. In the UK, to fish on inland waters, you need a license.
If you're lucky, you may be able to get an allotment or get on a garden share scheme to grow your own veg. Having done that, my tip is to buy seeds from Lidl and grow the more expensive vegetables. You don't need a garden or allotment to grow herbs in pots on windowsills. A sunny but sheltered balcony and a grow bag would do fine for tomatoes.
Village fetes, boot fairs and jumble sales - anything with a produce stall, can get you cheap surplus veg from gardens in spring and summer and in date canned food.