Cheap eating doesn't mean having a boiled egg for tea, especially now in the age of the internet coupon - where once there might have been a voucher to clip out of the newspaper every now and then, there's a whole host of generous offers for restaurants and cafes.
Then of course there's the supermarket value ranges. A lot of good stuff to be had there, and a lot of it comparable with the dearer stuff - factor in all the two for one deals etc in the supermarkets and there's a bit of cash to be saved on the shopping.
And if you're going to try and save some cash on the groceries, may as well try eating healthy and cooking simple pasta and stir fry dishes which often work out pretty cheap.
One of the main ways to save money on food is to think laterally, and buy foods that don't spend ages in the oven. This is in fact one of the reasons that stir-fry became so popular in Chinese households - legend has it that the fuel to cook the food was very expensive, so people favoured a cooking method that took as little time as possible - makes perfect sense. Why spend over the odds on cooking fuel when you can reserve your cash for some lovely noodles and vegetables, and maybe some soy sauce.
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