Introduction
Welcome to Our Frugal Summer in Charente: An Expat’s Kitchen Garden Journal.
I have a passion for living simply, and I believe that it can lead to a more sustainable and healthier lifestyle. In this book I wanted to capture the process that Nigel and I went through, as well as describing the results we achieved. In reality it was not a lifestyle decision to live a more frugal existence, it was a necessity. However, we enjoyed the challenge. On a tight budget we did not always have the correct ingredients, so a degree of improvisation, which is my specialty in the kitchen, came into force. I am not well known for my cooking abilities, although I am renowned for my culinary catastrophes. Many of my friends and family find it amusing that I not only managed to cook in a house with no kitchen but that I made and adapted recipes without poisoning either myself or Nigel in the process. Although I admit we came close with the wild mushrooms, but more on that story later!
Welcome to the Charente.
Sarah Jane
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Our Frugal Summer In Charente
Non-FictionMeet Sarah Jane, a woman with a reputation for culinary catastrophe who tries to keep her family fed in challenging circumstances in rural France. Frugal living was not part of the plan when they arrived from Australia to undertake the renovation of...
