[Mikejoed]

I find that cooking all my veggies, including spuds, is much quicker and cost effective in a pressure cooker. I know lots of people avoid them because of the many scary myths that surround them, but they are safer now than they've ever been and extremely useful. You find you also lock in more of the flavour, normally lost if boiled.

Another really useful and ecomomic utility I wouldn't be without is my Slow Cooker. Now this isn't only cheap to run, leave it on low cook overnight and it uses less than a 100 watt light bulb, but you can buy the cheapest, toughest cuts of meat from the butcher and over night it is reduced to a lovely tender piece of meat. Put it on before you go to work and when you get home in the evening, what a welcoming aroma in your home.

Speaking of Gas and Electricity bills, why is it none of the companies advertise how much they charge per Kilowatt? When buying all other goods we buy according to what we are charged for the Litre, Kilo, or pound. When these utility companies come around trying to get me to change to their service, I tell them they are like mobile phone contracts and all of them are much of a muchness really. But none of them advertise their supplies by cost per kilowatt or whatever measurements they baffle us with in our bills.

I have some more money saving tips to share but will leave it for now. Don't want to hog the space!