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One woman is sharing how she has been able to make big savings by only spending \u00a320 a week in her supermarket shop while foraging the rest of her food.<\/p>\n
Megan Howlett, 26, from Midhurst in West Sussex revealed how she has been able to accumulate a fully foraged Christmas dinner, including mushrooms and herbs.<\/p>\n
The young woman taught herself about which plants and mushrooms are edible with her diet being made up of 50 percent foraged food.<\/p>\n
Outside of the food she finds in the outdoors, Ms Howlett only needs to spend \u00a320 weekly on shop-bought food which comes from local greengrocers and shops.<\/p>\n
Ahead of Christmas day, she is preparing a fully foraged festive meal for her husband Tim, 30, and herself.<\/p>\n
Read more: These eight taxes will rise in 2024 – 5 tips for fighting back<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n The full-time forager plans to eat a wild mushroom pastry, roasted root vegetables and sloe gin which has been an affordable feast thanks to her frugal spending habits.<\/p>\n She explained: \u201cWe\u2019re a part of the circle of life. At Yule [a winter festival over the Christmas period], it is tradition to just use what you have collected over the year.<\/p>\n \u201cWe make mushroom pastry and roasted root vegetables. Being immersed in nature – you can\u2019t not be happy.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI pick a spot and wander \u2013 then think about what I\u2019m cooking based on what I find. I go out every day \u2013 and choose a different spot. I have a rule of never taking more than 10 per cent of what I find to not decimate the area.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n To find certain items, Ms Howlett will visit beaches and look for seaweed, including kelp which she uses for skin care.<\/p>\n Furthermore, the 26-year-old will visit forests to find mushrooms such as chanterelles in the summer and porcini mushrooms and berries in the autumn.<\/p>\n While she always attempts to have fully foraged food in her meal, she often does have to collect some items from supermarkets.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n However, this lifestyle means she usually does not have to spend more than \u00a320 a week on them.<\/p>\n Ms Howlett added: \u201cWe have meals that are fully foraged. Usually it is an addition to what we usually buy.<\/p>\n \u201cI have shelves and shelves of dried herbs and mushrooms. I make our own wine, beer and cider.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cI find so much peace in foraging. It\u2019s fantastic. I really get to tune into nature.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n[ad_2]\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" [ad_1] One woman is sharing how she has been able to make big savings by only spending \u00a320 a week in her supermarket shop while foraging the rest of her food. Megan Howlett, 26, from Midhurst in West Sussex revealed how she has been able to accumulate a fully foraged Christmas dinner, including mushrooms and …<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":15582,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15581"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15581"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15581\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/15582"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15581"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15581"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/farratanews.online\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15581"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}