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Welcome to Angel Caves, our little eco-friendly retreat in the heart of the Gran Canarian mountains.

11/10/2026

A local delicacy in autumn and winter are roasted chestnuts that grow everywhere. I’ve never really fancied these little brain-like nuts before, but I also haven’t tried them, so in the spirit of living off the land, me and the kids have collected a few and im going to have a go… any tips welcome!!!

04/10/2026

Everyone should have at least one meal in their back pocket that costs very little, uses basic ingredients and they could practically make with their eyes closed.

Not a sad “we’re skint” dinner. Something you actually enjoy eating!

Maybe it’s lentil dhal and rice.
Beans on toast.
Pasta with tomato and garlic.
A big vegetable soup and homemade bread.
Egg fried rice.
A Spanish tortilla.

The exact meal doesn’t matter. The skill does, because knowing you can feed everyone something filling and delicious without needing expensive ingredients is useful when money is tight, when the cupboards are looking bare, or when life hasn’t gone to plan.

And once you’ve mastered one?

Learn another.

I’d love to steal some ideas for this one: what’s your really cheap meal that everybody actually likes?

01/10/2026

Building up a useful food cupboard doesn’t have to mean doing one enormous, expensive stock-up. Try this instead:

When you’re doing your normal shop, add one extra useful thing.

An extra bag of rice.
A tin of tomatoes.
A packet of lentils.
Some pasta.
A bag of flour.
Whatever your family genuinely eats.

Not twenty of them. One. Do it regularly and, almost without noticing, you gradually create a little buffer at home.

Obviously the important bit is to rotate it and actually eat the stuff rather than creating an ancient collection of chickpeas from 2026. 😂

Small habits add up.

What would your extra item be this week?

28/09/2026

I have been so guilty of this one’s the past! You don’t actually need a cupboard full of mysterious “emergency food” that nobody in your family actually likes. You need a cupboard full of normal food that can become dinner.

For us, that’s things like pasta, rice, lentils, beans, tinned tomatoes, flour, oats, stock, spices and a few tins and jars that I know I can turn into something.

The important bit is that we actually use it.

Buy it. Eat it. Replace it. (Or get your husband to switch them around, if you’re like me and forget!!)

That way your emergency supplies aren’t sitting forgotten at the back of a cupboard slowly expiring. They’re a part of your everyday kitchen.

And if money’s tight one week, the weather’s awful, you’re ill or you just can’t get to the shops?

You’ve still got dinner.

What cupboard staple would you NEVER want to run out of?

27/09/2026

The tomato problem 🍅

There comes a point in growing tomatoes when you stop thinking “YAY! TOMATOES!” and start thinking “Oh God. MORE tomatoes.” 😂

We are officially at that point. Every few days I seem to walk back into the house carrying another basket of them. I think this is the bit about growing your own food that doesn’t get talked about enough.

Growing it is only half the job. Then you’ve got to work out what the bloody hell to do with it all.

We’ve eaten them fresh, made salsa, tomato soup, pasta sauces, frozen batches for later and put them into pretty much everything I can think of.

We’ve given some away and swapped them for other fruits, and now I’m working out how to save the rest for the months when we don’t have any.

You definitely don’t need to grow your own to do the same thing either. If something is ridiculously cheap because it’s in season, buy more than you need and put some away.

But I’m running out of tomato inspiration now, so over to you…

If someone dumped 5kg of tomatoes on your kitchen table tomorrow, what would you make? 🍅

26/09/2026

This might actually be one of the most useful kitchen skills I have. Don’t look in your fridge and ask:

“What recipe can I make?”

Ask:

“What meals can I make from what I’ve got?”

Half an onion. An old carrot. Three eggs. A bit of cheese. Half a tin of beans. Yesterday’s potatoes.

Individually, they don’t look very exciting. But once you start thinking in terms of soups, omelettes, fritters, pasta, curries, fried rice, stews, quesadillas, traybakes… suddenly there’s dinner everywhere.

Recipes are brilliant, but being able to cook without one is incredibly useful.

It saves money. It reduces waste. And when you can’t easily get to the shops, you become much less dependent on having exactly the “right” ingredients.

Preparedness isn’t only about what you’ve got. It’s knowing what to do with it.

What’s in your fridge right now that needs using up?

25/09/2026

Gran Canaria never fails to surprise me! There are so many beautiful, hidden routes around the island! This one started up near the Area Recreativo de Valleseco and we walked a circular route towards Teror. The views were stunning, the paths, sometimes a little hairy!! We took a short cut which ended up being a super steep decent, rather than the longer winding path, big mistake but we made it!!

Thankfully the weather was on our side, warm but with cloud cover and a breeze! Perfect hiking weather!

23/09/2026

Starting with something I do ALL the time: cook once, eat twice.
If I’m making something like bolognese, chilli or cottage pie, I’ll often add red lentils to the mince. They’re cheap, add protein and fibre, bulk everything out beautifully and cook down into the sauce so well that nobody really notices they’re there. Even my children eat them. Which is perhaps the strongest endorsement I can give. 😂
It means the meat stretches further and I can often make enough for dinner plus another family meal for the freezer.
That’s the kind of preparedness I’m interested in. Not necessarily buying loads of extra food, but making a bit more of something you’re already cooking and putting it away for another day.
Useful in an emergency. Useful when money is tight. Useful when you can’t get to the shops.
And extremely useful when it’s Wednesday and you simply cannot be arsed to cook.
Cook once. Wash up once. Eat twice.

What’s the meal you always make double of?

23/09/2026

The fastest Fig & Chia Jam

At this time of year, there are figs everywhere! If you find yourself with a glut, I thoroughly recommend this incredibly simple fig and chia jam. You don’t even need very many figs to make a little jar.

You’ll need:

• 6–8 fresh figs, stalks removed and chopped
• 1 tablespoon honey or sugar, optional depending on how sweet your figs are
• 1 tablespoon lemon juice
• 1 tablespoon chia seeds
• A small splash of water

Pop the figs, lemon juice, sweetener and a splash of water into a saucepan. Cook gently for 10–15 minutes, stirring and squashing the fruit as it softens.

Remove from the heat, stir in the chia seeds and leave for around 10 minutes to thicken. That’s it! (I blended mine for a few seconds with my stick blender to make it smoother.)

I had mine for breakfast this morning on homemade bread with goat’s cheese and walnuts, and it was absolutely delicious.

This is a quick fridge jam rather than a traditional preserve, so store it in a clean jar in the fridge and enjoy within about a week. You can also freeze it in small portions for later.

Simple, seasonal and a lovely way to make the most of a handful of figs. 💜

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22/09/2026

I’ve been talking quite a bit lately about preparedness, especially with the renewed focus in the UK on households being ready to cope if normal life is disrupted.

And it’s made me realise that quite a lot of the things we already do at Angel Caves are really about being prepared.

We live a long way from the shops, so I’ve learned to keep useful food in, cook with what we’ve got, make things from scratch, grow some of our own food and preserve it when we have too much.

Then this year’s floods taught us another lesson. We lost so much of what we’d grown, cooked and carefully stored. But we didn’t lose the skills we’d learned along the way.

So I’m starting a little series:

30 Ways to Be More Prepared.

Not 30 days, because I’m not making that sort of commitment. 😂 Just 30 practical things I’ll share amongst our usual Angel Caves family chaos.

Some will save money. Some will reduce waste. Some will help fill your freezer or cupboards. And some are things I’m still learning myself, particularly when it comes to preserving food without relying on electricity.

Nothing extreme. Nothing expensive.

Just small ways of making our homes a little more resilient and making better use of what we’ve already got.

#1 coming next 🌱

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