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“Miss Lou’s memory lives on through our cooking”

Jo and Leisa Creed, 53, are Food Technology teachers who came to the UK from their hometown of St Catherine, Jamaica in 2003. They now run Penny Pinchers’ Paradise ( joleisa.com), a cooking and lifestyle blog that showcases their mouth-watering and affordable dishes. But with many of their followers’ livelihoods under threat during the pandemic, making healthy meals on a budget has never been more important.

The inseparable twins, who live together with Jo’s son Romario, 21, and Leisa’s daughter Shalee, 19, have 60 years combined teaching experience – and have been sharing their wisdom on frugal living and eating with their legion of fans.

None of this would have been possible if it wasn’t for the inspiration their grandmother, Iris Green –

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