WITH upcycling, home-made and grow your own food predicted to be some of 2015’s top 100 trends by Pinterest the rise of the ‘thrifty foodie’ is here.

9 best ways to make the most of frugal fun at the festival

And the Festival of Thrift boasts a host of foodie workshops and an abundance of cooking ideas and thrifty household tips.

Here are ten reasons for foodies to get themselves to the festival:

1. Thrifty Wine Blending and Wine Buying

For advanced wine buffs, journalist and wine maker Chris Boiling introduces a tutored tasting of six wines and proves that by skilfully blending very average wines a hybrid wine that will blow your socks off can be created. Chris will also share how to be a thrifty wine buyer during the Wine Buying workshop.

2. Beginner’s Bread Workshop

A baking and tasting session with artisan baker Adrian Clarke.

3. The Thrifty Bake off Showstopper Challenge

Chef Gareth Kyle shares how to make a dessert for pennies and become an expert in choux pastry and spun sugar.

4. Scotch Egg Workshop

Chef and supper club host Gareth Kyle demonstrates how to make these tricky savoury wonders.

5. English Charcuterie

Create a recipe for your own English charcuterie and then make some to cure at home with chef and supper club host Anna Hedworth of Newcastle’s Cookhouse.

6. Adults Chocolate Making

Hand roll and fill your very own chocolates and take them home. There is a children’s workshop too.

7. Jamalittle and Jamallot

Get stuck in and get sticky with jam making for kids and adults. You can also donate your time or your fruit and vegetables to the festival’s jam, chutney and soup making factory.

8. Smoking

Learn some of the ancient arts of preserving fish to make exquisitely delicious starters and find out how a humble cardboard box makes the perfect home smoker for mackerel, salmon.

9. Bistro Du Van

A dining experience in a campervan. You could also relax at the Routemaster Bus Bar complete with DJs playing from the top deck.

10. What’s For Binner?

Chaired by Food Guru Simon Preston, Radio 4's The Town is the Menu, this free Big Talk on Sunday at 2pm will see food panellists lift the dustbin lid on urban foragers and the rise of freeganism.