I've shared a few of my homemade soap ideas this year but today I'm sharing one with you that I think is going to be a bit like marmite. You're either going to love or hate my homemade Green Tea and Matcha Soap.I never even considered making my own soap until I discovered something called 'Melt and Pour Soap Base' which is amazing and is basically just as it sounds - you melt it, stir in the ingredients you want to add and then you pour it into your moulds to set.My soap moulds are from Amazon and they're so cute! I use them for everything from my homemade toilet fizzies to mini … [Read more...]
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White Chocolate Matcha Blondies….
I've shared a couple of different Matcha recipes with you over the last year or so but today is my favourite one yet! It's adapted from the recipe for Matcha Blondies that I found in 'The Book of Matcha' that the lovely people at TeaPigs sent me a couple of weeks ago.It's adapted because I didn't have brown sugar and eggs in so I made a few little tweaks so I didn't have to pop to the shop and it turned out gorgeous so I thought I'd share my version with you....White Chocolate Matcha Blondies 200g butter 200g white chocolate chips 125g soft brown sugar 125g sugar 2 large … [Read more...]
Super Matcha Pancakes….
Matcha powder seems to be the 'in' thing right now and it's no wonder considering all of the health benefits that it's said to have for us. I'm not an expert but from what I've read online it seems that matcha is rich in antioxidants called polyphenols which have been linked to helping fight heart disease and cancer, as well as supporting better blood sugar regulation, blood pressure reduction, and reducing anti-aging. I've also read that it can boost metabolism, and slow or even stop the growth of cancer cells.Why wouldn't you want to incorporate some matcha into your daily life?We … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things I’ve done this week {15 June 2018}….
Every week I share five frugal things that I've done during that week just to show you that the small things you do all add up to a great frugal lifestyle where you can learn to live a fabulously frugal life.Before I start though, I do want to say that being frugal to me is about getting the best value for our money - it's not about doing without for us or about not having nice things. We all have different financial situations and we're all frugal for different reasons - we're frugal so we can afford to do nice things together.1) You might have seen this post from earlier this … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things I’ve done this week {2nd June 2017}….
1) We renewed our family railcard earlier in the week when we decided at the last minute to travel to Edinburgh airport by train rather than drive. The family railcard took the price of the rail travel down from £220 to £120 so it was definitely a worthwhile purchase, especially considering we need to travel by rail to Gatwick in October.We love travelling by train as it's so much more relaxing than driving and we have much more space - and we don't have to stop every half an hour when one of us needs a wee!2) I had a lovely wander around the charity shops last weekend and I … [Read more...]