Gammon is one of the few meats that Master Frugal enjoys so we generally have it at least once a week. This means that meals that use up leftover gammon are regular additions to our meal plan.I always cook my gammon in the slow cooker - sometimes just in a little water, sometimes in Dr Pepper and sometimes in diet coke but however I cook it, it's always a family favourite. I always have enough leftover gammon for at least one or two other meals but I try to vary them as much as I can so it doesn't feel like we're constantly eating gammon. ;-)Here's a few of the things I … [Read more...]
The Great Frugal Bake Off – Me Vs Betty Crocker….
Totally unrelated to the Great British Bake Off, which returned to TV this week, Miss Frugal challenged me to a bit of a bake of of our own when she said that the cookies she made at her friends using a Betty Crocker packet mix were better than my homemade chocolate chip cookie recipe!I couldn't have her thinking that a packet mix was better than cooking something from scratch could I?So while she spent about two minutes making up the packet mix we bought (for the purposes of the experiment ha ha), I dug out my trusty homemade chocolate chip cookie recipe and made my own … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things I’ve done this week {1st September 2017}….
1) Last Friday, Mr Frugal finally got round to painting my kitchen! We went with white, which is pretty much my plan for the whole house at the moment. We have stacks of white paint in the garage as I bought it on offer a while ago when I decided that the goal was a white walled house - we're going room by room though and doing it gradually as we're not fans of painting!Rather than buying new accessories, I decided to update the things we already had with a can of copper spray paint:I spray painted the clock, a vase, a money box, some tin cans and even the bin (stay tuned for a … [Read more...]
Six of my favourite homemade vodka flavours….
I first experimented with homemade vodka flavours a few years ago when I made homemade Skittles vodka but this year I'm taking it to a whole new level.I was given a litre bottle of vodka a couple of weeks ago and although it was a lovely and much appreciated gift, I’m not a huge vodka drinker so I decided to use it to make a cheeky little homemade vodka gift for one of my vodka loving friends.I was planning to make Skittles vodka but when I went to buy the skittles I spied some pear drops on the shelf which I thought would be lovely.That got me thinking that I could go with … [Read more...]
How to make a cheap vase into a super expensive looking DIY Painted Glass Vase….
Last week I went a bit spray paint crazy but out of everything I made this gorgeous painted glass vase is my favourite thing!Ages agos, I went to B&Q for a paintbrush and came home with a can of copper spray paint with a vague idea of upcycling an old table but I just never got around to doing it so last week I got out the spray paint to crack on with a few other projects I'd had in my head that I wanted to try. One of the first things I want to do was to try and glam up a pretty boring glass vase that I bought for about £2 - I'm sure it's from Ikea but it could be from Tesco to … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things I’ve done this week {25th August 2017}….
1) I made fajitas for tea on Monday but I'd bought some peppers reduced that I wanted to use them up so I added them all to the pan which left me with a fair amount of leftovers! I never have fajita leftovers so I wasn't sure what I could do with the big bowlful that I had but in the end I mixed them in with some rice the following day for tea and served it with a chicken breast marinated in peri peri sauce. I have no photos as it smelled so nice that my tummy took over and by the time I remembered I wanted to take a photo, we were all almost finished!Next time I'm going to deliberately … [Read more...]
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