Are your teenagers too cool for lots of your Christmas traditions now? Mine too! Here's some Christmas traditions that even your teenagers will enjoy!Ever since we had kids, one of the best things about Christmas has always been the Christmas family traditions that we've either started as a new family or carried on from when Mr Frugal and I were children ourselves.Last year though, we really noticed a difference in the things that the kids wanted to do with us and some of the things we've done ever since they were toddlers didn't go down as well as they used … [Read more...]
#Competition – Win one of eight Festive M&S Hampers…
It's been a while since I've had a competition on here so when I saw that some of the lovely UK Money Bloggers were running a competition I thought I'd chip in and join in with them. The prizes are perfect for this time of year so I'm really excited to share this with you.There are eight Christmas Afternoon Treats with Flowers M&S hampers up for grabs, worth £50 each which that means eight lucky winners will receive a hamper in time for Christmas! I'm a bit jealous to be fair so I hope you're up for sharing. :)The UK Money Bloggers are the loveliest bunch of people … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker Minced Beef and Onions Recipe….
My slow cooker mince beef and onions recipe is definitely my most cooked recipe and I only just realised that I'd never shared it with you before - how odd is that? I thought I'd put that right today...Slow cooker mince beef and onions can be made into so many different meals - you can serve it with a jacket potato or some veg, with Yorkshire puddings, dumplings or roasties or make it into a pie with pastry or mash as a topping. It freezes so well that it's a perfect meal to batch cook and it's so easy to make that you can easily just throw it all in the slow … [Read more...]
50 DIY Christmas Crafts….
I'm sharing some amazing DIY Christmas Crafts with you today so if you're in the mood for some Christmas Crafting, whatever your age or craft ability, there's something here for you.For 11 months of the year, I am NOT a crafter. But then, when Christmas is approaching, I suddenly turn in an obsessed Christmas crafter so today I'm sharing 50, yes 50 of the best DIY Christmas Crafts around!Don’t miss out on future posts like this - receive updates directly to your inbox by email by adding your email address here and hitting subscribe. You can also follow me on Twitter, … [Read more...]
Why I haven’t planned a single meal in three weeks….
You all know that I'll all about meal planning but for the last three weeks, I haven't planned a single meal. Want to know why?Three weeks ago, our fridge freezer decided to go on strike! By the time we realised, the whole freezer had defrosted and everything in the fridge felt way warmer than it should.Food-wise, we couldn't salvage much at all as the contents of the freezer were fully defrosted so we weren't sure how long it had been off for - I'm all about reducing waste but I couldn't bring myself to cook food or refreeze it in one of our other freezers where there was a chance … [Read more...]
Review: Stockeld Park Christmas Adventure….
The Stockeld Park Christmas Adventure is definitely one of our favourite Christmas family traditions! It's somewhere we've been many times as a family and I don't think we've ever had anything other than an amazing family day!If you've never heard of the Stockeld Park Christmas Adventure before, it's located between Harrogate and Wetherby in North Yorkshire and is exactly what it says it is - a Christmas Adventure. There's an Illuminated Maze to navigate around, an enchanted forest filled with magical things to see and numerous playparks for the kids dotted … [Read more...]
