My two love homemade pizza but for a quick lunch, I make them a cheats pizza using english muffins as the base.... Mini Muffin Turkey and Red Onion Barbecue Pizza 1 English Muffin per person Barbecue Sauce Cheese Red onion Turkey Salad to serve Half each muffin and spread each half with barbecue sauce. Top with some cooked turkey breast. Add some sliced red onion. Sprinkle on some grated cheese and grill until the cheese is bubbling and starting to turn golden. Serve with a smile face salad for lunch and add some homemade wedges to make it into a meal for tea.  From … [Read more...]

My freezer is full of supermarket bargains at the minute so we're going to have a cheap week this week hopefully.  I managed to get a ham joint reduced to £2.30 the other day so I've cooked that and what we didn't use for tea was sliced up and made up into  a few small portions that were put in separate sandwich bags and added to the freezer.  I can use them for the wraps on Monday and the pizza on Wednesday.  We also got some reduced chicken and cod as well which will do for Tuesday and Thursday night's teas and I even got some cheap sausages for the casserole on Friday night. I know I'm … [Read more...]

<div align="center"><a href="https://www.frugalfamily.co.uk/" title="The Diary of a Frugal Family"><img src="https://www.frugalfamily.co.uk/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/cookitblogit11.jpg" alt="The Diary of a Frugal Family" style="border:none;" /></a></div> I'm so sorry that this week's #CookItBlogIt is a little bit late - blame internet issues and Olly Murs (we went to see him last night) but it's here now ;-) There were some great recipes linked up last week over at Emma's blog and we'd love to see more of the same this week. Here's mine.... I love egg fried … [Read more...]

So, I could be tempting fate here but for the first time since Christmas, we've had a good run of 5 days without illness (not including an abdominal migraine attack and a bit of man flu).  Add to that the fact that it's half term and the weather forecast is looking OK and you have a very happy me! If you managed to read yesterday's post about Miss Frugal you'll know that I'm having to rethink the food that I include in my meal plans to make sure that there's no processed meat in anything I cook - which is a harder than it sounds!  Quick teas like chicken nuggets or burgers are out unless I … [Read more...]