As part of my frugal reset, I've been sharing our weekly meal plans on here again and I'll be honest, I've really enjoyed the old school blog posts again along with the accountability that I get from sharing something with you all!I love our home - it's filled with love and laughter - and very few kitchen gadgets. 😁We don't have a big enough kitchen to warrant many kitchen gadgets so what we do have, needs to be well worth the space it takes up. For that reason, when I moved in, I didn't bring my big family sized air fryer and for the last few years, we've only had a super … [Read more...]
This month’s pre-loved bargains {March 2025}….
You all know that I love a good pre-loved bargain, whether it's from a charity shop, the car boot sale or even from somewhere online and this is the return of my monthly post to share some of my bargains with you!First of all, something that made me smile this month on my charity shop travels. Miss Frugal asked me if we could go charity shop shopping a couple of Sundays ago as she wanted some new (to her) clothes but didn't want to spend too much as she's saving for a holiday this year. She asked if we could go to a small town near us which is know for being a bit posh as she … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {29th March 2025}….
Every week (ish) I share five frugal things that I've done during the previous 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. Hey! 👐I think today is going to be a bit of a garden edition as the sunshine has made us want to sort out our garden ready for the Summer....1) Before I start on the garden, let's go with the first bargain flowers of the Spring...My favourite flowers are daffodils and I really do want to plant some in the garden to flower next … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {22nd March 2025}….
Every week (ish) I share five frugal things that I've done during the previous 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. Hey! 👐1) I arranged to meet a friend for a catch up last week and because she was coming to me, she said to me to choose the place we met. I had a couple of choices for places to meet in our village but went for the cheeky pub on the high street which actually does unlimited refills on hot chocolate, tea and coffee for the grand old price of … [Read more...]
Family Meals for under a fiver – Macaroni Cheese….
In last week's five frugal things post, I shared one of our favourite family meals and how it cost around £5 to cook enough minced beef and onions for four large portions which is more than enough to feed a family. Macaroni cheese has always been a family favourite meal for us and at one point, I pretty much cooked it weekly as every time I wrote a meal plan, the kids asked me to make sure that this was on there. I cooked it because everyone enjoyed it but I loved that it was a quick and easy, budget meal that made me look like a great cook as every plate was empty at the … [Read more...]
#OldSchool Meal Planning Monday {17th March 2025}….
As part of my frugal reset, I've been sharing our weekly meal plans on here again and I'll be honest, I've really enjoyed the old school blog posts again along with the accountability that I get from sharing something with you all!I know that our little meal plan board is really starting to work now in our house as last weekend I forgot what we were due to have for tea when we were out and suggested we bought a family sized pie from a little butchers on the high street and one of the kids pointed out that we were supposed to be having Hunters Chicken. 😁I'll take that as … [Read more...]
