These carrot and courgette muffins taste way nicer than they sound and are perfect for freezing for packed lunches.When I was rooting around in my fridge yesterday morning looking for some sort of lunch inspiration, I found a couple of courgettes that were looking way past their best. I also found a few tired looking carrots so I thought I'd try making some carrot and courgette muffins as a way of using them up rather than putting them in the bin.The finished result was delicious although they were quite moist (hence me adding in the step to the recipe of using kitchen roll … [Read more...]
50 filling and frugal packed lunch ideas….
Do you struggle for interesting but frugal packed lunch ideas?A couple of years ago I wrote about how I could make a healthy and filling packed lunch every day for around half of what I would pay for a school dinner and whilst I know that rising prices would have changed the costings a little bit, I can still make a packed lunch for less than I would pay for a school dinner.I still make the packed lunch cake and the cheesey pops (like cheese straws) on a weekend sometimes to use in the following week's packed lunches but as the kids have got older, they like a bit more variation in … [Read more...]
Money Makeover – School Holiday Fun on a Budget….
Money Makeover is back this week but with a bit of a difference seeing as it's the Half Term Holidays which means that most of us will have the kids at home with us this week. Over the last couple of years, I've written and shared lots of ideas about how to have fun on a budget so I thought I'd make this week's Money Makeover post a bit of a round up of some of these posts to give you some ideas on what to do this week without spending a fortune....There you go. That little lot should keep you busy this week and there's so many ideas that I bet you could have a great … [Read more...]
Carrot Cake with Tangerine Buttercream….
I am loving Master Frugal's new found love of cooking - he just found some carrots in the fridge and asked if he could make carrot cake. It would be rude to say no to a request like that, wouldn't it?For the carrot cake: 2 eggs 1 tsp ground cinnamon 1/2 tsp nutmeg 1/2 tsp bicarbonate of soda 2 grated carrots 185g melted butter 160g brown sugar 135g s/r flourFor the tangerine buttercream: 175g icing sugar 50g butter the juice of 1 small tangerine (or if it's really juicy just use half) the grated zest of 1 small tangerineStir together the eggs, grated carrot, … [Read more...]
The swimming award that never was….
Master Frugal loves going swimming but no matter what we do to help him learn to swim properly it just doesn't seem to click and he really doesn't want to go to swimming lessons - we went a couple of times and he hated every minute as he says he felt like everyone was watching him!He can swim underwater really well and has mastered the perfect handstand and underwater somersaults - it's just the actual swimming part that he struggles with.Anyway, this week he's been doing an intensive swimming course with his school which involves him going swimming every afternoon for two weeks and … [Read more...]
Siblings – February….
The weather has limited what we've been up to this last month since my last siblings post but I've still managed to sneak lots of lovely together photos.... … [Read more...]
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