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  Five frugal things I've done this week: 1.  I've filled one of the drawers in my garage freezer with reduced breadbuns that I bought for 1p a pack in Tesco.  They're the small pre-sliced Warburtons buns and the pre-sliced hot dog buns and they're brilliant to have in for packed lunches!  I just get one out on a night make the sandwich while the bun is frozen and then pop it in a sandwich bag in the fridge overnight and it's perfect when he goes to have it the next day!2.  On the subject of reductions, we had a whole meal for three of us for just 65p from the reduction bay this … [Read more...]

  Five frugal things I've done this week: 1.  I know I've already mentioned this in my post about our visit to Mount Grace Priory last week but we've got ourselves an annual family membership to English Heritage which means we can get into over 400 sites across the UK without having to pay anything other than our monthly Direct Debit which will be less than £8.  We've already had two great days out which would have cost around £50 if we had paid entry so in one week we've already got some great use out of it!2.  Remember the fruit and veg that we bought when we got lost last … [Read more...]

Five frugal things I've done this week: 1.  After our visit to a Lavender farm this week I've used the lavender I came away with to make lavender sugar.  I'll write a post up about how I did it but it's super simple really and once the lavender has infused itself into the sugar I'm going to bake with it - Lavender Shortbread is the first thing on my list!2.  We were away last weekend and we had some gorgeous weather which was a surprise as we were expecting a pretty poor weekend weather wise.  The sun was shining though and as I'd been expecting poor weather, I'd left the sun tan … [Read more...]

There's kind of a holiday theme going on in this week's five frugal things post as we've booked a weekend away for this weekend.  ;-) Five frugal things I've done this week:Despite knowing that this was the weekend we wanted to go away I only booked the holiday yesterday as I wanted to get the best deal possible.  We managed to get an amazing deal with Butlins which is where the kids were desperate to go back to and it was cheaper than we were expecting to pay so I also booked adventure passes for them which are cheaper if you pre-book.  I would definitely recommend leaving it until the … [Read more...]

Five frugal things I've done this week:Today is my last day at work until September and I honestly could not be more excited.  We have so many things that we want to do and we're planning a family conference tonight over takeaway (paid for with vouchers I earned by sharing Zeek with you all) and plan our fortnight.  I used Tesco Boost and with my points I managed to get enough vouchers for a lovely meal an Pizza Express, another meal out at a pub chain that I can't for the life of me remember the name of and a day out at Ocean Beach theme park.  Not bad for free!It's always … [Read more...]

Five frugal things I've done this week: OK, I’m going to hold my hands up and admit that I don’t think I’ve actually done five frugal things this week. Or at least I haven’t done five absolute stand out frugal things this week so there is a very good chance that I may have to change the title of this post by the time I finish writing it.Not a big deal really but I’ve made a real effort to take my lunch to work with me this week.  I’ve gotten out of this habit a little bit while the kids have been off school, probably due to our complete lack of routine at the moment.  I’m at the stage … [Read more...]