One thing I often get asked is how much people should be spending on their weekly shopping and I always struggle to answer it because what's right for one family isn't necessarily right for another. I thought I'd have a go at explaining how I think you should decide on your shopping budget, with a little help from my friends. ;-)The right amount to spend on your weekly shopping each week for your family depends on a number of different things, although these are the main three deciding factors in my mind:(a) How much money you have available to spend after paying for … [Read more...]
How to Meal plan – EVERYTHING you need to know about how to meal plan in one place….
I've written about meal planning and shared my thoughts on how to meal plan lots of times on here but I never get tired of telling you about it because I know just how much money meal planning can save you!Whenever I'm asked what I think the best way to save money at home is or what my best money saving tip is, I always say to start with meal planning. Without a doubt in my mind I can tell you that meal planning is the easiest way to save money quickly by far.You could literally start meal planning today and the very next time you go shopping you'll see a reduction in your shopping … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things I’ve done this week {30 December 2016}….
1) We had gammon and lamb as our Christmas Dinner meats as we're not huge turkey fans here and we had plenty of leftovers as I'm sure we all did. ;-) We all had gammon sandwiches for lunch on Boxing Day with most of the gammon leftovers but the last bits were made into a quiche which we had for tea with leftover potatoes cooked in our Air Fryer with a little olive oil drizzled on them to crisp them up.My Dad bought us a huge leg of lamb so we had a LOT of leftovers from that to use up and I thought it would be a good start to my batch cooking mission to use it to make some meals to go … [Read more...]
Five Fabulously Frugal Things I’ve done this week {23rd December 2016}….
1) The best Christmas present I got last year was my trusty soup maker which I've used at least twice a week since I had it. This year I thought I'd ask Mr Frugal for something else useful so I asked him for a breadmaker as I think that will come in really handy for making dough for pizza dough, doughballs and flatbreads which I've started making more since I've been off work. He went Christmas shopping for it the other day and texted me to tell me he'd found a half price bargain in a shop in our town that was closing down - it had been the display model but he said it was in great condition … [Read more...]
How to help yourself if you can’t afford to pay the bills….
After my post earlier today, I realised that if any of you were struggling with your finances at this time of year to the point that you're considering taking out a payday loan then you might appreciate a little bit of reassurance that no matter how bad things are, there's nothing that can't be fixed.First of all, take half an hour with a cup of tea and a digestive biscuit and work out what your monthly budget is using my free budget planner, making sure that you are TOTALLY honest with yourself. If you don't include everything then the only person it's going to affect as your monthly … [Read more...]
Five Fabulously Frugal Things I’ve done this week {9th December 2016}….
1) This is a sad day for me! I went to the shop last night, got all excited when I saw the Radio Times was out and then saw the price of it so put it back on the shelf! Since when did the Radio Times cost £4.50 for the Christmas edition!!!We don't watch TV much at all so it's a total waste of money for us but I would have bought it if it had been a bit cheaper as we like to look through it and highlight what we want to watch. We can just save a fiver though and look at the TV Guide we get with our TV package.2) While I've been ill convenience foods have been a bit of a … [Read more...]
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