Last night we bought a huge box of strawberries from the supermarket for just £1.50 - and when I say a huge box, I really do mean huge!Master Frugal was in charge of cooking tea as Miss Frugal is away on a school residential in York and he decided to treat us to his speciality (mainly because it's all he can cook) of eggy bread followed by a Strawberry Pavlova for pud.So, after an unscheduled trip to the shop to replace the eggs I smashed on the kitchen floor and a gorgeous main course of eggy bread and ketchup, he got on with making the pudding for us.He piled as many … [Read more...]
This week’s meal plan (with a difference)….
A little while ago I started to share my meal plans over on my meal planning blog - Meal Planning Made Easy but it felt a bit boring just writing our my meal plan on a Monday as a list so last week I decided I was going to do things a different way. So for the last week or so, I've been posting a picture of our tea along with a recipe or some pointers on how to make your own version!I'm going to keep doing that this week but I wanted to post on here to tell you about it in advance because this week's meals have a bit of a theme going on - they're all going to be made using the 'by … [Read more...]
Cooking with Kids – Pizza Calzones….
We love home made pizza but last week we decided to make a variation of this by making mini pizza calzones together.It was part of an extra effort to get Master Frugal eating new things as he's seemed quite receptive to new food lately and after years of being a fussy eater, he's starting to get a bit braver. I though calzones would be a good way to help encourage him as he can't see what he's eating so he doesn't get chance to fuss over it if you know what I mean.We each made a portion of out own homemade pizza dough which is basically 125g bread flour, 7g yeast packet and 75ml … [Read more...]
Thrifty Thursday – Last minute meals….
I'm a big fan of meal planning but even so, there's often an occasion when I have to magic up a meal with just what I have in the house - usually when someone has eaten a key ingredient of the meal I was planning because they fancied it! I do have a few standby recipes that usually save the day though....Some sort of variety of Macaroni Cheese depending on what we have in the fridge. I generally have some of my homemade tomato sauce in the freezer which is great with most things - mixed with pasta, as a base for tuna pasta bake or even with some grilled chicken wrapped … [Read more...]
Thirty Thrifty Family Meals from around the web….
I've said this before and I'm pretty sure I'll say it again many times in the future but meal planning is definitely my favourite way to save money - it costs me less each week when I go shopping and saves me time each day as I know what I'm cooking.I wrote a guide over on my Meal Planning blog about what meal planning actually means and how I do it but it's not just about the planning side of things. You need to be able to stick to it which is where I've often struggled in the past - mainly because I get bored of cooking (and eating) the same things week after week but I find that a lot … [Read more...]
10 things to do with leftover chocolate….
{Updated for 2017} I know in some houses, leftover chocolate is about as unusual as leftover wine is in this house but we always have lots of chocolate left over after every Christmas and Easter.Even though we only bought the kids one egg each this year, they still seem to have accumulated a few extra from grandparents, friends and the various clubs they go to but I know they won't eat them all as they're not big chocolate eaters usually. I don't like to see anything go to waste so I've been looking through my old posts for ideas for using it up. Biscuits Our super easy biscuit recipe … [Read more...]
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