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...]
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...]
#PerfectSunday – Cinnamon Toast Recipe….
I work on a Saturday about once a month usually and I always find on those weekends, because I only have the Sunday off, I'm determined to make Sunday a great day. Today's no exception and we've started the day in the best possible way - with cinnamon toast for breakfast.It's more like cinnamon eggy bread really but it's absolutely delicious and this morning, Master Frugal decided he wanted to make it himself so I didn't even have to make it (although I did do the actual cooking).Cinnamon toast is one of those things that most people know how to make but rarely do so I'm going to … [Read more...]
How to make Sugar Mice….
If you've ever wondered how to make sugar mice then this is the post for you because I'm going to show you how to recreate these little cuties.Before I start though, I did want to show you a picture from the first time I shared a 'how to make sugar mice' post on this blog. ;-) For some reason, I thought it was OK to use orange food colouring in the absence of pink food colouring and then to make it even worse, I used red icing for the eyes.What do you think? They really are the stuff that nightmares are made from! They look horrific and I have no idea why, but I still … [Read more...]
How to separate an egg – the easy no-mess way….
I've always wondered how to separate an egg without making a mess as I usually end up getting my hands covered in egg when I try to do it and it often takes me more than one attempt to do it right!Not so long ago, someone at work told me what their secret was to separating eggs and at the time I remember that I just nodded my head and smiled whilst thinking to myself that their method would clearly never work.But then last night when we were making sugar mice we needed to separate an egg so I decided to give it a go and to my amazement, it actually worked so I enlisted Miss Frugal's … [Read more...]
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