It's been a while since I shared my meal plan on here (or even on my meal planning blog for that matter) so I thought I'd share this week's plan with you and give you a bit of an update on a few changes we've had over the last few months.The last few months have been a bit chaotic with my new job as I've struggled a little bit to fit everything in that I usually do with the slightly longer working days that I have now. I've just about got things back under control now but I've had to change our routine a little bit to accommodate the fact that I'm getting home a bit later and … [Read more...]
Five Days in New York on a budget – Day 4….
So far, I've shared what we did on the first three days of our budget trip to New York and today, I'm going to share our last full day with you. Trust me, it was a good day!Seeing as we did more than we'd expected on day 2, we'd actually ticked just about everything off of our New York bucket list by this point so I decided to go with plan b for today which was to head to the American Museum of Natural History.I was convinced the kids would love it as it looked like so much fun in the Night at the Museum films so, despite their protests, I put my foot down and told them we were … [Read more...]
Five Frugal Things we did this week {1 March 2019}….
Every week I share five frugal things that I've done during that week just to show you that the small things you do all add up to a great frugal lifestyle where you can learn to live a fabulously frugal life.Before I start though, as always feel that I should say that being frugal to me is about getting the best value for our money - it's not about doing without for us or about not having nice things. We all have different financial situations and we're all frugal for different reasons. ;-)How on earth is it March already? Honestly, so far this year has been one … [Read more...]
Five Days in New York on a budget – Day 3….
So far, I've shared what we did on the first two days of our budget trip to New York and today, I'm going to share our third full day with you.If you've had a read of my first two posts (Day 1 / Day 2) then you'll already know that our trip to New York was a bit of a treat holiday which we booked pretty last minute so didn't get the chance to save as much spending money as we would have liked but we made the best of what we did have and had amazing trip.We decided to head to Chelsea Market for breakfast on day 3 and because we didn't get along that well with our first attempt … [Read more...]
Ten ways to reduce your water bill….
If you're on a water meter then I guarantee you'll be able to reduce your water bill come down if you follow the steps below - and I feel like I can guarantee that because I did them and mine has reduced drastically. I genuinely thought we were doing OK with our water usage and that our bill was pretty much in the same ballpark as what everyone else paid. Until I got a letter saying my payments were going up that is! We were told that our monthly payments up to £46 which is made up of £42 a month that they thought we'd use each month going forward and £4 extra that we … [Read more...]
Is an Instant Pot worth the money?
I wanted an Instant Pot for a good year or so before I actually bought one but even though I kept adding it to my basket on Amazon, I always took it back out again as I really wasn't sure if the Instant Pot would be something I'd use regularly or whether it would end up gathering dust like my breadmaker is at the moment. I eventually bought one so today, I'm going to answer the question 'Is an Instant Pot worth the money?'First of all, let me tell you exactly what an Instant Pot is just in case you don't know - it's essentially an electric pressure cooker which speeds up cooking by … [Read more...]
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