The Diary of a Frugal Family

I recently visited Beamish Open Air Museum for the first time in more years than I can remember and I was super impressed! It's a great value family day out in the North East and I wanted to share how much fun I had with you today...Beamish Open Air Museum is a living, working museum in the North East of England.  It's set over around 350 acres of beautiful Durham countryside and there's so much to do and see there that you can easily spend the full day visiting and still not see it all. There are fabulous Actors in costume everywhere who do a great job of bringing to life at various … [Read more...]

Today I'm sharing my top five things to buy from Farmfoods if you have a branch near you!   Farmfoods is one of my favourite freezer shops but for some reason, I thought it was just a small local company with just a couple of branches so I've never really shouted about it on here. I've just discovered that they're pretty much everywhere across the UK though so I thought I'd share a couple of the things I regularly buy from there.First of all though, a quick reminder about why frozen food is key to meal planning and saving money in the kitchen...Frozen food is often cheaper … [Read more...]

If you want to know how to pay less for Sky TV then read on as I'm going to share what I did to get a better deal recently with some helpful contact details that REALLY work!I switched to Sky from Virgin Media a little while ago to try and save some money on our monthly bills as it felt like I was paying a lot for Virgin and even with the discount they offered when I called them to see what they could do, I could still get a better deal with and pay less for Sky!I had a couple of teething issues with Sky when I switched over and ended up having to call their Customer Services team a … [Read more...]

This Kinder Fudge recipe is brought to you courtesy of Master Frugal who sent me to the shop with a shopping list after telling me that he'd seen this recipe all over Tik Tok and Instagram so he was going to make it!It really is one of those recipes that tastes so good that it's impossible to believe that it was so simple to make! Master Frugal made this and cut it into slightly bigger pieces than I would have done as I'd have bagged it up into little bags to give as gifts to people for Christmas but his intention was to take it on a camp out with his friends so he went for … [Read more...]