I've been criticised in the past for saying that I let my children choose their own clothes and I'm curious to see if I'm the only one who does that because I genuinely can't understand why someone would make their children wear clothes that they don't feel happy in. Miss Frugal is 11 and she has very individual taste in clothes - she has one pair of skinny jeans and one pair of track suit bottoms in her wardrobe which are rarely worn but everything else is less mainstream for an 11 year old. In the Summer, she spent most of her time in maxi dresses and shortsuits and now it's winter she's … [Read more...]
Leftovers Inspiration – Five ways to use up leftover Risotto or Paella….
Homemade Paella and Oven baked risotto are two of my all time favourite meals but I always end up with leftovers so I've been experimenting with different ways to use up the leftovers....These are really simple to make as all you need to do is make golf ball sized balls using the leftover paella / risotto. Then you just flatten them down and bake for around 20-25 minutes and you're done. The cakes make a great little starter with some spicy mayo on the side.I wrote about how to use up leftover risotto by making risotto balls here and the recipe works just as well with paella … [Read more...]
Rocky Road fridge cake….
Every now and again, I am required to make cakes for some random reason and naturally, the night that I am required to bake these cakes always seems to fall on a night where we have at least twenty seven other things planned which means my cakes invariably end up being the ones that are left at the end looking lonely on the table with a reduced to 10p sign on them.But this week, I had a revelation after finding two big bars of cooking chocolate at the back of my cupboard. I made rocky road cake which took Miss Frugal me less than 10 minutes and I don't want to brag but they were all sold … [Read more...]
Five ways to de-clutter and make some money….
Am I correct in thinking that it's OK to talk about Christmas now that the Coca Cola advert has been on TV ;-)I hope so, because with just 38 days to go, I've got lots to say, I'll try and keep most of my Christmas mutterings confined to the OneStopChristmasBlog but very often every now and again I'm not going to be able to help myself!Like today for example, we're using today to have a bit of a pre-Christmas clear out as we do every year around this time and I'm going to try and make some money with our things to go towards our Christmas fund.I find it much easier to clear our the … [Read more...]
I miss the ‘Dear Santa’ days….
Miss Frugal's 11 now and most definitely doesn't believe in Santa anymore. She didn't last year or even, I suspect the year before that either but she at least pretended for my sake. It's different this year though because she knows that I know that she knows that the big man isn't real so she doesn't feel the need to humour me as she's done for the last few years.She's still pretending to believe in front of Master Frugal though because we're not actually sure if he's still a believer - I'm almost positive that he is but that could just be wishful thinking on my part.Now that she's a … [Read more...]
Slow Cooker ham in Coca Cola….
Foods like lemon and honey, tomato and basil, Nutella and peanut butter are all perfect flavour combinations. I wouldn't have put ham and Coca Cola on my list of favourite food combinations at all - until last night when we had slow cooked Coca Cola ham.My version of coca cola ham is a much simplified version of the Nigella ham in coke recipe as it doesn't have any fancy stuff in it ;-)It really couldn't be easier to make and the results are delicious.I always bring my ham joint to the boil in a pan for five minutes to get rid of any excess salt but I know lots of people … [Read more...]
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