What's the difference between a good old fashioned fairy cake and a cupcake?Google tells me that a cupcake originated in America and is slightly larger that the British fairy cake. Cupcakes are also usually made with a richer, thicker icing. Apparently.I'm more of a fairy cake girl and I use my Nana's favourite recipe - the same one that I've been using since I was about six when I first started baking with her. I've known it off by heart since before I knew my times tables at school.But recently, my fairy cakes have been looking like a bit of a poor relation when I've been … [Read more...]
The Thrifty Families Carnival….
First of all, I'm sorry for the delay in publishing the carnival this month - we've had a bit of a busy back to school week and I'm still playing catch up from our holidays last week.I have some fantastic posts for you today - you're practically guaranteed to learn something new ;-)First up we have the lovely Becky with a brilliant Vlog about teaching her children gratitude and an equally fantastic podcast about rainy days and poverty.Next up is a post from the preloved blog called Suzy's second hand safari. I'd love to do something like this but I don't think I could stick to it … [Read more...]
Saturday is Caption Day – the one with the silly swimming caps….
It’s Saturday again already and as usual, I’m joining in with the Saturday is caption Day linky over at Mammsaurus’ blog.This week's picture was taken last week on our holidays and took about 20 throws from Mr Frugal before I got the photo I wanted. Master Frugal was loving it - his Dad, not so much!So, what do you think? What's caption would you give this picture?(By the way, we don't usually where swimming caps. It was a rule of the hotel indoor pool ;-)) … [Read more...]
The Summer that was….
Miss Frugal's homework for this week is to write about what she did over the Summer Holidays. Where do we start....We went to the Leeds Party in the Park where we saw acts like One Direction, Little Mix, Tulisa and Marcus Collins.We caught Olympics fever and were really lucky to be able to visit one of the celebration gold postboxes.We've had lots of picnics in the parks and visits to the beach with good friends.We've done rock climbing (kind of).We've been to London and had an audience with the Queen.We went on a Wenlock hunt.We've discovered a love of all … [Read more...]
Slimming World – Syn free chickpea dahl loaf….
I've been following the Slimming World diet for a few months now and although it's not going as well as it was at the start (due to an all inclusive holiday and lots of picnics in the Summer Holidays, I am back on track now and am pleased with my weight loss so far.I tried on the dress I wore for the MADS last year and found it was two sizes too big and the dress I bought for the MADS award ceremony earlier in the Summer now has tobe pulled in a little with a belt so I'm definitely seeing a difference since I started.One of my favourite syn free Slimming World snacks is chickpea dahl … [Read more...]
Sick of balancing your debts? Try this one super easy tip to help you pay them off quicker and save money along the way…..
What is this brilliant tip that will help you pay off your debts quicker AND save you money?It's called snowballing and it really does work.And before you ask, when I say snowballing I don't mean throwing actual snowballs, I'm referring to paying off your credit cards and other unsecured lending in the most cost efficient way possible.It's all about paying your debts off in the right order so that you pay the least amount of interest on your debts and pay them off as quickly as possible. The best way to do this is to pay the minimum payment each month on all of your outstanding … [Read more...]
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