The Diary of a Frugal Family

This Spicy Gingerbread Lip Scrub is exactly what you need to give your lips a bit of a treat!At this time of year, my lips always seem to get super dry and often a little bit chapped but this Spicy Gingerbread Lip Scrub is perfect to soothe them and to stop them drying out!  It's also easy to make and used things that I bet you have in your kitchen cupboards so you won't even have to go out and buy anything! What you need to make your own homemade spicy gingerbread lip scrub100g brown sugar 3 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil or coconut oil (in its liquid form) ¼ … [Read more...]

Now, more than ever, it's super important that we all take time to relax with our families so I thought I'd share with you 100 ways to spend time with your family to give you some ideas.At the moment, I'm really conscious that lots of you have younger children and some of you will be really struggling for ideas on how to spend time together as a family. I've just spent an hour or so going through my old blog posts to write this bumper list of ideas for you so I really hope it helps you.It's all different for me these days as my two are older now so we have different ways of … [Read more...]

Today's school dinner cake (which you might have called Sprinkle Cake at your school) is guaranteed to take you back to your school days - especially if you pour over some lumpy custard when you serve it up. 😂I used to love School Dinners when I was at school and I'm 99% certain that we just used to call this pink cake but I can't find anyone else who called it that so I'm going with the two more common names that I found for it when I was searching for it - school dinner cake and sprinkle cake.I started to think about all my favourite school dinner puddings this weekend … [Read more...]