Welcome to week one in the new and improved Frugal household.... (I am starting early as I need to do my shopping tomorrow)My weekly budget is £50 but I think I am well within that for this week.Thursday Lunch - Soup Tea - Home made macaroni cheese with gammonFriday Lunch - Roast chicken, yorkshire puddings, roasties and veg Tea - Picky buffet teaSaturday Lunch - Beans on toast Tea - Jambalaya for the grown ups and home made pizza and garlic bread for the kidsSunday Lunch - Crumpets Tea - Home made lasagneMonday Lunch - Home made quiche Tea - Toad in the … [Read more...]
New Years Resolutions….
My New Years Resolutions:Make a weekly meal plan and stick to it - saving both time and money!Only set foot in Morrisons once a week.Enrol in a digital photography course so that I can make the best use of my new toy ;-)Stick to our monthly budget.Lose weight (well it wouldn't be a New Years Resolutions list without this one would it?)Keep in touch with friends who I don't see often.Do at least one crafty activity with the kids every week.Shave my legs at least once a week!!! This is my personal favourite as it means I get to have the occasional relaxing bath. Normally as soon as my toe … [Read more...]
Mario Kart DS is driving me mad….
As you may remember, Master Frugal got a Nintendo DS for Christmas. He absolutely loves it and has hardly put it down since he unwrapped it. The fact that he is playing on his DS has also renewed Miss Frugal's enthusiasm for hers and they have discovered that as they both have Mario Kart they can play against each other, even when they are in different rooms!Aaaaaaaaaaaaaaaagh - I am hearing the tune from the game in my sleep. Literally. I got up for a wee in the night and I could have sworn that I could hear the tune, I even went into both of their bedrooms to check but they were both fast … [Read more...]
Merry Christmas….
I hope you all had a lovely Christmas - mine was brilliant. Seeing the kids faces makes everything worthwhile.I will pop back later but just wanted to say Merry Christmas to everyone who takes the time to read The Diary of a Frugal Family.P.S. Frugalness will resume now that Christmas is over ;-) … [Read more...]
Cotton Wool Snowman….
I have been promising the kids for ages that we will make cotton wool snowmen and I finally ran out of excuses today so we now have three cotton wool snowmen sat on our living room window...They're simple but messy to make. We used a toilet roll for each snowman and using PVA glue we covered them with cotton wool. We cut out a circle of card and covered that in cotton wool as well and attached it to the toilet roll by cutting two slits in the toilet roll and sliding the head into the slits.The kids then cut out their hats, faces and buttons anf finally we stuck them in a cotton wool covered … [Read more...]
Homemade Mint Crisps….
The jury is still out on my homemade mint crisps. They were fun to make and tasted nice but I don't think you could bring them out at the end of a dinner party and wow your guests (not that I ever have dinner parties lol).They were so simple to make, all you need is a biggish bar of dark chocolate and a packet of extra strong mints. Using a rolling pin bash the extra strong mints into little pieces, I left a few larger bits to make it more crunchy - Don't do this as Mr Frugal nearly lost his tooth biting into one!Then melt the chocolate in the microwave (or the old fashioned way if you are … [Read more...]
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