Why I have two freezers Having two freezers has made my life so much easier, and managing them has saved me money.   One is the bottom half of a fridge freezer that has 3 drawers.  [...]

I wanted something filling for lunch and we have a lot of bits and pieces around to use up, including a small chicken breast that I had taken out of the freezer a couple of [...]

Whenever the oven is on, I try to fill it. We are always baking ahead, not only to save money, but to save time. I will often cook some pastry pie lids or some tart [...]

We are doing a pantry challenge, and so I am using up things from the freezer and cupboards for the next few months.  I have lots of Christmas left overs, including a ham joint that [...]

A few days ago I wrote an introduction to journaling which explained some of the different types of journaling and what you needed to start journaling. In this blog I will talk about some of [...]

It is important to live within your means so that you do not get into debt.  However I like to live below my means as that is what has made me more secure and reach [...]

I mention in some of my wellbeing blogs that journaling helps me.  People have asked me to do a blog on this topic.  Journaling is a big topic to cover and so I will start [...]

I have noticed that a lot of people around me are full of worry at the moment, and so I thought that I would right a blog to try to help reduce that worry. It [...]

My easy chocolate trifle is another dessert that I made at Christmas from what I had in the cupboards.  It is a good way of using up chocolate sponge.  I tend to make tray bakes [...]

Lemon posset is a quick and easy dessert that we made on Christmas day with what we had in.  We had intended to have Christmas pudding but found out that our guests did not like [...]

At this time of year, winter, it is harder to be frugal with laundry in the UK.  Things can rarely be dried on a line outside for almost 6 months of the year.  Even in [...]

The fridge and freezers are always full at this time of year and so we normally do a pantry challenge to make sure that everything is used up and nothing is wasted.  This year we [...]

If you are new to saving money, have a large debt that you want to reduce, want to save for a holiday, or want to improve your spending habits, then having no spend months is [...]

I hope that you all had a lovely Christmas, but now it is over, once again.  That adrenaline rush of getting everything done on time has dissipated. All of that planning, all of that thought, [...]

If you have been entertaining this Christmas, have a large family, or if you are any thng like me, your fridge will be packed with  Christmas left overs. It is important that you freeze things [...]

Christmas hampers are a great way of making presents that are frugal, but filled with love.  We started making them for family when we could not afford Christmas presents for anyone but the children.  We [...]

I learned early on in my life that money was not something to be worried about, even if you do not have a lot.  It is a tool, and like any tool, if it is [...]

We always have left overs.  I like to repurpose left overs to make other meals. I don't like to eat the same thing two days running. Sometimes I will make  on extra on purpose.  It [...]

I try to keep my life as uncomplicated and as simple as I can, but it is not always easy in this modern world.  Even though I live in my own little bubble, sometimes it [...]

Most weeks we make a batch of yoghurt in the slow cooker.  We use this for breakfast, puddings, to make pizza bases, and for flat breads.  This is the first time that I have used [...]

I was contacted and asked if I knew a recipe that someone could make as a homemade sweet treat that didn't involve baking.  They are homeless and living in a bedsit.  All they have for [...]

Christmas is approaching and so we will be using sausage meat in stuffing, sausages rolls and maybe in a sausage plait.  It is often difficult to find good quality sausage meat at a reasonable price, [...]

I think that my expectations of Christmas have always been too high as an adult. Every year, I have built up to Christmas, but then it has been a bit of an anti climax.  This [...]

I sometimes write content for other frugal bloggers, and one was asking me to write some content for her about living a slow, frugal life.  She was kind of wanting a blue print of how [...]

So many people tell me that they can not cook from scratch because they do not have time, don't have enough money, or it is too much bother.  Here is a cheap, quick meal that [...]

I have decided that I need to be more like the plants and animals and not fight winter this year.  In the past I have always felt that winter made me lazy, and tried to [...]

Once upon a time there was no such thing as supermarkets.  I remember visiting my first superstore in France in the early 1980s, and thinking how amazing it was. Unfortunately now that we have lost [...]

We had made a curry with all of our vegetables for the meal tonight, including some pureed pumpkin.  As it is the weekend, I decided to make the samosas as an accompaniment to make the [...]

I preserved a lot of pumpkin puree this week from pumpkins that I bought at cheap prices during Halloween.  I hate waste of any kind and so decided to make a snack with the seeds [...]

One of  my friends was giving away food as unfortunately her freezer had broken and everything was defrosting.  She gave us some white fish fillets.  They are the kind of ones that you find frozen [...]

I asked my Face book group what they do to keep their sitting rooms cosy whilst remaining frugal.  These are some of the things that they come up with. Have different cushion covers to the [...]

Mince pies are sweet treats that are traditionally served at Christmas. Some people make their own mince meat to fill them, but I don't at the moment.  The main reason is that I can buy [...]

My gran used to make this for me when I was a child and so I am going to used her basic recipe which is frugal.  I will then offer ideas of how to make [...]

Some one commented on another post asking me to share my home made, no churn, ice cream recipe. I have put this on before, but I thought I might as well post it again as [...]

We all deserve to enjoy ourselves and being on a tight budget does not mean that we have to miss out on leisure and entertainment opportunities.  Being frugal does not mean the end of your [...]

These are an easy activity to make with a child and the saltiness of the pretzel sticks with the chocolate tastes lovely.  If I had some lolly sticks I would have made this into a [...]