As you know, I’m a huge huge advocate of meal planning and I always recommend it to people when they ask me what they can do to save some money. The reactions I get from people more often than not fall into one of three categories – there are the people who already meal plan, the…
Christmas Dinner isn’t a huge deal in our house to be honest and we definitely don’t spend a fortune on all of the trimmings or hours decorating our table. Here’s why…. First of all, we’re not fans of turkey or stuffing so we don’t bother with them anymore – this year we’re having slow cooker gammon…
I was planning to make a batch of leek and potato soup for lunches this week and I’d included what I needed to make them on my shopping list but then the pile of organic Butternut Squashes reduced from £1.49 each to 39p that I found when I went shopping were too good too pass…
Before I do my weekly shopping, I make sure that I’ve worked out what meals we’ll be eating in the coming week and I write myself a shopping list so that I know I buy everything I need and not much more. But I rarely get through a week’s shopping without a last minute change…
Usually, I have our week’s meals written on a scrap of paper, stuck on the front of the fridge if I’m feeling particularly organised, somewhere at the bottom of my handbag if I’m not! This led to us not sticking to the plan on lots of a few times as we couldn’t remember what we…