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Frugal Friday | The frugal way of life
Shopping Traditionally, it’s lamb used to make a cottage pie. I want to make a cottage pie and so I checked lamb prices; it is a little expensive! The average family spends just 75p on each meal and I...
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A Sunday Ramble
Hidden places The path in the photograph is on a housing estate in between some houses. I went exploring! It leads to a heath and a pool that has ducks and swans. It’s a nice place for a walk. It does...
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Frugal Friday | Saving on interest
Motoring I have started with a picture of my car, now 14 years old. A smaller car would be cheaper to run but the depreciation on my car has been around £350 a year over a 7 year period. It’s still in...
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Frugal Food 2
Egg ‘n’ Chips You can’t get much more frugal than egg ‘n’ chips with veggies of course. Potatoes are a staple food, there is protein in the eggs (we need about 50g a day) and there is lots of vitamins,...
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Thrifty Thursday 14
Thrifty or Frugal ? Being thrifty is spending your money wisely and being frugal is using what you buy wisely! I bought vegetables, chicken and herbs at Lidl on Sunday, that was thrifty. I made soup...
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Thrifty Thursday 15
I like chicken and chips, but sometimes I like fish for a change. It is a little expensive, but after having a lot of frugal meals like egg and chips I can have what I want! The meal in the photograph...
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A Sunday Ramble: Food
In the stone age they ate tubers from the ground, I suppose that’s the same as me eating potatoes; except I don’t have to forage for them. I do a little foraging in the fruit and veg department of...
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Frugal Food | Warming Chicken Stew
Ingredients Chicken legs (1 for each 600ml of stew) 2 carrots 2 parsnips 1 swede onions (1 for each chicken leg) herbs d’Provence seasoning Place your chicken legs in a saucepan, cover in a 1 litre...
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Frugal Food | Adding flavour
Herbs and spices I made a chicken stew over the weekend and put in extra herbs for flavour. This can reduce the cost, because you don’t need so much chicken and is particularly good if you’re using a...
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Thrifty Thursday | Rising prices
The reason for todays picture is I’m thinking about transport. When the government in the UK does quantitative easing (printing money) commodity prices like oil go up. Oil is used for transport and...
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