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Simples!
Hello Dear Reader,I'm loving this slow cooker experiment! I discovered that potatoes can be baked in it too. I wrapped each spud in foil and went to work. The result was a hot potato waiting for me...
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Autumn Frugal Food Workshops
Hello Dear Reader,I am happily worn out. It's been a really good day. As ever, a massive thanks to St. Austell Baptist Church for allowing me to use their kitchen and church hall and even bigger thanks...
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Cornish Under Roast
Hello Dear Reader,I've never heard of anyone eating 'under roast', or calling this 'under roast' anywhere outside of Cornwall. It may be unique to us. The word roast is in there in a loose sense as...
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Sticky Toffee Apple Rice Pudding
Hello Dear Reader,We had this with our supper on Saturday night. It beat away the sweet cravings that I had!You will need1/2 a cup of pudding rice5 cups of milk4 heaped tablespoons of soft brown sugar1...
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Beefy bacon bombs in a Chasseur sauce
Hello Dear Reader,DB has a theory that all food is better if you add bacon. He also believes that the best thing for a bacon sandwich is more bacon. He has a point.Our local butchers sells 24 frozen...
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Pulled Pork
Hello Dear Reader,I have resisted this recipe for a very long time. Pulled pork in an Aritisan bun seems to be for sale everywhere! I've never bought it but it's now time to try it. I'm so glad I did,...
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Better than beans
Hello Dear Reader,I'm so busy I'm really going to catch myself coming back the other way at this rate. I love every minute of being busy and can't bear to be bored so this suits me just fine. Tonight...
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Cooking in the Community
Hello Dear Reader,I've just torn myself away from 'Strictly' to upload a few piccies of today's cookery workshop. (in case the frugal police want to know, I ordered value pasta sauce and was sent the...
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Crock Pot food warmer give away
Hello Dear Reader,As promised, the first give away is today.It's a new crock pot food warmer, sent to me to give away to you. Here's the terms and conditions.1. Enter the rafflecopter.2. You have to...
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Slow Cooked Gammon
Hello Dear Reader,We still haven't switched the oven on! It's not only saving me money but the hassle of cleaning the bloomin' thing! After a wonderfully busy Sunday, I got time to catch up with a...
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Beef in Ale with spicy parsnip mash.
Hello Dear Reader,I still haven't cooked our supper in the oven and this is well into the second week of slow cooking our suppers. To be honest, it's the perfect way for a working person to cook and...
View ArticleHow much should a family of five spend on food a week?
Hello Dear Reader,I haven't included your name but as promised, here's the help I offered earlier today.You posed this question " What do you think is a realistic budget to set for a family of two...
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To make or to buy? Now, there's a question.
Hello Dear Reader,I am a frugal as I can be, but I'm not martyr. If I can buy it cheaper than I can make it, then I will buy it ready made. For example, there's just the two of us so I buy Aldi's or...
View ArticleIs every little not enough any more?
Hello Dear Reader,As Tesco became worth less than a packet of peanuts this morning, the news just buzzed! All of a sudden the media's big story was all about the thrifty shoppers who had turned their...
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Crock Pot Meatloaf
Hello Dear Reader,It's the start of our half term break, which means a whole tonne of work to do. I feel like death warmed up, with what feels like a chest infection and I need an early night. I need...
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Winter warming
Hello Dear Reader,Monday is officially wood burner day. We will have a new chimney pot, lined chimney, hearth of the correct legal size and a wood burner that doesn't leak carbon monoxide. Just to be...
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Pumpkin Chilli
Hello Dear Reader,A quick get in and out blog tonight. I have a full on chest infection and a cough that's driving me nuts! Not much cooking I'm afraid, just a very quick stick it all in the crock pot...
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Today we have heating!!!!
Hello Dear Reader,Not quite true.....we'll have heating tomorrow. We have to wait for the fire cement to go off on the joints; we just lit it with some paper and kindling to take the photograph. To be...
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How often do you change your Broadband supplier?
I'm off to spend three days in the most perfect company xxxxx Love you DB!Hello Dear Reader,I was sent the following guest post, which I happily accepted, because it really got me thinking. I look...
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Relaxed ? I should say so .
You should never write a blog post after a bottle of wine!So, just photos.How 's the holiday so far?Blinkin' EPIC!Eight hour drive to get here but the destination is amazing!I will fill in the gaps...
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