Frugal Friday

Friday already, where do the days go ! Final GCSE exam today, hurrah ! But in amongst all the revision help we have also managed a few frugal things !

I used a £4 off a £30 spend at Tesco for the groceries this week and managed to get everything for £30.65-£4 = £26.65, so I thought that was very good for a whole week's groceries. The shopping was supplemented with strawberries, celery and lettuce from the garden.

We cooked ahead for several busy nights and made granola, yoghurt, soup, bread, rolls, felafel, quiche, gabriel potatoes, chapattis and vegetable curry. the fridge defrosted itself all over the floor one day when I was out, but fortunately we have plenty of old rags to help with the mopping up !

I started a free Level 2 course to complement the counselling one, all about understanding mental health problems. It is very thorough and by using government sponsorship I have saved myself around £400. It is well worth having a look at your local further education college's online course as there are several free ones being offered just now.

MrShoestring picked up a couple of packets of greatly reduced sausages one night when he went out for petrol, they have been out in the freezer for a barbecue at a later date. Perhaps when we have our young home stay student visiting in August. He's only 7 and coming to learn English all the way from Cameroon !

I hope that you had a great, frugal week !