Sharing a guest By Holly Taylor, chef and co-founder of Kindling Restaurant in Brighton with 5 hacks t0 minimise food waste and save your shopping bill that we hope are helpful. In the UK, we’re not very good at food waste: we throw away 9.5 million tonnes of food each year, making us by far […]
READ MOREMeal Plan Monday – Half term
Welcome back to Meal Plan Monday and this week it’s half term. I am partly relieved because my kids need a break but I am still working for part of the week, so not much of a break for me. Each week I share what we are eating, planning to eat or cooking and how […]
READ MOREBad habits from Covid Lockdowns – my little Tiktok problem
My name is Karen and I have a little Tiktok problem. When the first Covid Lockdown hit, in March 2020, one thing the husband and I swore we wouldn’t do was get into more social media habits than we already had. Then we fell into the black hole that is Tiktok. Not everyone’s favourite and […]
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READ MOREChange Your Life by Outsourcing Parts of It
Sharing a guest post on how to Change Your Life by Outsourcing Parts of It, by Ian Child, author of Your Own Personal Time Machine. This post may contain affiliate links, which if you click on and make a purpose, earn me a small commission. They are marked with *AF. Time is precious – we’ve […]
READ MOREOur homeschool week 23rd – 29th May 2022
Welcome to our homeschool week and how I plan and work with our son to home educate him. If you follow us on our Facebook or Instagram you will know that whilst I have one child in school, I also home educate our son. This is how we do it. This week whilst we have […]
READ MORENew car vs Pre-loved Car – All You Need to Know
*Sharing a collaborative post about why buying a pre-loved car might be a better investment than buying a new car, that we hope is helpful, if like us, you are looking to replace your car in the next few months. Most people know – or assume – that second-hand vehicles are cheaper than new. They […]
READ MOREMeal Plan Monday – more salads please
Welcome to Meal Plan Monday and this week we want more salads please… Each week I share what we are eating, planning to eat or cooking and how we meal plan for a family of four with food allergies and Coeliac disease on a budget. We shop at Aldi and Asda mainly for convenience and […]
READ MOREOur homeschool week 16th – 22nd May 2022
Welcome to our homeschool week and how I plan and work with our son to home educate him. If you follow us on our Facebook or Instagram you will know that whilst I have one child in school, I also home educate our son. This is how we do it. We have had a bit […]
READ MOREMultipurpose gentle skin balm from Baba West
*This is a collaborative post with Baba West sharing about an amazing multipurpose gentle skin balm that is suitable for all sorts of family uses and is kind and gentle to skin* If like me you hate fuss, and bother but also like things to work, and you don’t like to have many things when […]
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