Eating and Living Well ... on a Small Budget
Just Food, Books ... and the Simple Life
Friday, 4 April 2025
Two Leeks, One Carrot, One Onion, One Apple and One Pack of Pastry
Tuesday, 1 April 2025
Easy Peelers
Is there anyone else out there that loves it when a sticker comes off a jar in one fell swoop?
I hate stickers of any sort with a vengeance, and I'm frequently found peeling them off things that Alan has bought, as well as anything that I buy. I have had to fight for years not to peel all the information stickers off my laptop ... but Alan says that is a huge no-go. The day it dies it's final death, not long to go now I fear, I will peel away with relish.
But jars, now that is a thing. If the sticker peels off in one go, or soaks off easily in a bowl of soapy water, I am loath to let go of what might be a very useful jar.
It seems I have a cupboard full of very useful jars.
Sue xx
And no, I don't have Pittakionophobia ... I just dislike stickers and the residue they leave on things.
Sunday, 30 March 2025
The Books That I Read in March
Eat. Nourish. Glow. by Amelia Freer
This is the book that carried over from February's reading and that I promised to report back on.
I enjoyed reading this book, especially all the nutritional and food information that takes up about the first three quarters of the book, but the recipes in it were really not my sort of thing at all. It is also quite a few years out of date as it was published in 2015. Would I recommend it, yes if you can borrow it from the library or get yourself a second-hand copy, but I don't think it's worth splashing out the full cover price for.
Now it has been donated back to the book table at Booths.
The New Whole 30 by Melissa Urban
I was really interested in reading the new version of The Whole 30. I had the original book, and indeed did the Whole 30 for myself many years ago. So I decided to treat myself to this new version. It was a really good read and whilst I am not going to actually do the whole process again, it was good to refresh my mind and read about the new learnings since the original one was written.
This book has been kept on my shelves.
Food for Thought, Keeping Well in Wartime published by The Imperial War Museum
This is a cute little box set of two books.
Nancy's Green and Easy Kitchen by Nancy Birtwistle
Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift
I spotted this book on the charity book table in Booths last month and thought 'that would be good to read just before Mother's Day'. I just could not get into it at all, the style of writing just didn't gel with me and I was eager to get on to something else.
Donated ... back to the book table. (In time for Mothering Sunday. 😊)
The Garden Cottage Diaries by Fiona J Houston
Sue xx
I would like to point out, that although I provide links to Amazon for all the books that I read each month, not all my books are bought from Amazon. If they are, some of them were bought from the Used section rather than at full price. You do not need to spend a fortune to read good books. 💖
Friday, 28 March 2025
The Spice of Life
Wednesday, 26 March 2025
What was it I said about NOT doing a Challenge?
Then this morning, while I'm on my own as Alan is back at the bungalow for a day of electrical work, I went for a mooch around Booths and bought some really treaty kind of shopping. A couple of things that I needed, and some that I just wanted.
Another £44.81 spent.
And now I have to rein in my frivolous spending, as there are no wages going into my bank account at the end of this month. My Scope pension starts on the 1st May and that is the grand total of £77.02 each month. It's actually going to be quite interesting having such a small amount to play with.
At the moment I have an extra £25 a week going into my bank account as my son is midway through paying a loan back, so I have an extra hundred a month for the next ten weeks. To top me up even further I have decided to reverse my current 'keep the savings account figure nice and even' thing and instead of adding to the savings to top up the random figure left by the interest going into my savings account, I will be moving the interest amount out of savings into my current account.
Every little helps when your pension for the next year is going to be so low. 😀
What was it I said about not doing a Challenge!!
Sue xx