Baking and cooking from scratch are important life skills that also offer an opportunity for children to learn by reading, weighing, and making themselves.
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Home Educating & Bulk Cooking
The past month has been hectic, in part due to having made a pretty big decision regarding Gabriel’s education. After a few months at Cylch we became unhappy with how he felt about schooling, the effect upon him, and the…
Growing Pains and Disposable Fashion
I’ve decided the biggest growing pains in a little one if the cost on the wallet of new shoes! Clothes are easy, I can make them, buy them second hand, or pick up bits with good resale value in the…
Making Meat Stretch & Cheap Cuts of Meat
If you are a meat eater you can’t have helped but notice increasing prices recently, in fact all food has shot up in price. There is a combination of reasons. A poor wheat crop last year (which has a knock…
2016 Round-Up – What a Year!
Well, 2016 was not the best one for us financially, and it took quite an emotional strain as well. With all the extra expenses of an unplanned house move our budget went way off course. We also had a lot…
How to save money on Christmas Shopping
Posted in Lifestyle
This is it! The shop shelves are bulging and the queues are getting longer at the checkout. The way some people act at this time of year you’d think civilisation was about to collapse and they were stocking up for…
It’s One Thing After Another so Back to Meal Planning!
Just as things start to even out again financially the car decided it would be a good time to break. I took it in as I knew we needed to replace the front tyres before Winter, but also found a…
New Home and Frugal Fast Reboot
Posted in Food
Well, sorry for the blog posts lacking recently, but we ended up moving home somewhat sooner than planned as we lost all clean water at the old house, and did so in complete chaos. In keeping with the landlord’s complete…
Sunny Days with Packing & Down Sizing Time
Posted in Food
As much as we love where we live we won’t be staying here much longer. The problem with renting is that you are subject to the whims and difficulties of private landlords. In our case as soon as repairs that…
Home Grown Vegetables & Summer Sun
The weather has been amazing this past two weeks. We’ve had so much fun outside, and the best part is it is all free! Days on the beach, walks in the woods and hills, splashing around in the paddling pool,…
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