Frugal Necessity

1. Shoe shopping this is hardly the most frugal of British sports , I for one can't not abide the bustling and jousting of sale days especially around Christmas time it feels me with utter utter dread. So how was I shoe shopped yesterday and this was what I achieved

One pair of black shoes for my son got his first ever job priced £18 previous price £54 

One pair of lace up shoes were £15 previous price £35

Another pair of lace up shoes which were £19 previous price £49

And me 

I got one pair and one pair one how was this humanly possible : I've let down woman shoe shopping kind ....

2. Son has presented me with a list of books he requires for A level so between eBay and Amazon so far for Biology I'm saving £20 least Greta Gadsby was only 99p from Amazon.

3. I'm plotting a wildlife pond , since having bird feeders I've gone all well Springwatch so I'm just researching how to do this frugally.

4. Meal planning goes without saying .. though in this weather ... munches on carrot , which I grew myself.

5. I have stopped trips to the ice cream van by buying them in cheaper as well .... though I wish you could recreate the 99 experience at home though.

Baked Peppers Crab Filled

Summer.

Hot.

Stop.

No need for a complicated recipe today.




Ingredients

3 peppers any colour with the seeds taken out and the tops cut off

3 slices of bread ( to be made into bread crumbs)

Mixed crab meat

Some mayonnaise about 3 tablespoons




Method

Heat the oven to 180c

Mix the crab meat , bread crumbs and mayonnaise together

Fill the Peppers

Bake for 35 minutes

And that should be it

Done and ready to eat.

Obviously if you want to be fancy smancy you could add some flecks of chilli and a squish of lime.

Oven Baked Buttery Corn On The Cob

Summer is a tad delayed , rumour has it that it is currently on holiday in Barbados , keep the faith after there is beauty in each and every day. I've been watching the birds whilst I cook and find it rather engaging , the way they swoop bob and weave. I think that we need to to celebrate life more ,  we are too quick sometimes to announce with forthright the bad situations. Of course that isn't to say we can't moan but a little prospective goes a long way I am finding nowadays.

Ingredients

4 corn on the cob

100g low fat spread or butter

4 squares of foil so that we can parcel up the corn on the cob

Additional flavouring make crushed garlic / crushed peppercorns etc if you wish

Method

Preheat the oven to 200 C

Place each corn in a parcel of foil then place in the oven for around 35 minutes depending on your oven

Top with the low fat spread/butter seal the corn up into a foil parcel

Open carefully and either eat on its own or serve with another food of your choice, any spare left over once cooled could for instance be added to tuna pasta mayonnaise ( which is what I did )


Disclosure ~ I received some vouchers as part of the Orchard scheme from Tesco to buy this and the recipe is mine ~ I wasn't asked to do this

What You Don't See Is

What you don't see is.

The struggle you don't see the struggle I've had on a daily basis and don't even get me started on those who say I'm victim playing . If I am very much mistaken this is my depression not yours and you're required to either help or not there's no in between so unhelpful commenting or griping is very not ever needed for us who suffer.

There is light.

But there is a sense of underwealming  loss can you Imagine it having a love of books as I do, see that's something that you didn't know about me. I can only liken it to Michangelo putting down his paint brushes for several years and only drawing stick men , really doesn't make sense when you have an inate ability. To have an ability lost is soul destroying , you see people hear people discussing books and you can't join it ~ you're excluded.

The books just gather dust on the shelves , the words are still there but they're trapped in a prison of paper. Hope is there hold on to the words that talk , the just need for you to open the book, the book that has been gathering just upon the shelf , it should have been read it could of been read. Time is both a trap and a treasure and you've just got to discover that for yourself , time this moment is a treasure. 

The dust is blown off and we are off on an adventure , will I handle it ?

We'll just have to see.

Saturday Is Caption Day

Can you caption this ? I found this fellow upon a country walk yesterday , I've a feeling he's a long long way from home . I think he will be needed in around 6 months time ho ho ho ...