Pig Tits & Parsley Sauce

Feeling the pinch in Canterbury? Lesandre Paris can help you out with MAKE cleaning products and cosmetics classes available.  Check out this fantastic web site  http://www.aparisaffair.co.nz/ where you can buy ready made products and/or arrange a class to learn how to save heaps of  money in the new year. Get together with a group of friends and Lesandre will [...]

I enjoy doing inspirational talks about our new fun and frugal lifestyle and have spoken to groups large and small all over the country.  Recently Pauanui Probus group gave me a warm and positive reception.  Interesting to see yourself through some one else’s eyes,so here is a summary of my presentation…. thank you Jill. Report [...]

For just $24 I will send you the Cleaning Recipes and the Cosmetics recipes plus four samples…. lip balm,moisturiser, shampoo/body bar or massage bar and laundry powder. As a Christmas pressie I will pay for the postage. I will also include a Bin Inn voucher so you can buy some ingredients to use yourself or [...]

We are doing OK so far, but I predict this may get tougher as the weeks go by and the supplies get used up… here’s what we got in week 1/2 spent just under $70.  Then week 3 where loopaper and batteries gobbled up a huge chunk of the funds, but we stuck to the$35 [...]

Lynley sent me this idea and it is so good, I thought I’d post it.  Thanks Lynley and Merry Xmas. Feed All Our Children  This Xmas And give them a present   Here is an idea for the whole family. Choose one grandparent who with the consent of the family doesn’t buy each of the [...]

Click READ MORE to see a link to me making easy hummus on Good Morning TV 1, Friday 6th Now 2011. See Free Recipes for recipe.  http://tvnz.co.nz/good-morning/s2011-e021211-lyn-webster-video-4586994

Off grocery shopping today… with $70 to spend, hoping we will get most things on our wish list.  Ham, bread, cucumber,butter,pasta, potatoes, wraps, raisins, salami, carrots, oil, cheese, eggs, fruit, creamed corn, and canned tomatoes.  Some of those things in garden but not ready yet. I will let you know how we go. The chickens [...]

…you money and it is easier on the environment. Learn how by 1: Buy the recipe pamphlets on this web site and start a fantastic new lifestyle now, or… 2:  Contact a MAKE franchisee in your area today and take a class (see MAKE classes, NZ and Australia above.)

So much easier to update the $35 a week grocery budget on Face book, so if you are interested in seeing how we are going just click the FB link (below right) and catch up on Face Book.  Become a fan while you are there.

We are trying to stick to spending $35 or less a week on groceries for two people.  here are some examples of meals we had in week one. Day Four, hot chips and avocado dip for tea  Day Five, snapper (yay) we were given a huge plate of freshly caught snapper. So we had it [...]