We have had some wonderful rain this past week, such a great start for my new raised garden beds. We have also noticed a lot of water sitting in the drain outside our home, which means the drainage that lovely hubby incorporated in the bottom of the garden is working, thank heavens. We have a clag-y clay base that is not great for drainage, we did improve it as much as we could with aeration and gypsum, here's hoping it was enough.
Here's what I've been up to on the frugal front-
1. I saved some seeds from some really sweet little tomatoes we bought from Aldi, these seeds were left on the board after I had sliced some tomatoes for lunch, I rinsed them and let them dry on a piece of silicon paper, then popped them into this little bowl to continue drying. The variety is called Bellino and we buy these instead of the big ones as I find these ones so sweet and taste like old fashioned tomatoes.
3. Popped into Woolworths on Tuesday and Thursday afternoon and picked up some marked down produce.
The slow cooker beef will be made into a Beef Ragu with Pappardelle, the chicken drumsticks into Lemon Myrtle Chicken and the cream was used yesterday to make the whipped cream (and black cherry jam) to go with the Chocolate Banana Pancakes
I am thinking of a Pork Ball Laksa for the pork mince and maybe my Easy Lasagna with the beef mince. And I needed new work socks and these 3 pack of comfy ankle socks were reduced to $4
4. Line dried the washing between showers of rain. The storms have been coming through late in the afternoon so I've had time to get the clothes dry. Although yesterday the rain started at lunch time and was still going when I left work at 4pm, lucky I didn't have any washing on the line.
5. Took loose peppermint tea to work each day, I have a little plunger that I bought from Kmart years ago and it is the perfect, 1 cup size. I have two cups of tea while at work, if I bought a cup of herbal tea everyday it would cost me about $960.00 a year. On average, based on herbal tea that goes for $4 a cup and a 5 day working week, minus 4 weeks holiday. Doesn't that add up!
What have you been up to on the frugal front?
Have a lovely day,
💖Fi
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