It has been a quiet few weeks as I am toilet training my last little boy. I have tried not to schedule to many activities so we can stay at home. Toilet training has been a bit of a nightmare, but we are slowly getting there.
Thrifty things for the week:
- Baked 24 apple and cinnamon muffins from frozen apples for lunches and snacks.
- Made 5 jars of Lemon Butter. Recipe link here. This is Rhonda's recipe from Down to Earth blog and it is fantastic. I have already given one jar as a gift to a friend. This was made with eggs from our chickens and lemon juice from Bush Lemons that I was gifted from a good friend and I froze the juice. Lemon butter is delicious on toast or in a cake, tart etc.
- Looked through the freezer at what I already had on hand for dinners.
- Made gift tags from Christmas cards received this year.
- Took my lunch to work each day.
- Made up and froze two rolls with leftover ham, cheese and chutney for work lunches.
- Bought packets of Christmas biscuits for .49c each at Aldi. There are 5 individual packets of 3 ginger biscuits in each pack, which are great for school/work lunches or to take out with us. I bought a few packs to check if we liked them and then went back to Aldi to purchase more. They had 8 packets left, so I got about 11 packs for around $5. I think they were about $1.99 each originally.
- Bought 3x packets of toilet rolls on good special at Woolworths.
- Bought a pre-packaged salad and mixed small tomato pack for 90% off. Cost me $1.20 for the three and has lasted ages.
- Put my hand up to work a shift over the Australia Day public holiday. Usually I would be working (but we are closed due to the PHL). Will be good money :-)
- Picked up a box of jars from a local freebie site. These will be great for gifts of lemon butter, jam and chutney.
How fun! Just found your blog and hope to read more later. :)
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