Today I have been to the stables with my daughter and enjoyed seeing her ride her pony and a friend's pony too. Following this we all went to the father in laws for a lovely Sunday lunch. This afternoon has seen me take inspiration from notjustgreenfingers' blog and whip up some chocolate chip cookies, flapjacks and currently in the bread-maker is a dough to make rolls. Following her advice I will slice them and freeze ready to make up for the packed lunches. Great idea!
I've been making bread in the BM weekly now when we run out of shop bought. At the moment, we rely on shop bought to see us through the beginning of the week and I top up with homemade. Eventually I may get to homemade 100% of the time but for now I'm happy with the balance.
It struck me the other day how far we've come since our journey had it's initial, dim spark. I say dim as it's taken me a long time to start living a more frugal lifestyle but the fact is, we've come so far. We don't buy things that we don't need, we make do and mend, make the most of free activities and generally live a happy yet frugal lifestyle.
So this coming week I have my meal plan done, shopped yesterday to get everything I need for it and have the treats made to fill up the lunch boxes and after tea requests. I'm going to make some rice pudding later in the week. I think I will use the slow cooker as I've never done rice pudding in the slow cooker before. That will be or Friday's soup and pudding night.
Two years time we will have our house up for sale and the farm will be in our sights.
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