Seven good reasons to shop after seven pm
I love to save money and keep my food bills low: £60 to £90 a month, for two people, all in. As I’ve mentioned before now, one of my most effective ploys is to Continue reading
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How To Keep Cakes Fresh
Easy peasy! Keep cakes fresh for longer by bunging a large piece of fresh orange peel in the tin. And if you don’t have any oranges to hand..?
Read the rest of this articleFRIDAY BARGAINS: Cadbury’s Creme Eggs!
I’m going to keep this one short and sweet – very sweet. Lidl is shifting job lots of Cadbury’s Creme Eggs: a pack of six for just 99 pence! If you buy these up I do recommend that you eke … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleMarie Rose sauce recipe – by Frugal Grandma
Make your own Marie Rose sauce for prawns (or shrimp). It’s so much tastier and cheaper than the bought variety. If you use frozen prawns, make sure that they have been slowly defrosted or they lose their taste. Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleFRIDAY BARGAINS: 50% off at La Tasca
Fancy some cut-price Spanish food? The Daily Telegraph is running an offer for 50 per cent off food at tapas chain La Tasca. The offer runs until 19 April and covers a table of up to four diners. The online … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleFRIDAY BARGAINS: Free Marcus Wareing Cookbook
Are you in the UK? If you are, buy tomorrow’s Sunday Telegraph – and get a free hardback cookbook by tip-top Michelin-starred chef Marcus Wareing! Full details of the offer can be found here. The only catch is that you … Continue reading
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- Posted: February 16, 2009
- Category: Food, House & Garden
(Late) Friday Bargains: Flowers & More from Morrisons
I must apologise for the extremely late running of Friday Bargains. This is because I was out on the razzle when I should have been posting. It’s all come good though: I was moping around Morrisons at the weekend and… … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleFRIDAY BARGAINS: Free pizza!
Okay, two things: i) Yes, this is my second recent post about Orange. They aren’t paying me (honest, guv!) but they have the Miss Thrifty thumbs up right now. Because I like pizza. ii) The voucher is here. From the … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleGet your Tesco voucher codes!
This one’s a beauty, so I thought I’d share it. It’s a website called Tesco Voucher Codes, which does what it says on the tin. It has all the current points voucher codes, money off voucher codes and wine codes. … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleKeep cheese soft – a simple tip
You know how, if you leave cheddar or a similar cheese out by accident, it turns hard and waxy? There’s a neat little solution. Soak a clean tea towel or square of muslin in white wine (cheap wine is fine). … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleUsing up vegetables: my top thrifty recipe
A week or so before Christmas, a medium-sized cardboard box filled with organic fruit and vegetables landed on the Thrifty Towers doorstep. (I know! Some bloggers have all the luck/freebies.) It was a pre-festive gift from the organic delivery service … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleFRIDAY BARGAINS: In for a Pound
Christmas was a dizzying whirl of visits to relatives and friends in various parts of the South East, and I’m still disorientated. Seriously; I spent this afternoon working while feeling ever so virtuous for beavering away on a Saturday. It … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleFrugal Grandma’s pie and pudding secrets
I asked my Frugal Grandma if she would provide holiday cover while I am away on my Thrifty Roadtrip this week. Frugal Grandma can do anything… When you make fruit pies put the bottom layer of pastry in the tin, … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleWaste not, want not – old school tips
I asked my Frugal Grandma if she would provide holiday cover while I am away on my Thrifty Roadtrip this week. Frugal Grandma can do anything.. Biscuits gone a bit soft? Use them as a crumble topping over fruit, sprinkle … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleHello Frugal Grandma!
I asked my Frugal Grandma if she would provide holiday cover while I am away on my Thrifty Roadtrip this week. Frugal Grandma can do anything.. Frugal Dinner This recipe is called Beef Collop; it was first made by my … Continue reading
Read the rest of this articleFRIDAY BARGAINS: Half-price Ben & Jerry’s
Ben & Jerry’s is half-price at Morrisons right now. It’s £1.80 for one of the larger, 500ml tubs. Sadly, my local Morrisons didn’t have any ‘Cherry Garcia’ in (sniff), but I went for this sorbet one instead. The best part? My husband’s … Continue reading
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A label maven with a beady eye for bargains and a craving for saving, Miss Thrifty lives in Yorkshire, UK. And no, you won’t find her on a “homestead”, harnessing energy via a mini wind turbine and washing clothes with homemade soapflakes and a hand-cranked mangle.
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