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Lovin summer

Absolutely the best thing about sunny weather is FREE fruit! Yes free, that’s what I said!

£4.00 for a blueberry plant I bought 3 years ago yields more fruit every year, I think it’s paid for itself! Another advantage is that when you buy strawberries/blueberries in the supermarket you need to eat them within 2-3 days. When you grow em you just pick em when you want em and leave the rest to grow. Just make sure you get to eat em before the garden beasties do (and that includes my dog who ate numerous green strawberries this year! )

Mexican tomato & vegetable soup

Mexican soup

1 1/2 onions
1 carrot cubed
Handful of green beans
4 tomatoes
Vegetable stock cube
1 clove of garlic
1 chilli
Chopped coriander
Lemon juice
1tbsp tomato purée

Mexican spices

1/2 tsp cumin
1/2 tsp paprika
1/2 tsp chilli
1/2 tsp cayenne pepper
1/2 tsp oregano
1/2 tsp Harissa

Really the onion and garlic should be fried in a bit of oil first but as I’m trying to keep the calories down I’m just going for the bung everything in a pan method

Black Forest trifle

Quick pud!

Needed to make a pud with no cooking required as my oven went kaaaaput! So I did the following, chocolate cake (which I already had from offcuts of a birthday cake) I cubed it and put into the bottom of a trifle bowl.

A jar of black cherries (can be pie filling, frozen cherries or even jam), I managed to snag some at aldi which were leftover from “American” themed special offers. I put about a third of a jar and some of the juice onto the cake followed by a pack of chocolate angel delight (300ml of milk whisked up with the contents of the packet) and topped with double cream & sprinkles.

Easy peasy when your in a hurry and the kids loved it!

Flying the nest

So my eldest has gone and left home ….. At 18! Who’d of thought I would have such an independent daughter. Most of the weekend and beyond has involved bidding on eBay and cadging free stuff of mates, there are some proper bargains to be had too

I even managed to get a brand new fridge for £37 BARGAIN! Where’s the catch you ask, well it does have a few minor dings in it but its going under worktop so you’ll barely see them.

My other half is busy turning her bedroom into an office already, it’s not that he’s pleased to see her go but he is looking forward to having an office with actual light in it (previously he has been working in the downstairs back room affectionately known as the black hole of Calcutta!)

Feeling sad and happy at the same time (happy coz she is happy) definitely not happy to be the only girl in the house now, I’m gonna be outvoted on the TV forever! Lol