Well here we are again, another fortnight gone by and Newsletter time again. My goodness, how fast those weeks go.
A winter cold
For the last week, I've not been well and feeling rather sorry for myself. It's just a cold, but they make me miserable. The sore throat at the start was itchy and kept making me cough, now it's more of a hacking cough and my ribs are sore from so much of it. I haven't slept well because of the coughing, sneezing and discomfort of it all. There's currently a tap where my nose should be!
It's the first one I've had since pre-Covid, that's a long time. I'm waiting impatiently for it to go, for one thing, I can't go to choir as a) I can't sing, only croak and b) I'm not spreading my germs.
Don't feel quite as wretched today, so I'm hoping I'm now on the upswing.
It's not Covid by the way, I tested.
Three Christmas Meal Plans
Many people are now planning their Christmas menus and in these times of horrifying price rises, that's quite a scary prospect. I thought I'd reprice the Cheap Family Recipes Christmas Week plan and a couple on Thrifty Lesley and see what was happening with them.
Well I'm extremely pleased to report that yes, they have increased a little, but not by anywhere near as much as I feared.
The CFR celebration week is coming in at £1.12 pppd! Lots of lovely food on a teeny, tiny budget.
The festive week of food on Thrifty Lesley re-priced to £2.08 pppd. Loads of festive food, at great price.
And this Vegetarian week of lovely seasonal eating is currently coming in at £1.90 each
So three options, and without going bankrupt to do it. Do share your seasonal recipes, I love to see what you've been doing, or in this case, what you are planning!
An e-book or two
I published an ebook for meal plan 1 in August 2021 and am delighted that many people have thought it was worth getting. I repriced it again in June 2022 and it was still holding on, even in these scary times. Now we are in September and prices have shifted again and
I've managed to get my head around WooCommerce so I can feature it on the blog and you can find it here.
I was busy recooking, photographing and updating the recipes for Meal Plan 2 and putting them into an ebook as well. The meal plan was first written in 2013 and still prices up, which is fabulous and that is finally complete. The book is done now too, prices seem to be stable enough to do it.
I'm well into creating an e-book from the Stretch A Chicken To Last A Week series, hope it won't be long before it's finished
Do come and say hello on the Fantastically Frugal Food Facebook group, or the Sensational Slimming Sustenance group. I'd love to see you. Lots of useful tips, recipes and ideas. The over 17,000 membership are brilliant, brimming with talent.
And don't forget Thrifty Lesley, where there are 800+ recipes of fantastically frugal food and many weekly meal plans. And Cheap Family Recipes where you can find all kinds of delicious things that don't cost much, with two family monthly meal plans.
I've also got a few YouTube videos up, not many yet, but I'm planning to do more. I've done a couple more, need to edit them now. So much to do, so little time!
With all best wishes, until next time
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