Editorial
A Resourceful Shepherds Pie | Waste Not Want Not
There can be little doubt that a Shepherds Pie is a family favourite guaranteed to result in clear plates! It is literally the only dish I have cooked over the years that all of my daughter’s friends have scoffed without a blink of an eye! Even the ones that have highly tuned microscopic onion detectors tuck in! It is so worth the effort to get clean plates and full tums, and of course no wasted portions for a change!
Read more »Combat Rising Energy Bills | Make the Switch or Alternatively Use Less Energy
Autumn is turning, winter is on the horizon! We are all putting off turning our heating on until we absolutely have to! And if you are an energy customer of the ‘big six’ you will no doubt have had a letter over the course of the last year giving you details of a forthcoming increase in their prices! It’s not much to look forward to is it!
Read more »Here Comes Another New iPhone | Recycling Your Apple Products
Anybody else getting increasingly uncomfortable with the shelf life of all this very expensive technology available to us and how disposable particularly they seem to be? I know I am! And here we go again with not one new version of an iPhone, but three of them!
Read more »Your Ultimate Guide to Recycling Christmas Waste
So, we’ve shopped, we’ve prepped, we’ve wrapped, we’ve cooked, we’ve eaten and hopefully been merry, and then we are left with the aftermath! It can be very tempting just to scoop everything into a bin and forget about it. But really, if there’s one time you should make the effort, it’s Christmas! When you think about the quantities involved it is frightening! Here is our Ultimate Guide to doing the best you can!
Read more »Back to School the Resourceful Way | The Waste Not Want Not Guide
Whether you are looking forward to it or not, the time has come to think about getting those kids back to school! And it can be anything but straight forward given that our children simply don’t grow in a uniform manner – nature has not contrived to have them conveniently grow out of 6-7 year old school uniform in July of one year, ready to start the new school year in size 7-8!
Read more »My Summer Holidays Survival Guide | How We Plan Ourselves Happy!
Okay, I admit it – I dread the summer holidays! I can’t help it – I am a creature of habit and routine, and whilst not having to get my daughter out of bed to go to school is nice, I then drift into the realms of oh god, I’m not being productive, the house is a mess, my child is bored!
Read more »A New Year … A New Resolve to be More Resourceful!
We don’t actually believe in new year’s resolutions. Life is hard enough, particularly at this time of year, without putting yourself under added pressure to do things perfectly of even better! But a new year is a good time to draw a line, and start again…accept we didn’t do everything we wanted to do last year, but that we made progress!
Read more »School Uniform Put to the Test
With German discount supermarkets going head to head in school uniform price wars, even before school is out this year, The Sun has put a range of supermarket uniforms to the test!
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