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Hi, my name is Annie!
As a busy working mum I'm always looking for ways to save time (and money) in the kitchen but still produce healthy home-cooked meals. Here you can read about my continuing attempts to make delicious quick - & cheap - meals in no time! (and a few other recipes too...).
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Category Archives: Weekly Menu Plan
Quick Summer Puddings and a Weekly Menu Plan
Maybe it’s to cheer ourselves up now that school is back and summer seems to have slipped away leaving us with a chill in the air, but this week we seemed to have been making a lot of puddings. Not … Continue reading
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All good things…
Haven’t the school holidays gone fast? There’s that glorious moment in the middle when you’ve forgotten all about school routine, are enjoying the seemingly endless days and feel that they will go on forever – and then it’s suddenly August … Continue reading
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Ham, Spring Onion and Cheese Quiche and A Weekly Menu Plan
Last week was a good week : fine weather – it’s lovely having the children home – and I found some great new recipes in the kitchen. Of course 50 years ago, it wasn’t such a good week for some … Continue reading
Honey and Mustard Glazed Ham and a Budget Menu Plan
Does it sometimes feel as if the Credit Crunch has been going on forever? If your answer to that is (like mine) a resounding ‘YES’, it turns out that the reason we think that is – because it has. Yep, … Continue reading
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‘Simple Cakes’ and a Weekly menu plan
I have to say a BIG thank you to every one who commented last week and said how impressed they were with the cake my son made me for my birthday. He was so pleased with the results that he … Continue reading
Back to Earth – and a Weekly Menu Plan
Two weeks holiday was LOVELY!! I tried to post – I really did! – with all the delicious Italian food there was lots to tell you about – but I had a first generation iPad, a very slow internet connection … Continue reading
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Summer Travels and a Weekly Menu Plan
What are you doing this week? Apparently 9 years ago today (1st July 2004) NASA sent a 3.3 billion dollar space probe into space – well, actually they’d first sent it out 6 years before this – but on this … Continue reading
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Empty-the-freezer week and a weekly menu plan
What do you keep in your freezer? I’ve been rummaging through ours over the weekend as we’re off on holiday soon and need to finish things up. I have left this far too long! – there are lots of single … Continue reading
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£25 Weekly Menu Plan for five weekday meals
Do you like watching cooking programmes on TV? You may remember a programme called ‘Economy Gastronomy’ which was on (in the UK) a few years ago. It was a series which looked at ‘ordinary’ people who were spending too much … Continue reading
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Weekly menu plan
If it’s true that time seems to go faster as you get older then I must be about 102. I mean – where did last week go? At least the weather has cheered up – we have now had the … Continue reading
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