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Stuff for free at Latest Free Stuff
The site is stuffed full of all the latest free stuff you can get from all kinds of different places. There are literally hundreds of offers. They now list over 600 free samples from the biggest companies in the UK. You can get everything from makeup to perfume completely free! Basically, you name it, it could well be there. Deepak said that he launched LatestFreeStuff.co.uk in 2012 because he wanted to create the UK’s largest resource for finding freebies on the internet.
Two books and a lipstick
I read two books about dementia recently, one after the other. I didn’t plan it that way. It just came about. The first was Elizabeth Is Missing. We see things through the interpretation of Maud and she is the person with dementia. Maud is convinced that her friend...
I’m doing the LBLUK challenge from next Wednesday!
Do you remember about this time last year, I did Live Below the Line UK for Action Aid? I have been talking about it for the last couple of weeks. Why Action Aid? Because they are a charity that concentrate on women and girls in extreme poverty around the world. Why...
Peanut butter and jam mug cake, mmm, too easy
I was inspired to try this pudding this evening by Skint Mum over on the Skint Dad blog who made a chocolate mug cake. DP is mad on peanut butter on toast at the moment, so I made this peanut butter and jam version. I used a large mug and put into it 2 tbslp sugar 2...
Curries, U3A and wild garlic
Had the U3A Cooking On A Budget group here yesterday. Seven people came, and we had a lively, chatty afternoon. We made Tomato Dhal, Sambar, Chickpea, Coconut and Mango Curry and a Nan. We managed to fit it all in the 2 hour time slot easily, and still have time for...
Vegan bean and spicy katjan sauce sandwich paste, 12p a sandwich, LOADS of variations
Having tried draining and rinsing a can of beans recently for the sardine sandwich paste, I thought I could make lots of different variations of a beany sandwich filler with that same type of bean.
Round the block, round the garden and a hot non-cross loaf
Walked round the block today, and didn’t cough once! Hooray, progress. Do you remember the primrose that had been flowering continually for about three years now? That’s it at the top of the page, lovely isn’t it, in all it’s spring finery. Really going for it now, in...
Transform tomato cannon balls to taste bomb tomatoes
Happy Easter! If, after eating all those hot cross buns and chocolate eggs, you feel the need for some vegetables…… I was looking through my recipe folder yesterday and came across this recipe. I thought it was from the Cranks Fast Food book, but on checking it, it...
3 LBLUK plans, £5, 5 days, what would you make with these groceries?
Katherine asked me yesterday how the latest LBLUK plan compared calorie wise with the others. The answer, not very well. It worked out to only 1500 calories a day, so not enough. I've had a bit of a tweak and managed to up the calories. Govt. recommendations...
Antibiotics, websites and another LBLUK list
Aren’t antibiotics wonderful! I have had 5 tablets so far and I’m feeling so much better. I’m hoping for a decent nights sleep tonight. In bed, not sitting up in a chair. In fact , I think I shall go and lay down in bed and read some of my latest book and see if I can...
An update
Went to a U3A committee meeting this morning and hacked away all the way through, goodness only knows what they thought. And one of them is an ex-GP! After that I went off to an appointment at my own GP. He had a listen to my wheezy, bubbly, chest and announced that I...
Sequins, off-cuts and an alternative LBLUK list
Had to go to Tunbridge Wells today, first time I’ve been out of the house in 2 weeks. I walked up the road to a locksmith, all of 5 minutes away. I went really, really slowly and it was still a bit much for me.