Hello Dear Reader,
I can’t imagine a Sunday without a sit down roast lunch. It’s something that I’ve always loved. In the past I’ve had jobs where I’ve worked weekends, shifts and my week didn’t have a rhythm or a pattern. Every day rolled into the next. For the last twelve years, I’ve worked Monday to Friday and had every weekend off work. It’s such a luxury.
Saturdays are all about working at home, gardening, cleaning, laundry, ironing, shopping for food and getting housework done. Sundays are for rest. I lie in, cup of tea in bed and don’t have to get up until about eight am. Once up, I get the Sunday lunch prepared.
I cook my meat, potatoes, carrots and onions all in the same pan and I always use my old fashioned enameled pan with a domed lid which self bastes. I then remove the lid at the end to crisp up the spuds and the meat. I drain the juices to make gravy and always make more meals than we need. Usually and this week was the same, lunch for Sunday, lunch for Monday and Monday supper. It doesn’t bother me in the slightest that we eat the same meal for three meals. I like the way it gives me time off tonight, saves me putting the oven on and saves washing up too. I just have two plates to pop into the dishwasher that will get washed when the machine is eventually full and gets switched on.
| Part way through cooking, six meals for us to save us cooking today. |
It seems such a little thing to do to save money and keep down my energy bills but it works for us. I’ts those little things that we do that save us money over and again. It’s the little savings here and there that means we can afford a wood shed full of wood to keep up warm over the winter.
Over to you Dear Reader, what little things do you do to save money that you feel really add up in the long term.
I’m off for my Monday ‘ding cuisine’.
Until tomorrow,
Love Froogs xxxx
