Frugal tasks

I'm feeling so grateful for the things that were achieved in the last 2 weeks.

Went up to Bendigo for a night over the Valentine's Day weekend with family and friends. We celebrated my brothers 33rd birthday. He is no longer with us but this is now our tradition since his passing.

Bought reduced Valentine's Day gifts from woollies and some chocolates these were 50c to $1 so I got myself a chocolate and heart wood banner things from Stu and I got Stu a monkey teddy on a box and some chocolates to put inside. He still insists on going out to lunch but I think I'm happy with the things I got for both of us

Bought 3 bags of marked down fruit from safe way. Plums and nectarines.

Made plum jam

Made nectarine jam

Made bulk taco seasoning

Cooked all meals from scratch

Did more decluttering

Bought heaps of clearance clothes for $2 these will be for the girls for next summer and possibly the summer after. (They are slow growers)

A friend gave me a bag of clothes for junior. They were all practically new and most still had tags they will last him the next 2 summers

I've also been getting the kids into a better routine for the last 2 weeks will see how we go when we throw DD1 into the mix LoL...

Stu has been picking his usual hand full of tomatoes every second to third day

The kids and I picked 2 butternut pumpkins

1 zucchini And picked and ate our one and only cantaloupe it was so tiny and cute but very tasty

Gifted a jar of spicy tomato relish for the kids day care owners birthday

We also gifted the kids grandma some home made jam

bought a hug-a-bub on sale

sold DD1's guitar (she wont use it anymore)

Hope you have a lovely week next week :)

i clearly still have no idea how to use blogger because all my colors are wrong :(

Our trip to Bendigo

 valentines gifts we ate the chocolate already

Taco seasoning

Our cantaloupe

Butternut pumpkin

Not sure but i think this pumpkin is a Kent (grown from compost)

I have no idea what type of pumpkin this one is (the joys of compost produce)

We picked the pumkin

Double headed sunflower that has sprouted from our original sunflower which is now drooping to seed.

this is how much we love home grown tomatoes

our new hug-a-bub

Frugal tasks 

Bought bulk glass jars from a glass company 

It is incredibly hard for me to collect them without much progress 

Made a batch of mango jam wool does it taste awesome!

Made a batch of spicy tomato relish using the tomatoes picked from our garden.

I used Wendy's recipe as a base and tweaked it from there to make it my own recipe. (Thanks wendy)

Made some mango fruit roll ups made from pure fruit nothing else

Picked my second pumpkin from the garden 

Pollinated some zucchini and pumpkin flowers, haven't got many bees around so I have to do their job unfortunately :(

Gifted some tomato relish to a friend to try so she can make some and by the end of the day the jar was practically empty (that's how much her partner liked it) 

Made a massive batch of veggie soup using all the packet veggies in the freezer that were pretty much running low. Now I have heaps more room in the freezer for other things and re organising 

Made some bread crumbs and turned them into seasoned breadcrumbs 

Cooked most meals from scratch 

Did a few loads of washing and dried them on the clothes horse 

Gave a friend some microwave popcorn that I had and wasn't going to use 

Went to a friends place for a BBQ  

Continued with a little bit of crocheting

Though I would love to do so much more in my weeks I find it a little hard with my youngest bubba being so demanding for attention and barely naps during the day. 

If you can't tell I'm a day late for posting my frugal tasks LoL... So from now on I'll be posting them every Sunday instead