Well it has come time that the anuall leave that I have been getting paid has come to end and I still have 3 months till I am returning back to work part time (dont want to work at all but thats a different storey!!) and we will be attempting to live off one wage for a while (paying the mortgage out of the baby bonus) as well as pay off a car loan and pay bills so I am really looking for ways to tighten the belt!
So I am going to start doing a full gorcery shop each week for the f/night (DH gets paid f/n'ly) so I am looking for meals that I can make that are cheap and easy (hard to cook elaborate meals with a bub I find!!)
And also any good money saving tips that you may have come accross...
Also if anyone knows of any at home jobs/services that I could consider as I would much prefer staying at home full time...
Theres a whole heap of recipie ideas in the cooking/food section of BB - you will be amazed and overwhelmed (in a good way) with the info in there. I think there is a budget meal thread actually.
My advice is MINCE....its cheap and there are a zillion things you can do with mince. Take a squiz......
Mix canned tuna, a little chopped onion & small cubes of cheese & mayo together. Cut a pastry sheet into 4 put the tuna mix on top then make into parcels. Do as many pastry sheets as you need to go with the amount of tuna you have. I use a tiny can for one sheet & that serves 1 or could serve 2 if you had it with salad.
Cook in a hot oven.
They are yum & cheap.
The only other things I can think of have already been mentioned.
Cheap & easy meals?? Budget Tips??
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