Skint Vegan :

Ten-Minute Trifle

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I think the title is pretty self-explanatory but if I'm honest, ten minutes is a bit of a stretch, this was ready in five minutes tops. You can eat it straight away but I like it best if you leave it for a few hours to chill and let all the[...]

Throw-It-Together Post-Halloween Supper

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It's time to batten down the hatches in preparation for Winter. What?! But winter is two months away!! I hear you say. Not in Bathgate, I'm afraid. With frosty mornings, torrential rain and pervasive darkness now the norm, I feel like I've[...]

Midnight Snack

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Courtesy of Nigella. Me & the boy were completely mesmerised by her rendition of Anna Del Conte's spaghetti with marmite on Nigella Kitchen as we waited for McGonnagle to finish-up her dance class. It was an unspoken agreement that we[...]

Kale, Yellow Squash and Sweet Potato Stew

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Sometimes, The Mister has spates of being frantically busy at work which means he gets home late, missing the kids bedtime completely and his dinner is a solo pasta salad/hummus and crackers/sandwich kind of affair right in front of the fridge[...]

Happy Birthday, Moodle-Doo!

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Eight's Great, yeah! My eldest reached the grand-old age of 8 last Wednesday. We have a family tradition of the Birthday Boy or Girl picking whatever they want for their birthday tea. The question was barely out of my mouth before she[...]

Et Voila!

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McGonnagle's school decided to have a French Day today to celebrate Bathgate's recent twinning with Cran Gevrier and reinforce the current French lessons the kids are having in school. The children were encouraged to dress-up to resemble[...]

Thrifty Thursday: Leftover Lover

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Yup. I love me some leftovers! That's right, I'm coming out as a Leftover Lover! Not in the same sense as in my late teens - ah, Amour! Comment vous avez brisé mon coeur!* - but in the sense that 50% of my fridge space at any one time is[...]

Hump-Day Baking...

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Because Wednesdays need cake too. It's grey and raining outside, the kids are back to school and nursery after a two-day holiday (where we managed to squeeze in visits to both a Car Show and East Links Farm Park ) and as my neighbour[...]

Simples.

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Sometimes, simplicity is what you need. You know, like when you're stood in front of your wardrobe ruminating over a potential shirt-tanktop-skirt- disaster combination and you suddenly decide that today, a pair of black jeans and a t-shirt[...]

Baking Mama.

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Last Sunday I ran in this race for The Alzheimer's Society. As well as being my first race it was the first time I'd ran 10k, so I was pretty happy to come in with a time of 1hr 24 minutes. A big 'Thankyou!' to all the wonderful friends[...]