Secret Project!

I am working on a secret project!

Ssssshhhhhh!

As any one who follows this know, I love to play with numbers. Income, outgoings, spending, ROI, costs, budgets.... FRUGALITY!

Frugality is no longer 'making do' as we're now in a WORLD OF PLENTY!  Now, frugality making CONSCIOUS CHOICES ABOUT YOUR TIME, FINANCES AND LIFE.

What does this mean??

It means making informed choices based around YOUR LIFE CHOICES before you even spend a cent!

I have a new motto and new plans.

My plan is to provide you, my awesome and lovely readers, with PLANS and SYSTEMS to help you get your home life under control! And in the extra time you save, with the extra money you save, and with the extra LIFE you save, I want YOU to provide JOY!

I will help make your life EASY if you provide the JOY in doing so!

I am so excited! Sarah P's New Secret Project is in the formative stages. Stay tuned for more exciting new snippets and hints to come!

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Sarah P

Spring Growth

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Sarah

Trouble Leading More Trouble

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Sarah P

A Plateful of Pirates

Youngest Son (J) has his second birthday in November. We had a pirate theme, and a whole bunch of kids of all sorts of ages came along, and had a ball. All the kids were given a cardboard boat and sword, and we had facepaint at the ready. The pride of place definitely went to the birthday cakes!

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Sarah P

Russian Garlic

 I am excited! I am growing Russian Garlic in my garden! There's so many lovely things growing out there, I find the whole thing really exciting.



That is one clove that DS2 is holding. There's maybe 5 cloves in a bulb. It has a mild flavour, and I'm really looking forward to roasting it!

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Sarah

Dragon Tongue Bean Flowers

So pretty!


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Sarah P

Unfriendly Neighbours

We have big plans this year.

One of them is to rip out the ivy next to the house, and replace it with a passionfruit vine. I started snipping cutting and ripping, and then discovered this. I thought it would be better to leave it alone! A few days later they all hatched! EEEEEK! And they don't seem to want to move on.

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Sarah P

Small Child and Victim

DS2 was having a bit of fun in the garden with his sword. He was running around trying to smack the cat with it!

I would have been worried if the cat was actually in some form of danger!


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Sarah P

Forays into Morrocco - Orange Blossom Carrots

I have been getting random vegetable boxes from Coles for some time now, so I have also been trying out their random fruit boxes. This means an influx of things I am much less likely to know what to do with!

I have never been a huge orange eater. I've never been so in love with the taste or flesh that I have bypassed the inherent messiness and sheer annoyance of having to peel and then segment the damned things. However, with four of the blighters arriving on my doorstep every other week, I had to find ways to cope!

Meet the Moroccan Orange and Carrot salad.


This is actually a pic of the left overs, since we ate it too fast to take a picture. This was lovely, and a fantastic way to use oranges! Yum!

Strangely enough, I don't mind prepping oranges to make salad out of it. I just resent it when I intend to eat it. Yes, I am a bit weird sometimes.


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Sarah P

In The Raw

In the Raw!

I had a raw meal. I was fascinated by the idea that we could eat RAW PUMPKIN! I was fascinated and a bit hesitant. Pumpkin is my favourite vegetable, and I love it baked, mashed, stuffed, pureed, and growing. Raw... was a bit unusual.


I have been following a friend's blog as she did 30 Days of Raw. Her recipes sounded fantastic, and I always love to try new things, so I tried this one, which is Pumpkin noodles with a sundried tomato sauce.

Unfortunately, I ended up very sick that night, vomiting and feeling very unwell. The food was Ok - I was hoping to really fall in love with it a lot more than I did. It was tasty, but the textures didn't work for me, and then I was sick all night. Not fun. Not raw food's fault either, so when we hit Brisbane I leapt at the chance to try a few more raw foods.

I tried a raw felafel with raw chutney, and that was ... interesting. It needed a damn good cooking if you ask me! Again, the texture of sprouted chick peas or broad beans then ground into a paste and dried didn't quite work for me. I think my preconceptions were getting in the way of my really enjoying these sorts of foods, so we also tried some desserts.

There was a mint chocolate slice, which was very nice, but my big favourite was definitely some avocado chocolate pies we purchased. And it turns out they were low carbs, which was awesome! I was no-carbing at the time. We loved the dark chocolate avocado pie, and so did our 4yo! Our 2yo loves anything that's edible, so we knew he would love it too.

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Sarah