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Lockdown, shopping and Covid-19
- Mar, 29, 2020
- Adrienne
- Environmental Issues, Family, food, grocery shopping, Health, Meal Planning, Personal safety, South African
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We are in lockdown South Africa is in lockdown in the hopes of flattening the curve of Covid-19. What does this have to do with shopping? Well, a lot of people went panic shopping and cleared the shelves of essentials. I can understand fear, I cannot understand selfishness. Not everyone was able to buy, some […]
Read MoreKOO beans Budget beaters
- Nov, 01, 2019
- Adrienne
- Budgeting in South Africa, food, grocery shopping, Health, Meal Planning, monthly shopping, online shopping, Quick meals, saving money, South African, Uncategorized
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One of my favourite budget stretchers just got even better! KOO Beans! I love adding beans to food to bulk it up and now I have even more recipes and ideas to try out. By chance, I saw a post on SA mom blogs https://samomblogs.co.za/ about KOO hosting an event to launch their new range […]
Read MoreFall in love with eating lunch at your desk
- Sep, 14, 2018
- Adrienne
- Budgeting, food, Health, Meal Planning, Obesity, saving money
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Here’s how to fall in love with eating lunch at your desk. In this day and age, taking your lunch in the park or going out to restaurants or getting take out is happening less and less. Why lunch at your desk is on trend This is for a few reasons, one is to do […]
Read MoreLessons learned from falling off the meal planning wagon!
- May, 01, 2018
- Adrienne
- Budgeting, Children, Daily budgeting for South Africans, Family, food, grocery shopping, Health, household management, Managing your household, Meal Planning, personal finance, Random Ruminating, saving money, Teenagers
- 2 Comments.
Lessons learned from falling off the meal planning wagon! I fell off the meal planning wagon! Over the last 2 months I haven’t been as diligent with meal planning as I should be and it is showing. Here are some of the lessons learned. Lesson 1 My bills have started to rise a little more, […]
Children belong in the kitchen
- Mar, 19, 2018
- Adrienne
- Family, Children, food, Health, JOFR, Meal Planning, Obesity, Parenting, Teenagers
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Children belong in the kitchen? ‘RealIy’?, I hear all the moms out there ask, as they imagine the mess and how much longer it will take to prepare dinner. What about the sharp knives and the vegetable peelers and the mess? I am one of those. If it takes more than 30 minutes to prepare, […]
Listeria hysteria- Listeriosis
- Mar, 16, 2018
- Adrienne
- Budgeting in South Africa, Child safety, Environmental Issues, Family, food, grocery shopping, Health, Johannesburg, Parenting, Personal safety, Random Ruminating, South African
- 2 Comments.
Listeria hysteria, is it valid? Listeria or Listeriosis whatever you call it has been around for years. Is the hysteria over the listeria outbreak warranted? In my opinion it is too little too late. The outbreak was bound to happen, and here’s why. Food safety in South Africa South Africa does not have a central authority […]
Read More4 steps to a balanced meal
- Feb, 06, 2018
- Adrienne
- food, grocery shopping, Health, Meal Planning
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There are 4 basic steps to any balanced meal, whether you are on a tight budget or not. How will knowing these 4 steps help you? You want to lose weight except all you know about dieting is that it is expensive. You don’t have time to go to the dietician or nutritionist. You are […]
There’s a vegetarian living in my house!
- Aug, 31, 2017
- Adrienne
- Family, food, grocery shopping, Health, Meal Planning, Parenting, Quick meals, Teenagers
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There’s a vegetarian living in my house! One of the members of our home is a vegetarian and the rest are all big meat eaters. This in itself would not be too much of an issue but she is also not exactly a fan of fruit and vegetables! As a teenager, in the olden days, […]
Read MoreInteresting times – a curse or not?
- Aug, 26, 2017
- Adrienne
- Budgeting, Budgeting in South Africa, Family, food, grocery shopping, Health, household management, Meal Planning, Parenting
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Interesting times May you live in interesting times, is thought to be a Chinese curse, however, there is no proof of this. The first time this sentence appears to have been used was in 1936 by the British Ambassador to China, Mr. Hughe knatch-Hugessen. In recent months this has been our home life. I like […]
Overhaul
- Aug, 17, 2017
- Adrienne
- Family, food, grocery shopping, Health, Meal Planning
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Sometimes our eating habits need an overhaul. This is when meal planning becomes your biggest ally. These past few months we have had to change the way the family eats. I have always cooked fairly healthy, low GI meals but now we have had to introduce carbohydrate free dinners. This has meant that I have […]
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