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  • Quick & Easy Meal Ideas For Busy Students
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    Quick & Easy Meal Ideas For Busy Students

    3 September 2026

    If your child is heading off to University for the first time. If like me, you know they will be fine but as a parent you will worry. I am sharing some Quick & Easy Meal Ideas For Busy Students A cheap shopping list for a student can look like this – Creamy Tomato Pasta Ingredients PastaTin of Chopped TomatoesGarlicCream CheeseHerbs How To Make Cheesy Beans on Toast Ingredients Baked BeansBreadGrated Cheese How To Make Chicken & Cheese Quesadillas Ingredients WrapsCooked ChickenGrated CheeseSweetcornSalsa How To Make Egg Fried Rice Ingredients Cold Rice1-2 eggs scrambledSoy Sauce How To Make Loaded Jacket…

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    25 August 2026

    The new academic year is starting, for some of us this means a new chapter where our children move out of home and become students. As they start their new life at university. We have been getting prepared and as we know pasta is a cheap meal, I am sharing some Quick And Easy Pasta Meals For Students. We love pasta, and I find using different pastas helps and makes a meal less boring and repetitive. Creamy Lemon Pasta Ingredients PastaButterGarlic. – I use lazy garlic around a teaspoonLemon – use lemon juiceParmesan or cheddarBlack Pepper How To Make 10-Minute…

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    28 July 2026

    We are now enjoying the long sunny days of the school holidays. If you are fed up of hearing I am hungry for the 100th time that day. I am sharing some Easy Recipes To Do With The Kids During Summer Holidays Rainbow Fruit Skewers My kids used to love making these, and they are fun to make and healthy as well. What you will need A variety of fruit – strawberries, kiwi, banana, grapes, melon for exampleSkewersYogurt – for a dip How to make Mini Pizza Faces Everyone loves pizza and making your own pizza always tastes so much…

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    Easy Slow Cooked Shredded Chicken & Sweet Potato Wedges

    30 March 2026

    Meal times can get boring. I get fed up with the same meals and always looking for something different. I have so many bookmarks of recipes to try. At times I find them far too fiddly or take too much time to prepare. Unlike my Easy Slow Cooked Shredded Chicken & Sweet Potato Wedges Recipe. I am also getting more into batch cooking, to make those days where you just have no energy to cook. You can just grab this out of the freezer and you have a meal. Chicken is such a versatile meat that can be used in…

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  • How To Make Homemade Lip Balm
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    How To Make Homemade Lip Balms

    8 December 2025

    One thing I am never without is a lip balm. I have them in my bag when I am out and all over the house. Along with my homemade gifts this year. C and I decided to try making lip balms. If you are looking to make some homemade gifts. I am sharing How To Make Homemade Lip Balms. This is so easy to make, and perfect for adding to homemade hampers or little stocking fillers. Ingredients 3 tbs Beeswax Pellets2 tbs Shea Butter 1/4 cup coconut oil15 drops of essential oil of your preference – we chose vanilla How…

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    How To Make Homemade Body Butter

    5 December 2025

    You will have seen that C and I have been trying to up our gifting game with homemade gifts this year. I shared my homemade fudge recipe yesterday. Today, I am sharing another gift idea with How To Make Homemade Body Butter. One of my favourite beauty items I always have is body butter. There is nothing nicer after a nice bath or shower to massage in some body butter. My mum loves body butter as does C. So we thought we would give it a try to make our own. There are so many recipes for body butter if…

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    Homemade Fudge For Christmas Gifting

    4 December 2025

    I have been mentioning recently, that C and I have decided to up our gift giving game. We have been making a few homemade gifts for family and friends. Today I am sharing my Homemade Fudge For Christmas Gifting. You may think that making fudge is a daunting task. You should all know me by now I like to find easy recipes. I have been making this fudge for years and it is so easy to make. I use the recipe from the Carnation website. Ingredients 1 tin of Condensed Milk150ml Milk450g Demerara Sugar115g ButterA Couple Of Drops Vanilla Essence…

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    Start Your Day The Right Way

    13 November 2025

    It is six weeks until Christmas, this means we will be eating more indulgently. Which is why we need to look at how to start your day the right way. We all at times love a brunch or a good old fry up, especially after a heavy night the night before. But for me, I find starting the day with a healthier start does help me through the day. It also makes me feel a little better about myself. Protein powders are an easy way to give your metabolism that boost it needs. Especially before a work out. This is…

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    Easy Chicken Slow Cooker Recipes

    26 October 2025

    Today is day 26 of Blogtober 2025 and today I am going off topic with some easy slow cooker chicken recipes. As I am eating more chicken than I used to as it is now just myself and C. I have been trying to up our meal times and try some new recipes. What better time to try some slow cooker recipes that you can smell as soon as you open the door. Below is a mix of recipes I have tried and others that I am wanting to try that I have saved. Creamy Garlic Herb Chicken Ingredients 4…

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    Gluten Free Banana Flapjacks

    5 October 2025

    Today is Blogtober 2025 Day 5. I am going off topic from today prompt. Sunday is a day where we may find ourselves in the kitchen baking. With is why I am sharing my Gluten Free Banana Flapjacks recipe. As many of you will know C thankfully is gluten intolerant and nothing more after testing over the Summer. This means, although she can eat gluten but it just affects her, we do eat mostly gluten free. One area I have not been great with is baking, until we decided to try these. This is such an easy recipe and has…

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