The end of another long day. I was really happy with myself yesterday, as I managed to finish another niche site. However, I feel as if things go really slowly like drop by drop.
Today, my day was completely full, I managed to write an article and take some time for marketing and networking, which I make the effort to do everyday, and that was all about it really.
It is 12 o clock in the night, and although usually at this time I am buzzing around, today I feel absolutely knackered. So I think that for once I am going to "switch off" early. As they say "Tomorrow will be another day".
Wednesday, 11 March 2009
Sunday, 8 March 2009
Keep eating healthy in times of recession
Nowadays, every time you visit the supermarket the prices have soared in every single item. You just think “Goodness sake! I just bought this yesterday for 10p. less". However, there are still a lot of tricks you can use to still keep eating healthy and, most importantly, on budget.
1- Cook everything you can from scratch. You will save a lot instead of buying ready made meals.
2- Cook what you can by yourself. Here you can include, bread, check my recipe for easy bread, milk, check my recipe for oats milk, pizza (huge difference on price between the pizza from “wherever” to the pizza you can do with just few leftovers).
3- Go to the market at the end of the day. You will find the fruit and vegetables at knock down prices as the sellers are about to go. You can even start making your own jam of different fruits if you have bought too much (try apples, pears, not only strawberries)
4- Go to the supermarket at the end of the day. Better still “find what time your local supermarket makes the reductions”. At the end of the day products about to expire, fresh bread etc. get reduced as the supermarket will not be able to sell them on the next day. That doesn’t mean that they are off. I buy as much as I can and fill up the freezer as soon as I get home.
Well, these are just a few of my tips for times of recession, well, actually for all times. I love to be responsible with everything we got, save us much as I can and don’t waste anything, food included. I am a master of cooking with leftovers, proud to say: “In my house we never have leftovers”.
Feel free to share your own personal tips.
1- Cook everything you can from scratch. You will save a lot instead of buying ready made meals.
2- Cook what you can by yourself. Here you can include, bread, check my recipe for easy bread, milk, check my recipe for oats milk, pizza (huge difference on price between the pizza from “wherever” to the pizza you can do with just few leftovers).
3- Go to the market at the end of the day. You will find the fruit and vegetables at knock down prices as the sellers are about to go. You can even start making your own jam of different fruits if you have bought too much (try apples, pears, not only strawberries)
4- Go to the supermarket at the end of the day. Better still “find what time your local supermarket makes the reductions”. At the end of the day products about to expire, fresh bread etc. get reduced as the supermarket will not be able to sell them on the next day. That doesn’t mean that they are off. I buy as much as I can and fill up the freezer as soon as I get home.
Well, these are just a few of my tips for times of recession, well, actually for all times. I love to be responsible with everything we got, save us much as I can and don’t waste anything, food included. I am a master of cooking with leftovers, proud to say: “In my house we never have leftovers”.
Feel free to share your own personal tips.
Saturday, 7 March 2009
Making your own oat milk
As you know by now, I am up for everything and anything I can do at home by myself. Sometimes I wonder why we choose to buy certain products in the shops when we can make our own better at home. We save the journey to the shop (the distance and the time), at home it ends up being cheaper, and fresher, and also more natural, you know exactly what your recipe contains and there is no artificial colouring or big amounts of sugar, salt, saturated fats or any other dodgy stuff.
Usually we prefer to make our own milk and we try with different and healthy possibilities. Today I decided to post our recipe for oat milk, I might include other milk recipes in later posts.
In the same way as the bread, making your own oat milk is dead easy, quick and inexpensive.
Ingredients:
4 cups of cold water
2 cups of previously cooked oats
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1 pinch of cinnamon
Preparation:
Place everything in a blender and mix it well until perfectly smooth. Put in the fridge to cool down. Shake well before using
Note: you can add as well 1 banana to the mixture, and/or sugar or sweetener to taste, both ingredients are optional, but you might want to try them. I would advice to try one or the other, as both together give a very sweet milk as a result.
Usually we prefer to make our own milk and we try with different and healthy possibilities. Today I decided to post our recipe for oat milk, I might include other milk recipes in later posts.
In the same way as the bread, making your own oat milk is dead easy, quick and inexpensive.
Ingredients:
4 cups of cold water
2 cups of previously cooked oats
1 teaspoon of vanilla
1 pinch of cinnamon
Preparation:
Place everything in a blender and mix it well until perfectly smooth. Put in the fridge to cool down. Shake well before using
Note: you can add as well 1 banana to the mixture, and/or sugar or sweetener to taste, both ingredients are optional, but you might want to try them. I would advice to try one or the other, as both together give a very sweet milk as a result.
Friday, 6 March 2009
Dr Seuss' tales
Today we had a day out going shopping and, as usual, going for some books. I like to encourage the children to read so, as long as it is reasonable, I don’t interfere. I think it is better to spend the money in books rather than in junk food or sweets.
In the end, we went for two of the most well known books by Dr. Seuss. After so many years his books still rank unfailingly the Top 20 lists on book reviews, and they will keep doing it for still years to come, that must be for a reason.
If you haven’t read it yet, you should try to get them for your little ones (even for yourself): “Green Eggs and Ham” and “The Cat in the Hat”. They are just lovely, not only the stories but also the illustrations, the rhymes and the easy vocabulary, still entertaining and fun for the little ones.
In the end, we went for two of the most well known books by Dr. Seuss. After so many years his books still rank unfailingly the Top 20 lists on book reviews, and they will keep doing it for still years to come, that must be for a reason.
If you haven’t read it yet, you should try to get them for your little ones (even for yourself): “Green Eggs and Ham” and “The Cat in the Hat”. They are just lovely, not only the stories but also the illustrations, the rhymes and the easy vocabulary, still entertaining and fun for the little ones.
Thursday, 5 March 2009
Steiner Taster classes
Although this might be with very short notice, I just didn't want to miss the opportunity, to let you know about this event.
For those of you in London (UK) that are interested in Steiner Education and would like to know more, there is the possibility to attend next Friday 6th March from 5.00-8.00 pm to a taster Steiner class at the SW London Schools "An evening in the classroom for grown-ups".
If you are interested and you would like to find out more, the details of this event and the possibility of booking are in their website:
http://www.waldorf-swlondon.org/
For those of you in London (UK) that are interested in Steiner Education and would like to know more, there is the possibility to attend next Friday 6th March from 5.00-8.00 pm to a taster Steiner class at the SW London Schools "An evening in the classroom for grown-ups".
If you are interested and you would like to find out more, the details of this event and the possibility of booking are in their website:
http://www.waldorf-swlondon.org/
Wednesday, 4 March 2009
Marketing
Today I have spent most of my "little time available" marketing the websites.
Online everything is marketing. If you don't do the marketing, you don't get visitors. If you don't get visitors, you don't get sales. No sales, no bills paid. Well, you can imagine the rest.
It is actually time consuming and the time spent doing marketing is time that you miss from doing research and writing new articles, you can't do both things. At least, you can't if you are a full time mum and stay at home with the little ones. However it has to be done. So for today we had enough. One article written and some marketing done. As I say at this time every night "Tomorrow will be another day".
Online everything is marketing. If you don't do the marketing, you don't get visitors. If you don't get visitors, you don't get sales. No sales, no bills paid. Well, you can imagine the rest.
It is actually time consuming and the time spent doing marketing is time that you miss from doing research and writing new articles, you can't do both things. At least, you can't if you are a full time mum and stay at home with the little ones. However it has to be done. So for today we had enough. One article written and some marketing done. As I say at this time every night "Tomorrow will be another day".
Tuesday, 3 March 2009
New Month
March, the start of a new month. Did someone say that working online is easy and will make you rich? Well it is not true. This is going drop by drop... eternally slow, if we are going to pay the bills like this we better start working 48 hours a day.
I have tried Google Adsense in different sites but it doesn’t seem to do too much, well it builds up little by little, until the time you can withdraw the minimum amount for a paycheque, that is $100, you can be nearly retired (well, just kidding) however, we are just checking other alternatives. Meanwhile we keep writing and updating our websites, even when the going gets tough you cannot give up.
I have tried Google Adsense in different sites but it doesn’t seem to do too much, well it builds up little by little, until the time you can withdraw the minimum amount for a paycheque, that is $100, you can be nearly retired (well, just kidding) however, we are just checking other alternatives. Meanwhile we keep writing and updating our websites, even when the going gets tough you cannot give up.
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