Reasons to be Cheerful: February is Here! #R2BC

A belated host post for this week! Its been a manic few days for me so only just able to sit down and write my own happy post for this week. Just because its been manic doesn't mean I haven't had a few reasons to be cheerful:

1) Pokemon Go

Yes we are still playing though not getting in quite as many long walks now its winter! Happy days to hatch one of the last baby Pokemon we needed for our Pokedex:

2) Simple foods

There is something to be said for going back to really basic and simple foods. I am doing my best to hit healthily and a supper of dippy eggs was a hit as well as being good for me:

3) Shiny Sink

Frugal Friday: Plumgarths Meat Pack

I am looking for ways to keep the food budget down and eat local. So when I heard that one of our local farm shops (Plumgarths) was running a family meat pack for a week for £30 I thought I'd check it out:

So I got:

• a dozen local eggs
• 8 sausages
• 4 chicken breasts
• 4 beef burgers
• 1 pack stewing steak
• 1 pack minced beef
• big pack of bacon
• 1 frozen meat pie

Of course being a family of 1 adult and 2 young children this is more than 1 week's worth! So I must jiggle the freezer to get some of it in there. I will have to update this post with how I use all the pack.. As I normally only spend £10 a week on meat this is will definitely need to be spread out.. I will track our progress as we go:

The Gallery: Food Glorious Food

Its Week 29 of the Gallery and Tara has challenged on the theme of food this time. Should't be too much of a problem as I seem to take lots of photos of food ...

My son enjoying soup in a cafe

My daughter's idea of breakfast in bed for mummy

My daughter enjoying spaghetti

Chocolate fondue - yummy

There told you that wouldn't be hard ;-) Hope the other entries this week also whet your appetite!