Lots more Sneaky Ways to save the pennies

kboss2010

Anyone else buy heaps of cake decorating ingredients when asked to bake for school fayres/bake sales etc? Or go mad in the Holland & Barrett penny sales and end up with bags of dried fruit and seeds?

To use them up, throw any almonds, raisins, cranberries, cherries, seeds, nuts, sprinkles, desiccated coconut and chocolate chips into a blender with a handful of oats, 3 tbsp of maple/golden syrup and a large tbsp of peanut butter. Blend until everything is chopped up into really small pieces and it's sticking together. Press firmly into a shallow dish and drizzle with melted chocolate and/or icing (make with orange or lemon juice instead of water for citrus flavoured icing).

Refrigerate for a few hours and voila! HM granola bars (which taste much better than those horrible cardboardy shop-bought ones!)

melanzana

This might not be penny saving, but however.

You know when you buy a pack of scented tealights, and they smell gorgeous and so on.

then you light one or two and the rest are left sitting there opened losing their aroma bit by bit.

Well, I put the unused ones in a ziplock bag, seal it up, and when they come out they are fresh as a daisy!

But maybe you do this already, I didn't and it's a revelation to me doh!!

melanzana

I'm on a roll now. Add a tin of drained chickpeas and butterbeans to mixed veg soup. Oh my. When blended it is soooo creamy.

And I suppose good for me too!

melanzana

sparrer wrote: »

I looked at the price of wraps over the weekend and decided they looked easy enough ti make, so I bought a fleece for £4, cut it through to the centre of the longer length iyswim, pinned iron-on tape and satin ribbon to the cut edges and ironed it on with a damp cloth and a hot iron. It will match as a throw on my cream sofa when I'm not wearing it on cold winter evenings. It would also make a nice gift for someone's Christmas.

Great idea.

But since I can't sew (or iron properly either) to save my life, I use the lovely soft snuggly fleece throws from Primark, and wrap it around my shoulders, and clasp it in front of me with one of those spring things that keep your hair up. Sorry can't think of the name of them!

I used to lose the throw many a time when i got up to answer the phone etc. But not now!

psso

sparrer wrote: »

I looked at the price of wraps over the weekend and decided they looked easy enough ti make, so I bought a fleece for £4, cut it through to the centre of the longer length iyswim, pinned iron-on tape and satin ribbon to the cut edges and ironed it on with a damp cloth and a hot iron. It will match as a throw on my cream sofa when I'm not wearing it on cold winter evenings. It would also make a nice gift for someone's Christmas.

Started reading and thought you meant the wraps you stuff and eat instead of sarnies ! They'd be a bit dry made of fleece !

melanzana

psso wrote: »

Started reading and thought you meant the wraps you stuff and eat instead of sarnies ! They'd be a bit dry made of fleece !

That made me laugh, so did I at first too!!

7roland8

melanzana wrote: »

Great idea.

But since I can't sew (or iron properly either) to save my life, I use the lovely soft snuggly fleece throws from Primark, and wrap it around my shoulders, and clasp it in front of me with one of those spring things that keep your hair up. Sorry can't think of the name of them!

I used to lose the throw many a time when i got up to answer the phone etc. But not now!

You can make one of those shawl wraps with a fleece blanket - cut it down centre of short end up to the centre. No need to hem fleece and there you have it - use as a blanket on settee or bed but when cold wrap around yourself - or over a coat when going out in really bad weather.

melanzana

7roland8 wrote: »

You can make one of those shawl wraps with a fleece blanket - cut it down centre of short end up to the centre. No need to hem fleece and there you have it - use as a blanket on settee or bed but when cold wrap around yourself - or over a coat when going out in really bad weather.

Got that, brilliant. Thank you.

No sewing or ironing, I like that very much!

alice-mary

Melanzana, you could also just cut a cross in the middle of the fleece and pop it over your head, like a poncho! I have done this and although my family and friends THOUGHT I was bonkers, when they tried it on, they didn't want to take it back off!

Alice
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115K

Ooh, I'm so doing that with one of my fleece blankets.:T