Frugal Friday

My first frugal Friday was lovely - I really wouldn't have had it any other way. At the end of a long week, I really don't want to do anything other than crash on the sofa and really, even if the cinema and a pizza out was free, I don't think I would have the energy. Which made fitting it into my new frugal life easy peasy.

Every Friday, a good friend of the Lovely Boyf (LB) comes round with his Game of Thrones box-set. This has been going on for some time now as we were a bit late to the party. But now we are hooked!

 

 

Good free entertainment - but I spent £3.99 on a bottle of red at Aldi. I am a bit of a wine snob but actually, I have to admit as I polish off the remainder while I type, Aldi wine is fine - it was still a nice treat to relax with on a Friday night, and still less than a pint from our local! I have made it last all weekend though, so I suppose you could argue I only spent £2 of it on Friday!?!

Rather than get a takeaway, I made homemade pizza. I have a bread maker and it takes no time at all to whiz up the dough (although I have done this by hand and it is no trouble either). I make it on a Thursday night and bung it in the fridge, so all I have to do is roll it, load it up and bung it in the oven. I can honestly say that having taken years to perfect this, I prefer my own pizza to Dominoes - far less dry and doughy and just to my liking. It goes down well with the boys too.

I wish I had remembered to take a photo of the finished result before it was scoffed, you will have to trust me, it was delicious.

Dominoes charge £16.99 for my pizza of choice - I calculated that mine cost: 500g Flour(58p) 5g Yeast (6p) Oil (10p) Water (free!) 2 Mushrooms (10p) 1/2 red onion (5p) 3 bags value Mozerella (1.35) 1 tube tomato puree (49p) 1/2 tin tomatoes (15p) garlic granules (5p) 1 whole tomato (15p) = £3.18, so £1.05 each! Bargain.