Woman's Own

I FEED MY FAMILY FOR £25 A WEEK!

‘RICE, BEANS AND LENTILS ARE A GREAT BASE FOR MEALS’

Walking along the beach in the winter sunshine, I smiled. It was January 2022 and I was enjoying a family holiday in Brighton to celebrate my 40th birthday. A week in a beachside apartment certainly hadn’t come cheap but we’d paid for it outright using savings, rather than resorting to a credit card or loan.

‘I’D ALWAYS BEEN DRAWN TO SAVING MONEY’

With six children and another on the way, people often wondered how we managed to save money, particularly as

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