If money is tight, you can still enjoy a festive feast with careful planning and these shopping tips and recipes from the award-winning food blogger
Christmas can be a bit of an issue if youre frazzled of mind, hard up and by yourself. But Ive spent the last eight of them alone and on benefits and, apart from last year when I was unwell, each one has been a blessed and tranquil respite, albeit a brief one, from a scary and troubling world. Theres a simple reason for this: for a few days everything shuts down.
But I think that whatever our circumstances, we all need, for the sake of our wellbeing, to treat ourselves occasionally. And if youve had to scrimp and save all year then what better time than the coming yuletide? What Im saying is that the festive period is exactly the wrong time to be proposing extreme frugality.
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