No Spend July Continues
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- čas přidán 5. 09. 2024
- Two Amazing Food Hauls, Fish (Barbed Red Mullet & Prawns!) & Bread, Jet washing and an awesome quilt finished, what a great week!
Frugal Queen in France
We are a British couple living in Brittany on a budget.
Frugal recipes, days out, home renovations and day to day making do in France.
We’ll give you hints, tips, advice and an insight into our life in France.
Instagram / frugalqueen. .
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Hi everyone- addendum- the fish in the video is barbed red mullet and the prawns are gambas as they're called here.
You are really smart to buy your fish that way. In Montreal fresh fish is usually at least 16 euros (24 Canadian dollars a kilo) and so far we almost never see fish in special Too Good To Go categories.
By the way your quilt is a showstopper! It must be so rewarding doing good in that way. Thanks for your hard work!!!
I love that you are willing to be a bit flexible and modify your budget to lift your friend's spirits. Budgeting is a good thing, but true frugality enables us to do what is truly important when necessary. This was. High five!
Yes! Thank you!
Another stunning quilt! Beautiful.
I have not found a food saver app here in the U.S. but I’ll read through the comments to see if someone else has found one.
The patio set is lovely.
What a wonderful system that assures quality food is saved from being wasted and is then enjoyed at really affordable prices by local citizens.
We agree
Fabulous quilt. I am an experienced quilter, myself, and this one is so well-balanced with both colors and patterns. Truly a work of art!
Thank you
I don't quilt myself but my sister does. She had me two throws when I retired; both made of fabrics from my old scrubs. It's a nice memento gift, which means a lot to me; and they are gorgeous too.
Beautiful quilt! Thanks for sharing. ❤
Lol how many of us have to stop and look up the conversion of Celsius to Fahrenheit when she said 25...lol...beautiful quilt...
Absolutely wonderful how you took that friend out for lunch. Sometimes we have to be flexible and some things just have to be done. In the past, I’d have gone into credit card debt in that situation (not anymore). This is what people need to understand - frugality allows freedom to make those kind of gestures once in a blue moon. Money = freedom and choice.
Absolutely!!
I love the idea of a surprise bag of fish like that. It’s a bit like being on top chef or something 😊 Here is your ingredient: make something delicious 😊
Thanks Tracey
I love your quilts, they’re beautiful! I quilt too and my favorites are scrappy! Your quilting room is nice and bright. Thank you for the videos.
You are so welcome!
Jane, I never tire of seeing your beautiful quilts! Love that you had a wonderful time with your friends, we all love to be shown appreciation and love. Great job at the no spend months.
So true!
Your quilts remind me of the quilts my aunt made. She was born during WW1. I have a couple she made. She lived into her 80s. She made clothes for my grandmother, me and herself. She farmed with her brothers and my grandparents in North Carolina, USA. They cooked on a wood stove and heated with wood.❤❤❤
Thanks for sharing
Years ago when my grandmother died, i commissioned a dear friend to make a quilt out of Granny's housedresses. Then, i and my sisters presented it to our mother as a reminder of her mother. It was the most precious gift! Truly a patchwork of her life. Each quilt is a story in fabric, and your stories are lovely.
What a treasure
Such a beautiful quilt Jane. I’d love to have quilts on my beds. In the US they are very spendy . Maybe someday.
You could make one
So very kind of you and your husband to share a nice lunch outing with friends.
Thanks for the show of your quilt room. I've quilted since I was 20 and had a chuckle when you mentioned cleaning the room after the quilt is finished. We MUST keep up with our messes for fear of creating total madness!
I also have a longarm. Mine is a Gammill and like you, I opted for the simple machine. I didn't want a computerized machine with screens and all the bells & whistles, either. I do have pantos, and enjoy those, but mostly I love freehand feathering.
Love that Flying Geese border, one of my favs...the other one being a Sawtooth edge. Happy stitching!
Thanks so much for the suggestion
Jane I think your quilts are fabulous. I am allergic to fish, but I appreciate the bargain that you found at the market, and I wish we had bakeries in Virginia, near me where I could get bargains on bread and pastries.
Oh thank you!
Awww I hope your friend finds brighter sunnier times ❤ and please mask up when sanding the paint on the garden furniture. Paint is very bad for the lungs
Thank you, I will
Your quilt is beautiful.
Thanks so much
You are too busy to spend money 👍🇦🇺
Love to the doggies 🐶
Beautiful quilt ❤
Thank you! 😊
Beautiful quilt!
Thank you! 😊
Love your quilts. We had taken our camper to Gatlinburg and a grocery store had ground chuck for 3 dollars per pound. We have a fridge , freezer in our camper. I sent husband to the store and bought 12 pounds. Divided it up and put in the freezer until we got home. Good deal. I wish you would show us how you cook your fish. Mine is pitiful.. You did great with your fish price.
I fillet it and pan fry it
Love the quilt. I watch shopping channels selling quilt kits but never get excited like i do with yours. It was a good video today thanks Jane x.
Thank you so much!
We do not have food saver app in the US. My best bargain was for personal care products to donate to local seniors in need. They were priced in the back of the shelf (original price)at a third of the price they were in the front. So I took all I could find at the original price and added a 40% off total purchase coupon. Walked out with three big bags of products to donate!
Thanks for sharing
Your quilt was beautiful! I love the design but especially how you did the piano key border
Thank you so much!
That was a beautiful quilt. Im catching up on your older videos and just saw the one about quilting from last summer. I think its great you can do the quilting at home with the long arm. The only time ive seen one the person took it to a quilting store and it was all computerized and mechanically rolled to the next section. Your way is just as beautiful and way more affordable. Our quilts growing up were more basic. Worn blankets for batting, covered with material and tied off to prevent clumping. Thx for sharing yours
Thanks so much
I got gluten free instant oatmeal for 50% off. They are the serving size sachets with a best before well into 2025. I'm a substitute teacher and they will work lovely to take to work. I made a kitten bed out of felted cashmere sweaters from the charity shop. Stuffed it with bits of scratchy wool also from charity shop. It is an extremely soft kitty bed. Dug in my mom's fabric stash she wasn't using to work on my applique quilt while recovering in bed from 2 surgeries. That quilt has turned into a stunner! Saved about $50 off what we normally spend at cheapest grocery store by carefully doing sales somewhere else. I had to use an electric scooter at the shop even because of my ankle surgery. In pain but my husband helped me get it all shopped for. Going to process my green onions and chives from garden this week.
You did so well
I love your channel! Beautiful quilt and beautiful tiles in your kitchen! I wonder why you bought such a large hot water tank ... me and my husband are also pensioners and we only need 80 L ... especially because a hot water tank takes a lot of electricity
@@mariabilliet3287 it's for the size of our house, not for us. A three bedroom family home, full of a family and guests, showering, washing up, needs a tank that size. If we ever sell, an inadequate tank isn't good enough quality. We buy quality that lasts not for short term needs.
Sadly, we don't have a food saver program like Too Good To Go near here in rural W.Va. Our grocery stores have a few marked down items early in the day. Mostly dairy products that are reaching their sell by date! I do take advantage of those and then use or freeze the item quickly.
The quilt is beautiful! I have a few tops I sewed during the Covid times but have never gotten around to finding someone to do the finishing work on a machine.
Oh no!
I'd love to see a video about why you decided to leave the UK for France 😊 the way things are going these days I think a lot of people are considering moving abroad
There really wasn't some shining light moment. We moved for the quality of life. We would never ever make a video saying what we think of France compared to the UK. We don't share anything that could cause anyone to get upset.
Lovely quilt ❤
That quilt is beautiful. I love all the colors.
Thank you so much!
Love seeing the babies at the end. And I love the quilt
Thanks
Quilt was so beautiful
I really admire your industrious way of living....so ingenious and contented ❤❤
Thank you so much 😊
The quilt is gorgeous! Love you showing how frugality enables you to be generous, I'm sure your friend appreciated the meal out.
Thank you so much!
Jane, your new quilt top is beautiful. Such lovely thrifted fabrics.
Thank you! 😊
Quilts are such treasures. I am fortunate to have a couple my great grandmother made. I really enjoy seeing your handiwork. Thank you for sharing.
Thank you so much!
I always love your quilts Jane, this one is so varied and colourful. How I wish I was younger I would definitely invest in a Moxie!
Thank you so much!
Great video Jane - love the quilt! I have a wooden garden table with 6 chairs that was given to us 20 years ago - we look after it and store it in the garage over winter and it’s still going strong - just goes to show how long things last if you look after them properly 😊
Things last when we look
After them
I love to see your sewing room! You're an inspiration. Now I need to go to my sewing room to do the same so I can start on more pillowcases for the NICU mattresses at the hospital.😀
You can do it!
We have a fantastic Olio community here in Jersey with volunteers dottted all around the island. Donations usually consist of lots of bread, pastries and potatoes but I’ve also often collected items as diverse as tangerines, apples, skimmed milk and tomatoes to name a few. When you’re making packed lunch every day for a husband and two constantly hungry teenage boys the bread is an absolute godsend. I was hoping they would have something similar in France, soooo pleased to hear they do 👍 x
You can find food for free on the Phenix app
Love your videos. When I freeze whole loafs of bread I cut them in to slices so I can just defrost/toast one slice when I need it. That way there is never any waste or feel like I need to plan for the whole thing before it dries x
That's a great idea!
Your quilts Jane are truly a work of art. Well done for completing yet another masterpiece. 😃👌❤️ Great fish haul as well and what a very good price you got it for. Will have to check out the saver apps. Thanks Jane for sharing this and thanks to Mike for expertly displaying the finished product. 🙌😆🤗
Thank you! You too!
Wow only 5 euros for all that bread! One loaf at our artisan bakery is between $10-12 dollars per LOAF!
Unfortunately, we do not buy there or bread that often. When we travel in Europe we eat a ton of bread and pastries 😊
Hello Jane and Mike, Too good to Go is only available in a few larger cities here in Germany, unfortunately not near me. You got an enormous bargain with your fish.
Your quilt is wonderful. I have sewn and hand quilted three so far. But I'm still far from a perfect quilt. Quilting is a winter activity for me, as my allotment garden keeps me busy in the summer. What do you actually do with all those quilts? Do you also sell some?
Kind regards to everyone at home from Claudia from Germany 😊
I donate them to be sold to raise money for an animal charity
Beautiful quilt. Well done!
Thank you! 😊
The quilt is gorgeous! Really beautiful! You got amazing deals on the bread and fish.
It really is!
Jane, what a beautiful quilt, and well done on the food saver app! I did try Too good to go, but the only things that they posted in my city was side dishes fried fish restaurant and a sweets bakery. Both were 25 minutes across town, and not the best deals. I did check the app several times, but that's all I saw offered on it.
That's alright though. I can save money in other ways. Right now my garden has been full of strawberries and veggies, and we have hens for eggs.
Thanks so much
I was disappointed in Too Good To Go in my area too. But every participating vendor is different. I just haven't found the best ones yet.
I enjoyed the quilt process. It just have been hard when there weren't any machines to help....although I just thought that what made quilting bees so enjoyable
Social fun
Jane your quilt is magnificent
Thank you so much
I absolutely LOVE your quilt. Do you have a video showing how to make one? I've never made anything except a rag quilt. I'm just a beginner really. Also, nice food score. 😁
Coming soon!
@@FrugalQueeninFrance Awesome! Thank you. 😊
Hi, your quilt is beautiful, well done😊
Thank you! Cheers!
Oh wow first the quilt fabulous. The food well what bargains. So jealous of the fish it’s so expensive here. I wish we had Too Good to Go when my 5 were teenagers I would have saved a bomb. I did a Starbuckscollection once for £5 I had £28 worth of paninis. We were eating them all weekend.
@@Barneybudgets super saving you had there
Oh lovely quilt. No app for us where I live. Most of the stores leftovers go to the food banks and some perhaps to the soup kitchen. Not entirely sure.
That's a great idea!
Im doing a no spend August, i dont have to go anywhere basically a free month at home. Ill be catching up with making clothes cut out for years, cooking for the freezer, sowing veg seeds ready for planting later, going on walks, all the things i thought id do when i retired but havent been able to except gardening. Might even do housework, might not too.
Sounds lovely to me
@@FrugalQueeninFrance I've been trying to have a free week for 2 years, I finally got a free month! And only buying milk because I love my cuppa.
Jane cute shirt . The quilt is beautiful 😊
Thank you! 🤗
The quilt you made is beautiful. Here in Western Australia, fish is so very expensive, frozen is cheaper but not so good. We do get good prawns, but I usually only buy them at Christmas. They cost about $35 a kilo.We are surrounded by the Indian Ocean, so it makes little sense. I think most of the good fish get exported. What a bargain the fish you purchased was, I felt quite envious 😊
Love the bread and fish bargains. We love fish as well and I would also have been shouting "jackpot" when opening the prawns! Following your channel, I have learned to use the freezer a lot more, been saving £s as well as the food, of course. Beautiful quilt.
They were jumbo prawns too, really big.
👍👍👍such a quilt on your bed and the hole bedroom is beautiful
Thank you! 😊
The quilt is just gorgeous! And that bread made my mouth water. What a bargain! As well as the fish! Wow! What are you going to make with all those prawns? Yum!!!
We ate the prawns with salad
@@FrugalQueeninFrance YUM! Just steamed or boiled?
Another lovely quilt. And those prawns -- what a score!
Agreed
Love the quilt. Beautiful work. You lead such a lovely life.
Thank you so much!
Hi Jane and Mike. No food saving apps in my area yet. I sadly developed a shellfish sensitivity in my 30’s so no more shrimp/ prawns for me. I used to love shrimp tacos. Oh well. Love your quilt. I’m a blue and white fan so I heartily appreciated your quilt backing. It’s currently too hot to do much here so I’m just knitting blanket squares to be joined later.
Happy knitting
Well, I have to say I'm SO jealous of your sewing room!!! I know I shouldn't be...but I wasn't able to set up my sewing room in this house. Before I even finished unpacking, I moved my brother in with me when he became too sick to function on his own. Shortly afterwards, I became sick--terribly sick and that left me disabled. So, the room never got set up. It grieves me, but it can't be helped. I sew by hand while I sit at the kitchen table...so it's only little things. Anyway, your room is wonderful...and I'm so glad you have it!!! 😃 The quilt is delightful, too!
Sorry to hear that
Your quilt is lovely.🌹
Thank you! 😊
I love the quilt. I’ve just put up a design wall in my sewing room and am looking forward to making a proper quilt from a pattern. They’ve all been simple scrappy quilts up till now as I don’t like clambering around on the floor to lay out the blocks! I ordered a quilt kit from The Cotton Patch. I’m very excited 🥰
Enjoy every moment
What a lovely quilt Jane! We're in our seventies and don't use apps. Just have a trackfone for emergencies, but we do frequent three grocery outlets run by amish and menninites. We also have a all you can eat chinese buffet a half hour away by car and like to have lunch there on occasion. We always skip our night time meal as we have filled up at lunch from the chinese resturant. I'm excited to share that recently at a re use it shop I found a like new bread machine that came with the manual and cookbook, so am going to start making bread in that. Last winter I'd learned how to make artesian bread in the dutch enamel oven. Good bye bread costs at the grocery store. 🙂
Thanks for sharing
Love the quilt. Hope you do another session sewing the block you used in it.
Do you mean a tutorial ?
Always love seeing your quilts!
I'm so glad!
We have the Too Good to Go App in the U.S.A. I have benefitted from it a time or two. The best deals for me, however, come from a local grocery store's reduced produce rack where things like onions, tomatoes, onions, zucchini, etc. are bagged for one dollar.
And your quilt is just lovely! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks for watching
Gorgeous quilt and great bargains! Hoping everyone lets the ads run so you can continue sharing these videos with us! I take the time to read the comments during the ads!
Thank you so much!
Love the quilt!
Just love the quilt it really is beautiful- great job with the pattern and colours 👏👏
Thank you! 😊
Holy smokes! I want that leftover bread! How beautiful! How fortunate you are. And so much fish! A full life. Enjoy! Thanks for sharing.
Thanks so much
Lovely video thanks 😊
You’re welcome 😊
Your quilts are great Jane. Your scrappy crossroads one from a few months ago inspired memes to make one for myself. My piecing was my best yet but struggled to quilt it on my domestic sewing machine. Any tips for how to do it - I don’t have the space or funds for a long arm quilter. I did wonder if my batting was too full and “bouncy”. If any one else has any recommendations for how to quilt or particular batting I’d love to hear them.
Stitch in the ditch on the diagonal. Start in the middle work out on the diagonal, turn the quilt and do it four times. I used to use 505 spray to baste the quilt
@@FrugalQueeninFrance thank you will have to have a go at that.
@@FrugalQueeninFrance just checked out the 505 spray - does one 250ml can do one say double quilt. Asking as would want to purchase enough in one go rather than find I run out. Sorry for all the questions but it’s great to hear your answers.
@@adoptedscot yes it would, there is a great video on you tube where you use duct tape to secure your backing to the floor
I'm so in love with your quilt!! I'm not sure if we have those apps in the US. It's time to investigate. Thank you both for sharing your fabulous life 😊. Hello fur babies 💕.
According to a couple of American You Tubers I watch such apps exist in certain states!
You are so welcome!
Too Good To Go; FlashFood; and Flipp are all available Stateside. Maybe not in every area though.
@@LauraMacMillan-el2kc thank you! Have a great week 😊.
@@lynnoorman2144 thank you so much. Have a wonderful week 😊.
What a lovely quilting room. When I saw the quilt, it reminded me of the Jacob's Ladder quilt that I had made, but in fewer colours. My favourite part has always been sitting in a comfy chair and hand sewing the binding.(Ha ha, I had typed this before you said that you liked doing it too.)
I love that too
What a fantastic quilt! I love how you integrate colors. I am repainting some patio furniture here. Somewhere I read that if you clean and polish it with car wax a couple of times during the summer, the paint will stay good longer. I don't know if that is true, but I am going to try it. It won't take much time to take care of that task. The dog children are such a delight.
@@bria2596 thank you
I enjoyed watching this and especially like the cheerful quilt.
Glad you enjoyed it!
What an amazing fabric artist you are. Great money saving ideas!
Thank you so much!
O wow 😳,this quilt is Amazing. So much work,I can only imagine. You have a very good sense for color combination. Impressive....those quilts of yours! Admirations. The fish set what an Awesome deal indeed! Looks delicious. Show us pls. what you will cook with it later on. And the bread pieces looks great. Perfect. I like the garden furnitures a lot. With the fresh black paint,they ll look stunning again in your beautiful garden. 👍🏻
@@smiley9987 if the rain holds off, we'll get them painted
Beautiful quilt!! I love that border. Great buy on that fish. I don't know if we have apps like that here in Phoenix but I'm certainly going to look into it. 109* here today and still no rain. Have a wonderful week!
Thank you! 😊
Great buy with the bread and the fish. I am not a fish eater but it looked like you will get a few meals out of that. I have a very similar garden set which like yours is in need of repainting. A job for this summer. I have bought Hammeright anti rust paint to do it.
We certainly did
Thank you for sharing your quilt and your bargain purchases!
You are so welcome!
What a lovely winter heavy quilt for your bed! Saving on the wood heating.
It really is!
Very kind supporting your friend. Beautiful quilt. A wonderful surprise with the fish.
Thank you
Hi Jane
I failed. I started well and today I went to the thrift shop and shop. I told myself only shop for food but I didn’t stick to my plan. I will continue for these lasts days of July and not be near a thrift shop.
Did you think through why you did that, for example, was it uncontrolled impulsivity ?
@@FrugalQueeninFrance it was uncontrolled impulsivity. Going back to the drawing board.
@@rosaestrada41 you're in charge of you, you've got this
Hi Jane and Mike. Wow your quilt is beautiful! That is a lot of work, but very enjoyable I would imagine, and a great sense of achievement!
Well done on the fish haul, that was a great price for all that, and lots of meals too! Mike did well with his bread haul, I love French bread!
Thanks for sharing your no spend July, and glad the weather is finally warming up.❤️🇬🇧
Thanks so much for watching
Great bread and fish haul, especially those large prawns!
Your quilt is beautiful. ❤. Great bargains as well.
Thank you! 😊
Great video and beautiful quilt! 😊
Thank you! 😊
🏴❤️🏴 love your Moxie, haven’t seen one for ages 🏴❤️🏴
Great food haul! If you live in small towns those services are not available.
I bought them from small towns and a tiny village
I use Olio sometimes, have yet to try Too Good To Go. Olio has yielded some really good things, including free treats.
Love the quilt! I was watching whilst covering EPP templates to get enough hexagons to finish a top that has been on the go for some time (about 5 years as a pick up and put down project). The fabric I am using is scraps donated by friends, or old clothes. 1" sided hexagons (which I call my big hexagons) means a lot of templates to cover, and I needed to cover an extra 300ish to finish this one. It will be the first quilt I have kept, all the rest are around the UK with friends. Slow, and a perfect no spend activity. After this one, I have a couple of 'retired tee shirt' quilts to do, machine piecing, including crumb blocks where needed, backed with pieced fleece left over from other quilts. For the kids I use fleece backing to make them well and truly machine washable to be 'grunge proof'.
The house looks bomb struck at the moment as I am trying to generate some income by selling things I no longer need. Selling my Portmeirion Botanic Garden pottery, and some other stuff that my mum no longer needs, so lots of screwing up newspaper to send stuff off into the world.
It's always great to sell something we don't need
I also hand stitch my bindings down. ❤
Love that!
Wowza, that is a gorgeous quilt.
@@pattyperkins5007 thanks so much
I started a sinking fund for replacing appliances. Worry that my washer may die some day. It costs about $1,000 US or slightly more for a washing machine. Yikes! Ive got to be ready.
You do need to be ready
Stunning quilt, Jane !
Thank you! 😊
Fantastic deals!!
Yes they are!