Off topic. Would recommend sea salt flakes, but she wouldnt know cause she eats like a student. But yes i use cheap salt to marinate my meat, but Seasalt flakes for my finished dishThat’s the irony right there....who needs £70 salt shakers for 20p salt?!
Oh totally....and Maldon preferably...I’m a salt snobOff topic. Would recommend sea salt flakes, but she wouldnt know cause she eats like a student. But yes i use cheap salt to marinate my meat, but Seasalt flakes for my finished dish
This is excellent information for me - my salt game is lacking at present!Oh totally....and Maldon preferably...I’m a salt snob
It sounds expensive like £2 a pack , but it last for ages. Fab with steakThis is excellent information for me - my salt game is lacking at present!
They sell it at b and m nowMaldon smoked salt is the business. Not for the frugal minded though
Interesting- she has said several times she hates wine and doesn’t drink it and says it was because it was so expensive to drink when out when she was younger that she never got into it?She said all of this while scoffing free food and drinking free wine,
Hahah take comfort that you have £10 left while she has £2 left in her bank account until pay day.Oh I’m so glad I found this site! Alex has always wound me up.
I met her about 6 years ago at a press event I was running and she was the most boring person I’ve ever had to sit through a dinner with, all she did was bang on about how poor she was and how she saves money by being ‘frugal’. She said all of this while scoffing free food and drinking free wine, she then trotted off home with her goodie bag of free press samples and into a waiting cab supplied by our brand and taken home. I then had to pack up the event, get everything back to the office and then get a night bus home as I was so skint I only had about £10 left until pay day. After that I thought she was the biggest wanker and tried my best to avoid the boring bastard.
Got a mate who knows someone who did PR for her a couple of years back and apparently her and husband dearest are mortgaged up to their eyeballs so not the best person to take money advice from.
That doesn’t surprise me at all....living the #gifted life while telling people how to save a few quid in Lidl doesn’t really add up for me. She’s obviously moving away from the frugal angle, if she wanted to keep pushing that she’d surely have kept all the followers on that rather than moving across to a new account with a 1/10th of the following. More freebies to be had with the main account‘Interesting- she has said several times she hates wine and doesn’t drink it and says it was because it was so expensive to drink when out when she was younger that she never got into it?’
wine, beer, champagne, cocktails...I cant recall exactly what she was drinking, that wasn’t the point I was trying to make.
it’s just very easy to be ‘frugal’ when you don’t have to pay for things was my earlier point. You would be shocked at just how much freebies you can get as press. Although may not be like this now a days but I’ve known certain journalists to get nearly their entire weddings and house contents as ‘press samples’ or as part of their payment.
And putting “easier” in inverted commas. She may as well have put an eye roll emoji at the end.She has become so snappy about people asking her questions about the content SHE posts. Telling people to google it is a bit mad when she is advertising something
She refuses to acknowledge how her freebies mean she need to be truly ‘frugal’.
Being gifted clothes, home wear, beauty products and food means that she has additional budget to others. And if you are being ‘treated’ to luxury skinny for free (such a Elizabeth Arden) then it makes the trips to budget supermarkets a bit more palatable.
What Alex has never had to do is live frugally for years, and within than having minimal treats and certainly nothing luxurious. Being frugal and then still only being able to get supermarket shower gel despite working hard to budget is what I’m talking about.
Lecturing the masses on saving but getting a free fruit and veg box and a free holiday is laughable
The free fruit and veg box winds me up more than it should, she’s all look at us we only spend £24 a week on shopping (although I can still never fathom what they eat or what Peggy gets fed...) but then add that they use their free veg box which is £18 a week, then the meal planner will have one or both if them at events a couple of times a week, so free lunch/dinner on those days....so in reality her £24 shop is would actually be nearer £60 if they were actually paying for everything....still quite low compared to some but definitely not low....we’re not budgeting and I can spend less than that on a weeks food for two adults (who eat, meat, fresh veg and about double the portions they do)like them all, telling us how to budget blah blah but getting sent Hello Fresh/ veg box for free....
I second this!Oh totally....and Maldon preferably...I’m a salt snob
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