A Frugal Valentine’s Day

Chocolate dipped fruit

Valentine’s Day isn’t usually a big deal here in Australia, but we decided we wanted to celebrate a bit.

Green breakfast

We started the day with a yummy green breakfast: scrambled eggs with homemade pesto and blue cheese with a side of avocado.

Beef burger paleo

For lunch we had homemade burgerswith sweet potato chips, lacto-fermented salsa and salad from the garden.

Lamb with corn

And for dinner we had Jamie Oliver lamb skewers (that I got from the reduced rack!) with fried eggplant and corn on the cob.

Homemade mint choc chip ice cream

Then for dessert we had homemade mint choc chip ice cream (based on this recipe, with homemade chocolate drizzled through while it was churning in the ice cream maker). We also dipped fresh strawberries, fresh figs, dried strawberries and dried mandarin slices into homemade chocolate.

And the day wasn’t all eating! Since we were housebound, we watched The LEGO Movie and episodes of Game of Thrones on the computer.

All in all, it was a nice day and we didn’t need to spend a lot of money.

What did you get up to for Valentine’s Day?

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