Another cheap treat from Penny Golightly. All treats cost £10 or less so you can enjoy your little treat of the week without feeling guilty.
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Penny Choose: Twinings green tea with pineapple & grapefruit
This Monday’s cheap treat for the week is a green tea by Twinings that has added pineapple and grapefruit flavours. It’s a bit different and it’s nicely fruity and refreshing. It’s available in most supermarkets and costs about £1.39 to £1.49 for 20 tea bags. The trick with it, as with all green teas, is [...]
Penny Choose: Rubicon lychee ice lolly
The weather seems to be threatening to go sunny and warm again, so this week’s treat for less than a tenner is the new lychee flavour ice lolly from Rubicon. They have three flavours in the new range: lychee, mango and passion fruit. The lychee one is my favourite because it’s an unusual flavour, very [...]
Penny Choose: Schogetten pralines
Time for a little treat of the week. This time I’m picking Schogetten with the praline filling as these are my favourite flavour that they make (don’t confuse them with the hazelnut flavour – although that’s quite nice too). If you haven’t seen them before, they’re chocolates that you can buy in branches of Lidl. [...]
Penny Choose: Coconut lime verbena solid perfume by DoctorSweetTooth
Time once again for a guilt-free treat that costs well under a tenner. I’ve recently been looking around for perfumes that smell very expensive but don’t have the crazy price tag attached, and it’s really not easy to find too many of them. However, here’s a very good example from a small producer in the [...]
Penny Choose: Arora pink grapefruit shower nectar
Another goodie in my occasional series of tried and tested treats that all cost under a tenner. Today it’s time for a rather nice summery shower with Arora pink grapefruit shower nectar. If you haven’t seen the Arora range before, it’s a fairly new (and slightly posh) range of bath and body products exclusive [...]
Penny Choose: Lidl Maribel morello cherry conserve
This week’s affordable treat comes from Lidl – it’s their Maribel morello cherry conserve aka ‘extra jam’. It’s a 450g jar of fruity heaven and we get through a fair bit of it at Golightly Gardens on account of how it’s award-winningly delicious. All the Lidl Maribel jams/conserves are rather tasty, but there’s something extra [...]
Penny Choose: Batiste Lace dry shampoo
This week’s treat for under £10 is the latest addition to the Batiste dry shampoo range. It’s handy for festivals, perking your hair up after a long muggy day in the office, and for up-dos when your hair is so squeaky clean it won’t stay inside the hairgrips. This new version is called Lace, and [...]
Penny Choose: Sainsbury’s Basics Pineapple Pieces
Time for another little treat that you can enjoy guilt-free, even if you’re really strapped for cash before payday. Today it’s a tropical treat, and it’s only 25p. Yes, 25p! It’s good for you too, but don’t let that put you off… I’m picking Sainsbury’s Basics pineapple pieces in juice, 227g, and if you haven’t [...]
Penny Choose: Bottlegreen lemongrass and ginger cordial
Another week, another guilt-free little treat. Today I’m enjoying Bottlegreen’s ginger and lemongrass cordial. It’s heavy on the zingy ginger, and the lemongrass is a back note, plus it isn’t too sugary sweet. This makes it more versatile than many cordials and so far it’s mixed well with sparkling water, tonic, and orange juice. If [...]
Penny Choose: Sleek Pout Polish SPF15
Another little guilt-free treat to brighten up your Monday, and as ever it’s well under £10, and great value for the price. Today we have Sleek’s Pout Polish. It’s described as a lip gloss, but it’s more like a tinted lip balm as it’s nicely moisturising. It contains soothing ingredients like almond, jojoba and avocado [...]
Penny Choose: Waitrose cinnamon cakes body wash
It’s Monday, so it’s time for another hand-picked guilt-free treat: high on quality, low on price, and likely to bring a smile to your face. Today I’m picking Essential Waitrose Cinnamon Cakes body wash as the Penny Choose treat of the week. This stuff is creamy, luxurious and aromatic in a warm, spicy way. It’s [...]
Penny Choose: Brewhaha Rose Tea
Sometimes you just need a little treat. Something to cheer yourself up, to take your mind off the rain and the cold. Preferably something that isn’t going to put a massive dent in your budget, so you can enjoy it guilt-free. Today’s Penny Choose treat ticks all of those boxes. It’s the Rose Tea from [...]
Penny Choose: Seed and Bean Tangerine Rich Milk Chocolate
Time for one more goodie in the occasional series of things I just love love love, all of which can be yours for £10 or less. Today’s Penny Choose is the Tangerine Rich Milk Chocolate Bar from Seed and Bean – 85g of pure Christmassy loveliness that would brighten up anybody’s festive stocking. It’s quite [...]
Penny Choose: Boots 17 BB Blemish Balm SPF 25
There’s lots of hype surrounding ‘BB creams’ at the moment. Well, they aren’t really the holy grail of makeup and skincare like they’re made out to be, but if you have realistic expectations then this particular version from Boots 17 is really rather good indeed. Ignore the name ‘All in one magic makeup’ – here’s [...]
Penny Choose: Naked Bodycare’s Love Me rose body wash
Here’s a new addition to my occasional series of treats that I think represent fantastic value. It’s a shower gel by Naked Bodycare that retails for around the £4 mark for 250ml. The full name is Love Me Rose Body Wash, and it’s organic and free from parabens, pthalates, petrochemicals and the like – if [...]