Caitríona Redmond: Keeping my budget on track — plus my lemony chicken pasta recipe

"The budget is like an elastic band, sometimes it has to be more stretchy and encompass a lot of items all at once."

Caitríona's Lemony Chicken Pasta Pesto.

Keeping my budget on track is a work in progress. I’m sure most people feel the same.

At the moment I feel like I’m caught in an endless loop of paying for big items and then having to find the money for the next set of big items.