In a bee’s world, while honey is the cents, royal jelly is definitely the dollars. It’s a special secretion needed to create the queen bee. So, while the lowly soldier bees toil day and night, with no choice but to expend all their precious jelly in order to make their hive happy, in this world we’re fortunate enough to have learned a few things (hopefully!) and know that we can be queens in our own beautiful castles without having to squander all that extravagant ‘royal jelly’.
Follow me as I share with you some of the thrifty hints and tricks I’ve used so far in creating my hive – queen intact!

Now here are some pretty pictures…