Week 2 Day 1

A New Week Begins

Shopping


Over the past couple of days I have been doing my shopping, and getting ready for the coming week.

weekly shop

This week I decided to go for a Mediterranean Style diet and introduce more vegetables and oily fish into my diet. Since I had problems with keeping the bread, and didn't particularly like eating it, I have decided to forego the pleasure, and make my own flat breads. After I did my shopping I realised that I had forgotten to buy any flour, so I had to go back to Lidl and get some flour and yogurt (I have decided to use yogurt as a substitute to oil, I don't know if it will work, just my bright idea). I have also managed to purchase some salt and sugar, the sugar had gone up by 10p. since last week, which didn't please me overly. I also wanted some local potatoes (35p per lb.), but since I had a big bag at home I decided to take it out of our supply and take the money out of my budget. when I fetched the potatoes out I found that they had started to sprout, and at this stage we would normally have thrown them out, but not today-

potatoes

I would probably have found them reduced in a greengrocers shop, then again, no self respecting greengrocer would sell them in this state, so probably not. I also stocked up on my spices with 5g.'s of cumin, tumeric, paprika and cinnamon. My total shop was £5.86 which leaves me £1.14 + 9p. carried over from last week. Total £1.23. I have yet to buy a jar of curry sauce @23p.which leaves me £1 for veg.

Tuesday

I woke up at about 5.30 this morning and had actually drunk my morning cuppa by 6.00.

Breakfast



Porridge made with water

cup of tea.

Porridge = 8p.

Sugar = 1p.

Total 9p.

Breakfast was later today, as I had a doctors appointment early in the morning, I thought I might be very hungry but I was not. The porridge looked an unappetising colour, nonetheless it was nice to have sugar in it. Since my daily use of both sugar and salt came to less than 1p. I have included both in this penny

Lunch

lentil soup potato scones and cup of tea



 

Lentil Soup

Potato scones

Cup of tea

Lentils = 10p

1/2 stock cube=2p.

juice from tomatoes = about 3p
mixed herbs and chilli powder = 2p estimate

potatoes = 13p.

flour = 2p.

Total = 32p.

Though there don't seem to be many potato scones on the plate, there were many more made but I ate them while the others were being baked lol.

Dinner





Spaghetti

Pasta sauce

Cheese

Cup of tea

Pasta sauce =12p (the batch came to 48p and I used a quarter of that batch.)

Spaghetti = 4p

Cheese = 13p.

Total= 29p.

Tea and milk = 5p.

Total = 5p.

Total Expenditure today = 75p.

For dinner I had spaghetti and pasta sauce, Alexis favourite when she comes to stay here. I used a whole can of tomatoes and made a batch of the sauce. The cheapest cheese I could find were cheese slices, so I tried to grate it, but it came out in clumps, however it tasted O.K. I managed to disgust myself by the fact that when I went to get the tomato puree out there seemed to be green bits on it, normally I would squirm and throw it in the bin, but today it was a case of 'waste not, want not', so I shuddered and went in with a spoon and removed it all, and used the little remaining bit. I am sure I read somewhere that, that type of thing could be carcinogenic, so if I'm not around tomorrow, no flowers, just tins of baked beans to your nearest Food Bank please! I thought 50 g. of pasta would be enough, but when I cooked it there didn't seem to be an awful lot, so I spread it out on the plate and it didn't look too bad, nor did I feel hungry after eating it, so I guess it was O.K.

I wanted to add some more veg. to my diet today, but unfortunately most of the veg at Lidl seemed quite expensive, and I didn't have time to get down to my local greengrocers.  

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