How Cheap Can I Eat?

Well it’s been another couple of days since the last post. I finally managed to eat all of my spouting potatoes, and also ate the 5 sasusages in the fridge yesterday. Today I had pasta with my Basics Pasta Sauce, with cheese. Plenty for two portions so the second one is lunch tomorrow.

Haven’t bought a thing recently, apart from more milk, which was £1.44 for 4 pints. Fun fact: All of the major supermarkets near me (Morrisons, Tesco, Sainsburys) all charge this exact amount for 4 pints of skimmed milk. Price fixing or what? The only exception I’ve spotted is Iceland, who charge £1.20.

Total spend now £58.39 with 2 weeks to go. I think I can do this fairly comfortably, as I have plenty of ingredients left and won’t need to spend too much more to make several more meals.

Morrisons are purporting to sell 8 popular food items for 50p each. There is a store a couple of miles from where I live, so I’ll be popping over tonight to see if this deal is viable. Personally I suspect the publicity it has received means I’ll turn up at the store to find at least 6 of the 8 items completely sold out, because that kind of thing is just typical of special offers like this. I’ll also have a nose around for other bargains while I’m there and report back afterwards.

Food today has been museli, a packet soup from the cupboard for lunch (costing something like 30p and not at all filling), and tonight I’ll probably have a couple of baked potatos, because they need using and I’ve got plenty of toppings, like cheese and branston. Mmmm.

7pm: Back from Morrisons. Spent a grand total of £3.14. For this I got another load of bread, 16 sausages, 4 beef burgers, and a pack of white buns. I was so excited at the prospect of 12.5p burgers that I had two for tea. It was pretty much was I expected cheap quarter-pounders to be. They don’t taste the best but it’s a meal. I won’t make a habit of buying and eating these. The buns will be handy for lunch next week, and the bread will be handy for breakfast toast when the museli runs out.