How Cheap Can I Eat?

This weekend would have been good and economical but for one thing: Dinner at a friend’s house on Saturday night. Brilliant, tasty meal chock full of vegetables and fish, things I haven’t had lately. Need to assign a value to this meal, so I’ll estimate about a fiver.

This makes the total spend now £56.95. I’ve got £18.05 left for the next 17 days. I still have plenty of raw ingredients left in the cupboards so I think I’ll make it. We’ll see.

As boring as it sounds I’m contemplating another sausage casserole, because the first one was so nice I wouldn’t mind more. I’ve got one portion of it left, frozen in the freezer and I’ve been trying to save it

Very little to report over the weekend. Yesterday was a busy day, so it was a cornflakes breakfast, peanut butter and jam sandwich for lunch (a forgotten favourite), and reheated sausage casserole for tea.

Sunday wasn’t much better, with another cornflake/PB&J  combo, but on the plus side these meals are entirely filling and cheap.

To my credit I did go shopping again for a couple of bits:

Big bag of oven chips for 41p! I was going to resist buying anything like this, as I do have potatoes in the cupboard so I could make my own, but for this price I could’t resist. The pizza there was £1.64, which I’ll eat in two halves, making it a cheap 82p per ‘meal’ that I’ll get out of that. Everything else is ingredients for a stir fry that I’ll make this week. I’ll get at least two portions out of that on consecutive days, so it’s all good.

Total spent today was £6.13 making the total spend so far £44.14. That gives me less than £31 left for the rest of the month and it’s only the 6th today. I’m not worried yet though, I have loads of ingredients in the cupboard and I envisage that I’ll just be buying the odd ingredient or two to complete recipes from now on.