Yet Another Shopping Trip ... and More to Come?

 

I went shopping to Booths on Wednesday, I waited until then as I knew there was another freebie to pick up.

 Since I was on my own I decided to buy Alan's 'Easter egg'.  As you can see it's not actually a chocolate egg at all as he is trying to avoid chocolate at the moment, so I got him a bottle of Port.  I also treated myself to some Easter goodies, a couple more little cans of spritzer and six of my favourite chocolate bars as they were on special offer.

On the way in I spotted a trolley full of yellow stickered Hot Cross buns, so I chose us these apple and cinnamon ones, they were delicious and did us both for two breakfasts.

I've just been trying the free carton of juice and I doubt I would give this to any of the children in my family, looking at the ingredients list although at first glance they seem fine, looking into the erythritol it says:  

• Other Side Effects: Some people may experience bloating, nausea, and loose stools when consuming erythritol.

and considering that this is only one of the many artificial sweetening sources, as well as the naturally occurring ones, I think I'd rather give them a small glass of orange juice.  It's also left a very strange taste in my mouth, but that's probably because I rarely have things with artificial sweeteners in these days.

The items crossed off went in the Foodbank trolley.  

I tend not to buy much for the Foodbank from Booths as the prices are usually more expensive there, and I like to get as much as possible for my money so that it helps as many people as possible, but when I see a good deal on something I will buy it for the trolley.

An Easter breakfast, a hot cross bun and a nice cup of coffee.

I forgot to turn the toaster down and it browned it a bit much for my liking, but it was just on the right side of being too well done.  My son used to tease me about eating 'hot bread' rather than toast as I like it so pale.  😄

So I've now spent most of my budget for this month, in fact I think I have only about £15 left in my purse.  But as Alan is going shopping later today, I might go with him and see if the reduced priced vegetables are in our Aldi.  It would be worth a little spend to get some more veggies in as I have just turned a lot of what was left in the fridge into a panful of roasted vegetable soup. 

Have you made use of the reduced priced vegetables that most of the supermarkets seem to be offering here in the UK?

Sue xx