My £2 a Day Food Shopping Challenge - Bonus Day - Day Eight & Leftovers

 

This is the photo that I showed you yesterday, so what did I do with the leftovers?

I decided that carrying them forward to begin another Challenge would skew the results of that Challenge, it's always better to start afresh.  So they had to simply disappear into my usual food or be used to make another days meals.

I made another days meals.  😀

Breakfast - Toast and Jam

This is the same photo as the first day as I had exactly the same breakfast, even cutting the toast into the same shape, so it seems crazy to have to take another photo.

For my lunch I decided to make some more soup, using the 

fresh ingredients.

It looked quite good when it was all nicely chopped and freshly in the pan.  After half an hours simmering away it looked like a pan of pond scum. 😕

But once whizzed up it looked better again.

I toasted two slices of the bread and had one myself with this bowl of soup and took the rest of the soup and the other slice of toast round to Alan, who had just stopped work for lunch.

I decided to use the last of the cheese, my leftover third of the onion and the last remaining carrot, which I grated, to make a sandwich filling, along with the last of the mayo and lots of salt and pepper.

My last two slices of bread and some of the sandwich filling made for a tasty evening meal, after a very hectic day.

All that was left to eat up from the fresh leftovers was my final apple, and along with a nice cup of coffee it made for a tasty supper and brought me up to over twelve of my five a day.  😃

The actual final leftovers, which I am quite happy just to eat alongside my usual food, and of course there's that jar of sandwich filling shown in the tea-time photo.

Leftovers

240g SR Flour

Jam

Spread

125g Pasta

jar of Sandwich Filling

Total Spend for this week £13.92 ... so 8p over too.

I was going to go straight into another '£14 All in One Go' challenge, but this will have to wait a while now as we have had a bit of a rough weekend, with Mum being rushed into hospital after a fall early on Saturday morning.  She was discharged after an overnight stay, only to be taken back in the very next night in identical circumstances.  We have sadly reached the conclusion that with her diminishing physical and mental limitations, her time at home living independently, even with help from carers has to come to an end.

I'll be blogging as and when I can, but the odds of me being able to concentrate and see through a challenge whilst also working and being available to travel at the drop of a hat are not good.  We'll just have to see how things go and take one day at a time, and that is all any of us can do.

Sue xx