Tuesday, 21 October 2025
A Scenic Autumn Wander
Monday, 20 October 2025
Shrinkflation Strikes again
Shrinkflation has struck again.
The lovely vegan Aldi sausage rolls, were miraculously held at the same price of £1.19 for years. They were tasty, they always cooked up really well, and were enjoyed by meat eaters and non-meat eaters for so long.
Then shock horror, a few months ago they vanished from the freezers.
I checked every single time we went in there, and while other things disappeared and then came back there was never a sighting of the sausage rolls either on the shelves or on any of the shelf edge labels.
Then on Friday look what I spotted, stacked high filling a third of the top shelf of the freezer and being introduced as a new product ... sausage rolls.
But in a pack of two!!
Now that is a little bit sneaky if you ask me. They are still really good value for money as sausage rolls go, and hopefully they will be as tasty as before. I have opened the box and they do seem a little bit longer than they were previously and I will be trying them for flavour for lunch one day this week.
At least I guess this shrinkflation is blatantly obvious, there for all to see two instead of four. But one of my favourite sausage rolls is now 50p instead of it's original 30p, and that is quite a jump.
Although I guess, in the grand scheme of things, it's not the end of the world. 😄
Sue xx
Saturday, 18 October 2025
Hardworking Worms, and YouTube
Unlike this lovely image my garden is almost done for the year, although amazingly I have some flowers still looking lovely, if a little scruffy around the edges. But they are providing nourishment for the couple of bees that I have spotted recently, so they will remain as they are until no little lives depend on them.
I have one more tomato plant to take down and feed to the tiny compost bin. It really is tiny so I feed it with weeds, trimmings and food scraps slowly, leaving the worms to do their magic for a few days in between ... it's amazing how hard they work.
A lot harder than me if I'm honest!!
I also have to be honest and say that I have not been reading much at all this month, the dark mornings and evenings have seen me snuggled up on my chair with a mug of coffee and the television switched to the YouTube channel.
While the television itself can be is full of depressing news and mind-numbingly boring quiz shows (not you Only Connect and The Chase), there are so many people filling the screen with lovely positive videos and interesting things to watch. So that is currently my viewing of choice.
So here are a few YouTube of the channels that I am really enjoying at the moment.
Rewilding Jude
https://youtu.be/Em0IQlPWyMc?si=5mE39fcdSy2Qcc2t
Minty and Mortar
These are just a few of my current favourites, if you click over and visit them I hope you enjoy them too.
I hope you have a lovely weekend.
Sue xx
Thursday, 16 October 2025
Here, There and Everywhere ... At the Drop of a Hat
Monday, 13 October 2025
I knew who I was this morning ...
Never has this quote been more true for me.
I fired up the laptop this morning to write a blog post, and made the mistake of reading lots of other peoples posts before I'd even thought about starting to write mine. After missing a few days due to 'stuff', I scrolled back and read through lots of posts to catch up, as I always do.
I shouldn't have done it. Apart from a few bright lights it was such a downer.
The world is full of such negativity at the moment, and over the past year or so as well as being shown all over social media, television and newspapers it has silently, insidiously been slipping itself into blogland.
This space used to be so different. I understand some of it, but not all of it.
My first thought was to completely discontinue my blog, and delete it all entirely.
Luckily I had a think, over a coffee and a bowl of chips in Booths café with Alan, and on getting home and sitting at the computer I came to the conclusion that I will alter what I post about, change what I do and hopefully, in doing so, make sure that I am making no contribution to the steady decline in blogland.
It might just be me, hey it probably is.
Please don't worry about stuff, but I'm taking time and space to change things up, work things out and do what's right in my mind for me. If you've noticed this trend towards the negative let me know, if I'm the only one ... let me know that too.
In the meantime I will be here but differently.
If you don't like the way that I change things up ... and I don't mind at all if you don't ... I'll be leaving all the other blogs on my sidebar for you to hop over to as usual. I can see from my stats that my blog is used as a jumping off point to lots of other people's and I would hate you to lose the links.
Sue xx
Saturday, 11 October 2025
Let It Be
Thursday, 9 October 2025
Butter Chicken Cooking Sauce ... Used at Last!!
It looked a bit sad with no flashes of green, so I added a big handful of mixed vegetables from the freezer, I should have added a couple of spinach pellets too but I didn't think of that until I was eating it much later.
Once it was all cooked together I decided to whizz it up with my stick blender into a nice thick curry sauce. I do like smooth sauces and smooth soups, I'm not one for lots of things floating in a sauce, although Alan is.
... and had it on a piece of buttered toast for my lunch the next day.
It was surprisingly tasty this way.
The other portion of curry sauce was eaten nice and simply with a portion of Basmati rice and peas, and was very filling. Sadly, there is no photo of this either ... gosh I've been a bad blogger this week ... but I'm sure you can imagine it. 😄
One pouch of Butter Chicken Sauce, which I rate really highly in terms of flavour, ingredients and price ... and lots of lovely meals made from it. Also, in finding that link above I have just discovered that it is currently on offer in Sainsbury's, so I think I will have to stock up on a few of them if I can.
Sue xx
Wednesday, 8 October 2025
Another Week of Minimal Shopping
Tuesday, 7 October 2025
Leaves and Sausage Rolls
Monday, 6 October 2025
Questions ... and Answers
Sue xx
Sunday, 5 October 2025
Autumn's Softer Rhythm
Saturday, 4 October 2025
Free Food, Bargains and Final Pickings