Blogmas Day Nine - Fish, Wine and Stocking Fillers

 

 

My shopping from Saturday, we went to Booths as Alan fancied a cooked breakfast for a change, it's usually just a bacon bun.  I just had a toasted teacake, well half of one actually I just wasn't in the mood. I think I have reached saturation point for eating out, although I did enjoy my coffee.

My total was a £39.05, which seems quite steep for me, but then there are two bottles of wine for Christmas, two boxes of fish to consume during December, two packs of batteries as we have run out completely ... and four items for Alan's Christmas stocking.  We set ourselves a little fun challenge, buy one or more small items from the middle aisles.  We don't go mad for presents for each other, just one main one, a couple of things that we need and some surprises in our Christmas stockings.

The eagle eyed among you will notice that there are no bananas on the receipt, that's because Alan bought four and gave me two.  There are two packs of batteries one for him and one for me which I paid for.

To balance costs out Alan paid for the biscuits and a book off the charity book table in Booths café ... yes we have an upstairs and a downstairs version of the charity book table now.  They are currently raising money for our local Foodbank to restock them after the Christmas holidays, so I had to support them didn't I.  😁

The biscuits are to be used as a crumble topping for a couple of little 'Oddly Good dessert pots that I have, one for each of us in lemon and caramel flavours.  It's a much cheaper alternative to buying ready made cheesecakes.  Just one biscuit crumbled on each little pot.

It might be Christmas, but I can still watch the pennies.  🎄

Sue xx