Aldi - 20p
At the start of the week I picked up some of the Easter 'bargain vegetables' from Aldi. This year once again they were promising that they were absorbing the loss and not the farmers ... I hope that this was true.
The potatoes were 8p for 2 kilos, the onions were 8p for 1 kilo and the carrots just 4p for a kilo. Lots of food but not much money.
They might have been cheap but I was still going to look after them and make them last as long as possible. So they were all unpacked, left to breathe for a while and then repacked into my Lakeland Stayfresh bags.
Booths £9.60
We went for a coffee at Booth on Easter Monday so we got a bit of shopping while we were there, I spent £9.60 on a dozen eggs and two organic long-life soya milks.
Booths £7.25 + £1 for the book.
I called back to Booths on Wednesday to pick up a ready made pastry case, after being at the Doctors. My back has been really bad and I just couldn't face making my own pastry, I cheat when I have to and I am more than happy to admit it.
The soya milks had been reduced since our last visit so I snapped up two more at the new lower price, along with four lovely looking Gala apples that were four for the price of three and a loaf of bread. I kicked myself on the way home as I remembered that I have one of these loaves in Alan's freezer. Oh well, it will all be used.
I was waylaid by the charity book table on the way out and this book forced me to buy it. I am already halfway through, it is brilliant.
Have I anything to declare ... ?
Only my complete inability to stop shopping for food when I am supposed to be on a shopping ban while I work on making space in my freezer and random food storage areas.
Oh well, it was only me that knew about the ban, I didn't tell Alan and I didn't tell you ... so no one knows. 😁
Sue xx
You can always donate it back (after you finished it!) and then there wouldn't be any evidence...
ReplyDeleteI cheated this week and bought a pack of shortcrust pastry. I cannot remember the last time I did that!
ReplyDeleteYour secret is safe here! I know how debilitating a bad back can be, after my ruptured disc a few years ago now, so no-one would blame you for making shortcuts. I always buy the organic versions of milk and eggs too. I like to think of happy chickens and cows ( with cows milk) and happy fields with crops.
ReplyDeleteI do miss going to Booths when we went up to Scotland, we would stop off at the Penrith or Kendal branch. Our nearest was Ripon when we visited my daughter but they closed it down. Hope your back gets easier. Take care.