We went to Aldi on Saturday, as is now becoming a ritual to start the weekend off. We have a coffee in Booths and then get over to Aldi nice and early before the masses arrive. Although to be fair our Aldi seems even busier on a Sunday!
I mostly bought just what I needed, which this week was Weetabix, orange juice and paracetamols, but I was obviously influenced by a talk that I went to last week on inflammation and osteoporosis. Where we were reminded how important it is for many ailments, especially those that include any sort of inflammation to 'eat the rainbow'.
Well I managed to get four colours of the rainbow ... now I just have to eat them more regularly. 😄🌈
My receipt for posterity ... and to celebrate that I am managing to get to the end of my pension-less days by the skin of my teeth.
As I went to the fridge to put my new purchases away I realised just how much progress I had made eating up all the little tubs of leftovers last week. So, as I always do, I moved the last couple of things off this shelf and gave it a good wipe down. Cleaning the fridge one shelf at a time is so much easier than having to hoick everything out and do the whole thing all at once, with it beeping at me like a crazy guinea pig.
This week I think I will concentrate more on the bits and pieces in the freezer, of which there are many little bags, tubs and half packets. I want to batch cook some more meals and all the tiddly bits are just taking up too much space.
While I was peeking in there to see what I had, I spied the blueberries left over from our final Riverford order. So as I had a very ripe banana glaring at me from the side, it just had to be a batch of Blueberry and Banana muffins*.
I used my usual method of weighing the eggs and then adding the same weight in flour, fat and sugar and as luck would have it, I had the exact amount of flour left in the jar to be able to stick to this criteria.
Perfection.
Sue xx
*There are no photos of the finished muffins ... we ate them all. 😁
Being a bit under the weather last week my sleeping patterns were all over the place. I was watching something mindless on tv the other night and fell asleep on the sofa. When I woke up, what should be on the tv but The Good Old Days! After your post last week I thought it was quite funny and, despite it now being about 1 a.m. I settled in to watch it and it was just as good as I remembered it. The finale act was Ken Dodd (another old favourite). I'd sort of forgotten that the audience were all dressed in period costume and joined in with plenty of oohs and aahs as well. It was from 1975 according to the date on the credits (was that really 51 years ago?). It was on BBC4 if you want to watch again but after midnight. I just thought it was a funny coincidence.
ReplyDeleteAldi have been dropping the price on a few selected items each week, the kilo of Greek style yoghourt, 100% peanut butter, some blocks of cheese, and evaporated milk were included this week. Thank you for suggesting tinned pink salmon, a good price, their tinned sardines are still 49p. I bought wonky fruit and veg, super 6 offer British apples which store well in the garage, and got lovely strawberries half price.
ReplyDeleteYou are an inspiration.
That was very lucky with the flour 😀
ReplyDeleteReminds me I’ve got a small amount of pizza topping in our freezer, I might try using the flatbreads after seeing your tip the other day.
Alison in Devon x