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Breakfast today was Greek yoghurt with some berries and a banana (I have got a few to use up) I think tomorrow I will make the banana pancakes that someone posted on here for me last week. I enjoyed them when I made them, but wanted something that I didn't have to do anything with this morning.
Lunch is a cheese sandwich with some lettuce.
Dinner is a grilled chicken breast, with some new potatoes, mushrooms, grilled tomatoes (they need to be used up) and peas.
There are some scones in the freezer so I will get one of them out to defrost for pudding.
I am running low on crumpets. I think I will stick to buying them from M&S though because they are the only ones I can find that are made using half wholemeal flour and have grains in them, and they seem to taste really nice to me. I will have to call in there later in the week.
So far my meal planning this week is working out. If it carries on this way, I may manage to get through the week without having had too much repetition in my diet, other than the same veg during the week.0 -
Hollyharvey wrote: ».... got on very well .... hardly notice....how light it is ... 'just in case'Hollyharvey wrote: ».... eye opener to me .... money I have wasted on food.....I didn't buy too much .... some staples that I needed and a few things to try... eggs and rhubarb ..50p cheaper
I was genuinely surprised at how cheap a lot of their stuff was.
....It will soon have paid for itself and be saving me money
Over the coming year or so you'll try/buy new things to enjoy
CFO means you can never buy everything - you can't eat everything - so you really have to pace yourself.0 -
Hollyharvey wrote: »The best purchase I think I have made for many years is the trolley. It will soon have paid for itself and be saving me money
I think the same, once you have one you wonder how you ever did without one.
Wish there was an Aldi near here, bit of a first world whinging problem really, there is Morrison's, Sainsbob's, Asda, M & S, Lild, Waitrose, £land, little T8sco and Costcutter, but still moan about lack of Aldi. Ungrateful bu66er
Nice sunny day again, no breakfast again
The Asda was wite good for YS today, found some "dateheart" bars, never heard of them either, I did Google them, oops bit problematic results . Seems no one eats them because they were down to 10p, grabbed 5, time will tell
Also got some YS "will never ripen, but hope to ripen at home" nectarines, now in fruit bowl snuggling up to the YS bananas for a spot of ethylene breathing
Waitrose have banger offer on for those interested, only some, the high 90% meat ones. £2.19, got a pack of them and they tick my free range box as well as the MSE one. Long dated so put by for later in the week
Lunch was the routine cheese / salad sarnie
Dinner will be the LO Hunter's chicken, cold, with Actifry frozen chips, then I may pop the last of the M & S £10 offer item, apple pie, in oven to finish off, should do for at least a couple of days unless I get greedy
The bees have found the grapefruit flowers, hooray,, but still carrying on with my paint brush. Never knew before but now the whole area has a faint lemony smell form the blossom, nice, better than a pongy drain anyway
And my continuous bean planting some weeks back is paying off, flowers and even some small beans are showing.Eight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens0 -
.... there is Morrison's, Sainsbob's, Asda, M & S, Lild, Waitrose, £land, little T8sco and Costcutter, but still moan about lack of Aldi. Ungrateful bu66er...
If I had to choose between 4ldi or 4sda I'd choose 4sda. They do have cheap food/ranges, if you look for them - but they also have shelves and shelves of great looking food too ... and, for you at least, a good set of YS.
4sda is my furthest supermarket, I really wanted to live near one but that didn't work out. They announced build plans just as I was moving into this house, then they pulled out... that one'd have been 2 miles from me.
Morries have their moments too....
Truth is, I don't actually buy many items at L1dl or 4ldi ... I just eat the basic things in the main, so I bet I could get everything I buy at 4sda for good prices too. e.g. cheapest bread, tinned tomatoes, frozen chips, frozen peas, eggs, cheap cheddar, cheese triangles, the odd family sized beef mince/onion pie, ready made sausage rolls.0 -
Found them, after a few blushes on Google, hope GCHQ was not snooping at the time or the rozzers will be round to check on the pampas grass situation
Simply Divine date fruit hearts
Seems Asda having a clear out, no longer stockedEight out of ten owners who expressed a preference said their cats preferred other peoples gardens0 -
Good afternoon everyone,
Farway -Glad your beans are setting:), I have loads of flowers but no beans yet. In a couple of days I'll need to start tickling courgette flowers as the ones I thought were cucumbers are doing fab. The outside ones are doing ok but not at that point yet.
I've taken 2 small beef olives out for tonight so I'll cook them with onions and mushrooms and will have them with steamed carrots and broad beans.:)
I discovered something had spilled down the back of my fridge - balsamic glaze I think. Horrible sticky well hardened mess. I've got the bottom half sorted but the rest will wait until tomorrow.;)0 -
Tea was: 2 fish fingers, chips, peas - all from the freezer.
Freezer now just has 2 bean burgers, 4 fish fingers, some peas, 3 small Yorkshires .... nearly there!
Talking, as we were earlier, about 4ldi products. I won't ever bother again with their quarterpounder spicy bean burgers. They're not really spicy, they're too wide/flat (rather than being less wide/plump) and they're nothing at all to write home about.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »Tea was: 2 fish fingers, chips, peas - all from the freezer.
Freezer now just has 2 bean burgers, 4 fish fingers, some peas, 3 small Yorkshires .... nearly there!
Talking, as we were earlier, about 4ldi products. I won't ever bother again with their quarterpounder spicy bean burgers. They're not really spicy, they're too wide/flat (rather than being less wide/plump) and they're nothing at all to write home about.
Recipe:-
400g tin baked beans - drain the sauce and keep to one side
1 slice of bread made into crumbs
1 small onion finely chopped and softened in a little oil
1 large garlic clove crushed or 1/2 tsp garlic granules
1/2 tsp paprika (optional)
1 small carrot grated and softened with the onions
1 heaped tsp mixed herbs
1/2tsp ground pepper
50-60g grated cheese
Around 1tbsp flour
Mash the beans until around 1/2 are quite smooth and the rest fairly chunky. Add rest of ingredients bar the flour and the bean sauce. Add bean sauce until you have a mix that isn't too dry but you can shape. Dust your hands or a plate with flour and shape into burgers. Bake or fry until golden - if baking coat with a little oil.:)0 -
That's a shame have you ever made your own. I used make these for the kids using tinned baked beans. If you want "spicy" add some fresh or powdered chilli.
Recipe:-
400g tin baked beans - drain the sauce and keep to one side
1 slice of bread made into crumbs
1 small onion finely chopped and softened in a little oil
1 large garlic clove crushed or 1/2 tsp garlic granules
1/2 tsp paprika (optional)
1 small carrot grated and softened with the onions
1 heaped tsp mixed herbs
1/2tsp ground pepper
50-60g grated cheese
Around 1tbsp flour
Mash the beans until around 1/2 are quite smooth and the rest fairly chunky. Add rest of ingredients bar the flour and the bean sauce. Add bean sauce until you have a mix that isn't too dry but you can shape. Dust your hands or a plate with flour and shape into burgers. Bake or fry until golden - if baking coat with a little oil.:)
It's not that I couldn't make my own - they're easy (if you have all that stuff to hand). The question is one of volume ... that CFO/CBA stuff.
I bought this pack of four and hadn't even had a bean burger for at least 10 years.0 -
PasturesNew wrote: »I could easily make my own if I were that into them/that bothered. I can randomly pick up a pack once every 3-4 years in a shop .... or I can ensure I've got a raft of ingredients, in order to make far more than I could ever eat in one lifetime, plus all the washing up
It's not that I couldn't make my own - they're easy (if you have all that stuff to hand). The question is one of volume ... that CFO/CBA stuff.
I bought this pack of four and hadn't even had a bean burger for at least 10 years.0
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