Food Shopping for Pensioners

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Because of my eyes, I can no longer drive, I cook for myself, up until last year I used to go to Sainsbury's and M&S, this was about two or three times a week, I live near a bus stop and each journey took about 2 hours. The bus service which was every quarter of any hour became irregular and indeed became every three quarters of an hour. I then looked for alternatives, decided on one of the home supply firms that supplied cooked meals, they where good but did not taste like home cooked. I therefore went for Ocado cannot rank them highly enough, generally arrive at the beginning of the one hour slot and not bad at £2 a slot. The selection is good and I am able to have fresh ingredients to cook with every day. Cost for my food is between £40-60 depending on the menu that I derive from BBC Food website. Having read and seen on television the crisis in the cost of living, I count myself lucky, I do not see how anybody could survive on just the Old Aged Pension alone. Does anybody use Ocado for shopping, it is useful, for semi-house bound pensioners like me and allows me to send a barrage of e-mails about energy conservation to my supplier, yes I do have ginger puddings, would like to know how this effects the Fanger equation,
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Fortunately I drive and am able to shop where ever- locally: Aldi, Morrisons, Coop or for further afield my go-to is Tesco. I have always cooked for myself and am experimenting with a slow cooker, but also using a Remoska rather than the big oven. I have been really pleased with Aldi: good products and good prices too.
For recipe suggestions I would suggest that you just google - lots & lots of different ideas- some from BBC Good Food but lots of other sites worth a look.
One of the things you might do is to batch cook a meal and then divide it into several meals and freeze them .
Bolognese type sauce/meat will make great dishes with pasta, or cottage pie , or lasagne. I freeze the meat in individual portions & then decide what it will become!
Most of these could be reheated in the microwave which is the cheapest way.
lots of ideas on this board for thrifty delicious meals / cooking.
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I don't fancy chopping raw meat in the food processor, such a fiddle to wash....( and ensure that it is clean).
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It wasn't me who suggested mincing! a faff too far...
Should I ever have spare cooked beef I might chop that in the food processor... but I don't think I have done that for many many years! (in fact I can't remember when)
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Exotic ingredients can be bought from Amazon, I must say that Ocado and Amazon have never let me down.
Will have to make a trip across town on Monday for Morrison's Puff Pastry minced Pies, will try to bake some myself in the New Year, also the only place that sells Sponge Flans a through back to the 60's that my mum made.
About to make Mexican Spicy Bean Soup for Lunch, have not been out since Monday morning to the Doctors about my Balance,
Will try tomorrow when the temperature rises. Happy Christmas everybody,