Turning Straw into Gold: Creating Long Term Security & A Solid Home

MillQueen

I have just been to pick up my TGTG. I like getting these on a Sunday, although it's mostly treat food today rather than realistic things to cook with. It was good value though. For £10, I got 2 chicken breasts which have gone into the freezer, 2 huge pork loin chops that were meant to be £5 each (straight in the oven, and I will pull these apart to put into work lunches all week with rice and peas). I also got a pack of blackcurrant and apple pies, a raspberry bakewell cake, a sourdough loaf, a pack of crumpets, 2 coffee renoirs, a macaroni cheese microwave meal (going in the freezer), blue cheese, 2 x pain au chocolat, 2 x vanilla crown pastry, garlic bread (going in the freezer), and a big pot of coleslaw - which I will have with cheese on jacket potatoes over the next couple of days for tea. Won't need to do a big shop until next weekend (by which point I will be sick of pastries and wanting vegetables). I don't actually like pork but I won't really notice it if I spread it out over the week with a bit in my lunch each day. Maybe a boiled egg in each lunch too, since I have 12 eggs that need using as they are past their use by date.

I have had a tidy up of the cupboard and chucked away a few things that were old or out of date.

ellenvan

That's a great haul for £10!

jwil

Great bargains on TGTG!

MillQueen

@ellenvan and @jwil, I was so impressed with the amount I got. I haven't had these in a while as my favourite supermarket stopped doing them, but this has renewed my enthusiasm. It's good when you want a low spend week as you get such random stuff it makes you use what you have in creative ways.

I've just shredded the pork and for the next 2 day's lunches I've mixed that with a bag of precooked wild rice and some broad beans (closest thing I had to peas). A while ago I got these little lunch boxes from TK Maxx that have compartments in. So I put that in the main compartment and a couple of boiled eggs in one and a handful of frozen cherries in the other. The little compartments bring me joy 🤣

It's amazing how productive I can be when I have got work that I'm avoiding, as I've done food prep, cleaned the kitchen, washed all the dishes, done all the laundry, sorted the recycling and bins.