£30 and Counting

 So another week of the £30 food budget and off to the social supermarket , 3 red cabbages ,2 large bags of string beans , bag of mushrooms and a mountain of sprouts ,4 huge cooking apples , celery  , burger cheese slices one frozen curry , tin of potatoes tin of irish stew tin of soup and a pack of tiger buns didnt go anywhere else so saved the money till i picked himself up from hospital after a minor bit of repair and popped into little Tesco on the way back .  a big bag of 11p giant oranges, a load of bakery, yellow stickers bananas 25p  huge bag full .

Today has been prep day So ive microwave blanched all the beans and sprouts , just loaded the big slow cooker with redcabbage and apple for xmas and beyond , more apples from the garden for the dehydrator .

Best find of the week i decided to repot my scabby dead looking ginger plant to find 2 huge roots , so ive loads of fresh ginger , repotted two little nuggets and have bought the planter in for the winter funny what you can grow from a 10p Tesco dried up nugget of ginger .

My big question is why cant the food pantry get rid of a lot of the veg they are given?  I seem to be getting mountains of it . Im more than grateful the price of a cabbage in the Coop can be £2.50 , in fact i cant afford any of their fruit or veg its out of my price range. This isnt a food bank its a community waste initiative . i know energy prices are stopping a lot of people cooking but i use the slow cooker and microwave for practically everything . The mountains of exotic bread i sort of understand most people wont have a clue what to do with it if its stale , but why charge such a high price instore for it when theyre giving mountains away ?  Must admit on the veg front theres a couple of things id run screaming from the building about Advocados and Aubergines my pet hates ..lol