i had a really odd conversation with himself yesterday .
Youre going shopping , its all arranged , we are meeting the munchkin from school and you can do a big shop .
Errmm OK
Well ive not set foot out the door for over a week , so i wasnt going to turn that down. But still a bit odd as i wasnt due a shop for another week or so . I checked he hasnt received his back pay...lol So it was a trip to M&S to hunt for yellow stickers and not a single one did they have apart from one of their huge bags of bruised bananas for 25p , bit odd they usual have a few bargains . Waited for the munchkin at Asda got a load of chopped mixed veg stew packs on yellow sticker at 10p each there was a mountain so i didnt feel any guilt and i will blanch them in the microwave then pop in the freezer . Several packs of mini pork pies and bhajis for the freezer but the food bandit had most of them for his supper . They had mountains of cheap sandwiches i was looking through them for the cheese based ones which freeze well and can be just tossed in the sandwich maker but an old lady was doing the same so i helped her get a basket full and settled for a couple of pasta salads for lunch today . in fact the thin layer in the bottom of the trolley was all yellow stickers and the yellow basics range talk about advertising your poor , they didnt have a single one of the bulk items i wanted so it had to be a trip to Lidl where i managed to get a case of uht milk and there cheap bog roll, if little else . Somehow i managed to spend nearly £100 on a boot full of very little, a lot of it is bits to make up a meal,. tins of Asda yellow label corned beef for the fishing season . Have you seen the price of Atora suet these days ? shocking , Asda own make gravy granules , who can afford Bisto ?
So i achieved little yesterday except spending loads on stuff i didnt need and being visibly poor, isnt it weird that even a trip to the supermarket can label you ? we are becoming a nation of haves and have nots , defined by whether we have a trolley full of Heinz and Bisto
I think Lidl and Aldi beans (the slightly more expensive range, not their budget ones) taste so much nicer than Heinz, and with a lot less juice and more beans. Gravy granules are gravy granules, I get the cheapest.
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ReplyDeleteMy big supermarket is usually Tesco who are hiding their value range under different names like Eastman and Miss Molly. However their own brand is often lower in salt and things like stock cubes are more likely to be gluten free which I need.
Sending good vibes
I haven't bought any Atora suet for a long time, but your comment reminded me of when I used to buy kidneys with the thick fat on, which was suet, and used it to make dumplings and suet pudding. I never see kidneys with the fat on them these days. Those were the days when I could buy tongue to make pressed tongue (that is expensive to buy now) and pigs head to make brawn.
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