I wandered off to Sleaford Food Pantry the other day , they were having a collaboration with the local food waste initiative , they had huge catering bags of spaghetti and Fusilli £3 or £5 , not of use to me, but great if you have a family , tons of veg and fruit , which as im drying everything i can lay my hands on is great value , catering size trays of chicken tenders which the vultures devoured for their tea in fact for my allowance i could hardly lift the bag. we go a couple of times a month , but you can go 3 times a week , there always seems to be something they have a glut of that they are trying to give away. Theres also a little rabbit warren of a shop called Wise Owl its part of the B&N franchise , the shop is so tiny that they always have a sale section and i dropped in lucky , heinz spaghetti 4 tins for £1.50 , curry beanz the same , lots of extra cheap tinned veg , i could barely carry it all ..lol I still have £10 of this weeks grocery budget left . So im going to go and make veg powder from dried veg , keeps for years
The one big problem there is rurally is there being no fuel available , the garages are selling out . Not sure where this is going , but its going to be interesting
I get "free" food from time to time, I'm volunteering in communal thingies so I get this as a "reward". Today I was picking coffee machine and other stuff, I'm organizing a coffee afternoon for other volunteers. I got two bags of food, one salmon fillet!!! courgettes, carrots, cabbage, one sad bell pepper.. you know, stuff that no-one wants - the salmon is on it's last legs, but it is safe to eat today but I wouldn't put it to freezer. So today we're eating salmon stir fry for pennies (for cents, bc we use euros). 95E gasoline was 2,21€/litre today. So there's fuel, but who's buying?
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