My £2 a Day Shopping Challenge - Day Two

 

The Plan

With yesterday's leftover cash I had a total of £2.03 to spend.

While I managed to get everything on my plan this time, overnight the Aldi 'Price Matched' baking potatoes had increased in price to 79p.  Luckily I had the 3p in reserve from yesterday's shopping trip so I decided to be lenient and dip into tomorrows money for the other penny.

While this is not my usual choice of spread, it was the cheapest one available and I had often wondered what this one tasted like.

The Receipt

Day Two Shopping - Total Cost  £2.04

Meals

Breakfast - 2 slices of Toast - 1 with spread and 1 with jam.

The Flora 'Buttery' is actually quite nice, very mild tasting but with a good texture and it doesn't disappear the moment it sees a bit of heat the way that my usual 'Naturli' spread does.

Lunch -Leftover soup from day one, with 1 slice of toast.

I was so happy when I found that I had enough soup from the pot made yesterday to do a second day's lunch.  I had originally thought I would need to use two of my newly bought potatoes today and use my leftover onion and carrot to replicate this healthy lunch.  This time I just left the toast whole and dunked it into the soup.  

So, it's the same meal as yesterday but it's looking slightly different.  😀

Tea - Jacket Potato and Spread

The Flora came into it's own again here and made for a very tasty jacket potato, which was surprisingly filling.

Leftovers carried forward:

400g SR Flour

 Dairy-Free Spread

3 Potatoes

16 slices of Bread

 Jam

1 Onion

1 Carrot

(-1p)

My £2 a Day Shopping Challenge - Day One

The Plan

Things didn't go exactly to plan, as when I got to Sainsbury's there was no porridge oats available, except for some very expensive ones. Thinking on the spot, I decided that a cheap loaf and a pot of jam would make for at least a week's worth of breakfasts. There was no cheap bread or jam either!!

 Is this a sign of things to come I wonder, all the cheapest things slowly vanishing, or is it just that they are now the first things to be snapped up when they are available? 

I headed off to Aldi, which happily is on my way home from Sainsbury's, where there seemed to be a bit more stock available.

The Actual Shopping

The couple of things from Aldi are on the left, and the rest are from Sainsbury's where it is still possible to buy loose vegetables.

The Receipts

Items Purchased

500g SR Flour - 45p

2 Onions - 19p

3 Carrots - 14p

1 Potato - 33p

454g Strawberry Jam - 39p

Bread - 22 slices - 47p

 Day One Shopping = Total Cost £1.97

Meals

Breakfast - 2 slices of toast and jam

The makings of lunch and tea.

Lunch - Soup 

1 potato

2 carrots

1 onion

Cook with stock, salt and pepper.  Lift out one slotted spoons worth of vegetables and then whizz up smooth with stick blender.  

Served with croutons made from one of the crusts of the bread, toasted.

A large slotted spoons worth of the vegetables were removed from the pan to use for the pasty.

Tea - Vegetable Pasty

Make pastry with 100g flour and 50g oil.  Fill with vegetables reserved from lunchtime.  

I'll be honest and say that my pastry didn't work out as well as it usually does.  It's been a while since I've made pastry with oil so it could just have been that, I first stated doing this after reading one of Thrifty Lesley's posts many moons ago, and have only used this recipe when I have had no hard fat available.  

Anyway I made enough for my tea and managed to eat most of it.

Leftovers carried forward:

19 slices of Bread

 Jam

400g SR Flour

1 Onion

1 Carrot

3p