……from someone who never wanted to be a food blogger! but sometimes is short of ideas for blog posts………..
Once I was sure the floods had subsided I did the final February shop which came to exactly £29. After the third shop someone said I’d not spent much this month but this tops up my February food total to £114.70 which is a little below average for an ordinary month.
This last shop of the month was a pot of parsley (79p, for dividing and planting out later), cabbage, carrots, apples, pears and grapes. Cheese, butter and Stork for cakes; Icing and castor sugar, yeast, cashews, pack of three small boxes of apple juice (always in the cupboard for grandchildren); a jar of Malt Extract so I can see what a malt loaf made in the bread maker is like and finally a pound of sausages from the proper butchers, which will be split into twos before freezing.
Proper sausages are quite expensive so nowadays I make two sausages feed me for two days- one day one sausage goes into a toad-in-the-hole and the next day the other sausage makes two sausage rolls. Every time I do this it reminds me of my Mum saying about our old neighbours that “they are so mean they only have one sausage each!”. Two each was the norm in our house.
I don’t buy sugar from Aldi – where most of my shopping came from – as I’m not sure of it’s origin but at Asda they have Silver Spoon which is made in Suffolk or Norfolk.
On the other hand Aldi have more British fresh veg than anywhere else. We’ve got to do more to support our farmers.
I don’t eat much meat nowadays but last week had an odd wish for an old fashioned stew and dumplings, something I’ve not made for probably 10 years. So maybe March’s meat purchase will be some stewing steak or even better some neck of lamb chops – I bet I’ll get a shock when I find the price!
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Sue
