My minimal planning and preparation and distinct lack of culinary imagination and expertise has already started to show, although - as you'll see from the picture - the ingredients I've chosen aren't exactly inspiring. In fact, if anyone knows how to combine pasta, rice, beans (carb overload, anyone?) and eggs into a meal then please do share your wisdom. What was I thinking?
My Live Below the Line shopping basket includes:
- Rice (0.40)
- Pasta (0.55)
- 2 tins kidney beans (2 @ 0.18). Yuck.
- 5 red onions (0.17)
- 2 cartons of passata (2 @ 0.29)
- 10 eggs (1.19). While we're on it, I should probably share with you the untold anguish of being assured by multiple sources that a certain German retailer is the cheapest around, only to find that you can buy 15 (yes, one five) eggs for £1.25 in the Tescos that you usually shop in.
- 2 bananas (2 @ 0.11)
- Peas (0.25)
- Teabags (80 @ 0.29 - I'm budgeting 0.04 to use 10 altogether. I feel 80 teabags in 5 days might be somewhat excessive, even for a Northern lass)
My clever plan to save my leftover pennies for later in the week has already gone down the pan after I went wild this afternoon and purchased a bottle of orange squash (0.29) and a packet of custard creams (0.31), ostensibly in celebration of my essay hand-in but really because I was a little bit starving and didn't want rice. I've already managed to eat about 100 but fortunately there are still a few left.
Anyway, I am off to put beans and tomatoes in a pan and stir them - this is Live Below the Line haute cuisine.
Total spend: £4.32
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