First things first - I don't know whether any of you have been party to a vicious rumour currently circulating regarding an apparent Condiment Heist. In order to counter any future accusations of foul-play, and significantly improve the taste of my remaining meals, the remainder of my budget will be allocated entirely to sodium chloride. In Tescos, that will buy you about one and a half of these (cup included for scale):
Perhaps even more worrying than the outright salt-and-pepper slander to which I have been subject this afternoon is how much I miss ready-made food and drinks. In an ordinary week, the highlight of my day might have been a Venti chai latte or a packet of Leerdammer (or half a litre of gin, what with it being a Wednesday and all). Which, incidentally, would have taken up 75, 70, and 150 percent respectively of my budget for the week. So, instead, the highlight of today was walking home with my iPod on very loud and pretending I was in a film. Or maybe visiting Starbucks (twice) to inhale the coffee aroma.
In other news - I think last night's chilli-sin-chilli is the culinary truimph of the week so far. It tasted of something (not chilli, but it definitely had a taste), and the nutritional content is inevitably enhanced ten-fold by the pulses. On a less positive note, by the time I came to eat the leftovers at lunchtime today - after forgoing breakfast for the third day in a row because I just can't face boiled eggs without soldiers - I was so hungry that I ate molten kidney beans and really burnt my mouth.
Even more unfortunately, a mindless mid-afternoon extravagance with an 0.18 banana meant that I couldn't justify peas for my egg fried rice this evening. After Monday's 'rice, eggs and peas', and today's 'rice and eggs', I'm sensing a pattern for Friday...Thankfully, there are a still a few custard creams left.
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| Today, I'm only eating yellow food |
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I have to say that a lot of your meals look what I live on anyway. Perhaps that's because I do most of my shopping at Lidl! You're doing great, keep it up. xx
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