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Supermarket reductions - win!
Sep. 6th, 2013 10:26 pmI've commented a few times in various places that the way to deal with the various challenges of living on a ridiculously low income is to make the most of final reductions in supermarkets. Today we had a good example - back from holiday, wanting to refill on salad, veg, bread, and "whatever we're having for dinner tonight".
There's a new Morrisons. We went to look.
Hot food counter - various pies down to 45p, including the steak one. That's the protein part of dinner sorted, then.
Veg reduced rack - big bunch of spring onions, 25p, celery, 25p, pack of ready-prepped green beans, 25, whole white cabbage, 25p, beansprouts, 15p
That's the veg to go with the pie sorted, and our salad and veg for the next day or so re-stocked. Since we didn't use anything like the whole of any of the things listed except the pies, that's a healthy and filling meal for two for about £1.
Reduced bread - small wholemeal loaf, 9p. If I had more room in the freezer I'd have got two, but I filled it with veg just before we left a week ago.
The breaded chicken fillets on the chilled reduced rack weren't quite that spectacular, but still well under half price, and everything else we got was on multi-buys. At the moment, I'm in full-time employment, so I don't need to make this sort of saving, but there's no point in throwing money away.
Every budget I've seen for trying to live on £5 a week (or whatever the latest silly number is) emphasises careful advance planning based around paying full price for things that are inherently cheap. No. Wrong. What you need is a willingness to eat whatever's put in front of you, and to cook whatever ingredients are given.
There's a new Morrisons. We went to look.
Hot food counter - various pies down to 45p, including the steak one. That's the protein part of dinner sorted, then.
Veg reduced rack - big bunch of spring onions, 25p, celery, 25p, pack of ready-prepped green beans, 25, whole white cabbage, 25p, beansprouts, 15p
That's the veg to go with the pie sorted, and our salad and veg for the next day or so re-stocked. Since we didn't use anything like the whole of any of the things listed except the pies, that's a healthy and filling meal for two for about £1.
Reduced bread - small wholemeal loaf, 9p. If I had more room in the freezer I'd have got two, but I filled it with veg just before we left a week ago.
The breaded chicken fillets on the chilled reduced rack weren't quite that spectacular, but still well under half price, and everything else we got was on multi-buys. At the moment, I'm in full-time employment, so I don't need to make this sort of saving, but there's no point in throwing money away.
Every budget I've seen for trying to live on £5 a week (or whatever the latest silly number is) emphasises careful advance planning based around paying full price for things that are inherently cheap. No. Wrong. What you need is a willingness to eat whatever's put in front of you, and to cook whatever ingredients are given.