Shopping

So yesterday we headed out with our £10 to the shops to buy food to feed two people for five days.  Having been firmly told by Emily that she wasn't going to put up with me for a week without coffee we had to budget in for a cup a day.  There were a couple of things we had to buy in larger quantities and then multiply down for the amount we were going to eat, but that was simply because it's not possible to buy 1 egg for example.  So here is our food for the week:

• 10 Bananas - £1.29
• 1kg Potatoes - £0.60
• 1kg Rice - £0.72
• 400g Porridge Oats - £0.26
• 1 Frozen Chicken - £3.40
• 970g Frozen Mixed Veg - £0.91
• Coffee - £0.30
• 50ml Oil - £0.07
• 10g salt - £0.03
• 1 egg - £0.21

As you can see the big purchase was the chicken.  This may seem like an odd buy but, it's truly amazing how many meals you can get from that one chicken.  I jointed it into:

• 2 breasts
• 2 thighs
• 2 drumsticks
• 2 wings

And of course I kept the carcass and the giblets that Mr. Morrison was kind enough to leave in for me so that I can make stock which I will turn into several meals worth of chicken soup.

Those math's wizzes among you will have worked out that the above adds to a total of £7.77, leaving us with a total of £2.23. So Emily headed off to the local market to buy some fresh groceries.  Thanks to her fantastic haggling skills, for a total of £2.20, she managed to get us:

• 5 carrots
• 2 onions
• 4 peppers
• a segment of pumpkin
• a chilli

So this means our total for the week is £9.97

That's our oil for the week not a shot of vodka!