Day 3 dinner

To follow up on Natasha's post – yeah, we both didn't pay for lunch today.  I still tried to be pretty frugal when preparing dinner, but didn't worry quite so much about it.  I used a whole bag of mushrooms from last week's veg market purchase (£1 for the bag) along with onion, garlic, butter, herbs and rice to make tasty mushroom pilaf.  The whole cost of the dinner came to £1.30 for the two of us, which is just fine.  My breakfast came to 6p, which was the cost of the oats in my porridge. Natasha didn't even eat breakfast, so we are well under budget, although we did both wangle over-budget lunch from other people.  To be fair, my sandwich buffet was not all that luxurious and the vegetarian sandwiches were quickly snarfed, so I don't really think I had too much of a blow-out.  Natasha's mum also picked up some reduced Mr Kipling snacks at Tesco for us.  They were pretty gross, but they were cheap and we both snacked on one after dinner (at 3p each)

One thing I've noticed since I've started doing this is that I'm really careful when chopping veg or preparing lentils or something like that, that I waste as little as possible.  I am much more careful than before that when I discard trimming from vegetable preparation, I really only throw away waste bits.  In fact, when I prepared the cauliflower the other day, I kept all the leaves and stems to use for something or other.  Must remember to actually do that, rather than let them fester in a bag in the fridge.