I've found breakfasts quite challenging this weekend. I normally have cereal on week days and I'm cool with that. At the weekends when I have a bit more time I tend to have breakfasts that take a bit more time to make and are (in my opinion nicer). Having croissants that you bake from frozen in the over wasn't an option though because my normal portion alone comes to £1.50. I'm also fond of crumpets and eggy bread but it's all too expensive. In the end I didn't really fancy anything and just had a larger lunch which suited me well enough.
That was yesterday, today had different challenges. Dinner was a roast. It's a favourite of the 7 year old and we wanted to try to plan it in as normal for her. Her favourite is toad in the hole and yesterday we worked out carefully how to pay for it over the course of the day; I opted for a larger lunch of avocado on toast again with no breakfast (36p), I forget what Paul did in the end, he'll probably blog about it. My real problem came from the sausages. As the only meat eater in the house, I don't go through sausages that quickly, so tend to separate them into twos or threes and then freeze them. Lately (the last 6-8 weeks or so), I've been especially hungry so had frozen sausages into threes. When Paul asked how many sausages I wanted I had a myriad of problems- more than two would be too expensive, but if I just have two what to do with the remaining sausage- one was clearly too few. Then, I realised that they actually cost twice what I thought (33p per sausage.) Then the solution hit me- cook more rather than less. We ultimately cooked all three sausages in a lot of batter and then cut it in half for tomorrow's dinner. I still came in over budget- 50p on sausages, plus 27p on potatoes and veg (not yet worked out the cost of the batter) but I think it's a lot nearer to the mark than I would have otherwise been and a lot more sensibly filled with food. With my hot squashes I reckon I may well be about 15-20p over budget. Quite a lot really, Paul may yet save our average as he's clearly the frugal one. We shall see. I'm not going to beat myself up since I had a very good day yesterday and have prepared quite a lot of good stuff for tomorrow; half a toad in the hole for tea, (cheaper) pasta and pesto for lunch. I think we/I'll be in a good place.
That was yesterday, today had different challenges. Dinner was a roast. It's a favourite of the 7 year old and we wanted to try to plan it in as normal for her. Her favourite is toad in the hole and yesterday we worked out carefully how to pay for it over the course of the day; I opted for a larger lunch of avocado on toast again with no breakfast (36p), I forget what Paul did in the end, he'll probably blog about it. My real problem came from the sausages. As the only meat eater in the house, I don't go through sausages that quickly, so tend to separate them into twos or threes and then freeze them. Lately (the last 6-8 weeks or so), I've been especially hungry so had frozen sausages into threes. When Paul asked how many sausages I wanted I had a myriad of problems- more than two would be too expensive, but if I just have two what to do with the remaining sausage- one was clearly too few. Then, I realised that they actually cost twice what I thought (33p per sausage.) Then the solution hit me- cook more rather than less. We ultimately cooked all three sausages in a lot of batter and then cut it in half for tomorrow's dinner. I still came in over budget- 50p on sausages, plus 27p on potatoes and veg (not yet worked out the cost of the batter) but I think it's a lot nearer to the mark than I would have otherwise been and a lot more sensibly filled with food. With my hot squashes I reckon I may well be about 15-20p over budget. Quite a lot really, Paul may yet save our average as he's clearly the frugal one. We shall see. I'm not going to beat myself up since I had a very good day yesterday and have prepared quite a lot of good stuff for tomorrow; half a toad in the hole for tea, (cheaper) pasta and pesto for lunch. I think we/I'll be in a good place.
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