TISATAAFL

As Natasha pointed out yesterday, it's been a good week for free food.  We are quite lucky that opportunities to have our food paid for as part of our work do crop up from time to time – clearly not everyone trying to eat for £1 per day can say the same.  Today, I had to go to Cambridge (as proof, I attach a picture I took there of some bikes) for a meeting at the University Examination Syndicate, and it included lunch.  I got a lunch voucher which entitled me to a soup, a main course and a dessert.  I took up the offer of all of it, and had a potato and stilton soup, a main of bean casserole with rice, and a pot of fresh melon chunks.  Oh, and a bread roll with the soup.  It was a full main meal for the day, and very nice it was too, except for the melon chunks which were insipid in taste and too unripe.  I really felt stuffed (and a bit unwell) afterwards.  Normally I wouldn't eat so much for lunch, but I felt honour-bound to make the most of it.  

I'd had a normal breakfast, and for dinner, a baked potato with butter sufficed.  My total food spend for the day thus came to 40p, though if I'd have had to pay for lunch, it would have been several pounds.

I got some vouchers through in the post the other day from Tesco, trying to entice me to buy things from them with discounts.  Some of them I will probably use.  For example, they are offering me 20p off a jar of Tesco Everyday Value peanut butter.  I love peanut butter, but not if it's got added sugar.  So this usually means I have to get somewhat more expensive stuff as stocked in supermarkets or go to Holland and Barratt, or CostCo who both do huge tubs of unsweetened PB (though it's the very worthy stuff with nothing added to stop it separating and having a layer of oil on top which needs to be stirred in every time you use it).  If I remember correctly Tesco Everyday Value PB is a rare cheap unsweetened version.  I'll still have to figure out if it's cheap enough to actually use.  If a slice of peanut butter on toast is going to cost 50p then it's hardly going to be worth it. 

There are some other vouchers in there I doubt I'll use.  50p off when you spend £2 on products from the pies and savouries counter ("Includes quiches, slices, Scotch eggs, pork pies & sausage rolls") -- not because I would never buy such things, but I doubt that they are viable on £1/day even with the 25% discount.   Then there are others like "Save 50p on new Tesco whipped full fat soft cheese".  I think I can live without whipped soft cheese.  It sounds a bit wrong, though maybe I am missing out.