Food Matters
I had to nip to Home Bargains today as I broke my glasses and I just needed a cheapie pair to get me by until I get replacements. I am a disaster with glasses and not suitable for contact lenses. I have tried wearing them on a neck chain and get taffled up with stuff and end up getting the glasses broken that way on and I usually end up with them on my head and then they lose their grip and end up falling off in the most disadvantageous places. This time round I broke two pairs in two days. I must have looked odd with a broken pair on (minus one of the arms) whilst I was shopping but I am as blind as a bat these days without my glasses.
In any event that is the reason why I went shopping but it would have been rude not to have a look whilst I was in there. Ever one for the food section and for stocking up items for the Pantry shelf, I try and take advantage of bargains where I can and stock up a bit if there is a genuine offer on.
I started off with a 1kg bag of Himalayan Fine grind Pink Salt for 99p. Therefore a bag of that came home and part of the bag has found its way into one of my glass storage jars in the Condiments cupboard. The rest has been squirrelled away in the Pantry for the time being.
At one point in time I used to keep tinned custard in more for G than myself, but it is handy to have on the shelf as well as the custard powder. In any event Home Bargains had an offer on with Ambrosia Devon Custard and Rice pudding in that if you bought 3 tins together you got them for Ā£1 a tin. I have seen them in excess of Ā£1.30 a tin for the custard and Ā£2 odd for the Rice pudding! I therefore ended up buying 6 of the custard and 3 of the rice pudding for the Pantry shelf. It will not be a constant at the moment, but as I have a lot of pudding stuff available to me in the house in any event just a useful item to have when in a hurry or when time is a rare commodity.
Equally last year I bought some Belvita Breakfast biscuits whilst they were on offer and I have eked them out to have when I do not really fancy a full blown breakfast. A small pack of these usually does the job with a nice hot drink.
I was only thinking the other day that I need to get some more of the Belvita breakfast biscuits but as I had not seen any on offer I had resisted buying. I try and buy items when they are on offer and do a little stock up then. Today they were on offer again at 99p a box so three boxes have come home with me. It provides another option for me. G will not touch them.
I also came away with my fabric conditioner, stain remover and a big box of Persil (77 wash about Ā£11.79 a box at HB) as well. I have to have these every month as part of my basics. If you can keep things clean you have won half the battle.
I also keep plain biscuits in-house as well as different crackers and crispbreads for eating as an alternative to bread or indeed to use with cheese like crackers (for the crispbreads). I have two separate boxes that I keep these in that are air-tight. Today I added to the crispbread stash by buying in a couple of different varieties of Ryvita ( Pumpkin seed and Oat and a Multigrain version as well as two different finishes on some Scandi-style bread Ryvita thins in Sour Cream and Chive and Multi-seed.
G likes the Anchor Spreadable butter but equally we will not pay through the nose for this. We do not like replacement spreads per se but tend to us butter either in block form or the easy spreadable version. Sometimes have been known to make my own as well. This is currently on offer for Ā£2.99 a pack so four came home with us.
Oh and I got my new glasses! Thank goodness for that as I just cannot see without glasses these days and not having them drives me stir crazy in any event.
That's a really good haul!
ReplyDeleteHi Tracy, I was quite chuffed as it was things I sporadically use for the best part but I do object to paying through the nose for items. xxx
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