Shopping from Sainsbury's £6.50.
I didn't really need to go shopping this week, but as I had to call into Sainsbury's for something completely non-food related I thought I might as well pick up some bread while I was there and also some fish for when I am making up next weeks rations.
I decided at the end of last week that instead of my two eggs each week for the next few weeks at least, I will be taking the two meat-free sausages I have been having since rationing began instead of one of them and instead of the other I will take a single portion of fish. So once opened this pack will be one portion for this week and the other will go into the freezer for next week.
I saw the potatoes were still on offer at just £1.25 for 2.5kg so I decided to buy a bag of those as well, not realising that I had 7 potatoes still in the fridge. I don't usually store potatoes in the fridge, it was just during that very hot week recently they were all beginning to sprout in the bag in the kitchen, so I popped them in the fridge drawer right at the back and only discovered them when I went to put the fish away.
As soon as I got home I got the potatoes out of the plastic bag and left them out for an hour to dry off a bit while I had a coffee. Then I put them into a Stayfresh bag and then into a cotton tote. Hopefully now it's so much cooler they will last just fine while I work my way through the seven large potatoes in the fridge.
I also sat down and did a re-working of my ration plan yesterday to update my new no-egg rations. Isn't it great having things saved on the computer so that you can just adjust a few lines instead of starting from scratch.
I do have to make this rationing malarkey work for me if I want to do it long term and if it takes playing around with things for a while at first I am quite willing to do that. Sorry if it gets a bit confusing for you when you read the posts. 😌
Sue xx
I think the amount of planning, researching and organising you are doing is brilliant (but I guess if you did not enjoy it then you would be doing something different in order to reach your savings/retirement goal).
ReplyDeleteI do find the planning and research fascinating, and to be honest there is nothing else that I can do to try and reach my savings/retirement goal, so this has to be it ... just keeping my living costs as low as possible.
DeleteNot at all confusing, it's a work in progress and that's so much better than written on tablets of stone regardless. You're making it work for you, specifically. xx
ReplyDeleteGood, I'm glad it's sort of making sense. I've no doubt it will keep changing over the next year as I empty the food cupboard and move on to weekly shopping for everything. I have to admit that I am enjoying the 'not shopping' at the moment, and I'm not missing the supermarkets too much as I still go to buy for the Food Bank at least every other week. :-)
DeleteYou need to make whatever changes you have to, in order to make the rationing work for you. I know my mother would buy rations from someone else, when she needed more of a rationed item and the other person needed the money more than they needed the rationed item.
ReplyDeleteYes, I am in no doubt that there was a lot of sharing and making things work between families and neighbours during the war years.
DeleteI think you are making practical choices and sharing your changes and thought process is great. One of the challenges for you is doing this as an individual. Since this is your experiment I think you get to set the rules 😊. Carol
ReplyDeleteHopefully it's easier for everyone to understand if I share the changes and thought processes as they happen, and I like setting my own rules that's for sure. :-)
DeleteGood changes for you. As the previous poster stated as you are doing this yourself, you get to set the rules.
ReplyDeleteGod bless.
It's nice to be in charge. ;-)
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