Let them eat fishcakes
Nov. 4th, 2019 07:33 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
j4Went into the Co-op at lunchtime to see if they had hot dog buns (because my mum had bought me a pack of posh veggie hot dogs for the kids & I wanted to do them for kids' tea tonight because they're very very quick & we only have half an hour at most between getting home & having to go out again on Mondays) and came out with an amazing haul of bargains from the nearly-gone bin:
This came to £2.29 before my NUS Extra discount which brought it down to £2.07. (I paid for the NUS card -- £32 for 3 years but it was worth it for the 10% off the Co-op. It seems to be a university thing but I don't think it's specific to Oxford.)
£2.29 is, in a meaningless coincidence, the price of a bag of Babybels.
I don't often buy them any more. Turns out the kids are just as happy with a slice of whatever cheese we have in, which is usually plainest mousetrap Cheddar, or Red Leicester, or Brie. Cheese has got all expensive hasn't it? I don't think it's anything to do with Brexit because they're all English cheese (Somerset Brie seems to be cheaper than French).
Anyway it turns out that all the cheap bread was best before yesterday, except the 8 bread rolls which were best before two days ago. I didn't think you were allowed to do that. Or is it only use-by dates that matter for selling stuff? But bagels etc are clearly fine the day after their best-before dates, particularly if you're going to toast them, and it can all go in one of the freezers if there's room. (I have two freezers: the big one as part of the big posh fridge-freezer that we bought when we had money & were still playing at being a real family house; and the under-counter one with the broken drawer which I bought off Gumtree for a tenner and cycled home with, once there was nobody to tell me that I was a hoarder for wanting to have food in the house.)
I was expecting to get loads of cheap and/or thrown-away pumpkins after Hallowe'en which I could roast & eat, or roast & make into soup, or try making into chutney (not that I really need more chutney after the summer's apple glut) but I didn't get any in the end, just the little one my mum bought for Img to carve. Roasted that & put it in some pasta at H's request, though once I'd made it she flatly refused to eat it, & Img ate a tiny bit & then said she didn't like it. So I ate quite a bit of the pumpkin pasta yesterday, & a load more for lunch today, & there's some left for lunch tomorrow, & there's another tupperware full of pumpkin in the fridge, & I roasted the seeds & they make quite a good snack, so maybe I didn't need lots more pumpkins after all.
There's no moral to any of this, I'm just wittering about food. The fishcakes were really quite tasty though.
- Pack of 6 finger rolls - 19p. What I went in for, at about a quarter of the expected price!
- Pack of 2 fishcakes - 69p. That'll be my dinner then, with various bits of leftover veg.
- Pack of 2 strawberry trifles - 80p. Treat for the kids (H doesn't like jelly though, so I get the jelly out of hers).
- Pack of 5 cinnamon bagels - 31p. Breakfasts for me for the rest of the week.
- Pack of 8 soft bread rolls - 10p. Bread pudding, or bread-and-butter pudding, or freeze for later, or some combination of the above.
- 2 x Pack of 2 giant crumpets - 10p each. They'll be dinner tomorrow with cheese & a fried egg on top.
This came to £2.29 before my NUS Extra discount which brought it down to £2.07. (I paid for the NUS card -- £32 for 3 years but it was worth it for the 10% off the Co-op. It seems to be a university thing but I don't think it's specific to Oxford.)
£2.29 is, in a meaningless coincidence, the price of a bag of Babybels.
I don't often buy them any more. Turns out the kids are just as happy with a slice of whatever cheese we have in, which is usually plainest mousetrap Cheddar, or Red Leicester, or Brie. Cheese has got all expensive hasn't it? I don't think it's anything to do with Brexit because they're all English cheese (Somerset Brie seems to be cheaper than French).
Anyway it turns out that all the cheap bread was best before yesterday, except the 8 bread rolls which were best before two days ago. I didn't think you were allowed to do that. Or is it only use-by dates that matter for selling stuff? But bagels etc are clearly fine the day after their best-before dates, particularly if you're going to toast them, and it can all go in one of the freezers if there's room. (I have two freezers: the big one as part of the big posh fridge-freezer that we bought when we had money & were still playing at being a real family house; and the under-counter one with the broken drawer which I bought off Gumtree for a tenner and cycled home with, once there was nobody to tell me that I was a hoarder for wanting to have food in the house.)
I was expecting to get loads of cheap and/or thrown-away pumpkins after Hallowe'en which I could roast & eat, or roast & make into soup, or try making into chutney (not that I really need more chutney after the summer's apple glut) but I didn't get any in the end, just the little one my mum bought for Img to carve. Roasted that & put it in some pasta at H's request, though once I'd made it she flatly refused to eat it, & Img ate a tiny bit & then said she didn't like it. So I ate quite a bit of the pumpkin pasta yesterday, & a load more for lunch today, & there's some left for lunch tomorrow, & there's another tupperware full of pumpkin in the fridge, & I roasted the seeds & they make quite a good snack, so maybe I didn't need lots more pumpkins after all.
There's no moral to any of this, I'm just wittering about food. The fishcakes were really quite tasty though.
