8pm: Just treated myself to a quietly indulgent last supper of nachos. Essentially, a dinner of cheese and crisps.
Must admit, I did anticipate being a little better prepared. Tonight was meant to be spent putting the final touches to a perfectly tuned 30-day budget, while the scent of my first homemade loaf steadily filled the kitchen.
Instead, I got stuck on a tube, spent a frantic half hour scouring the shelves of Tesco on Bethnal Green Road, and grabbed a few basic items to see me through a couple of days.
Sitting beside me now are:
a large bag of porridge oats: 58p
a large bag of wholemeal flour: 95p
three carrots: 30p
garlic: 25p
one tin of value chopped tomatoes: 33p
one onion: 12p
a moderately sized bag of value penne pasta: 32p
Total spent = £2.85
Money left = £27.15
Plan = make basic sauce from onion, tomatoes and carrots, mix with value pasta, split into three tubs. Take one tub to work for lunch, leave one in fridge for dinner, and have one for lunch the day after. Get to work early tomorrow so can make porridge with milk from work fridge. (Surely allowed as work milk is free?)
9.30pm: Pasta concoction stretches to four portions. Result.
10pm: Realise I fogot to put in carrots. Chop up two and put in sandwich bag for 'work snack'.
11.45pm: Hungry already. Regretting crisp dinner.
How can you forget the carrots. There were only two other ingredients.
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