After being on holiday I needed to buy some fresh food so did my shopping at Waitrose and looked out for reductions with any multibuy offers so that I could take advantage of their computer glitch. I have talked about this in a previous posting here.
I needed some cooked meats for sandwiches and found four packs of oak smoked ham reduced from £3.49 to £1.15. There was a multibuy offer in buying two packs for £6, so I knew I would still get £1.98 off the reduced price. This meant that I paid just 64p for the four packs of ham which I thought was excellent value. I used two packs for sandwiches and put the other two packs into the freezer.
I also found three packs of chicken Forestiere pate reduced from £2.49 to 85p. These had a multibuy offer of three for £6 which meant that I would get £1.47 off the reduced price. This meant I paid just £1.08 for the three packs. I thought the pate would be lovely with some fresh French bread at lunchtime at the weekend so put these straight into the freezer to use over the next couple of weekends.
The patisserie counter started to reduce the fresh bread, pastries and cakes just as I was coming to the end of my shopping trip so as a treat I bought Raisin Danish Pastries and Chocolate Toursades reduced from 70p each to 15p each. We will have these for breakfast or as treat with coffee late in the afternoon.
I managed to get some reduced fresh food including new potatoes and green beans but these were only reduced by 25% and I normally look for at least 50% off. I bought these anyway as I needed them to go with a chicken casserole that I took out of the freezer for our evening meal tonight.
Being away for a week makes you look at your home with fresh eyes. I realised that I have far too much food in our freezers and that I really do need to reduce the amount in them. This should give me the opportunity to defrost and clean them and then have space to stock them up again. I keep saying that I will empty one of them but I seem to get half way through the task and then fill it up again. I have decided that this time I really will empty them and see how long we can live off the food that I have in stock so to speak.
I suppose the start has been taking the home made chicken casserole out and I think this will do for two evening meals each. I think we may be having some slightly different meals than usual by using up the food that is in there as I do not know what is at the bottom of two of the chest freezers. I'll keep you posted over the next few weeks with what I find and the meals I cook from the freezer stock.
I received a free magazine in the post which was The World of Interiors. I got this free via either an online site or Facebook (I can't remember which) and it should have cost £4.90. Not bad getting it delivered to me for free.
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