Tesco Delivered

I was looking at quotations to cheer me up after bear left for university and found this. 

I couldn't resist having a play with Canva. 

I'm getting settled back at the good computer on the decent desk and I thought that there wouldn't be much to talk about. Then Tesco delivered and I had a bonus. DH prefers Heinz beans, so when I saw a deal for sixteen full sized tins for £11, when the 'price they use so they can call things a sale' is currently £1.40 per tin, with sixteen at that price costing £22.40, I committed. But they were out of stock of the 2x8pack that was the deal, so I got 6x4packs, or 24 full sized cans of Heinz beans for £11 - around 46p a tin. If I'd had the energy, I would have done a lap of celebration around the kitchen. Of course, they'll likely last until March, especially with the half cans I got for the individual meals, which were also on offer. I am stuffing my shelves.

The Three Rivers Homestead YouTube channel hosts a pantry challenge every year around this time. The challenge is to live out of the pantry for one, two or three months without going grocery shopping. This makes sense for the homestead channels who spend their summers preserving their hard work in their gardens and fields. It also wouldn't hurt me to thin out the cupboards. Instead, along with the baked bean mountain, I got six very large bottles of Tesco tomato ketchup. I have a habit of treating food as a ketchup delivery system, and there was a coupon for 15% off. Coupons that apply to Tesco's own brand stuff are rare and while 15% isn't as good as some deals, I'll take the opportunity. Mind you, the legislation that bans deals on processed food seems to have cancelled the 3for2 promotion on jars of sauce that normally runs in the autumn, which is something of a blow. 

Now that I'm back on the desk and getting the lists going again, I want to add a page for 'food that needs using' so I can't forget, for example, to use up the bits of polish sausage that bear left in the fridge, or the fat free yoghurts that are allegedly good for me, came today on the wings of a coupon and I am uneasily aware will slide to the back of my mind. It won't hurt to use Tesco to look up recipes for all the stuff that's in my cupboards. Which means that I ought to do an inventory of my cupboards after Christmas. Which I may or may not get to when I'm not writing.

And if all else fails, I've got wonderful inspiration from the Weary Wolf, who did a food challenge where he had baked beans for every meal for a week, three times a day! I'm not sure I'm up to that dedication, but it's a resource.

Hugs and good health to all