Every week I seem to strike something I once thought of as an 'essential' from my shopping list.
Shopping is no longer a pleasure - now just an extended slog to find the cheapest of everything. It's not as if I have extravagant tastes but even buying the 'basics' at an affordable price has become something of a challenge.
Luckily for me I have a good memory and know where to go for the cheapest loaf of bread, what time the supermarkets do their 'reducing, which ones have the best 'basics' range but of course all this does mean shopping around.
Wasted food is anathema to me: I have learnt to make the most of whatever food I have and it is not unusual for me to make a roast chicken produce up to five meals!
One of my favourite budget dishes is a simple chicken stew with dumplings; After we have used the chicken breast I boil the carcass, wings, legs & skin in a pan with a few cloves of garlic. I then remove all the meat and place it back in the pan, season with salt and pepper, add an onion, some frozen peas and sweetcorn and pour over the stock produced by the boiling of the carcass. Whilst this is cooking I make a pile of dumplings and throw these on top. When all is cooked I add some chopped parsley. This is so tasty yet so cheap and simple to make. Just the thing for these chillier evenings.
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