I came across an internet tool which tells me how much I'll save on my weekly food shopping, so I used it and discovered I could save £44,000 a year by switching my grocery shopping to Aldi. His Lordship and I agreed to give it a go and decided to do some shopping there. It turns out that food shopping at Aldi isn't that straight forward, for a start you can't buy everything and they have a limited variety of goods. I've so far tried two shops and neither have had honey! Or vinegar. Or sour cream (His Lordship isn't going to be happy that I promised to make mushroom stroganoff and won't be able to). Or meat substitutes. We did however manage to get plums (I've tasted sweeter lemons), grapes and peppers for 69p each as per the advertising. It strikes me that in order to beat any supermarket pricing structure you have to go to all of them, and only buy certain things in places. This feels a bit wrong because it probably costs the difference in petrol! I think we'll stick to ASDA.
Poppy's fur still isn't growing back and she still has an unsightly patch where the operation was done but she seems to have gotten over it all very well, she was soon back to her running and jumping self, we're going to let her out in a few days so we'll need everyone to cross their fingers that she comes back! I think she will, she came back after three days so she clearly knows where she live. Oh, and the cat biscuits we bought her from good old Aldi smell like vomit, so she won't be getting those again either!
In house news, I decided to strip some of the paper off the spare room wall, and it looks like it's paper on top of paper on top of painted blue walls. I'm going to sort it all out this week as I've been waiting for the summer rain to stop and it looks like we might have a break this weekend. I'm slightly concerned that we might need to plaster, looks like I'm going to have to learn how to do that if we do as it was my choice to decorate in there!
Today, I have made shortbread, as you can see the diet is going swimmingly!
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It's the same here Gina. One store has cheaper cereals, yogurts, and bread. The other store has cheaper fruit and veg and another store has cheaper meat and non food stuff. It's a pain. But I think the thing to do now, especially with the world falling apart at the seams is to grow your own food and co op with others who do the same. Support your local farmers and thumb your nose to the big food conglomerates who use slave labor and give us poisonous food.
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