This week’s spend: 206.57 euros.
Focaccia with sundried tomatoes.
Apologies to all my readers for missing a week, it was just mad last week, but all good things, apart from the puppy, who is very hard work. So my exciting news for this week is that I tried out subscribing to Amazon groceries to buy my washing powder. What a great service and a great price. I ordered 4 x 2.25l of Fairy non-bio washing liquid and it arrived at my door within 4 days, which included the weekend at a cost of: £20.89 (23.85 euro), compare this to Tesco.ie which is 11.68 euro per bottle of 2.25l. Next on my agenda is toilet roll, fabric conditioner and flour, all considerably cheaper than driving up the road to the local supermarket.
If you are interested in buying your groceries be very careful to ensure that the supplier is Amazon and you can benefit from a reduced price if you subscribe, which commits you to ordering on a regular basis. I set mine up for 4 months.
Fairy non-bio washing liquid
The Great British Bake Off has come to an end with Jo as the deserving winner and to fill its place has been a couple of masterclasses with Paul Hollywood and Mary Berry. I was inspired to try out Paul Hollywood’s recipe for foccaccia. It was delicious, although I have to admit that I only searched for the recipe, my husband put in the hard work.
Focaccia
One other thing. I love the tinned variety of treacle pudding and have been wanting to do a home-made microwave version for ages. Last week Dunnes were selling plastic pudding dishes for the microwave and I have added one to my collection of plastic containers which is threatening to take over the house. I made the pudding on Sunday, which turned out to be the easiest pudding I have ever made and was an absolute hit, despite looking a bit anaemic. Even the Spanish student, who had to be coaxed into eating it loved it.
Crumpets
Menu:
Saturday: sushi, stir fry, crab cakes.
Sunday: Roast chicken with batter puddings, roast potatoes, mashed swede and carrot. Microwave treacle pudding. Home-made crumpets. Chocolate banana bread.
Monday: Smoked haddock fish cakes, vegetables and roasted potatoes. Chocolate crinkle biscuits
Tuesday: Pork casserole (not sure what this will be, but it will include mushrooms and cream)
Wednesday: Chilli pasta.
Thursday: Iranian minestrone soup
Friday: Leek, potato and carrot bake.
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