24th October 2017
The most effective way to do it is to do it!
Eggs, they really are my favourite food and on toast for
breakfast with mushrooms and tomatoes, well it don’t get much easier and
tastier in my world. That was how I started my day yesterday and then the rest
of my plans changed. I ended up driving
round a bit so nipped in Waitrose and Aldi whilst out – I love a wander round
Waitrose, it’s one of my happy places, it was a quick in and out yesterday though
as I went in for the Tandoori Chicken Sashlick, they had the meal deal on 2
mains, 2 sides and a rice for a tenner so I had two of those as the sides in my
house get eaten as mains.
I popped in Aldi to get some of these new Slimzone meals and
whilst at the till I was reminded of how much my life had changed and how far
as a family we had come. There were two
girls with a ‘milk token’, that’s what they were called when I was a kid
anyway, it had ‘healthy start’ written on it yesterday, they were trying to buy
two bags of spuds and the girl on the till wasn’t sure the voucher was genuine
and it took 4 of them to agree in the end that it was. The kids didn’t look embarrassed standing
there but I did feel for them, it shouldn’t be made a thing of when you’re
using coupons. I remember being skint, I
remember my mom struggling to buy stuff, we lived on egg and chips, and it’s
still a favourite meal in our house.
On the night mom and I watched Russell Howards Hour, he’s a
very funny man but at the same time covers some of the awful things that are
going on in the world, and one of the facts he stated was that for every class
of 30 kids, 9 of them live in poverty!
As many as 3 million children are going back to school after the
holidays hungry, this is heart breaking, it really is!
Meanwhile, we’re overeating and wasting food, again he stated
£17bn of food and drink in the UK is wasted every year – that’s obscene. Something’s going wrong somewhere ain’t it and
just looking on his Facebook page – everyone has an opinion. At least in my
meetings we’ve done our bit over the years for food banks and other charities.
Back to now and the day ahead, I defrosted that fish but
didn’t use it yesterday, so will definitely have it for lunch as I’m not
wasting food! Eggs for breakfast and
probably a chicken sashlick for team, that’s my day sorted. Waitrose had WW Naan breads we had one of
those each with our tea last night, oh with an Aldi Slimzone meal, the Chicken
Saag, sorry I wasn’t keen, it was okay and I can see how others would enjoy it,
but I didn’t. Having said that it had a
lot of chicken in and was great value if you like the flavour which I’ve seen plenty
have – so for 5sp, give it a try and make your own mind up. It wasn’t because it was Aldi as I wasn’t
impressed with the lentil Dahl from Waitrose either. The best thing on my plate was the Naan!
I’ve got a busy week ahead now, so being organised is going
to be a priority, I have a freezer full of ready meals just in case I’m not
feeling the cooking love. I think egg
and chips needs to be on the menu at least one day this week!
Until then, I’ll say have a good day BeYOUtiful, can you
believe two calendar months today it’ll be Christmas Eve – EEK!
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