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food on a very cheap budget

I shop at Aldi for chicken to roast (as LL above, carcass goes into my wife's stock pot for soup), wonky onions, cabbage, cauliflower, wonky peppers, swede, veg offers such as celery and mushrooms, passata, chopped tomatoes, kidney beans, tinned tuna, sardines, mackerel, cheese, yogurt fat free/creamy/greek style, whole grain mustard, wine vinegar, cold pressed rape seed oil, cumin, cinnamon, harissa...). My wife's chickens supply eggs on request. My staples are chopped salad (lunch today using up last of 8p offers to be chopped salad - cauli and sweetheart cabbage with a little cheddar cheese plus seasoning then stir fry - oil from sardines to fry red and white cabbage, add the last of a pumpkin, sardines mixed in, possibly poach an egg on top, salt, pepper, touch of harissa, maybe eat with some yogurt @ 33p/65p per 500g). Endless variations on other days.
 
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If lucky call in Aldi early morning as they often have meat products reduced, some by as much as 50%.
 
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