Waste Not!

 I'm doing a low spend January and trying to eat some of the stuff squirrelled away in my freezer and cupboards, but today I felt I had to get some bits and pieces.

While I was in Lidl I got one of their Waste Not! boxes.  For as long as I can remember these boxes have been £1.50 but they've recently gone up to £2.  Two Whole Pounds.  Anyway, I bought one and this is what I got.  

That's a bag of potatoes

One avocado,

Net of satsumas.

Three leeks

One cauliflower

One bag of carrots

Two different varieties of tomatoes

Bunch bananas.

 The bananas need to be eaten soon and one of the tomatoes has gone into the bin but still pretty good.   January continues low spend!

Update.  I have costed this at around £12 for full price vegetables.  

 

Lidl

I went to Lidl yesterday and got all this loveliness  for the princely sum of £1.50!  All of it is in great condition.

The beetroot has now been boiled and peeled along with a few more from the garden.  The tomatoes (plus some from my garden) have been in the air fryer so I can make puree ready for winter soups.  The broccoli went into the Instapot with more broccoli which I had in the freezer and will also become soup.  The potatoes will probably be saved for those times when I want a quick meal and baked potato would hit the spot.  The lettuces and peppers are in the salad drawer although the peppers might get roasted also for eating in salad.  The pears, oranges and single peach were all in the fruit bowl but the peach has "disappeared"!  

There's little danger that I will starve.

A Lidl Bit of Loveliness!

 This was today's haul.

 Lidl is my favourite supermarket.  Our local one has wide aisles that I can trundle down on my (mobility) scooter, loads of very convenient parking, and lovely staff.  And what's more - it's cheap!

Whenever I go I look to see if there are any "Waste Not" vegetable boxes.  If there are, that's what I buy first then I take it to my car, check what there is in it, and amend my shopping list accordingly. 

Here are the sorted contents

That's 1250g potatoes

116g mini peppers (4)

345g peppers (2)

18g chilli peppers (2)

143g pears (1)

240g satsumas (3)

806g apples (9)

195g lemons (2)

120g shallots (4)

250g apricots (8)

I costed that lot at about £7.50 in Tesco, the only other supermarket in the middle of Brigg so I reckon I got pretty good value.

Some will go into the fridge for use over the next week, some will be frozen and some will be given away.  I hadn't planned on buying apricots but I can feel apricot and mango ice cream coming on!