Food, glorious food

Food, and the cost of it, is now occupying quite a lot of my thoughts. Catriona from St Stephen’s has set the bar very high by managing to feed her family of 3 on 90% organic food for a week for just £40.

I am also a big supporter of nutritional organic food so careful thought is needed to come within budget. Bought sandwiches are out of the question, so I am now taking a packed lunch to work every day.

My partner (also called Catriona, strangely enough) is very kindly supporting me in the Lent challenge, producing delicious homemade ‘breakfast bars’ (consisting of oats, nuts and dried fruit) for me to snack on. She has also persuaded me to reactivate ‘biosnacky’ – the bizarrely named device which enables us to turn dried beans into bean sprouts.

All this is quite fun, and probably results in a better diet than we would be getting otherwise. It is possible to afford decent food on the sort of budget I’m working with – but that is about all you can afford.