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Saturday 16 May 2015

Blog Week Day 5 - Foods on Friday



Taking a cue from Adam Brown's recent post, write a post documenting what you eat in a day!  Feel free to add links to recommended recipes/shops/whatever.  Make it an ideal day or a come-as-you-are day – no judgments either way.

First up, I missed yesterday. I know. I was horribly horribly sick with the flu. I think the topic was something about change for yesterday. So if I could change anything about my diabetes it would be that I don't have to deal with it while I've got a flu. Diabetes should come with a pause button when you're dealing with stuff like that.


Moving on. Food. I didn't eat any today, so I can't really tell you about it. The thought of it made me feel nauseous.

I did however find my most recent shopping docket. It said I paid less than $90 for a fortnight's worth of food shopping, so you can already tell I'm cheap and stingy and I definitely buy homebrand.


  • 1kg bag of carrots. 99c. They're the mong looking ones nobody actually wants so they sell them heaps cheap. I use carrots in EVERYTHING.
  • Bag of Spinach. Again....SPINACH for everything
  • A lettuce
  • A can of beetroot. I come from bogan australian heritage (and somehow managed to escape it), so beetroot belongs in everything.
  • I managed to get a box of Special K on sale. That's breakfast for 2 weeks. It has pretty good protein levels so I always grab a few packs when its on sale. If its not on sale I like to eat cardboard Homebrand Cornflakes for breakfast.
  • Bought a roast chicken for half price at $5. Made 3 days worth of gnocchi chicken bake out of it and still had enough left over for Hubby & my lunch the next day.                                   
  • A head of brocolli
  • Went to the fruit & veg store & get tomatoes for $2 a kilo. Throw them in everything that gets cooked. I am fussy though and refuse to eat them raw. 
  • A cucumber. Om nom nom. I have a habit of just garnishing everything with cucumber. 
  • 3L of full cream milk. For cereal & Sustagen milkshakes. Sustagen is my go-to when I want dessert but know I shouldn't really have dessert
  • LOTS AND LOTS OF POPPERS!! For lows. (Popper are juiceboxes for those of you reading from America)
  • Some oaty slice bars (good for protein). They weren't on special so we got 1 box. If they're on special we get 2. If you havent tried oaty slice bars you haven't lived. They're like a cake mixed with a biscuit but in the form of an oat-rich muesli bar. They use real chocolate in the chocolate chip bars. Its amazing in my mouth.
  • A 2kg bag of chickpeas for roasting from the Asian Food Market (FYI - cheapest place to get them is in bulk at asian grocery stores - about half the price of a supermarket). We roasted up 200gm with moroccan spices the other day & this week we will oven-roast another lot with salt and vinegar flavouring - great healthy snack if you're craving chips.
  • A loaf of bread for sandwhiches
  • Ham for ham and salad sandwiches
  • A block of Light tasty cheese
  • A block of Colby cheese (much better for melting)
  • Some wraps
  • Home brand toilet paper
  • Mince (bulk & freeze in small bags)
  • Lasagne sheets. Not the expensive stuff from the fresh section. Just get the dry homebrand stuff, if you pre-soak it as you're cooking it tastes a whole lot better than the fresh stuff, and you can store it for much longer
  • Spaghetti
  • Basmati rice. Probably one of the only non-homebrand things I buy, because homebrand always seems to come with weavels :S
  • Apples. Red delicious were cheapest this time
  • Half a pine-apple for $1.49. To have with yoghurt.
  • Grapes!
  • Mandarins. 
  • Yoghurt. Whatever brand it is that hubby likes - Chobani? I like the 5am brand honey & cinnamon flavour but it can be very expensive.
  • Sausages! The bulk pack is cheapest and we just freeze them and live off them for months 
  • Couscous. A super cheap side for anything really. Mix in Sundried tomato, beetroot, spinach & fetta and you have a super delicious side for sausages or steak, etc.
Some more stuff that was boring & householdy.

We did already have a lot of meat in freeze, like chicken that we'd previously got on sale. And the time before when we went shopping tomato paste was on special so I bought 50 billion jars of that.

We try to do healthy stuff but honestly....cake exists in the world. 









4 comments:

  1. Oh no, hope you feel better quickly! Also, impressive you could get out of the store for $90, my bill always gets way too high

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    1. Thanks Kelley! Flu is kicking my butt so Im a little behind on blogging...and noticed everyone is writing amazing blogs that I can't wait to read when I have energy back.

      We've got shopping to a budget down to a fine art. It normally means running between Aldi, Coles, Woolies, The fruit & Veg Store & the butcher. Its only something you can do when you have at least 2 - 3 hours to spare :S. We'll probably get lazy when we have kids and spend $100s on the bill then

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  2. The bogan never quite wears off. Mine comes out when I'm driving or watching the football ;)

    I'm pleased to see you acknowledge the importance of cake. Feel better soon!

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    1. Definitely when driving! I'm also not oppossed to turning up to the shopping center in my uggs & occassionally PJs if its after 6pm.

      Thanks, lots of rest & I will get there.

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