I hate Sundays. Last night wasn’t the first time I’d been stuck hungry at 6pm with only the “Express” and “Local” shops open. Even worse, these little stores don’t tend to stock the kind of student food I’m looking for. They’re fine if you want pot noodle. But if you’re cooking from scratch you’re stuck with popular middle range products.
The best I could get my hands on were a couple of pork chops for £2.19. They were pretty big but had a bit of fat on them. They would have to do. I thought pork chops, apple sauce and mash would be possible. I had half a savoy cabbage left too.
For some reason I hadn’t noticed that, since moving out of my last house, I had no potato masher and no potato peeler. The trials of living in halls! So the mash had to be replaced with rice.
The breakdown should have gone like this:
2 pork chops
2.19
600g white potatoes
0.24
half cabbage
0.32
2 golden delicious apples
0.38
half onion
0.06
stock
0.07
herbs, garlic
0.06
single cream
0.15
Total
3.47
With rice it turned out a little bit cheaper. Some of the cream was replaced with milk and butter. This was the result. Again i was having issues with my camera- but nevermind. You can just about see it.
I hadn’t wanted to spend this much at this stage- but the Sunday trading laws had made frugality impossible. Still, at approximately £1.70 per portion it wasn’t the end of the world. It was fairly good. Mash would have been better but I couldn’t really nip out and buy equipment on a Sunday. Recipes will follow for all of these eventually.
I hate Sundays. Last night wasn’t the first time I’d been stuck hungry at 6pm with only the “Express” and “Local” shops open. Even worse, these little stores don’t tend to stock the kind of student food I’m looking for. They’re fine if you want pot noodle. But if you’re cooking from scratch you’re stuck with popular middle range products.
The best I could get my hands on were a couple of pork chops for £2.19. They were pretty big but had a bit of fat on them. They would have to do. I thought pork chops, apple sauce and mash would be possible. I had half a savoy cabbage left too.
For some reason I hadn’t noticed that, since moving out of my last house, I had no potato masher and no potato peeler. The trials of living in halls! So the mash had to be replaced with rice.
The breakdown should have gone like this:
| 2 pork chops | 2.19 |
| 600g white potatoes | 0.24 |
| half cabbage | 0.32 |
| 2 golden delicious apples | 0.38 |
| half onion | 0.06 |
| stock | 0.07 |
| herbs, garlic | 0.06 |
| single cream | 0.15 |
| Total | 3.47 |
With rice it turned out a little bit cheaper. Some of the cream was replaced with milk and butter. This was the result. Again i was having issues with my camera- but nevermind. You can just about see it.
I hadn’t wanted to spend this much at this stage- but the Sunday trading laws had made frugality impossible. Still, at approximately £1.70 per portion it wasn’t the end of the world. It was fairly good. Mash would have been better but I couldn’t really nip out and buy equipment on a Sunday. Recipes will follow for all of these eventually.
