Food glorious food!

[karie122]

I'm finding that I'm really enjoying cooking while over here. I can spend between £30-45 a week on getting delicious, fresh, healthy food and make myself breakfast, lunch and dinner without having to buy more food. I think the fact that fresh vegitables are pretty cheap here helps me when it comes to my buying habbits. When you can get fresh sweet peppers, onions, mushrooms, spinich, several kiwi and more for under £1 each, it makes spending £2-3 on frozen dinners just not worth it. The meat here is pretty expensive compared to the veggies but even that isn't absolutely terrible. My flat mate and I cooked together and we got delicious salmon steak last night for around £3 each, some fresh asparagus for £1.50 and my roommate cooked another side dish of potatoes for about £1. An entire meal of amazing, restaurant quality food for around £5.50 and that was us splurging on getting the salmon. We baked it in foil so it steamed itself and oh my god it was sooo good! Generally, I'll just make pasta by taking some spaghetti (60p), pre-made pasta sauce (£1.50) and grilling some peppers, spinich, mushrooms or whatever fresh veggies I have lying around (30p-£1) and I'll make a batch of sauce big enough for two or three meals so I can be lazy and just reheat it for lunch the next day. One thing that I do miss is Publix Vodka Pasta sauce. Me adding vodka to my attempts at doing homemade pasta sauce just isn't the same. Oh, and pepperoni is rediculously expensive. Like £2 for about 25 pieces of pepperoni.

This post has been brought to you by my use of over ripe bananas by baking them in foil with cheap chocolate inside. Amazing and only about 40p. Oh, and skipping class because I can. :-D