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Today - getting those figures down:
Breakfast and Lunch - Hellman's Mediterranean Pannini (reduced from £2.50)(it was big enough for both meals) = 50p
Grapes (with some left over for tomorrow) 360grams = 71p
Dinner - chicken escalopes (reduced from £2.29) with cucumber salad = 70p

Total for the day = £1.91
Total spend so far = £19.20
Amount left to spend = £15.80
Average cost per day = £4.80

I would never have bought the prawns I had yesterday, or the chicken escalopes I had today under normal circumstances. I tend not to buy seafood that has been reduced as it sometimes smells (and is) off. As for chicken , I only like the thighs, but the escalopes weren't too bad, the coating adding some flavour whilst a drenching at the table in lemon juice added some moisture. As for the pannini - a sandwich a day past it's use by date is not the greatest, but it was tasty. If I hadn't been doing this, I would have only had half of it for breakfast and thrown the rest away. No, if I hadn't been doing this, I wouldn't have bought it at all.
There really were some super bargains at the supermarket yesterday

. . . Not very well at the moment. Up until now, I have averaged around £6 (actually £5.76) per day , but that includes over £6 spent on essentials that should last me for a good part of the two weeks.
Up until yesterday (with the exception of the soured cream which cost 20p more locally than from the supermarket) I was using food I already had in the house, checking through what old till receipts I had and making a note of the cost.
Yesterday afternoon I went to get the weekly shop and it was quite a different experience to usual. Suddenly things that I normally picked up, without considering the cost of to any great extent, seemed very expensive. I was really having to think about what I was buying instead of piling into the trolley whatever took my fancy. I got quite a few reduced price items, and some of them were real bargains - organic chicken stock reduced from £1.49 to 20p, five bananas as mentioned yesterday for 10p. My best bargain was at M&S though, and before anyone says anything about shopping there on a limited budget, I had a voucher for a free 25g trial pack of Parma ham. It being the last day of the offer, there was none left, and the assistant I spoke to gave me a 100 gram pack instead. For free. I walked out of the shop with just that ham and nothing else. I'm really going to enjoy it.