Thriftuary (Part Four)

Here we are again.

It's that time of the week when I update you on the latest exciting goings on in the Thriftuary challenge.  Once again, I'm in the lead, thanks to a couple of meals paid for on expenses when I visited London for a couple of days for work.

Here are some handy tips:

1. Pick a hotel with an all-you-can-eat breakfast buffet.  It's all about quantity, not quality. A mountain of dead pig and aborted chicken will go a long way to alleviating your hunger later in the day. Also it's delicious.
   
   
2. The average suit can hold approximately four muffins from aforementioned breakfast buffet. These will make an excellent pudding later on!
   
   
3. Your workmate's handbag is also an excellent place to hide food. You never know when you're going to need a low fat strawberry yogurt, so you may as well be prepared.

Poor old Ben was unlucky when his planned overnight stay in London fell through. That meant that he had to pay for the curry he'd agreed to join us on, which accounts for one of the two enormous spikes in his spending. The other is a sordid tale of intrigue, betrayal, revenge, revolution and... Pizza Hut. Mostly Pizza Hut.

No pizza for me though.  Well, actually, there was a pizza, but it came from the freezer and I shared it with Dr K. They were 3 for £4, which is slightly cheaper than Pizza Hut.

I have declined several free meals this week, including one that both my boss and my boss' boss wanted to pay for when we went to a local cafe. I sat there drinking a cup of tea (which I did let them pay for), while everyone around me scoffed fry-ups and lasagne and chicken wings. There was a brief moment when I seriously considered murdering them all with a fork and stealing their lunch. And then possibly eating them as well.

In other news, Dr K and I may be suffering from  some sort of nutritional deficiency as we seem to have developed signs of a minor case of scurvy.  Here's a picture:

What's that? You want to see my food list for the week? You want to scrutinise it and pick holes in my terrible diet? Sure, go ahead:

18/2/2013	3 Finn crispbread	0.18	2.38
	30g cream cheese	0.12
	10 almonds	0.11
	7x cups of tea	0.21
	2 pears	0.42
	2 value weetabix	0.08
	100ml milk	0.06
	Last night's pork	0.00
	1 small carrot	0.05
	4 leaves of spring greens	0.10
	3 value wraps	0.30
	1 value pitta	0.10
	1/2 teaspoon of cumin	0.02
	1/2 teaspoon of chilli powder	0.02
	1/2 teaspoon of turmeric	0.02
	1/2 teaspoon of ground coriander	0.02
	2x yoghurts	0.50
	4x free oreos (donated by Ben!)	0.00
	1 mini pork pie	0.07
19/2/2013	4 x tea	0.12	1.76
	1 morrisons avocado	0.25
	Leftover pork	0.00
	10 almonds	0.11
	1 tin of morrisons baked beans	0.25
	35g of cheese	0.16
	50g oats	0.04
	100ml milk	0.06
	1mini pork pie (reduced from Asda)	0.07
	1small apple	0.14
	2x weetabix	0.08
	100ml milk	0.06
	1 pitta bread	0.10
	Sunday pork	0.00
	Hula hoops	0.11
	Pear	0.21
	2x free tea from hotel	0.00
	Chicken shazlik (on expenses)	0.00
	Special fried rice (on expenses)	0.00
	Onion bhaji (on expenses)	0.00
	2x apple juice (on expenses)	0.00
20/2/2013	2x tea (free from hotel)	0.00	2.12
	2x sausages (free from hotel)	0.00
	3 rashers bacon (free from hotel)	0.00
	Scrambled egg (free from hotel)	0.00
	Apple juice (free from hotel)	0.00
	2x blueberry muffins (free from hotel)	0.00
	1x strawberry yoghurt (free from hotel)	0.00
	1x tea (paid for by boss)	0.00
	Avocado	0.25
	10 almonds	0.11
	Leftover pork	0.00
	5x cups of tea	0.15
	Mini pork pie	0.06
	Spinach and ricotta stuffed pasta	1.20
	Tin tomatoes	0.31
	1/2 teaspoon paprika	0.02
	1/2 teaspoon crushed chillies	0.02
21/2/2013	10 almonds	0.11	2.94
	7 cups tea (1 free)	0.18
	2 Finn Crispbreads	0.12
	20g pepper pate	0.28
	2 x blueberry muffin (free)	0.00
	1 pizza	1.33
	1 can of beans	0.25
	1 free pear from work fruit bowl	0.00
	paprika	0.02
	chilli powder	0.02
	2 weetabix	0.08
	100 ml milk	0.06
	2 slices 50p bread	0.04
	20g peanut butter	0.05
	2 banana	0.40
22/12/13	2 weetabix	0.08	5.82
	100ml milk	0.06
	2 slices of 50p bread	0.04
	Peanut butter	0.05
	Hula hoops	0.11
	banana	0.20
	2 free marshmallows	0.00
	7x tea	0.21
	250g shit mince	0.75
	250g nice mince	1.30
	200g onion	0.34
	leek	0.50
	avocado	0.25
	10 almonds	0.11
	30g cream cheese	0.12
	2 Finn Crispbreads	0.12
	1 free hotel muffin	0.00
	1 value pepper	0.12
	1 tsp chilli powder	0.04
	1 tsp cumin	0.04
	1 tsp turmeric	0.04
	1 tsp coriander	0.04
	85g flour	0.21
	85g spread	0.23
	350ml milk	0.21
	3 pasta sheets	0.15
	4 free chillies!	0.00
	2 yoghurts	0.50
	1/2 pint cola (paid for by Paul Reynolds)	0.00
23/02/13	6x tea	0.18	1.75
	2x sausage	0.42
	3x egg	0.25
	212g cooking Bacon	0.34
	1 tin beans	0.25
	2 portions of yesterday's lasagne	0.00
	3 banana oat cookies	0.27
	2 slices of 50p bread	0.04
	Cookie recipe:
	2 bananas	0.40
	Drop of vanilla extract	0.02
	50g ground almonds	0.50
	Knob butter	0.05	per cookie
	100g oats	0.08	0.09
24/02/13	9x tea	0.27	3.25
	2 weetabix	0.08
	100ml milk	0.06
	200g cooking bacon	0.30
	1 bread roll	0.02
	1 avocado	0.25
	1 pear	0.21
	1 banana cookie	0.09
	4 sausages	0.84
	114g self raising flour	0.04
	2 eggs	0.16
	125 ml milk	0.08
	138g spring greens	0.33
	3 small carrots	0.15
	1/3 bag green beans	0.33
	16g gravy granules	0.04
	4x oreos (from ben!)	0.00