I am enjoying thinking about how I can create 8-days of eating joy from my kitchen cupboard and the contents of my fridge.

I think that for tomorrow’s evening meal I am going to make a lasagne using up some old sheets of lasagne, some lentils cooked with 10 calorie tomato soup sachets, and a half-fat cheese sauce gleaned from the fridge.
Tomorrow’s lunch can be mexican-style potatoes cooked with salsa and topped with melted 1/2 fat cheese and guacamole. I have pudding rice for tasty rice-puddings, lots of dried skimmed milk, semolina etc. so it shall be a stodgy week, and I must balance this out by cycling everywhere!

Today’s numbers:

WW points (to be) consumed: 19
£s to be spent: £1 on a cup of tea tonight at The Global Cafe

Menu: Muesli and skimmed milk for breakfast, hazelnuts and coffee as mid-morning snack, sausage casserole left over from last night for lunch, with a wholemeail pitta bread, a sachet of soup and a cup of tea for supper.

Free enhancements to eating on a budget:

This plate was one I made a looooooong time ago in one of those paint-your-own-pottery places; the silly words and joyous colourscheme still add wonder to the experience of eating toast.

Magic knitters* toast

*for knitters, to enhance the knitting experience with happy crumbs of love

I am sure that I have committed some sort of apostrophe crime in this design, but happy crumbs of love belong to a general philosophy that embraces mistakes and mess as part of the joy of being alive.

Also, because I am cleaning up my hard-drive to make room for another season of The Hub, I have decided to give you some tasty files and links. Check out the bubbling mud sound I recorded last year for the sound diaries website, and a snippet of my interview with Richard Martin from Filkins Mill, talking about Cotswold Sheep; posted below.