It’s been wild! With a huge £1.18 (my weekly pound, plus 18p saved from previous weeks) burning a hole in my pocket, and only four days lunch to buy (my leftovers from last week tided me over til Tuesday), I had a blow-out on probably the most nutritious weeks lunches so far: baked (OK, microwaved) potatoes with coleslaw.
Here’s how it stacked up:
4 baking potates – 70p
1 tub coleslaw – 46p
Not exactly that filling (although the last few digestives purchased in week one helped there), and tedious by the end of the week – but a definite improvement on 10p instant noodles.
It sees me going into my third full week carrying over 2p, and exactly nothing left in my lunch cupboard. Criminal when you consider that Vodaphone’s £6bn unpaid tax bill could pay for more than 3bn school lunches – that’s enough for every primary school child who would have received a free meal prior to the June cuts to have one meal on every school day for 17 years. Never mind that there’s only twelve years of compulsory schooling…
