Brilliant bargains

 Tony and I have been up to Boundary Mill again for a little retail therapy. Himself spent a small fortune on new tops and bits and pieces. He bought me another Christmas jumper and I was chuffed to bits to discover that the medium was too big for me. The small fits perfectly. sized 10-12.. Whoop whoop, the diet is paying off. While we there we had a free pot of tea for two  and had intended to go out for lunch in one of the local pubs but spent rather more time shopping than we expected to.  We needed to pick up some groceries before the shops closed. 'Never mind', says me.. I'll buy a couple of nice steaks from Aldi and we'll have them with salad. We picked up some fresh strawberries to have with cream  and they were marked down in price. Then we picked up a bag of stir fry veggies and were just discussing how I could fry them in butter and serve them with the steak when the young lady shop assistant handed us some that she had just marked down... by 75%

That's tea sorted

They needed using up today but were perfectly fine for this evening's meal.  The steaks were gorgeous too and at four for £9.99 we have two for another day. I actually spent less in Aldi (£27.76) than our lunch out would have cost by the time we'd had a pot of tea for two as well as something to eat.  As well as the steaks, strawberries and stir fry veg we got six 300ml tubs of double cream, a large tub of yoghurt, two part baked baguettes, some soft buns, onions, mushrooms, an iceberg lettuce, frozen strawberries and frozen blueberries, some frozen green beans, some walnut halves and a block of Greek style cheese. It's the first lettuce I have bought this year as we have  been eating the ones from the garden since last summer.  My new ones aren't big enough to start picking from yet but should be in a week or two.