Tuesday, 28 September 2010

Day 2: The tragedy of a Baked Camembert

Today was meant to be a day of triumph. 

Oh how I was going gloat on my successes of having friends round for dinner and thus saving them and me money.  "40% a doddle" or "cuts are simples" may have even been the headline.

But then I failed to go to Sainsbury's (note the Morrison's option is not being deployed yet) and so had hungry friends sat expectantly on the couch, pining for food.

So off to the Oxford.  And, avoiding the £17 steak (is inflation now running at 6.3% as compared to the other week?), I went for a £12 lamb (saving 29.4%) and a couple of pints of Deuchars IPA (VERY ring-fenced).

This is a problem as that saving is nowhere near where I want to be... 


In fact, it is obscene. Waste if you will.  Why should such fancy goods be allowed.  We must get tough and abolish all excessive consumption.


So, I will have to go to the lowest cost item on the menu at these Gastropubs.  Today that would have been a Baked Camembert at £10 (oh those poor PRs having to make do on Camembert, I hear you cry)... well it would have been a 41% saving based on a steak.

And while there are no real savings today, there is a new pledge... At all gastropubs only the cheapest item on the mains menu may be purchased. And no more than two trips a week to such establishments.


1 comment:

  1. Good luck with the two-trip to treateries tenet.

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