A Road To Self Sufficiency

My old blog had occasional month long (or even longer like the car and plastic experiments.) trials to test me out so I thought that this site could do with a new one so here it is for November.

I shop at Asda a lot and they have the whoopsie / yellow label reduced items that are due to come to their sell by date.

I am good at making up meals from nothing or various different things so i thought this challenge would be to cater for my wife, myself sand occasional uni visotor my son from what is available in the yellow label items.
Of course there are a lot of items available in the early moring around 9.30 in my local asda but the better deals are generally fewer in quantity but better in price, like 1p for 2 salmon fishcakes reduced from £3.00 or bread for 2p reduced from £1.80 but these are available after 2300 hrs.

I wonder how many times I'll be down at the shops at 11 pm or after but that is the test for this month of November, 2009.

One note of caution is that these yellow label deals will soon be coming to an end as the government, in their wisdon has decided to do away with the sell by/ best before/ use before date labels to encourage more food useage and less going to landfill. All well and good for the reduction of methane and CO2 etc but what about the thousands of people who, like me use these low price deals for basic living from day to day ?

UPDATE I tried this for a few days and although it was sucessful in that i was able to feed the family very cheaply I totally forgot about it after about day 5. Because it means going daily to the shops this caused me more pain in the chronic back problem and so I was on stronger pain relievers. I say that because nothing kills the pain so the morphine substraites are not "pain killers". Being spaced out I just bought what I fancied. I will try this again, maybe January...