I can't believe it! I feel as if I have been being robbed, lied to and generally deceived. It's a conspiracy. They know what they are doing and they do it anyway. I wonder how they thought they'd ever get away with it? Maybe I'm to blame. Maybe we're all to blame. Who knows? But what is for sure is that it won't be happening anymore. What what what? What has happened? What happened was this. Today we mixed some plain flour and some water in a bowl, kneaded it a bit, left it a bit, rolled it out and dry fried it. And you know what happened? We made lovely, fresh, soft, tasty tortillas. It was easy. AND they tasted REALLY nice. I'm MAD. £1.69 it is for a pack of 6 Old El Paso tortillas. £1.69!!!!! It cost us about 25p to make the same amount. GRRRR. How can this have happened? At what point did we become so insecure of our cooking/baking skills and so dependent on other people making things to sell to us that someone worked out they would be able to sell something to us that is so cheap and easy to make yourself. Seriously it would take more effort ...

It's been a while since the last post, but there has been a reason for this. For the last couple of weeks I have been busy working on a project that started off as me wanting a way to calculate how much any particular recipe might cost to make, but ended up showing me things about ways of shopping that I never really expected, some of which I can't quite believe. What I started with was an idea for quite a simple spread sheet. I wanted to create a table which would work out how much a certain recipe would cost by calculating how much a specific amount of each ingredient would cost according to the amount used and price per kg and then add them all up to give the price of the recipe. So off I went to the shops with pen and paper in hand, happy that my life style now allows me to indulge in these odd ideas as and when then enter my head rather than just thinking "Hey wouldn't this be great!" only to forget a few minutes later as I get distracted by some important task... such as picking the dirt off the bottom of ...