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 ...