went to sainsbury's today

• diet coke, 6pack X2 £2.85, bogof
• basic yogurt .45
• choc cookies X2 £1 bogof
• loaf of bread .72

total spent £5.02
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not the most exciting cooking day. husband is  having leftover meat manicotti. i have veg soup and the kid will most likely have a combination of leek soup with turkey.
i did do an apple and plum sauce: peel and chop 1 apple. peel 1 plum and chop. leave skin on 1 plum and chop. put in a sauce pot with a little water and simmer until soft. blend together with a stick blender. you can peel both plums or leave the skin on all the fruit, whatever makes you happy. i like to peel because the skin can be a little tough and i hate when a bit gets stuck in your teeth.

i also did another batch of the granola bars. they have been a huge hit.

granola bars- experimental version 2, golden syrup and more cinnamon

• 2 1/4 cup oats
• 1/2 cup flour
• 1/2 teaspoon vanilla
• 1/4 cup of butter- melted
• 1/4 cup of golden syrup
• 1/4 cup of chopped nuts
• 1/4 cup of raisins
• 1/4 cup of dried apricots chopped up
• 1 small apple
• 1/2 teaspoon of cinnamon

i peeled and cut up the apple. put it in a sauce pot with a little water and let it simmer until it was soft. i then used my potato masher to squash it up. i put in the vanilla, golden syrup and butter then stirred it all together. since the apple sauce was still warm the butter quickly melted

in a large bowl i mixed together the other ingredients. i just used a fork to stir everything around. i then added the apple and melted butter mixture to the large bowl. i mixed everything together- still with a fork. i dumped it out into a 9x13inch tray which i had lined with baking paper. with a spatula i firmly pressed the mix out until it was very thinly spread across the tray, it didn't quite cover the whole area but pretty close. i put the thing in the oven at 325 degrees for about 20min. i wasn't really paying attention to how long it cooked. i did the dishes. when the top was starting to get brown i turned the oven off. i took the tray out and cut the bars. i then let the bars completely cool in the tray. i gave one to my son to try and he declared them- delicious.

today is not a super challenging cooking day. i made a grilled cheese for my son's lunch. after about 15min of cheese samich, cheese samich, cheese samich. i figured that is probably what he wanted for lunch. he also ate an apple and a plum. the kid likes fruit. i'm not going to tell you how to make a grilled cheese sandwich. if your mom didn't teach you that kind of life skill, frankly i'm surprised you're still alive and smart enough to access the internet. for the international audience: grilled cheese=toasted cheese.
myself, i had a frozen pizza with chipotle mayo for crust dipping. yeah a totally unhealthy lunch, bite me. i've got wicked pms and had a 5.30am wake up call- for no reason. i then spent 2hrs this morning running around town. by running around town i mean just that. i don't have a car and the groceries don't bring themselves home. my son  decided that he wanted to run everywhere today so i had to trot along beside him. i earned my pizza today.

chipotle mayo
some dried chipotle flakes and mix into the mayo. how much? dude, i don't know. do it until it looks good. try 1+ 1/2 tablespoon of flakes to 1/2 cup-2/3cup of mayo. or try less flakes and more mayo. let the mayo sit in the fridge for awhile so the flavor develops.
good on pizza crust and french fries. wicked good on french fries