how low will you shop ?

previously on this blog I've had occasional month long (or even longer like the car and plastic experiments.) trials to test me out so I thought that it's time for a new one forNovember.

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 rpice, 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 ?

November 14 update.

been doing this test but not religeously. Started off ok with a few buys in the last few days of october in order to have food on the table in november but I forgot to continue after about the 3rd of November and went shopping withoutr thinking so this is something that could easily be done ... if I remember that is....