Time To Stock The Pantry!

Time to stock the Pantry with useful long-life products in case the Winter closes in unexpectedly!

Morrisons has some Batchelor's favourites on offer at the moment.
Batchelor's Condensed Soup (used to be Campbell's) 50p per tin,  Buy 1, Get 1 Free. These are a great quality soup anyway, but have a second contribution to the store cupboard as they also have the potential, if only slightly thinned with liquid, to become a really good sauce for pasta (especially the Mushroom variety) or the stock for a casserole or stew.

Batchelor's Savoury Rice and Pasta'n'Sauce sachets are also on offer in a slightly crafty variation on a BOGOF. Basically, to take advantage of the offer you have to buy three items in order to get another three free, but since they are useful standbys with a long shelf life, it is worthwhile.
Batchelor's Savoury Rice, 58p per sachet. Buy 3, get 3 free.
Batchelor's Pasta'n'Sauce, 82p per sachet, Buy 3 get 3 free.
These items don't just have to be served on the side of the plate. They can form the heart of a dish, or add bulk to an otherwise bland or mean dish. They can certainly help to stretch the meat ration! (Thank you, Lord Woolton!)


Morrison's has also gone mad on pies this week - 
Any 2 Fray Bentos tinned pies for £2. (Worth buying a Halogen oven just to watch the strangely irresistible  puff pastry rise like something extra-terrestrial.)
'It's pastry, Jim, but not as we know it!' 
Our branch had Steak and Kidney, Chicken and Mushroom, Just Steak, and Minced Beef and Onion.


And McDougalls Upper Crust Pies (frozen) Pack of two individual pies £2.42, are Buy One Get Two Free - so you get 6 very good quality pies for just £2.42. That's great value. Our branch had Chicken and Bacon, and Peppered Steak varieties.


I have to say that Morrisons is winning hands-down over its competitors just lately where offers on traditional products are concerned - I haven't troubled Mr Tesco at all for a few weeks now.
Aldi still has the edge on bread, breakfast cereals and jams (assuming you don't have a larder full of home-made!) but Tesco loss-leaders have not been sufficiently tempting or relevent to us to lure me in. We don't have a Sainsbury or an Asda here, so they just don't figure in the equation - we would spend any potential savings on the petrol to get there, so ya boo sucks to them!