Community pantry

 

Eastleigh recently opened its first community pantry recently. I heard about it last week on facebook and decided to investigate.

The pantry works by giving each family a number of different colour tokens for a suggested donation of £5.

I was given 8 blue tokens and 2 red tokens.

As you can see they stretch pretty well with a little thoughtful planning.

My red tokens purchased; 

 10 chicken drumsticks  

500gm of pork mince.

My blue tokens purchased;

Fresh mushrooms and carrots (2 for 1)

Sweede and onion (2 for 1)

Tinned sweetcorn and mushroom soup (2 for 1)

2 x tinned tomatoes  (2 for 1)

1 bottle of cooking oil

1 jar of bolognaise sauce

1 packet of gingernut biscuits 

10 microwave meals (10 for 1)

Free items;

2 pots of liver.

The microwave meals are small child sized so DD3 and Gman will be having hot lunches for a few days. The meals are mixture of mac n cheese and arribiata pasta. 

This weeks meal plan will include;

Spaghetti bolognese 

Chicken stew (slow cooker)

Sweet and sour chicken (slow cooker)

Liver and bacon pie

Mushroom and sweetcorn pasta bake

Sounds like a tasty week 

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