Dismayed at how expensive meat has become in the UK. Feels like the price of the tougher cuts of beef, and even mince, has more than doubled since I was last here. Prices feel the same as HK, even though HK has to fly everything in….
Might be time to change the way I shop: look for the cheapest in a supermarket and figure out a recipe from that, rather than choosing a recipe first and then going shopping.
One thing UK doesn't have to the same extent, tragically, is the expiring-today discounts, which is how I used to buy 90+% of my meat in HK.
Can't wait for my kitchenware to be shipped so I can actually start cooking efficiently again. The 2 dutch ovens I picked up for cheap are lovely, but I'm too used to dumping dried beans into a pressure cooker.
Also need to buy some induction replacements for the utterly pathetic electric stove in this apartment…the small problem being that any stove I would care to buy would leave me without the funds to buy anything to cook with it. Though, with electricity being so expensive too, the savings would be worth it over time.