Caitríona Redmond: Waste not, want not — especially this delicious raspberry poke cake
Raspberry Poke Cake: why would you poke a cake?
In my weekly quest to save money on my grocery bill, I can occasionally lose the run of myself and get up crazy early to rummage in the yellow sticker in my local Tesco. All the meat goes straight into the freezer unless I cook and use it immediately. I always find a use for what I see in the corner of the chilled aisle. Then I remind myself it’s more money to put towards our trip soon. I enjoy transferring money from my shopping budget into the trip vault in my online savings account.
I’ve tried to use the TooGoodToGo app again this past week. I don’t live in a big urban area; we are a ‘tractors in the Paddy’s Day parade’ kind of town (or at least it used to be until the Council stopped it last year for environmental concerns). Aldi joined the app recently with their €3.99 bags going down very well; several readers got in touch with photos to tell me how they benefitted from the arrangement. I had serious food haul envy, and then I heard that some Musgraves stores, such as Centra and Spar, had also joined up, so I was determined to get a bag and more savings.
