As the days grow nearer to pay day, I wait in anticipation and consider what delights I will treat myself to. At the moment however, due to my inabilty to budget for the month ahead, I need to go for maximum flavour and minimum cost. It's also important that I don't lose sight of nutrition and well being, so I must abandon the idea of running and jumping upon the aisles at Iceland. Oh so tempting ....(although I should not mock as Iceland sells minced beef Findus crispy pancakes, my dirty little secret).

So today I went to Asda (the mother's choice if you choose to believe Sharon Osbourne) in search of bargains and goodness. I won't bore you by reeling off the contents of my basket, as my own mum loves to do when she calls me up (yes really*), but instead I will let you know of my extremely simple, and probably boring to you, lunch. It was actually the tastiest lunch I have had in ages, so you should try it! I'm not posting this as a recipe as I did not really cook anything, but basically it consisted of: cooked mackerel, a simple salad with white wine vinegar and some home made potato salad. To the cooked potatoes, I added chives from the garden, salt and pepper and mayo, but if I had some creme fraiche in the fridge I would have subbed half of the mayo for this instead.

 So simple!! 

*On one especially black day in my life I did the very same thing when I called my boyfriend. I took it one step further by holding the receipt in front of me and listing every purchase. I realised I was turning into my mother and have since avoided this.