And this week I bought

I didn't get it together to make a plan on Friday so I had to wing it a little though I'd thought about it too. The man was a sickie boy so thought something spicy would be good. I found a recipe for a rather wonderful sounding chicken poached in spiced coconut milk salad, and that was the starting point.

Borough Market was remarkably busy first thing - queues everywhere. Not sure why - maybe people are cooking fab at home rather than putting it on the plastic pretending all is well. Who knows. At Ginger Pig I bought pork chops grilled Tuesday night with bali salad, chicken breasts poached in lime and coconut milk with a herb salad Saturday night as well as a whole chicken roasted Sunday stuffed with barley and cold for lunches then finally tarragon soup Friday night and a pile of smoked bacon for a cost of £27.70

Then to Booths for potatoes, bananas, cauliflower, cucumber, spring onions, mangetout as a change from sugarsnaps, baby spinach leaves, butternut and a lemon and a lime - £9.70

Onto Wild Beef where once again Lizzie was away due to a bad back so Richard was on his own, bought some eggs £1.50

Needed olive oil, went back to the Italian guys as the last lot was good to cook with - £15.90

Over to Neals Yard for milk, yoghurt and cheddar - £11.20

Bread and a chocolate brownie from Flour Power - £4

And that was all in our fairly truncated shop so we could get the man home in one piece - a perfectly even £70 for the week

But already I have bought more - cream cheese, cream, gingernut biscuits and icing sugar from waitrose, long beans, holy basil, coriander, fish sauce, tree ear fungi and a coconut from chinatown

This time last year we were mostly eating pork and veal terrine and before that zucchini tomato dahl.