Summer Salad Season III

Still in need of summer salad inspiration? Here are five more ideas for your lunchbox this week...

1. Cheese and pickle

2. Roast potato and sweetcorn

3. Mozzarella and beetroot

4. Super thrifty cheat's potato salad

5. Mushroom and goats cheese

I've seen loads of good offers on salad cheeses in the big supermarkets this week, so stock up! The goats cheese for the salad above was £1 in Tesco, but I've also seen offers on ricotta, feta and mozzarella in the last couple of days.

Super Thrifty Cheat's Potato Salad

This potato salad would be fairly thrifty at the best of times, but when you manage to grab some supermarket bargains (and these items are ones I commonly find in the reduced aisle, not just a one off), it costs just pennies!

Ingredients

One quarter of a tub of dip

2 spring onions

Handful of new potatoes*

Salt and pepper

*I went to thrifty extremes as I had a tin of potatoes that my Grandma had given me (don't ask why, it's a Grandma thing!) but I would recommend normal potatoes, as tinned ones are a little questionable, if very thrifty!

1. Cook and drain the potatoes (or open the tin!)

2. Dice the spring onions

3. Put the potatoes and spring onions into a bowl and mix thoroughly with the dip, season to taste

As you can see, I only paid 11p for 4 portions of dip and 11p for 3 spring onions, which makes this a pretty good way to disguise the taste of tinned potatoes make a cheat's potato salad!

Free Newspaper When You Spend £5

Waitrose have improved their newspaper offer; now when MyWaitrose card holders spend £5, they can pick up a free copy of any of the following newspapers:

Daily Telegraph
Daily Mail
The Guardian
The Sunday Telegraph
The Mail on Sunday
The Observer

So now there's something for everyone!

Although I don't usually do my weekly shop at Waitrose, I do often pop in on my lunch break for a free tea or coffee and sometimes need to pick up a few bits. I went in yesterday to grab some baking supplies (watch this space!) and picked up my free newspaper:

Although Waitrose is generally a little pricier, they do price match on a lot of items and their Essential Waitrose range tends to be competitive with Sainsburys, Tesco and the like, so if you choose carefully, you can get a free newspaper worth £2 without spending a penny more on your shopping!