Nectar points...

We are on a little bit of an economy drive at home at the moment.

Small cutbacks, small changes...hoping to make those differences to the bills at the end of the month.

Now of course, as you all well know, some changes are relatively easy to implement: online shopping every ten days instead of popping to the local shop on a daily basis...turning electrical items off at the wall if they have a light, which the hobbits are determined to do especially now that they know they save penguins by turning off lights when we are not using them...and buying the cheaper version of toilet roll...

However...changing some of the relevant brands to a cheaper version, is much easier said than done.

Partly because of my Superman.

Superman is a Ketchup expert and in his eyes, only the best will do. Which incidentally is nearly double the price of other brands...

He has even been at Pootle's house having his regular eggy bread, and steadfastly refused the splodgy red sauce that she has offered, and run back home to get 'his own'.

So in order to look at a cheaper brand, I had to be clever. Stealth and Ninja like. The bottle had to be the same shape, and the label a fairly similar colour...today I found one. For nearly a pound less than his usual brand...

I surreptitiously left it on the table, and whilst they chatted I watched out of the corner of my eye for Superman to squirt the red stuff on his plate. I then hid behind the kitchen door pretending to be ultra busy, just waiting for the complaint....

Nothing came...

I honestly peaked my head slowly around the door, and a miracle had occurred. Superman and his brothers were all heartily tucking into the cheap Ketchup!!!

Hey...it may not mean much to you, but it is a breakthrough in our house as Ketchup is virtually a food group of its own...

Now if we could just order Hugh Jackman, Brad Pitt or the Sainsbury's equivalent on Nectar points for Pootle and myself that would be a real Brucie bonus...