How to spend ten pounds

I laid out my £10 Cost of Living voucher on groceries as follows (over two separate shopping trips):
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I got two meals out of the bean sprouts and one out of the crumpets, eaten sweet and savoury; the rhubarb I am still using, and I have been mixing the rocket in with various other things. The rest of it is store cupboard material, though I have used two portions of the cheese, one on top of a rather successful vegetarian Moscovskaya solyanka which, contrary to what I wrote previously, does not in fact use mushrooms as the meat substitute! (Unexpectedly it actually tells you to stir beaten egg into the thickened casserole, though the result when baked isn't particularly quiche-like...)

Then after being so very prudent with my ten pounds, I proceeded to go out and spent £2 on a packet of currants so that I could experiment with home-made Garibaldi biscuits... (My first attempt, using chopped mixed dried fruit -- which is cheaper! -- had been surprisingly successful.)