It's been a very long month but finally, FINALLY, my exams are over and I have a brief period of freedom before starting all over again in semester two. After my last exam yesterday (which was horrendous) I decided to pop on the train and come back home for a week - I'm seriously needing some 'me' time and some home comforts. Being ridiculous early for my train (I have a thing for punctuality) and also having no food to sustain me for the journey, I decided to splash the cash and get a sandwich from M&S.
This 'roasted vegetable and avocado' sandwich caught my eye straight away - partly because I thought it sounded nice and also partly because it had a green "new!" sticker on the shelf. I have no willpower for new foods. I haven't been loitering around the sandwich section of M&S for a while, so I couldn't say how recently this was brought out, but probably since after Christmas.
Confession: I'm not the greatest fan of meat. Whilst I wouldn't classify myself as a vegetarian or a pescetarian, I find that meat doesn't make it my daily diet very much. It does feature occasionally but more often than not I find myself going for a veggie option. Forget meat-free Monday, I could probably do a meat-free month without even noticing!
All supermarkets now do a range of meat-free products in their frozen aisle and I like to have a few on standby for those evenings when cooking from scratch just isn't appealing. I've probably eaten the majority of the Tesco range since starting university so I immediately spotted these new Moroccan Style Chickpea and Sweet Potato Pies when I was shopping a while back. The packaging describes them as "Shortcrust pastry encasing chickpeas, sweet potato, peppers and spinach in a spicy tomato sauce topped with a butter enriched puff pastry lid and topped with a paprika crumb" which sounded pretty appealing to me, so into the trolley they went! They come as a pack of two and were £1.50.
