£10 to feed us until 17th?

i normally keep boiled potatoes and peas after a big meal for the next night, chop potatoes place in frying pan add onion,mushrooms any leftover meat then peas and fry lightly tastes lovely! and its filling

Very cheap recipes: I'm going by Asda SmartPrice prices but other Supermarkets should have comparable prices:

1 packet of Smartprice Pasta twirls - £0.18
1 tin of SP tuna £0.35 approx (can't remember exact prices)
1 jar of SP pasta sauce £0.26.


Total cost £0.79

Use half the pasta twirls , all the sauce and all the tuna to make a tuna bolognaise. It might last a couple of days.

4 value packets of noodles is £0.32 approx.
Add any herbs or spices you like.

1 jar of SP curry sauce £0.05
1 bag of SP potatoes £0.80
1 green cabbage £0.50.
1 pkt of SP rice £0.79

Total is £2.14.

Use half the cabbage, one half of the potatoes, some of the rice and all the sauce to make a curry. You may be able to make it last two days.

Remainder of the cabbage and remainder of the potatoes. Cost £0.00

Boil the potatoes and mash them. Chop and cut up the cabbage and mix in with the potatoes. Fry them together.

1 packet of Asda soup mix £0.79
1 jar of SP curry sauce £0.05.

Total cost £0.84.

Follow the instructions on the packet but make the soup thicker than normal. Add a quarter of the jar (make four batches and freeze three) of curry sauce to give it a bit more flavour. You'll get four batches out of this and should still have some soup mix left over.

4 baking potatoes £0.50
2 tins of baked beans £0.36

Total £0.86.

Packet of couscous you have £0.00
SP frozen veg £0.80.
Total £0.80.

Cook and serve with any herbs and spices you have.Use half the packet of veg.

Jar of SP chilli sauce £0.31
Remaining rice
Chicken breasts.

Make chicken chilli con carne.

Value bread £0.30
2 tins of spaghetti hoops £0.28

Total is £0.58


4 baking potatoes £0.50
1 jar of curry sauce £0.05

Total is £0.55

1 packet of pasta twirls £0.18
1 tin of chopped tomatoes £0.20
Remaining frozen veg £0.08
A pinch of your herbs and spices £0.00

Total cost £0.38

donnajt wrote: »

noggin - not sure if this helps, but in yesterday's paper Asda were advertising 500g packs of mince for £1, if you could stretch to a pack or two of mince you're options are much bigger, bulk with value oats, lentils, breadcrumbs, carrots, tinned toms - you have the makings of spag bol, chilli, shepherds pie, meatloaf etc

i've been getting loads of bargains at my Mr T (unheard of until this week) but i have discovered the best time is 5pm during the week and 1pm ish on a Sunday

bullet has given some fantastic and extremely cheap ideas (thx bullet) I would say stick to a few ingredients and make meals around those and stretch as much as possible

I can vouch for the mince, just made my lunches for next week with some! It's a little fatty but Its beef mince and twas always thus Nice thick mince 'worms' though and tastes a dream. Made mine into curries from a stock pot of - you guessed it! - LENTIL curry! Yumsk!

Noggin, when you say you "can't make bread", I assume you mean you haven't so far? By far the cheapest way to live is to make your own food, it's not something that many of us do by instinct so you have to learn how to do it and then you have to practice. OK the time when you are absolutely skint maybe isn't the time to start learning but the supermarkets all have value flour for 33p or 35p for 1.5kg, Sugar is around 79p for 500g, marg is cheap (Asda butter at 50p is worth filling the fridge and freezer with but for a lower budget lots of folks swear by Stork), eggs can be bought cheaply and you could create loads with those basic staples.

I was costing out how much hobnobs, apple pies and apple cake cost me (the apples are free - do try freecycle or look around and go and knock on doors!) and the answer is very little!

What was obvious about mbaz's thread was that she really wanted to get through the month with no money and she really got to grips with realising that this was HER challenge and whilst people could give her advice she had to get on with it, make changes and make the best of what she had.

Good luck!

kittiej wrote: »

What about buying a sack of spuds?

My local greengrocer sells them for £5.99 a sack and there's loads you can make.

Good idea!