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FJ's 'beat the credit crunch with a quid-odd butty box' challenge!
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freebie_junkie
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Me and my mate were chatting about what takes most of our weekly budget and we realised that it was our OH's dinners! I work at home most of the week so I can eat cheaply at home but he has to eat out for his dinner as he works all day, 5 days a week.
We decided that we would try to make tasty boxes up for a 'quid-odd' (under £1.50) every day for our oh's and will try to out do each other with variety and cheapness! We won't include anythign that our oh's don't like as that defeats the purpose! You have to include all costs like butter, condiments and wrappings! But not the box as that's a one off expense, we use 2 large asda smartprice food savers that we rotate, they cost 92p each.
If you make butty boxes for your oh, youself or your kids please feel free to join in!
This is what my oh had today:
sandwich (warburtons 10 slice loaf of bread marked down to 30p, so 2 slices 6p, tesco value butter, 1 block makes 2 month's worth or 40 sandwiches, so 2p, tesco value mayonaise, 1 jar makes 2 month's worth or 40 sandwiches, so 1p, 2 slices of tesco value pork luncheon meat, 10p, wrapped in tesco vlue tin foil, one roll wraps 20 sandwiches, so 3p.) 22p
asda smartprice toffee yogurt 10p
tesco value milk chocolate wafer 6p
tesco value chocolate sandwich biscuit 7p
tesco value small apple juice carton 16p
bunch of grapes (1/4 of the 85p offer pack) inside 1 small value foodbag, 1/2p- 22p
can of asda cola 18p
tesco vlaue salt and vinegar crisps 6p
TOTAL £1.07!
p.s. before anyone starts tellign me off for the unhealthyness of the contents- i eat very healthy, my oh is a junk food addict- its taken me a yesr to get him to eat a piece of fruit and a carton of juice with his dinner!!!!
We decided that we would try to make tasty boxes up for a 'quid-odd' (under £1.50) every day for our oh's and will try to out do each other with variety and cheapness! We won't include anythign that our oh's don't like as that defeats the purpose! You have to include all costs like butter, condiments and wrappings! But not the box as that's a one off expense, we use 2 large asda smartprice food savers that we rotate, they cost 92p each.
If you make butty boxes for your oh, youself or your kids please feel free to join in!
This is what my oh had today:
sandwich (warburtons 10 slice loaf of bread marked down to 30p, so 2 slices 6p, tesco value butter, 1 block makes 2 month's worth or 40 sandwiches, so 2p, tesco value mayonaise, 1 jar makes 2 month's worth or 40 sandwiches, so 1p, 2 slices of tesco value pork luncheon meat, 10p, wrapped in tesco vlue tin foil, one roll wraps 20 sandwiches, so 3p.) 22p
asda smartprice toffee yogurt 10p
tesco value milk chocolate wafer 6p
tesco value chocolate sandwich biscuit 7p
tesco value small apple juice carton 16p
bunch of grapes (1/4 of the 85p offer pack) inside 1 small value foodbag, 1/2p- 22p
can of asda cola 18p
tesco vlaue salt and vinegar crisps 6p
TOTAL £1.07!
p.s. before anyone starts tellign me off for the unhealthyness of the contents- i eat very healthy, my oh is a junk food addict- its taken me a yesr to get him to eat a piece of fruit and a carton of juice with his dinner!!!!
:T The best things in life are FREE! :T
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Firstly, do you define "dinner" as the mid-day meal or the evening meal? (Because "dinner" means different things in different parts of the country).0
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I like this idea. Ill certainly be trying to stick to a lunch budget myself as im trying diet AND cut costs for me and OH.
Will start at the back end of the week once ive been shopping and updated my supplies!0 -
Firstly, do you define "dinner" as the mid-day meal or the evening meal? (Because "dinner" means different things in different parts of the country).
to me, dinner means the meal at the middle of the day. i understand that some people call it lunch but i would assume that most people wouln't eat a butty box (or sandwich box) for their evening meal, except night shift workers of course!
You can take it to mean whatever meal you need a packed lunch/dinner for
that was 'firstly', what was 'secondly' please?:T The best things in life are FREE! :T0 -
Firstly, do you define "dinner" as the mid-day meal or the evening meal? (Because "dinner" means different things in different parts of the country).
I suppose you could interpret it to be whatever meal you need to take a packed lunch for. :rolleyes: Night shift workers get their 'lunch break' when most of us are getting ready for bed :rotfl:
Up north dinner is at 12 ish and tea is at 5ish, ive just had my dinner and im still hungry, bl**dy diets killing me
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Secondly, then. We've been saving a fortune since I started makine sarnies for the whole family, for lunch (yes, I'm a northerner, but I've been down south for far too long, so now it's lunch).freebie_junkie wrote: »to me, dinner means the meal at the middle of the day. i understand that some people call it lunch but i would assume that most people wouln't eat a butty box (or sandwich box) for their evening meal!
that was 'firstly', what was 'secondly' please?
Hubby makes his own bread. Not sure exactly how much it costs per loaf but it certainly tastes nicer than that hovis pap. I'll try and do a breakdown - but the biggest outlay is the Kenwood Chef, which I think cost about £250 or so.
Today it was ham sandwich, made with homemade granary bread, bertolli olive spread (can't seem to get hold of "I can't believe it's not..." anymore) at about £2 a tub. Used one tomato over the three sandwiches (for me, hubby and our boy) and a scoop of coleslaw (85p a tub from Co-op). How much does one tomato cost? No idea.
We also had a home-made muffin. Again, I'd have difficulty costing it out, but I'll have a go later.
The boy didn't have a muffin but instead he had a clementine (about £2 for 10), a penguin biscuit (13p each?) and a tesco-value fromage-frais (about 50p for 6 I think - and I can't tell the difference between them and the petit filous - or at least he eats them so I assume they're fine).
Total cost is prob only a few quid for all of us. Much cheaper than spending about £3 down the work canteen each day each.0 -
Secondly, then. We've been saving a fortune since I started makine sarnies for the whole family, for lunch (yes, I'm a northerner, but I've been down south for far too long, so now it's lunch).
Hubby makes his own bread. Not sure exactly how much it costs per loaf but it certainly tastes nicer than that hovis pap. I'll try and do a breakdown - but the biggest outlay is the Kenwood Chef, which I think cost about £250 or so.
Today it was ham sandwich, made with homemade granary bread, bertolli olive spread (can't seem to get hold of "I can't believe it's not..." anymore) at about £2 a tub. Used one tomato over the three sandwiches (for me, hubby and our boy) and a scoop of coleslaw (85p a tub from Co-op). How much does one tomato cost? No idea.
We also had a home-made muffin. Again, I'd have difficulty costing it out, but I'll have a go later.
The boy didn't have a muffin but instead he had a clementine (about £2 for 10), a penguin biscuit (13p each?) and a tesco-value fromage-frais (about 50p for 6 I think - and I can't tell the difference between them and the petit filous - or at least he eats them so I assume they're fine).
Total cost is prob only a few quid for all of us. Much cheaper than spending about £3 down the work canteen each day each.
I can't eat wheat so I wouldn't know about bread as wheat free stuff is awful. If I work away for the day, I make a small salad instead. My OH likes any white bread pretty much but prefers Hovis or Warbies or similar so I get them at 7:30 last mark-downs.:T The best things in life are FREE! :T0 -
If he's happy with cheap white bread then most supermarkets do an economy loaf for about 25p. I think it tastes foul, but I used to eat it as a student...0
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Ive had a rough go so far
Me :
1 x 1/4 bag of sainsburys value pasta : 19p -500g = 5p
1 x 1/4 of small jar of pesto : £1.12 - 190g = 28p
1 x spoonful of olives : £1.49 HUGE jar from lidl = 10p
Total : 5p + 28p + 10p = 43p
OH :
1 x tsp olive spread : 58p for 250g = 1p
1 x 1/2 tin tuna : 89p for 200g = 45p
1 x 1/2 tbsp mayo : 42p for 470g = 1p
2 x lettuce leaves : 75p for whole lettuce : 5p
2 x sainsburys bread bun : 59p for 6 = 20p
1 x clingfilm : 40p for 45m = 1p (cant do half pence so have rounded up)
Total : 1p + 45p + 1p + 5p + 20p + 1p = 73p
Daily total : 73p + 43p = £1.16
Not too bad at all really. Could have swung for OH though when i saw he had picked up the expensive tuna over his normal white label tuna!0 -
If he's happy with cheap white bread then most supermarkets do an economy loaf for about 25p. I think it tastes foul, but I used to eat it as a student...
like i said, i try to get him the brands he prefers in the 7:30 'rugby scrum mark downs' but he isn't snobbish about bread anyhoo:T The best things in life are FREE! :T0 -
Oooh, I'm feeling quite smug on this one as I made my fiance a nice dinner box today (there were complaints that I had made smoked mackerel and turnip sandwiches last week, what can I say, supplies were low)
I made 2 x cheese sandwiches with homemade pumpkin seed bread
1 loaf of bread = about 65p, 4 slices are about 13p, I used about 28p of cheese, a smear of mustard and mayonnaise which can't be more than 5p, and a spring onion from the garden. So that's 46p. I also gave him some stewed fruit from the garden (free) and some homemade yoghurt, I suppose about 15p worth. Oh, and a home made chocolate biscuit which I suppose was about 3p. So that's 64p for the whole dinner. I packed it in a lock and lock tupperware so no packaging costs.
Towards the end of this week, he'll be back to 'unusual' combinations in his pieces.Debt at LBM (20th March 2008) £13,607
Debt currently [strike]£11,667[/strike] [strike]£11088[/strike] [strike]£10,681[/strike] [STRIKE]£10354 Hurrah 24% paid off[/STRIKE]
Oh dear ... back to £12944 9% paid off :rolleyes:
Hurrah £10712 22% paid off0
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