£7.00 per week - menu ideas

Butterfly_Brain · 27 July 2012 at 7:44PM

quintwins wrote: »

bb have you ever made the peach pudding? it sounds nice and i have a few tins of peaches so i'm very tempted, but i think it might be abit soggy on the bottom of you leave all the juice in.

I have made it many times and it is lovely. I forgot to put if the peaches are in syrup add a little water so that your dish doesn't go icky because the syrup caramelises. It is nice with other tinned/fresh or frozen fruits as well such as tinned pineapple, tinned apricots etc.

Soworried · 27 July 2012 at 7:56PM

Thankyou BB, that is great.:j

faerie~spangles · 27 July 2012 at 8:01PM

This is an awesome thread.

I and I'm sure many others really appreciate all who are posting recipes and meal plans

quintwins · 27 July 2012 at 8:13PM

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I have made it many times and it is lovely. I forgot to put if the peaches are in syrup add a little water so that your dish doesn't go icky because the syrup caramelises. It is nice with other tinned/fresh or frozen fruits as well such as tinned pineapple, tinned apricots etc.

thats brilliant i'll def be trying it thanks

Soworried · 27 July 2012 at 8:58PM

I don't know if you all know but you can get dessert for free at the moment. Greens are offering a 40p off coupon and some of there desserts serve 4 people and only cost that.
Creme brulee and lemon pie filling. Egg custard also.
I will go and find the link.

http://www.mumssurvivalguides.co.uk/

Here you go. Page 39. There are other vouchers in there also but they do not work out free.

Chunkysmum · 27 July 2012 at 9:00PM

As you may know from my other thread we have recently found ourselves in some financial difficulty.

I have been overwhelmed by the kindness of some people who have donated cans etc to us.

Anyway, I'd love the make the most of what we now have in, with as little spending as possible. This is what we have:

5 x tins beans
3 x tins chopped tomatoes
2 x tins peas
1 x tin Heinz tomato soup
2 x tins Heinz oxtail soup
2 x tins Heinz beef broth
1 x tin Heinz mulligatawny
1 x tin condensed chicken soup
1 x El del paso enchilada spice mix
2 x Packets El del paso tomato sauce for enchiladas
1 x 440g jar of tomato pasta sauce
1 x 500g Pataks balti sauce
1 x jar sweet and sour sauce
4 x broccoli & cauliflower cuppa soups
1 x 500g Red split lentils (BB = Jul/12 so need using up)
Open box of 5 lasagne sheets plus a full 250g box of lasagne sheets.
1kg fusilli pasta
250g pasta shells
2 x square Chinese medium noodles (for soups, wok & stir fry dishes)
1 x packet golden vegetable savoury microwave rice (for two)
1 x packet sundried tomato microwave rice (for two)
Coco powder
Teabags
Coffee
Bisto
Chicken Bovril
Beef Bovril
Lea & Perrins
Mustard
Guiness HP sauce
Tomato sauce
Tasco sauce
Loads of herbs/spices
460g chicken breasts (in freezer)
2 x tuna, lime & coriander fishcakes (in freezer)
Apricot Preserve
1 x jar ghurkins
1 x jar pickled beetroot
1 x jar pickled onions
1 x jar Branston pickle
Mayo
Salad cream
Chilli mayo
Mango chutney
Cucumber and mint raita
Squeezy garlic
Squeezy chill
2 x fresh chillis
5pts milk
1 x tub sunflower spread
1 x small tub cherries
1 x tin Carlsburg
2 x large onions
1 x baking potato
350g mature chedder
1 x bottle red wine
1 x ¾ open bottle of red wine (needs using up as was opened three days ago)
Recipe ideas much appreciated. Thank you.

Chunkysmum · 27 July 2012 at 9:43PM

Hello everyone,

Thank you so much for all of the recipes on this thread.

It is fantastic and I feel touched that you have all taken the time to write all of these out.

I have been overwhelmed by peoples' kindness over the last week from giving helpful advice to donating tins.

NHS bursaries have informed me that I can appeal for my application to be speeded up, but the appeals process takes as long as the normal process!

So, I have £9.00 left of my overdraft plus what I have been given in my store cupboard to last until they pay me, which is likely to be mid September. Applied for a crisis loan from the uni - should hear next week.

Thanks again.

quintwins · 27 July 2012 at 10:18PM

wow thats alot of food you clearly know some lovely generous people.

you can make loads from all that, i could suggest getting some bread and pasta, and drinking some of that open wine

craigywv · 27 July 2012 at 10:28PM

:T

quintwins wrote: »

bb have you ever made the peach pudding? it sounds nice and i have a few tins of peaches so i'm very tempted, but i think it might be abit soggy on the bottom of you leave all the juice in.

i made the pudding last night using jumblejacks recipe for 2 minute micro pudding forund in grocery challenge first page recipe index, u can swap and change it so much....omit peaches and add cocoa to mix voila choc cake, plain mix cooked put jam and coconut on top ....school dinner puds, put apple at bottom/pineapple then mix ontop delish.....:T

PennyGrabber · 27 July 2012 at 10:44PM

Meals don't always have to be full-on cooked affairs. Sometimes, my favourite meals are things like beans on toast (you can add bbq sauce, curry powder or other stuff to change the taste), spaghetti on toast, toasties with a pack of crisps, a tin of soup (24p) with a slice of bread, or a value cup a soup thing, which is 20p for four for the veg, or 32p for the chicken and veg one.

What about buying a pack of frozen cauliflower, so you can have cauliflower cheese?

Another favourite of ours, is sweet and sour chicken. We make one chicken breast (ys of course!) do all three of us, and four if we have a visitor! All you need is one chicken breast (£?p), a tin of pineapple (28p), a jar of s and s sauce (30ish p), some frozen peas for veg (20ish p), and some rice (10p).

After writing about hm pizza, we had to have it today for dinner, nom nom!!

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