£50 to feed two adults till Sept 27th

bramble1 · 31 August 2010 at 9:51PM

I need your help! OH and i have £50 a not a penny more to spend on food. OH is a farmer and needs to eat ALOT a normal lunch consists of 2 x sarnies, sausage roll, 2 packets of crisps, chocolate bar and drink and his dinner is usually the portion for 2 normal people.. I don't eat so much, typically bowl of porridge, bowl of soup and what he's having for dinner.

I need dinner ideas for the rest of the month and would really appreciate your help as we usually spend £30 a week!

Local super markets are Sainsburys, Lidl, Waitrose, Iceland and Tescos.

What do i do? Our freezer will see us through till Tuesday.

purpleheather2810 · 31 August 2010 at 10:02PM

I think you need to bake cheap fillers such as twinks hobnobs, flapjacks, scones, etc. Could DH have a flask/bowl of soup with his lunch? Would help to fill him up and a veg/potato/lentil/bean soup would be cheap and easy to make. Crisps, sausage rolls etc are expensive for what you get - low nutritional value and won't fill him up... maybe you could try making some sausage rolls or maybe your own pasties - homemade pastry is more filling... Erm, then there's rubber chicken/other roasted meat (as long as you can stop everyone from picking at it!!), whoopsies, meals based on potatoes, rice or pasta....

hannahO_2 · 31 August 2010 at 10:17PM

bramble1 wrote: »

OH is a farmer and needs to eat ALOT a normal lunch consists of 2 x sarnies, sausage roll, 2 packets of crisps, chocolate bar and drink.....

These lunch above may be convenient and costly but doesn't look substential to me. 2 packets of crisps and chocolate bar are just snacks.

I think you gonna have to get cooking. Pasta with tomato sauce for your OH packed lunch and may be HM baked banana cake!? Just an idea to start with. Dinners, lots of potate, pasta cos they are cheap. I know it's not the fanciest manu but may be you may have to do with them till you get extra funds. I lived on instant noodles (30p), pasta with tomato ketchup, porridege for a while. It's not nutritious but that I just didn't have funds.

kittiej · 31 August 2010 at 10:17PM

What type of farm is it?

Can you live off anything you produce? Are there chickens for eggs etc?

I'd start with my old faithful - a sack of spuds.

Edit - exactly what is in your cupboards, fridge and freezer?

bramble1 · 31 August 2010 at 10:29PM

we have 160 chickens.. so plenty of eggs! but he's a contractor so we don't have a farm to make use of!

We'd need to purchase a thermos for soup...which is an outgoing i don't have this month.

How much will home made sausage rolls cost? i will start making homemade cakes for a sweet treat. I'd like to try pasties or something but again, it's cost. You can buy them for £1, they just don't taste nice.

cuboards...curry sauce, curry pasta, enchilada sauce, pasta bake, potato bake, noodles, pasta, herbs and spices, jar of pasta sauce, gravy, 3 tins of soup, marmite, cheese, marg, bread, and thats about it! oh and we have about 6 chilli plants of varying hotness that are ripening too!

Dinner ideas i have are Stew, Lancashire hot pot, chicken thighs and legs with roasties and veg, pasta...

jollymummy · 31 August 2010 at 10:36PM

I'd go with pasta, potato, rice and egg based meals. I make a lot of stews and soups based on whatever veg I can buy cheaply and bulk them up with pasta, barley and beans. Hubby takes them to work in a flask and a few doorsteps of bread

I also make HM flapjacks, carrot muffins, plain scones with HM jam for DS and DHs lunches. My stand by is definitely pasta, pasta in a tomato sauce made from tinned toms, with bacon or peppers or whatever is in the fridge!! thrown in. Another fave is pasta with frozen peas and cheese. I'd take a look at Aldi or Lidl buy cheap pasta, tinned tomatoes, tinned beans for stews etc and base your meals on what veg offers you can find. As previous posters have suggested check out special offers and whoopsies too.

Butterfly_Brain · 31 August 2010 at 10:45PM

Does DH know that you are in such a mess?

Forage, this is the best time of year to get blackberries, filberts, apples, sloes, damsons etc and if you live in the country you are best placed for natures larder.
Get a couple of big bags of pasta, and a big bag of potatoes. Aldi have cheap veg deals every week.
Eggs are a good source of protein - how about a fritatta, quiche, custard tart, souffles, Egg and chips, omelettes, boiled eggs can be taken in a lunch box or serve with toast.
Bake lots of cakes and freeze them for use in lunch boxes or just as a treat, the same goes for biscuits.
Make your own pasties, jam tarts, pies and puddings etc
Make your own soups and bread

HTH

kittiej · 31 August 2010 at 10:45PM

Do you have a bread maker?

I make pizza dough in mine, put a tin of baked beans and grated cheese on the top and it's yummy.

Shepherds pie is good too.

I would check online to see who has got the best deals on meat. I normally buy about £20 worth a month and just make different things like you said, stews, spaghetti.

Have you got a slow cooker to cook cheap cuts of meat in?

agree with the foraging. Could you trade or sell eggs?

bramble1 · 31 August 2010 at 10:58PM

DH knows...it's his fault! He's started a new contract and we are waiting for pay day to roll around...this is our worst case senario that i need to prepare for incase he doesn't get paid till end of the month.

We don't have a breadmaker but i can make bread without it...sorta..

We have a slow cooker, so i think i'm going to need to research cheap cut sof meat. Also needs to be reheatable, as i get home at 7pm OH gets home at 10:30/11:00pm and i don't want to be cooking twice a day if it can be helped!

I could probably sell some eggs, but not sure who to? I will give foraging a go this weekend, although no clue where to start!

kittiej · 31 August 2010 at 11:07PM

Can you put a sign up somewhere visible to passers by to let them know you've got eggs?

Do you work with peolpe you could ask? If I had the chance to buy eggs from a work mate I'd do that rather than buy from the supermarkets.

Could you trade some with a neighbour for something else?

purpleheather2810 · 31 August 2010 at 11:08PM

bramble1 wrote: »

DH knows...it's his fault! He's started a new contract and we are waiting for pay day to roll around...this is our worst case senario that i need to prepare for incase he doesn't get paid till end of the month.

We don't have a breadmaker but i can make bread without it...sorta..

We have a slow cooker, so i think i'm going to need to research cheap cut sof meat. Also needs to be reheatable, as i get home at 7pm OH gets home at 10:30/11:00pm and i don't want to be cooking twice a day if it can be helped! As long as your slow cooker has a "keep warm" or low setting this should be fine

I could probably sell some eggs, but not sure who to? Could you make some signs, put a card up in local shop windows, tell everyone you know...?

I will give foraging a go this weekend, although no clue where to start! Give it a try, just go for a walk and see what happens. I was amazed how much I could find near our home (in a small city)

Good luck! You can do this!

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