£25 a week

trader_girl

loopyloulou you can do it. my daughter and i managed on £65.00 week for nearly a year once when the benifits system let us down she was only 1.1/2 so i had to buy all the gubbings for a small child and pay a mortgage and heat the house and feed us..... it was hard.
but when you have to, you can.
Things do get better she now 15 i have son 7 and the best man in the whole wide world.

YOU CAN DO IT

loopyloulou_3

Idiophreak wrote: »

Something like this might help and seems very MSE:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/asia-pacific/6974687.stm

...Only joking of course...no use to a veggie

ha ha ha ha ha
one of them is very fat, I could live quite a long time on cat stew!!

lynzpower

heres a good veggie one

Get a packet of puff pastry and roll it out divide into 8 then cling film then freeze seperately. ( check reduced corners ours always has pastry in!)

Then in the morning take one out then for tea all you need to do is crumble some cheese ( fetas good, buty Ive also used cheshire/ mozzerella mixed) into a bowl and mix with a large handful of spinach. wilt slightly in a frying pan.

Blob the mix in the middle of a pastry square slam in oven for 15-20 mins.

Voila, feta & spinach crowns.
Also quite good with ratatoille that heats up v well in microwave.

As with buying anything, buy seasonal- importing veg from the other side of the world is simply not cheap at all anymore- the price of squash for exmaple is :eek:

got-it-spend-it

Veggie chilli is dead cheap. My recipe includes an onion, grated carrot, a couple of chopped value peppers, a tin of tomatoes, a tin of value kidney beans and a handful of bulgar wheat (along with some veg stock and spices). Costs less than £2 for the whole lot, and easily makes four portions.

Grated carrot is really good to bulk out any tomatoe based sauces, and red lentils are a brilliant cheap source of protein. Once you get into batch cooking you'll wonder how you ever managed any other way.

Also I don't know if you like eggs , but omelettes are a good way of using upi any odds and ends of veg from the bottom of the fridge.

Hope that helps.

GISI

lynzpower

Another great mexican recipe is

Quesadlillas- 2x flour tortilla/ slight smearing of chilli sauce if you have it, grated cheese & very finely sliced red onion- fry on both side. Really nice version of the mexican cheese toastie, and great with a crispy salad

trader_girl

hi loopyloulou how are you getting on with your £25.00 week challange keep us up to date now youve got us all involved im sure we all want to know good luck

trader_girl

asda wholemeal pasta is cheap and good for you put some on to cook chop up any medium hard veg ie onion courgette pepper cucumber even and throw them in the frying pan with a squirt of spray oil when softened throw in some toms or a small can of chopped toms warm through and bung it all on top of the pasta fast and tasty oh and cheap,

mustsave_2

veggie stew with dumplings cooked in the slow cooker....yum