FJ's 'beat the credit crunch with a quid-odd butty box' challenge!

emg

I cant bear to do all the maths to work mine out but wanted to add a couple of ideas to this thread as I am trying to have a really frugal month. I have been making pasta salad with value pasta, sweetcorn and tinned tomatoes.

I made the coconut cake from here...

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.html?p=12173419&postcount=58

....and cut it up into lunchbox portions, wrapped it in clingfilm and froze it - stops me eating it all at once!

My other failsafe has been tinned pineapple. I got a really big tin in Lidl for about 40p and have been having a few spoonfuls for lunch each day.

If anyone else has any cheap fruit ideas I'd love to know them, I'm not that keen on apples or bananas, unfortunately I love berries, melon, mango - all the expensive ones!

freebie_junkie

I was working away today so we both had pack-ups:

DF: sandwich (2 slices of bread as before 4p, philly as before 3p, tin foil as before 3p, 2 slices tesco value chicken roll, £1.09 for 20 slices, 11p) 21p

Tesco value peach melba yogurt 7p

tesco value small orange juice carton 14p

tesco value milk chocolate wafer 6p

tesco value chocolate digestive biscuit bar 6p

2 x tesco clementines (bag of 20 on offer this week at 85p) 9p

can of asda cola 18p

tesco value salt and vinegar crisps 6p

TOTAL 87p


ME: 1/2 pack tesco sweet and cruchy salad 50p

Tesco value low fat raspberry yogurt 7p

Asda diet cola 18p

2 x tesco value pears (pack of 15 costs 88p) 12p

chunk of asda smartprice brie as before 14p

TOTAL £1.01



for tea we had:

omlettes:
box of free range eggs reduced in asda becuase the box had dried egg on it but none of the eggs inside were broken!: 50p
rest of cathedral city: 25p
2 portions of butter to cook them in: 4p
4 mushrooms (tesco value box contained 18 largish ones and cost £1.47): 33p

1/2 pack tesco sweet and crispy salad: 50p

for afters:
pack of raspberries reduced in 5:30 mark-downs: £1
2 x tesco clementines as above: 9p
(chopped up and split between 2 bowls)

to drink: tesco value orange squash, 1.5 liters cost 48p, so its less than 1p a glass but i'll round it up

total £2.73/ £1.37 each

Mrs_A_4

count_rostov wrote: »

(there were complaints that I had made smoked mackerel and turnip sandwiches last week, what can I say, supplies were low)

:rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl: :rotfl:

ancasta_2

Glad this has been moved to get more exposure, i thought it was only me and FJ on this one!

Small turkey, lettuce and garlic mayo rolls each. Plus OH – 3 hobnob biscuits & strawberry yoghurt Me : 2 apples, snackajacks and a raspberry yoghurt

Me :

2 x bread rolls : 75p per pack (4) – 2 (8) for £1 - 2 @ 12.5p = 25p
6 x turkey slices : £1.88 for 60 (small!) slices – 3p per slice – 6x3p = 18p
1 x tsp olive spread : 58p for 250g = 1p
1 x 1/2 tbsp (7g) Heinz Garlic mayo : £1.39 for 290g = 2p
1 x lettuce leaf : 57p for whole lettuce : 2p
1 x clingfilm : 40p for 45m = 1p (cant do half pence so have rounded up)
1 x raspberry low fat yoghurt : 29p for 4 = 7p
2 x Gala apple £1.79 for 7 = 26p
1 x snackajacks : £1.77 for 6 = 30p

Total : 25p + 18p + 1p + 2p + 2p + 1p + 7p + 26p + 30p = £1.38

OH :

1 x bread rolls : 75p per pack (4) – 2 (8) for £1 - 1 @ 12.5p = 13p
3 x turkey slices : £1.88 for 60 (small!) slices – 3p per slice – 3x3p = 9p
1 x tsp olive spread : 58p for 250g = 1p
1 x 1/2 tbsp (7g) Heinz Garlic mayo : £1.39 for 290g = 2p
1 x lettuce leaf : 57p for whole lettuce : 2p
1 x clingfilm : 40p for 45m = 1p (cant do half pence so have rounded up)
1 x strawberry yoghurt : 29p for 4 = 7p
3 x hob nobs : 300g pack for 88p – 9p

Total : 13p + 9p + 1p + 2p + 2p + 1p + 7p + 9p = 44p

Daily Total : £1.38 + 44p = £1.82

thriftmonster

I did this for a couple of months to record the cost of 2 packed lunches for ds1 &2 against the cost of school dinners (£2 each per day). On average the packed lunches cost £1.20 per day for the 2, saving £2.80 each day.

I didn't cost up leftovers though - if it came from last night's dinner or a restaurant, I counted it as effectively free - and only costed the extra ingredients added.

About a month ago I got two boxes in Tesco really cheaply - they have two compartments separated by a removable freezer pack - good for salads. I used the savings from the first month of packed lunches to buy wide necked thermoses - the boys love leftover chilli with some tortilla chips - I also fit jacket spuds in in the winter.

freebie_junkie

DF packed his own lunch today, hence the added sugar!!!

sandwich (2 slices of bread as before 4p, lemon cheese, tesco value jar is 35p and makes 20 sandwiches so 2p, tin foil as before 3p) 9p

Tesco value chocolate mousse 6p

mini innocent smoothie (free with courtesy voucher)

tesco value milk chocolate wafer 6p

tesco value chocolate digestive biscuit bar 6p

2 x tesco clementines (bag of 20 on offer this week at 85p) 9p

can of asda cola 18p

tesco value salt and vinegar crisps 6p

TOTAL 60p

freebie_junkie

yesterday for tea we had:

for me: homemade chickpea burger (as before) 16p

for oh: asda beef burger (as before) 25p

homemade skin-on wedges (as before) 26p

2 homemade muffins (well impressed with these as ive never made bread before! 250g spelt flour 42p, 1 sachet tesco yeast 5p, salt and sugar must be no more than 1p each, veg oil 10p, sesame seeds 14p- 73p in total for 10 muffins) 14p

butter 2p

1/4 bag asda shreadded lettuce (i have to be lazy sometimes!) 17p

4 tesco value cheese slices 43p

tesco value ketchup 2p

for afters: 1/2 bunch tesco organic grapes (half price at £1.74) 87p
strawberries (50p off at tesco) £1.49

total: £3.81, £1.91 each

freebie_junkie

lunches updates to follow...

BigMummaF

Anyone mind if I bump? With a lot of southern schools returning this week, peeps might find this thread useful.

I have to admit to not costing up anything apart from the actual items I intend buying in the first place, but a couple of days ago I bought a reduced :j joint of pork. It has been roasted, sliced, bagged into four lots & frozen with the sole intention of using as sandwich filler...well 3 lots are frozen & one is in use. I've often wondered about doing this before but never got around to it till I found
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=343009

And here is a thread on sandwich fillers
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=327342

I'm pretty certain there's another one somewhere, plus Weezl's threads of course, with the truly lush pate recipes in particular.

BigMummaF

I did a bit of very quick maths today, after weighing the meat I managed to salvage from a fresh turkey thigh joint & a forgotten frozen MrT gammon.

Both joints were around £4:50 each & I've allowed a generous £1 to cover the cooking, foil, plastic bags etc etc, not forgetting cook's perks of a wee taster & the scubbl little crumbs you get when you carve...Actually I borrowed me muvva's electric slicer :j so that is in the 'fuel' bit too.

The final talley of sliced meat is 500g turkey & 900g gammon, so 1.4 kilo of unadulterated meat for approx 71.4p per 100g.....not that bad m'thinx