£50 a week to feed family of 6, does anyone do it cheaper??

Cornishpixie_2

Have you tried reading the web book How to feed a family a healthy balanced diet with very little money? That's what I use, it will give you 5 weeks worth of menu's receipes and shopping list. I have 4 kids and fussy husband, but as I have reduced the shopping bill by about £30 a week and feels better as he is eating healthier, he doesn't complain that much:D Some of the receipes I have put into menu plan and taken others out, as older child desn't like spag bol but they all like toad in the hole. I also pad hubbies out with plenty rice, pasta or pots and veg. Its worth ago. Oh and I also shop on line for bulk of stuff and get fruit and veg from local greengrocers. HTH

WartimeScrapingofMarmite

Cornishpixie wrote: »

Have you tried reading the web book How to feed a family a healthy balanced diet with very little money? That's what I use, it will give you 5 weeks worth of menu's receipes and shopping list. I have 4 kids and fussy husband, but as I have reduced the shopping bill by about £30 a week and feels better as he is eating healthier, he doesn't complain that much:D Some of the receipes I have put into menu plan and taken others out, as older child desn't like spag bol but they all like toad in the hole. I also pad hubbies out with plenty rice, pasta or pots and veg. Its worth ago. Oh and I also shop on line for bulk of stuff and get fruit and veg from local greengrocers. HTH

CornishPixie, have you got a link to the web book please as I can only find hard copies online? Sounds like my sort of thing!

jimjams_mommy

thanks bertiebots !!
for information in freezing pastry your most welcome!

Cornishpixie_2

Hi, Wartime. Had to do a bit of research as no good with links. Anyhoo if you go into September Grocery challenge at the top of this board, or key into search. Then its on the first page, about 2/3rd post in. Its just after all the listed receipes. Click on the link that gets you into the web book. You should then be able to bookmark it, or save it to your favourites. Or if your a bit scatty like me and you read it enough times, it comes up anyway after typing in a few words.:D Sorry its so complicated:D

suzanandboys

floss2 wrote: »

But a famous one, now you're in the weekly email!

I think you're doing a tremendous job - DF & I can spend more than that a month on two of us (and then there's the tesco wine delivery....:o), we do go for butcher meat & poultry, fishmonger fish (and not the cheapest each time either, although the last sea bass we had was very local & fresh as it had been swimming about 1 mile off the coast the night before we bought it), plus DF is a bit of a label fiend...whereas I buy the reduced fresh stuff & take the packaging off the fruit & veg






Can I ask you where you get your boxes from?

Its riverford that i get my boxes from

frugalmumof4

hi, thought i would update everyone on how we were doing, i was mumof4, but havent been able to get into my account!so i gave up and renamed myself!
I was getting a little slack with the budget over the last few months due to things that were cropping up here and there, but I am fully back on target again, working hard to keep our budgets down and eat as well as we can! Children are all a year older now, with bigger tummies to feed!
I have really been having fun with seeing what i can make with value/basic products. Not everyones choice I know, but we all do what we can with the budgets we have.

My best invention yet, is a fat free pastry that you make using a one serving yogurt pot! Makes fantastic jam tarts!

Now the way i make it, does add extra sugar to your jam tarts, which for some may be a no no, but i will give you the healthier option also!

You need 1 value flavoured yogurt/ no sugar option use natural yogurt but you need a individual yogurt pot!
value plain flour
value lemon curd/value jam

ok, pour your individual yogurt into a bowl, then using your yogurt pot fill it up with flour add to yogurt and then add another yogurt pot of flour. Mix together with a spoon, then get your hands in and form into a dough.
Roll out on a floured board and using a cutter, cut our approx 12. place in jam tart tins and fill with lemon curd/jam.

bake in oven 180'c for 20 minutes

I keep seeing people asking how they keep their budgets down, and i hope that this thread may help. My meals might not be to everyones taste, and our shopping lists have certainly changed since i first started posting. no more fizzy drinks, ready made bakery items. I have so many recipes to share if anyone is still interested! if not, apologies in advance and I will button up!lol

randomer

cornishpixie I really am having a very dumb day today and I can't find the book you refer to:rolleyes:
mumof4 you are doing a great job!:T
I would dearly love to go veggie but resistance from certain family members.

Can I ask what are your idiot proof tasty veggie specials?
A lot of mine are a bit samey

misscousinitt

Just read the thread and wanted to say well done you. Our budget seems to be about £50 a week and there are only 2 of us, plus a cat. I don't have to watch my budget TOO closely, but hats off to you for managing so well. ;-)

juliapenguin

I would love some of your recipes. I've badly fallen off the OS wagon recently, as I've been working full-time and writing an MA dissertation full-time (I know, I know, it doesn't make sense) so I haven't had time to do anything. I'm about to hand the dissertation in this afternoon, so I'm back on the wagon as of today.

It's only me and DH most of the time, but I love trying other people's favourite recipes.

debtmuncher

lol glad to see you have cut down on the ready made stuff that you bought a way back ago!

hats off to you though! i dont think i could ever manage to get my budget down as low as that!!! i am a veggie so its like every two/three days i make a full family veggie meal.