50p a day til christmas, healthily?!-Weezl's next challenge (part 2)

shaz_mum_of__2

meanmarie wrote: »

Shaz...what a lovely neat, productive bed of veggies...I still suffer from dealing with OH who considers that you need feet rather than inches between individual veg...

marie

i haven't got the space to plant too far apart so tend to crowd em in a bit and allow for casualties .....................i hate caterpillers :mad::mad::mad::mad: but i love butterflies whats a gardener to do??:rotfl:

Shaz

gizmomum

Hi everyone
I've managed to scrape together thirty pounds to go and get some essentials this evening. Once I've got petrol and baby food/formula I think I'm going to have ten pounds left to get as many meals as poss for me and hubby to last at least til Tuesday but maybe longer. Which supermarket is doing the best deals/cheapest food at the moment? I have a lidl a tesco, an asda and a morrison very close by. Am a bit wary of tesco and have been hovering between the other 3 for a while and wondered what deals and tips others had

Toonie

Have you got anything in the cupboards/freezer already? Also, are there any requirements eg vegetarian?

**MissL2**

Do you have a slow cooker?

gizmomum

I've got a couple of packets of savoury rice, two jars of chicken tonight sauce, a bag of pasta, a jar of pasta tomato sauce and in the freezer some chips and some cauliflower. Sounds like alot when I type it out No special requirements, we eat just about anything!

gizmomum

yes i have a slow cooker and am very keen to get the most out of it

Toonie

You could buy a chicken and stretch it out to have roast on Sunday, chicken and chips on Monday and chicken soup on Tuesday. So then, you'd need potatoes for the roast, some other veggies (maybe a bag of frozen peas/sweetcorn) which you could also then use in your soup.

If you can get some cheap veggies could do vegetable stir fry and add the rice to it.

Obviously you can do pasta and sauce one night or for lunch.

Also, check out this thread, full of useful info for buying food for very little money http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=1129333

I can't advise on which shop to go to, as I don't have any of those that close to me.

gizmomum

brilliant, thankuo Toonie, that's fab, I'm off to the shops now, will let you know how I do

kittykat500

My supermarket.com see the link below does price comparisons for the big 4; Tescos, Sains. Asda and Waitrose. You can check the deals there. It doesn't do Morrisons though

http://www.mysupermarket.co.uk/

Lidl have good veg deals at the moment. Sprouts for 25p a bag for example and 2 unsmoked/smoked gammon steaks for £1.00.

Can't remember any other Lidl deals at the moment. Hope this helps

ceridwen

shaz_mum_of__2 wrote: »

weezl

I have given up on carrots yours are bigger than mine ,but just to make you jealous here is my winter veg




there are 50 leeks,16 cabbages, 16 red kale plants and 16 purple sprouting broccoli plants

this is "the gordon brown bed" named after the high rise of food prices by hubby

the 4 sleepers cost £40 the soil was freecyled the plants cost £10 (we did it too late in the summer for seeds)

haven't used much yet but will save us a fortune esp the leeks

Shaz

Hi Shaz

That looks like Square Foot Gardening style to me. How big is this "bed" please?