£20 for a week's shopping and nothing in store cupboards - HELP PLEASE! :o)

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

Hi all,

I hope this is the right board for this

My daughter is about to move into her first bedsit and has £20 to spend on her first week's shopping. She obviously has nothing in the store cupboard, and while I am going to donate some cleaning essentials and offer my own budget advice, I hope to get some more ideas from here.

So what would you suggest she buys for a week's shopping?

Thanks all :T

abaxas

Well, the most important question is whether she is going to be cooking or she want preprared stuff? For 20 quid a week, I'd assume she's gonna have to cook from scratch. Lets hope she likes pulses!

ifonlyitwaseasier

ok for the first week i recommend

value bread, cheap spread, veggies (carrots potatoes, onions), stock cubes, mince, oats (for porridge), uht milk, value cheese, frozen peas(if she has a freezer), tea bags, sugar

and i'm sure there are more things, have a look on mysupermarket.co.uk and you can price up a shopping list before you go

hth

r.a.i.n.b.o.w

abaxas wrote: »

Well, the most important question is whether she is going to be cooking or she want preprared stuff? For 20 quid a week, I'd assume she's gonna have to cook from scratch. Lets hope she likes pulses!

I'm encouraging "from scratch", as she loves HM spag bol, pizza, meatballs etc.

abaxas

Think I'll have a bit of a brainstorm...

Curry powder? Tin of beans + tin of chopped toms + veg + curry power = curry!
Condements? - salt, vinegar etc
Dried milk - she will run out!
Rice / Pasta / couscous - just buy the value stuff.
Beanfeasts - high in protein and useful for when you get stuck
Instant noodles - when all else fails

If she's got a freezer (asked above) get attacking those woopsies too.

abaxas

On the topic of woopsies....

Lass came home tonight with 2 bags full for asda instore bread... all 20p each :>

ifonlyitwaseasier

i know!! 7p noodles, nice with a little soy sauce and some fried onion

grilled value bacon added to tinned toms, add some frozen peas heat thro and pour over pasta, little bit of cheese over the top nice healthy filling dinner

canidothis

Quaker oats for breakfast and bulking out meals
Red lentils for soup
flour,marg,sugar,eggs (for loads of cooking)
mince
Chicken
stock cubes
spuds/carrots/onions/
tinned tuna
pasta
tinned tomatoes
pulses
dried herbs
Tinned fruit

I reckon that lot would come in at under £20, would make loads of meals for one week and there would be a few items in the storecupboard to help out for next week.

A few weeks ago I was a newbie to this site and would have really struggled with £20, but with all the great advice that Ive read I find its really easy now.

Good luck

MUMOF4_2

I would buy:
value porridge oats
milk
lidls bread flour 45p a bag, yeast, then make weezls no kneed bread, makes 4 loaves.put some in the freezer.
Lidls pasta 55p a bag, better than cheap supermarket range.
couple tins of value chopped tomatoes, value mixed herbs, onion, value stock cubes, this will make up several portions of pasta sauce.
Tins of tuna
Sweetcorn
Fruit
Red lentils,onion, make up a lentil dhal, with one vegetable stock cube, pint of water, red lentils and onion. Serve it with Rice, left over can be used as pate!
Tin of Beans
Fruit and veg from the market??
Value curry powder, make up a curry sauce, with pint of stock, couple spoons of curry powder, one diced apple, one diced onion, add whatever veg you get from the market, serve with rice, or leave out the veg and serve on rice, and buy some pitta breads 22p for 6.
Pot of Jam, lidls
Self Raising flour value/basic range
eggs
sugar
Value spread
Make some sponge cakes with above ingredients. Value spread does work in cooking! if enough money left, could make a fruit cake with some basic mixed fruit?
1 bag of mixed fruit, 1 egg, 1 cup sugar, 2 cups flour, 1 cup of tea, soak fruit over night in tea, then mix in remaining ingredients, bake for about an hour.
10p packets of noodles, stir fry some of your veg on serve on top

I think this would be under £20, depending how carefully you shop.

good luck!

ravylesley

Like all students she will come home to parents and raid their cupboards for the essentials of next weeks eating and then spend the £20 in the students union bar:rotfl:

Seriously though a quick meal plan and a nip round aldi/lidl should do the trick

Lesleyxx

halight

Hi well i think the others have said it all so i will just wish your dd good luck!!