Eating Well V's Eating Cheaply??

princesstippytoes

leiela wrote: »

i'm really not sure how many times i can appologise, so i figure by now people have already made up thier mind about me and meaning so i don't see the point in adding anything further other than to say im very sorry to anyone who was offended it REALLY wasn't my intention im not that sort of person.

What an interesting thread. Leiela don't keep appologising. People have only based their replies on what you have written in your threads and if you qualify what you said on what you spend and how you eat then the rest of us can learn from you.

You said you can live on £50 or less a week but you and your OH have extra protein requirements that equals extra expense over and above most peoples regular diets. In your threads you said that your children get breakfast and lunch at school but you make their main meal at home but you still make 18 meals a day to cover your and your OH requirements.

In spite of what CFC said honestly I'm not having a pop at you. I'm mystified. How do you make in your words '' 18ish meals a day all different'' making them healthy nutritious and high protein for £50 a week? So many people have asked you and I'm adding my voice to theirs. Please please post an average day or weeks menu in your household so we can see how its done. I have a feeling you won't post your menu but I hope you do if only to prove its possible and to prove your critiques wrong.

princesstippytoes

weezl74 wrote: »

Hi Heidiboo,

Like penny-pincher I think you're doing a grand job from your meal ideas you've posted. :beer:, and sorry things are so tight at the mo.

Just a thought, if you are breast-feeding, your body will definately be giving your baby all the nutrients needed. So a cheap idea while things are tight and fresh fruit seems like a total luxury, might be to get some of these (for example):



which work out as 1.1p per day. Then you know that your body won't end up depleted in any of its stores while feeding your baby, and you can fill up on other things while still knowing your vits and minerals are there! Just a thought...

The cheapest I managed to find '5 a day' of different colours was 18p per person per day, so 1.1p beats that hands down whilst you wait for your finances to be a bit more free-flowing.:beer:

Love Weezl x

Even cheaper, prescriptions are free to mothers in the first year after birth so ask your doctor to prescribe a complex mulivitamin.

leiela

Todays food :-

I have a feeling people will tear it to peices but heyhoo ... ask and you shall recive.

Husband.

• Breakfast - Cost - 66p
  • Gammon Steak (for yucky AD diet i personally don’t consider healthy… blah but its his body right??) Cost - £1 / 2 = 50p each
  • 2 eggs - Cost - 30 eggs for £2.50 (no they aren’t free range) = 16p
• Midmorning Snack - 42p
  • Peanuts - (20g) 99p for 1kg = 2p
  • Protein shake - 40p per scoop
• Lunch - 80p / 2 = 40p
  • Beef Stirfry -
    • Beef (50p ish leftover beef brisket)
    • Bean sprouts - 50p a bag 10 ish portions - 5p
    • Onion / peppers / Kale - 15p ish
    • 1 egg - 8p
    • seed mix - 2p
• Midafternoon snack - 34p
  • Crustless Quiche
    • Onions / peppers - 3p
    • ham - 10p
    • cheese - 5p
    • 1 egg - 8p
• Dinner -
  • Pork Curry (see below)
• Supper - 42p
  • Peanuts - (20g) 99p for 1kg = 2p
  • Protein shake - 40p per scoop

Me

• Breakfast - 45p
  • Oatmeal - 3p (smartprice asda)
  • sunflower seeds (5g if that) - 2p
  • Protein whey - 40p
• Snack
  • smoothie - 51p
    • milk - 7p
    • Natural Yogurt - 48p / 5 = 10p ish
    • banana - 11p
    • Flax - 3p (big box about £1 use less than 1tsp per)
    • Protein Whey - 20p
• Lunch
  • Soup = £1.79 / 4 portions = 44 p
  • Beef brisket - £1
  • Carrot / Swede / onion / leeks / - 45p
  • Lentils - 80p / 5 = 16p
  • Soup mix - 80p /5 = 16
  • Curry powder - 2p
• Snack = 52p
  • 2 rice cakes - 12p
  • Ham - 25p
  • cucumber - 5p
  • Apple - 10p
• Dinner
  • Pork Curry - (see below)
• Supper - 50p
  • Natural Yogurt - 48p / 5 = 10p ish
  • Protein Whey - 40p

Everyone Pork Curry … for dinner.

• Pork - £3 (leftovers from huge pork joint recived in butchers hamper)
• Brown rice - 18p (for me and kids only)
• Onions/carrot/leek/Swede - 30p
• curry powder - big box bought on wholesale - 2p
• cornflower - ugh negligible
• Stock - homemade - essentially free
• other spices - negligible
• Savoy Cabbage - 15p (for hubby only)
  • Total - £3.63
• Pudding for Kids - Dessert whip with Banana - 20p ish

Total cost for the day roughly - £8.49p

Protien shake isn't always the cheapest option, chicken and tuna both work out gram for gram cheaper but it is conveinent which is why i use it, hubby infact frequently exchanges shakes for chicken peices, and i do the same with tuna espec when moneys tight.

I do shop like a crazy person, i shop in about 15 different shops buying different things in each one, like today i need toothpaste.. ill go to a specific shop i know is cheap for it rather than buying it in asda with the rest of my stuff.

Asda i go after work EVERYDAY just to scout for whoopsies, it's time consuming yes but worth it, last week i got 10 tins of tuna for £1 and 2 packets of pork for £2 each and a load of veg for basically penny's.

Farm shop ... last week was the first week i bought stuff from the farm shop i spent £20 getting a veg hamper delivered, downside you don't know what your gonna get and you can only get seasonal stuff, upside i got LOADS of veg 2 weeks worth easy!!

Butchers.. i've been to about 20 different butchers in the last 6 months scouring them for the cheapest, finally settling on one near work, very nice man often throw's things in for free when i buy in bulk. I always ask him if he can cut me a deal on anything.. yes im very cheeky :rotfl: but i can often get "butchers whoopies" that he wouldn't normally advertise. Last week i gave him £30 and told him to make me up a suprise hamper, working it our i actually got about £60 worth of meat, i've already been to see him today and asked him if he can do the same for me ready for Friday. (biggest tip i have is to make friends with a GOOD butcher.. worth thier weight in gold or protien haha)

I'll fully admit i don't buy freerange.. i can't afford to with the amounts i buy, besides i truely belive that you can drive yourself mental with that stuff ... yes i do care about the animals but im the sort of person that if i truely made the decision to only buy free range EVERYTHING would have to be freerange... have you ever tried asking if the leather on your handbag was freerange??? ekkk ... i know it's bad but i for the most part i just try not to think about it.

Justamum

squirrelchops wrote: »

Value ones are what 14p each now?? not sure but certainly not 98p!!!!

33p last time I bought some :eek: (on Friday ) Considering not long ago they were 17p, that's nearly 100% price rise :eek:

weezl74 wrote: »

We'll see how my lentil-fed baby manages in the outside world!;)

Your lentil-fed baby will do just fine. My three have never eaten meat and are very healthy. When is your baby due?

OrkneyStar

Justamum wrote: »

Your lentil-fed baby will do just fine. My three have never eaten meat and are very healthy. When is your baby due?

We are not veggies and neither is DS, however I was a veggie years back and we eat lots of veg based meals, and so does DS. I think the same rule applies, veggie or not, make sure you are letting bubs try things and aiming for a balanced diet (once on solids, not straight away, :eek: of course). I say 'aiming' as no matter how hard we try children can be faddy sometimes, my DS is a horse some days, and picks at food other days! My only concern is that lentils can have funny effects on the digestion! (although so can other baby foods lol).
If you are planning to breast feed remember to increase your calories a little and plenty fluids (although water is fine!).

Justamum

OrkneyStar wrote: »

no matter how hard we try children can be faddy sometimes,

:rolleyes: Tell me about it. Actually DD1 is a pleasure to feed, though she used to be really fussy when she was small (she's 12 now) DS is improving, slowly :rolleyes:. DD2 has just turned 4 and has been getting progressively more fussy. I'm not worrying about it as I know she will improve as she gets older.

Edinburghlass_2

Justamum wrote: »

:rolleyes: Tell me about it. Actually DD1 is a pleasure to feed, though she used to be really fussy when she was small (she's 12 now) DS is improving, slowly :rolleyes:. DD2 has just turned 4 and has been getting progressively more fussy. I'm not worrying about it as I know she will improve as she gets older.

Don't count on it, I never improved from when I was a baby :rotfl:

I shop where I want, I buy what I want and couldn't give a monkeys what anyone else buys or where they shop as that is their choice as is their diet. I never meal plan as the thought of its Monday so it must be fish is abhorrent to me seeing as I was brought up that way but each to their own

Steve-o

greenbee wrote: »

I'm not vegetarian, but have been advised by both my GP and nutrionist...

By "nutritionist", I hope you meant "dietitian".

Steve-o

mouseymousey99 wrote: »

Leiela, I'm being nosey (I know) do you have a dietican quliafication? I'm genuinely not being rude (I hope) but would be interesting to chat to someone who has the qualification or an 'in depth' knowledge I asked to speak to someone at my surgery; in the end I spoke to the practice nurse (very nice lady) but I do have some queries (I expect others have too).

PM sent.

thriftlady_2

Steve-o wrote: »

By "nutritionist", I hope you meant "dietitian".

Am I right in thinking that any Tom !!!!!! or Gillian (:D ) can call themselves a nutritionist? Dietitians are the ones with a recognised qualification aren't they?

We were referred to an NHS dietitian with my dd when she was diagonosed with various food allergies. We had to take a week's food diary. The dietitian said it was 'exemplary' . I couldn't help feeling smug:o . She said she often saw parents who thought a pot noodle was a meal. My meal planning is no better than the vast majority of OSer's meal plans, so I think most of us eat 'exemplary' diets;)