£ 40.00 budget to feed 5! how?

Rebob

Hi

Try this site. Put in some of the ingredients and it will give some ideas. I would just buy the nappies and milk for now and see what you can make from your cupboards and freezer.

HRH

moggins

The Aldi nappies are brilliant and in my opinion as good as Pampers, I have never had a leaky one yet.

Sound like you have loads to keep you going. Why not take out the money in cash, work day by day with what you have and just use the money for topping up with small items to make meals, bread, milk etc and see how far you can stretch that store cupboard?

debtfreeplease_3

julybride do you think that you could post me that recipe for potato and leek soup
thanks

squeaky

I don't think anyone has said much about menu planning in a big way, but this too will help you out a great deal:-

Menu Planning:
[post=777936] - Meal plans and store cupboard[/post]
[post=676140] - Menus again[/post]
[post=663989] - Once a month cooking[/post]
[post=726152] - Organising recipes[/post]


And there's a potato and leek soup ---> [post=79388]Click Here[/post]

black-saturn

I spend £53 per month on 3 people every month. Admittedly I dont have a baby anymore but there are some good deals around with nappies. Wilkinsons have some good, cheap nappies for sale.

debtfreeplease_3

thanks to everyone been a big help, havent stopped cooking all day with these ideas, cooked cauliflower and broccli (frozen mixed bag) cheese, in the oven now is sausage casserole these is for tonight and tomorrow tea. Im now going to make microwave suet pudding (recipe from index) hope it goes ok looking forward to it.
Blacksaturn do you think that you could let me know how you spend 35.00 for 3 people a month.

Thanks

moggins

I spend £50 a week feeding 4 (used to be 5) 2 cats, 2 guinea pigs and 5 fish. If you want any more help please give me a PM.

chivers1977

hi, i have an 8 month old and use tescos purple pack night and day and he is fine. I used to use huggies but he is better in the tescos. Pampers baby dry smell of wee anyway!! How old is your LO, what milk are they on?

debbym

Saw a TV prog on UKTV food the other day where someone made spag bol with corned beef instead of minced beef - sauce was tinned tomatoes, crushed garlic and broken up corned beef. Haven't had to try it (yet!) but its an idea for stuff already in store.
When we make corned beef hash I cube the corned beef and potatoes rather than mash it together and throw in onion/garlic/fresh tomatoes/peppers as I have them available plus a dollop of horseradish sauce to up the taste a bit - haven't made it since we had kids though - mine refuse to eat potatoes
Tesco's have chickens on sale for £1.99 each (or did last saturday!). If you've veggies and things in stock you can stretch a chicken to about 3 meals easily- follow the "rubber chicken" type threads already mentioned.

Chipps

Earlier I noticed someone mentioned a tub of cheese sauce mix, but even cheaper is to make up white sauce & add some cheese - all you need is flour, marg, milk (or water or milk-&-water; I usually make up dried milk for sauces)
White sauce, with or without cheese added makes a great base for any kind of pasta bake, cauliflower cheese or pie. eg mix chopped cooked meat with onion & any leftover veg, top with mashed potato & cook in oven about 30 mins.