Eat for £12 a week?

Cute_'n'_Quirky

This is from the closed Black Saturn Menu Thread.
This recipe for home-made soup is for lunch for four people for five days - what utter rubbish.

The shopping list included 1 chicken breast to make the soup.

You may aswell feed them on bread and water and be done with it.






26-02-2006, 9:57 AM #5
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Recipe for lunchtime soup

Take 1 small chicken breast, 1 onion, half a packet of scotch broth mix, handful of mixed herbs, a few frozen peas, one potato peeled and chopped and 1 carrot peeled and chopped. Put all these ingredients in a slow cooker with about half a pint of boiling water and cook in the slow cooker for about 4 or 5 hours.

When cooked puree and either transfer into individual portions and freeze or transfer to one large container and chill.

thriftlady_2

Think it was just for her own lunch during the week actually and she says in a later post that the quantity of liquid was wrong in the original recipe. Scotch broth mix contains pulses and barley so has protein as well as carbs.

frosty

I feed 5 adults with a budget of £50.00,I make fruit smoothies for breakfast,
I put 2 pots of homemade yogurt in a large jug,chop 1 apple,1 orange,1 banana,and a bag of mixed berries(cheap from farmfoods.) then i blitz it with my stick blender until smooth,then I add some skimmed milk to make it go further.The yogurt only costs pennies to make and the fruit is either reduced or from our local market.
We eat salad,and have frozen veg with meals,we eat more than 5 portions of fruit and veg.
Since joining MSE I have learnt such a lot from everyone,especially how to make food go further,like making 5 different meals from a chicken.

Bogof_Babe

The only thing that continues to puzzle me about BS's meal plans is that she used to say she spent £42 on groceries every six weeks, for her and her two daughters. That equates to just over 11p per person per meal. I don't think the daughters get free school meals, as you have to be on benefits for those and she says she isn't. Try as I might, I can't imagine how anyone could survive on 33p per day. I couldn't even make a packed lunch for that, let alone breakfast and dinner as well.

Having said that, some of her recipes are undoubtedly worth trying, but I would not like anyone to feel inadequate because they can't match BS's phenomenal budgeting skills.

redsquirrel80

I spend about a tenner a week in the supermarket (need to look into local fruit & veg/ butchers to see if it's any cheaper, but only recently moved here so not had a chance to do that yet). Probably spend another couple of quid on snacks/ lunch at work once a week so £12 a week seems reasonable.. I don't have the most wildly exciting varied diet mind you, and it'd be even worse without my homegrown herbs and the collection of spices I've built up by buying the odd one now and then. But I think I do get at least my five a day and I seem reasonably healthy!

Penny-Pincher!!

Cute_n_Quirky wrote: »

I agree with you wholeheartedly on this one !

The cheap family menus are made up of stodge and starch and not much else.

I spend a fortune on fresh fruit and fresh or frozen veg.

I cannot grow my own veg anyway due to arthritis.
Most fresh fruit juices are too concentrated so high in sugar.

My mealplans arent stodge and starch:D

PP
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Cute_'n'_Quirky

thriftlady wrote: »

Think it was just for her own lunch during the week actually and she says in a later post that the quantity of liquid was wrong in the original recipe. Scotch broth mix contains pulses and barley so has protein as well as carbs.

The recipe she gave would not give lunch for one person for five days, whichever way you look at it, however much water you add. There were no pulses or barley on the shopping list so the expenditure was incorrect.

Cute_'n'_Quirky

Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »

My mealplans arent stodge and starch:D

PP
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Oh Really?


This is YOUR latest meal plan


Saturday-HM Lasagna, Oven Chips & Salad
Sunday-Roast Chicken, Roasties, Yorkies, Cabbage, Cut Beans & Carrots
Monday-Lamb Stew & Dumplings
Tuesday-Toad In Hole, Mash, Carrots & Cabbage
Wednesday-Creamy Chops, Saute Potatoes, Cut Beans & Corn On Cob
Thursday-Gammon, Baked Spud & Salad
Friday-Egg, Oven Chips & Beans


Chips, Yorkshire Puddings, Dumplings, more Yorkshire Pudding and more chips - this is all in one week.
Stodge and starch.

And another of yours -

MealPlans WB 22nd April 2007

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Sunday-Lamb, Roasties, Yorkies (leftover in freezer) New Pots, Cabbage, Carrots & Parsnips
Monday-Meal at John Lewis (have a £25 voucher for their restaurant due to complaint )
Tuesday-Fish Fingers, Mash & Mushy Peas
Wednesday-Chicken, Mini Roasties, French Beans & Sweetcorn
Thursday-Shepherds Pie, Cabbage & Carrots
Friday-Steak, Chips, Salad & Garlic Bread
Saturday-Ham, Salad & Baked Spuds

So you think your meal plans are healthy? Granted yours are better than Black Saturn's but not by much.


What happened to FIVE portions of fruit/veg EVERY day?

Tam_Lin

But Penny Pincher has only posted her evening meals - maybe they have fruit and yoghurt for breakfast and a salad for lunch?

Cute_'n'_Quirky

With all that stodgy processed food they would need it!