Stuck For Ideas..

ange903

Hi,
Yet another long time lurker here:hello:
I have overspent again on my budget and am left with just
£15 to feed me, OH and the two cats next week.
The cats food is £4 leaving £11 for the two of us.

Anyway... I have nothing in the freezer apart from green beans and my cupboard contains 1/2 bag of plain flour and some mixed herbs.

I'm well and truly stuck for ideas so if anyone can come up with something i would be very very grateful.

ta

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get some
potatoes,
cheese
a couple of onions and maybe some
beef mince
couple of tins of tomatoes there is at least 3-4 meals there.
Shepards pie, mince & mashed spuds with green beans for veg
Pizza, make a base and sprinkle tomatoes,herbs,cheese over the top
Cheese and potatoes pie layered spuds,cheese,sliced onion and herbs
See if you can get some tinned cheapo tuna and some pasta
Tuna pasta bake
two largish spuds, Tuna melt baked jackets with grated cheese and sprinkled herbs on top and green beans for veg.
Soon as you have some cash stock you cupboards with basics of the above its suprising what you can do with very little.
Good Luck
p.s. invite yourself to your family for dinner and tell 'em your skint.hopefully you may be able to beg or borrow some basics to get you though,

RosyP

I find bags of dried pulses very good and cheap. Chickpeas with onions and peppers in a spicy tomato sauce served with rice, lentil burgers with HM chips and some veg. Three bean soups for lunch & porridge for breakfast. Instead of buying fresh milk can you get some dried stuff and use for porridge and tea, not too nice to drink on its own but made up in tea you can't really tell. When I lived alone even a pint would go off as I only have a tiny amount and my mum, who does not mince her words, couldn't tell any real difference either.

Meat tends to be the most expensive so accept that your going to be veggie for a few days and probably eating the same thing over. Boring but healthy and not forever.

chunky79

I found myself in this position a few years back, we lived on beans or spaghetti on toast, with eggs, poached scrambled etc... not fun but we survived and we did it for almost a month!

miss_cupcake_2

If you don't mind not eating meat then it's very do-able. I would stock up on some cheap tinned tomatoes and basics like pasta, lentils, potatoes. Cheap tuna and cheese would be good too. You can then mix and match the ingredients to make things like tuna pasta bake, tuna/cheese baked potatoes, tomato and lentil soup, HM pizzas. HTH

Taye

For a cheap meal grab some cheap pasta (asda has huge bags on offer atm)

a couple tins of tomatos, lentils or baked beans, cheak out the reduced veg if not grab a bag of mixed frozen and a couple of onions. make a BIG pan of pasta sauce using those ingredients, portion it out into a few tubs, add garlic and mixed herbs to one, chilli to another, cumin/curry powder to a third.

Serve with the pasta and you have 3 different tasting meals.

B&M is also a good place to try they have stirfry noodles atm for 15p.. grab a bag of value stirfry veg from asda (98p), some noodles from B&M, throw in some scrambled egg and you have another 2 meals for about £1.50 (could even stretch it for 3 meals depending how much you eat)

Buy a bag of potato's .. some value beans/value tuna/ value cheese.. for various things on jacket pots.

Could also use tuna/cheese and pasta to make pasta bake.

As someone already said grab some value mince and an onion .. fry it up split it in half ... half turn into shepards pie with the green beans you already have, half turn into a spagetti bol or chilli you can make it go further by adding lentils or as i found out the other day buy some soy mince from a health food shop.. the dehydrated kind i bought a huge bag for £1.50.

On it's own it's pretty horrid i think (my veggy son doens't seem to mind it though) BUT if you use it to pad out regular mince it is VERY VERY hard to tell where the real meat ends and the fake meat starts.

Hmmm more ideas..... i'll keep thinking and get back to you.

maggie111

I'd try and stock up on fillers.

Value bread, should keep the stomach full.

Big bag of cheap rice or pasta, whichever you prefer

Huge bag of white potatoes.

Eggs.

Then look at how much you're left with, and what you'd like to have with those foods? Can you afford a big block of cheese? Omlettes, cheese on toast, bit of long life milk and you could have potato gratin (cheese, milk, potatoes, herbs - delicious). Bread and butter pudding (without raisins!) to satisfy any sweet urges.

Lots of beans/spaghetti on toast options if you can get the cans cheap enough. Plenty of dirt cheap rice or pasta dishes etc.

Look into it a bit more, come up with a shopping list budget and we can go over it for you and help you eek it out.
Go onto the internet and cost it all up for a trolley full.

Taye

Do you have ANYTHING else in the cuboards? i take it you need lunchs/breakfasts as well as evening meals? do you work do you need portable lunches? can lunches be re-heated.

madnessandmayhem

When i'm having a 'light' week, I do omelettes-usually with a bit of ham and cheese in it-you could do a jacket spud with it and beans, or you could make some chips (if you have a fryer-V.unhealthy but taste good!!! lol) you could get some cheap tins of soup with bread for lunches, and toast for breakfast?

kemo_2002

maggie111 wrote: »

I'd try and stock up on fillers.

bit of long life milk and you could have potato gratin (cheese, milk, potatoes, herbs - delicious).

ooo! this sounds nice

how do u do it>

ange903

Thank you everyone
Will take all ideas on board and make a list...

.. and will invite myself to dinner round mums

thank you, thank you, thank you