Your shopping list with a budget of £20

focus888

Ok if you had only £20 to spend a week what would your shopping list contain?

I know alot of people try to keep it to a minimum but im curious to see what other people would think is necessity within this budget. thanks for any replies.

thriftlady_2

£20 for how many?

LeeSouthEast

Based on one person:

Organic bananas (7 pack): £1.29
Organic apples (6 pack): £1.79
Organic long-life milk: £1.32 (x2)
Organic wholewheat fusilli (750g): £0.99
Organic tomatoes (8 pack) (x2): £1 (on-offer)
Organic porridge oats (750g): £1.19 (sufficient for 15 servings!)
Organic potatoes (2.1kg): £1.75
Organic mushrooms (400g): £1.19
Organic baby onions (400g): £1
Organic carrots (1.25kg): £1.59
Beef Mince 800g: £2
Pigs liver (258g): £0.31
Whole Value Chicken (2kg): £1.99
Frozen peas (900g): £0.85

£19.49

Enough to buy a mars bar left over As can be seen, having a lowish budget for food does not mean you can't plan to eat well. Use your 50p leftover to buy up some (perhaps reduced) wholegrains or high fibre tinned products such as kidney beans/berlotti beans etc. You save £1.19 next week by not having to buy porridge again, so use that with your saved 51p this week to buy some good healthful tinned products.

(Prices source: Tesco Direct. Prices valid from MY store and probably TODAY ONLY, so ymmv).

Widelats

focus888 wrote: »

Ok if you had only £20 to spend a week what would your shopping list contain?

I know alot of people try to keep it to a minimum but im curious to see what other people would think is necessity within this budget. thanks for any replies.

I actually do only have £20 per week, sometimes £15.

Chicken breasts x 7 £6
Basmati Rice £2
Coffee £2
Cleaning products £3
Tuna fish x 7 £3.50
Bread x 4 loaves £2.50
Cereal £1

That is approximately all i get, just as well as i do eat healthy and go to gym anyways.

Burlesque_Babe

If it were a real bare cupboard situation, I would probably include

Bag of long grain rice 68p
Bag of pasta 74p
Bag of potatoes 1.38
Bag of onions 75p
6 tins of value tomatoes 2.16
chicken thighs/drumsticks 1.49
mince (1xpork 1x beef) 3.20
cereal 1.00
milk - 4 pints 1.53
Plain flour (2x 1.5kg bags) 86
Yeast 67
vegetable oil 88
butter 84
eggs 88
baked beans x2 58
bulb of garlic 31
bananas 1.00

Plus some loo roll - probably Value !!!

I'd also get free spices from the butcher's meat counter - they have about 8 different ones at my Tesco.

kalaika

LeeSouthEast wrote: »

Based on one person:

Organic bananas (7 pack): £1.29
Organic apples (6 pack): £1.79
Organic long-life milk: £1.32 (x2)
Organic wholewheat fusilli (750g): £0.99
Organic tomatoes (8 pack) (x2): £1 (on-offer)
Organic porridge oats (750g): £1.19 (sufficient for 15 servings!)
Organic potatoes (2.1kg): £1.75
Organic mushrooms (400g): £1.19
Organic baby onions (400g): £1
Organic carrots (1.25kg): £1.59
....

If the organic products are all replaced by 'ordinary' stuff then there'll be a bit extra for other items too. (Personally never seen the point in buying organic stuff, particularly on an uber-tight budget, but that's a debate for another time... )

LeeSouthEast

I was just making the point that a lowish budget doesn't mean you have to be restricted to the 'Value' or equivalent aisles. If you go for the cheaper products, while nutritionally lower, you will be able to stock up on a lot more. I'm always mindful of the potential for waste though. If you spend £1.29 on a pack of 7 organic bananas (1 a day), or £0.99 on a pack of 20 value ones but throw 13 away because they've gone off before you've eaten them, which was the better value?

Burlesque_Babe

LeeSouthEast wrote: »

throw 13 away because they've gone off before you've eaten them, which was the better value?

ah..........you've never made banana bread then......;)

phizzimum

is £20 per person considered a low budget? did the OP mean £20 for a family?

LindseyandMatthew

we have £75 a fortnight for a family of 4 and thats to include nappies and toiletries, I find it hard so will be watching this thread for ideas

blue_ashleigh

I have a budget of £15 (£20 if you include OH's stuff) every week and a half. This weeks shop:

• Bread rolls/ bread (whatever's in the 'reduced item' basket) - 19p for 20 bread rolls (bargain!)
• Lettuce (ice berg or romaine), half a cucumber, 8 (ish) beef tomatoes, spring onions (about 8) - £2.50 off the market
• 100g block of cheese - 62p
• Lean turkey mince - 99p (about 4 servings worth)
• 3 smoked Makeral things - £1.19
• 1.5kg of onions - 67p
• Mayo - 41p (yet to try it, hopefully it won't kill me... )
• 3 tins of sweetcorn - £1.19
• Fake weetabix (36) - 75p (Sainsbury's value/ basics, whatever it's called, actually nicer than normal weetabix!)
• Basics orange juice - 56p
• Courgette - 43p
• Tin of sardines (will do about 3 lunches) - 31p

And that comes to a grand total of: £9.81 (if I've added that up right!)
Although I have lots of cous cous, rice, raisins and veggie sausages so didn't have to buy anything too expensive this time!

Which leaves enough money for a chippie on fri WOO! (£2.30 for both me and OH)