Help!! £10 shopping budget.

culpepper

oats are very economical for brekkies too. A 1kg bag should last a good week at least and that is if you are very generous with the portions.
For sandwiches you can buy a tin of pilchards, put them in a bowl add a couple of slices of bread made into crumbs with a grater or processor and mix thoroughly, it makes very passable fish paste and will last for 3 days if kept covered in the fridge or freeze in your icebox in an icecube tray for keeping longer.
You can make your own yoghurt (look for a thread about it ) then just add jam or fruit.
Make icelollies with a cheap mould and fruit squash.

Trinny

Hello Jon and welcome to OS

I have a couple of suggestions -

1. post a shopping list of what you usually buy on here and let the seasoned experts help you to cut the costs down.

2. We saved loads by bulk buying whoops items (reduced to clear) - if you can learn to love them - 10p loaves of bread etc you can save quids

3. Tesco do value noodles and value curry sauce for 4p, some of the value stuff is excellent

4. Wild food is coming into its own right now - get a book from the library and you can use nettles, dandelions etc in place of spinach or greens

5. Keep your chin up! - better days are coming

Good Luck

Trin

Trinny

back again

Forgot to mention - grow stuff

seeds can be bought for pence in discount stores - you can get lettuce growing in a few weeks, and it will keep you in salad over the summer

BW

Trin

skintchick

It would help to know what you already have in the house, and how many weeks you expect this to be the budget. I used to live on the same money so it can be done, but it would help if we knew what your storecupboard held.

bigjon1968

Thanks to everyone who has replied to this. Well, so far, so good! I was slightly over-budget for week one, but there were several things on my list that will last most of the month, so should compensate for that in future weeks. I loosely based the list on twentypenceoff's suggestions, with a couple of the others thrown in for good measure. I know a couple of you have asked for a list of things I already have in the store cupboard and I will try and do this later.Thanks again.Jon

bigjon1968

meanmarie wrote: »

I knew someone who, when at college, as soon as his grant came in every month he bought a large bag of potatoes, lots of tins of beans and a tray of eggs....any extra money went for booze! You could try this one week, add a bit of mince the next week, few cheap sliced pans and a pot of cheap jam for your sweet tooth....not the healthiest diet maybe but you will live until you can up your budget a bit....don't forget free food an YS stuff as well

Marie

Probably being thick here, but here goes.... what are sliced pans? Also, YS stuff?

Oh and, free food, like the sound of that. Tell me more! :-)

Penelope_Penguin

bigjon1968 wrote: »

Probably being thick here, but here goes.... what are sliced pans? Also, YS stuff?

Oh and, free food, like the sound of that. Tell me more! :-)

Don't know what "sliced pans" are

YS is Yellow stickered Reduced items in some supermarkets are marked with a YS

Penny. x

meanmarie

Sorry, sorry, sorry.....we call a sliced loaf a sliced pan in Ireland....did strike me that it might be an unknown in UK, but then decided to leave it...will 'translate' any doubts in future.

Free food is merely that which you can pick from hedgerows etc...mostly fruit but things like groundelder is an edible veg...have had it in salad and cooked and its ok either way...there I go again, assuming that you have access to a hedgerow or two!

Just ignore me until we learn to speak each other's language!!

Marie

nopot2pin

bigjon1968 wrote: »

Probably being thick here, but here goes.... what are sliced pans? Also, YS stuff?

Oh and, free food, like the sound of that. Tell me more! :-)

Not sure what "sliced pans" are... but maybe sliced pan bread, as opposed to the plain variety in Scotland....
Not sure if Ireland do the same plain pan bread thing

Free food.... can be more tricky...
Can you be invited to friends/family for dinner once or more a week ??
If you are lucky enough to be invited for a meal, and a cheeky wee doggy bag is offered :whistle:.... well.... its rude not too, to be honest

If I go to my parents, I ALWAYS have to quality control anything that I find [STRIKE]appetising[/STRIKE] dodgy, in any way ...

Whoops...crossed posts Marie... but different and viable perspectives on both sides I think :beer:

bigjon1968

Thanks Marie, Penny and nopot2pin. I do have access to a hedgerow or two Marie, as I'm lucky enough to live in the middle of nowhere, so guess I will have to do a bit of research and find out what I am looking for. Penny, YS stuff is already my friend, just never heard the term before, so thanks for clearing that one up. And nopottopin, I do have a couple of friends who invite me to dinner from time to time, which is very useful at stretching the budget a bit further, but trying to be careful not to wear out my welcome