Cheapest Way to Five a Day.

nuttybabe

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I am rubbish at eating veg with my main meal, until Mum pointed out I didn't have to eat it on the side, why not mix it in with my meal?
So if I make cottage pie - I add onion, carrot, frozen peas, tinned tomatoes and sweetcorn. Then top it with mashed potato mixed with swede and carrot
Casseoles you can add pretty much anything - I hate celery but I like it when I don't know it's there!
Tomato and veg soup - I think the record I hit in that was 8 veg - tomatoes, celery, onion, leeks, carrots, mushrooms, sweetcorn, peppers

i do that. any veg i have gets grated and goes into bolognaise sauce or cut up and into cottage pie. cauli or broccoli or peas or sweetcorn into chessy pasta. helps the kids eat it as well!!!

Cazz

Aaaaaaaaaand, if all of this is so good for us, why are we getting fatter? [/QUOTE]

'cos we spend too much time on our butts in front of the computer :rotfl:

candlepower_2

Hi just a thought,but remember the good old tin,,

often cheaper than fresh,and something you can always have in

baked beans,sweetcorn, peas, kidney beans(ie buy the basic one;s tins of toms,tomatoe puree and then tinned fruit idealy in own juice pineapple 13p
tinned peaches prunes,grrapefruit, have with berakfast or as part of a pudding.

kind regards Candlepower

meritaten

ignore 5 a day!!! If you eat a varied diet including all the food groups then you should be fine!
for gawds sake dont stress over it - stress is a killer!
my mum has the worst diet of anyone I know - no veg - no fruit - she eats nothing but a roast dinner once a week and crisps and pasties, and supermarket trifles, cheesecake or cakes, with a sarnie of cooked chicken and stuffing maybe once a week. in the summer she may have a salad of lettuce and cucumber and half a tomato - once a week! oh and lots of biscuits and tea.
she is nearly eighty and wont change her diet now!
she isnt under or over weight - and is happy enough. and refuses to go to the doctors because last time she was reduced to tears about her diet by the practice nurse.

SusanC_2

This cheap meal planner gives six a day and only costs 80p/person/day so £100 per month for a family of four.

strawberrypud

I'd love to lower my grocery bills but we spend at least £25 per week on fruit and veg alone (mostly veg) and thats from lidl so we do eat a lot of veg!

Some people seem to manage to spend that amount on their entire weekly grocery bill and I'm sure those who do are eating a healthy diet. So without growing my own I'd love to know how to spend less on fruit and veg without eating less of it please.

Any advice?

artybear

THings like frozen veg are quite good, i.e a huge bag of broccoli is £1 so you can do many meals for that price. Remember the government guidelines are only 80g a portion of fruit and veg, quite a lot less than most people imagine.

HTH

weezl74

Hi I'm not sure if you mean a cheaper way to get your 5 a day, but this is the current cheapest way to get all your colours and your 5 a day, so this is how I usually do it, for example:

80g tomatoes from tinned tomatoes: 6.2p
80g onion from 5kg sack: 3.15p
80g carrot: 5.6p
20g raisins: (dried portions are smaller as more nutritionally dense) 2.6p
40g marrowfat peas: 3.2p

total per person per day 20.75p or £5.81 for a family of four for the week. (costings at asda using mysupermarket)

HTH

Chloris

Most of my shopping budget goes on fresh fruit and veg. I had a light-bulb moment today when my 3 year old pointed to the frozen fine green beans (a big bag for £1.19)! Surely they are going to be full of vitamins? I have been buying them fresh and struggling to use them all before they droop. I shall be experimenting with frozen veg.

I hope to be picking up some more tips!

Johnjohn

Foraging is the cheapest option (free), but hard work and time consuming - message says I'm not allowed to post links but try searching fo "go self sufficient"