£25 a week food shop is this possible?

loopyloulou_3

thanks black saturn
thats brilliant that you can spend £42 every 6 weeks! how on earth do you manage it?!

choccyface2006

Easy peasy! I manage to spend about than £40 a fortnight on food/tolietries/cleaners for myself and two daughters, I might spend another few pounds or on bread/milk/veg. My girls spend one night every fortnight with their dad so I don't feed them then and I make in bulk lots of meals and freeze them. Definatly plan out your meals in advance, make a list and know what you already have in, and don't food shop on an empty stomach. I have become quite good at popping to the local shop for milk and coming out with just milk! (But I always check the reduced section! - just in case I miss a bargain)

Sarah x

Tondella

lynzpower wrote:

I live in London as well, work full time, not taking advantage of Aldi/ netto cos we dont have a car and tescos or morrisons are the only ones on a bus route really, and we are still doing it without MUCH trouble. The other day when I painted the kitchen, i turned the fridge plug off, so we lost a bit of food, and I was gutted.

well done! can you offer me any top tips on how to get it done. I do most of my shopping at sainsburys, it and somerfield are the two options here, other than tesco metros and corner shops.

black-saturn

loopyloulou wrote:

thanks black saturn
thats brilliant that you can spend £42 every 6 weeks! how on earth do you manage it?!

I dont know really. I've never really had that much money so it seems like a lot to me.

lynzpower

Tondella, plan plan plan, seems to be the main thing that gets it sorted I think. Dont tolerate waste, if your bread looks like its going to go stalke, freeze it then use it slice by slice for toast etc. Look whats in the cupbaords and think, what CAN i make with this. Im getting to the empty cupbaord stage now, but when I started 6 weeks ago I estimated i had about £200 quids worth in!!

Actually as It goes, I dont think Somerfield is bad, plenty of useful BOgofs- unlike morrisons ( crisps & pop on bogof in the main) Some things are great in the value range, some not. Trial & error. Some purchases are better than others, instead of colgate ive moved to mccleans toothpaste half the price in wilkos. Value toilet cleaner is fine. Still buy some finest stuff, bread, odd yoghurt, sausages particularly.

Few things Im doing quite a bit at the mo:
Finest bangers & mash ( made with value pots) frozen peas, gravy
Hunter chicken & mini roast new pots
Chicken & mushroom lasagne & HM garlic bread
Homemade chunky burgers with pot wedges & salad ( never buy bagged salad! Round lettuce is 25p most places eg, am going to buy some rocket seeds & see if they work, not bad for 50p, gotta be worth a stab)
Roast chicken & all the trimmings ( homemade yorkshires, included, stuffing etc)
Use the leftovers of the chicken for either a chicken pie (packetpuff pastry, HM white sauce peppers,frozen S/corn, onions, mushrooms courgette) have with mash or mini roasties out of the value bag or a jacket
We have some lazy food in like linda mccartney pies/ frozen fish type things maybe once a week, see whats on offer never buy processed meat apart from finest sausages
Buy the bigger lean steak mince from tescos use half for burgers, other half gets used for bolognaise for OH, I use his sauce with Quorn mince, cant eat beef mince apart from in burgers!)
Buy turkey not chicken WAY cheaper
Stirfries, with a bought sauce ( off to pop to china town tomorrow after work, slightly cheaper there, plus a nice walk, started sprouting my own beansprouts as they never really last from shops, gunky before you get them home)
Curry, left over chicken using paste not a premixed jar
Never buy any "jar" stuff, what cant be done with a bottle of passata aint worth doing,! pasta sauces, bolognainse, enchiladas with some seasoning, chilli etc
Dont go in for bought puds very often although we are partial to the heinz sponge puds you boil in a tin & custard.

Tonights offering is Turkey medallions ( 2 for £4 and theres 10 medallions in each pack so should do us for 2 meals, plus one still in the freezer ) with veg and pepper sauce on a bed of brown rice with french stick ( bake your own about 40p for 2) Tomorrow I might knock up a pasta or something, as OH wont want rice 2 days on the trot, or we could use the rest for stirfry etc

Phew, wrote loads there , hope it helps someone x

missk_ensington

How come Turkey products are so much cheaper than Chicken, but buying a whole Turkey is 6x the price of a chicken even when the same weight!!!?

lynzpower

So true, MIss_K
absllutely no idea!