help - £40 to feed 1 person for a month!

7roland8

keep bread in freezer and only use a slice at a time.

Porridge - large bag will last all month (abt !.35 from Tesco)

Have a large veg stew every day - remarkably cheap - just add a stock cube - or a half (and a bit of cheese). Add in lentils or other pulses to stretch.

UHT milk the cheapest.

shebrett

2 tins tuna, 2 handfuls cheese and a handful or two of the frozen veg all heated up together with a tin of condensed mushroom soup and a tin of condensed chicken soup and add 2 soup tin fulls of milk. Then add 500g pack of cooked pasta, mix together well and put into big pyrex dish/baking dish and bake topped with a handful of cheese for 20 minutes and you have 8 - 10 portions of tuna casserole....should take care of a few meals for about £2....if you have it a half teaspoon of smoked paprika really perks it up at the beginning steps.

First thing that came to mind from your ingredients, hope it helps, good luck!

HOWMUCH

Tesco value weetabix are 75p for 36, so that with alittle milk is breakfast for 18 days

RAS

determinedtodothis wrote: »

I have a loaf of bread,
marg,
5 tins of tuna and
400g of cheese
and loads of frozen veg

OK

So freeze the bread and at least two thirds of the cheese to stop it going off.

Do you have any flavourings at all; chilli, curry powder, herbs?

Start with a packet or two of porridge oats. Useful for breakfast and other things.

Get a large bag of potatoes and the cheapest pasta you can find - Sainsbos cheapest is 39p a packet. Add a packet of lentils as well; bulks up soup, makes dahl, rissoles; bulks up pasta sauces.

next is do not panic but work out when your local shops do their reductions.

mlz1413

I adore pasta and its cheap!
cheap cheese sauce mix = macaroni cheese.
if you have frozen cauliflour that = caulifour cheese.

Tuna and pasta bake with your tinned tuna

frozen bread toasts well, I take 2 slices of toast to work for breakfast most days.

buy chicken portions / legs frozen for the cheapest meat option.

pink_numbers

I've done this 'meal' since I was in boarding school, through uni and still make it when I am on my own and can't be bothered to cook. It's sooo cheap.

You'll need:
pasta (any, but I like the twist ones)
1 oxo cube (again, any but I like the veg one)
black pepper
any other seasoning you want (I put things like mixed herbs, chilli, soy, but use whatever you fancy)

in a pan of boiling water, break the oxo cube in, then cook the pasta in the oxo-liquid. add seasoning as the pasta cooks. when pasta is cooked, eat the lot in a bowl as 'soupy pasta'. The pasta is yum as it'd soaked up all that oxo flavour.

it's much nicer than it sounds (honest!!) of course it doesn't have to be oxo - you can use much cheaper stock cubes. or even a sachet of soup! Not the most nutritious thing in the world, but cheap, quick and warm