Do I still fit in here if...

faithcecilia

Part of my reason for wanting to eat as cheaply as possible is so that I can afford a bottle of wine a week?:eek: I know it sounds awful, but I admit its true and quite honestly i would rather budget for it and buy it at supermarket price than find myself thinking 'oh blow it' and nipping across to the petrol station. At the moment I only know 1 other person in the whole town, and thats the friend I am living with, and tbh a glass of wine would be nice when he is out at weekends etc, even if its only Lambrini!

HariboJunkie

faithcecilia wrote: »

Part of my reason for wanting to eat as cheaply as possible is so that I can afford a bottle of wine a week?:eek: I know it sounds awful, but I admit its true and quite honestly i would rather budget for it and buy it at supermarket price than find myself thinking 'oh blow it' and nipping across to the petrol station. At the moment I only know 1 other person in the whole town, and thats the friend I am living with, and tbh a glass of wine would be nice when he is out at weekends etc, even if its only Lambrini!

I think you will fit in just fine.

purpleivy

A bottle of wine isn't much of an ask, is it? Go for it! Looking forward to hearing that you've managed it.

faithcecilia

HariboJunkie wrote: »

I think you will fit in just fine.

Thank you:j

I'm trying to plan what to buy at the weekend for next week. I am thinking £10 inc wine (£3.19 Tesco rose I had was ok) so around £7 on food. I'm veggie so thinking:
lentils
fruit (apples, nanas, satsumas - depends whats on offer/reduced - about£3?)
veg (sort of ditto - carrots, broccolli?)
couple tins beans and spagetti


Erm??? So long since I've done it, especially starting from scratch! This week I've just had odds and ends and spent too much:o

purpleivy

Do you need some other sources of protein, or do you rely on beans? What do you eat for breakfast?

faithcecilia

purpleivy wrote: »

Do you need some other sources of protein, or do you rely on beans? What do you eat for breakfast?

Ashamed to say I tend to just do coffee for breakfast though I've had toast for a few days as I'm losing too much weight just now.
Protein, my friend had MASSES of soya mince in the house that he is happy for me to use - he won't! I also have 8 veggie hot dogs and 4 veggie 'chicken' fillets I bought this week. Cheese etc again, this week, I'm eating his. Ditto bread.

randomer

quite understand about the wine thing! Your food seems a bit lacking something......how about making something really tasty eg veg lasagne and having it 2 alternate days. The day in betweem something quick and easy. Do you eat eggs... Spanish omlette? Ho,emade burgers freeze some and have with different salads.

We had roasted veggies in a wrap with feat cheeses tonight delicious.
Aldi pretend martini is quite nice too!

randomer

Feet cheese is wonderful but we actually had FETA!

faithcecilia

Yes, I do eat eggs but rarely have them.

Had a browse om tesco.com and have a few ideas...

£1.02 Red lentils 500g
57p Chick peas 500g
50p Value brown bread (but might find something reduced)
46p Value cottage cheese 250g
39p Value dried spagetti
8p 2 tins value curry sauce:eek:
29p tin value baked beans

So sub total of £3.31

£4 3litres of Lambrini:beer: which I'd like to say would last 2 weeks, but...:rotfl:

So...£7.31

Leaving £2.69 for whatever fruit and veg I can get ?????

valk_scot

You know, I'm going to sound really mean saying this but if you only have £10 per week to spend on food then allocating 30-40% of it to a non-necessity like wine is not entirely sensible. If someone came on here and said they were going to spend the same percentage on chocolate or jaffa cakes then there would be a lot of head shaking. Get your basic nutritional needs met first! If you're losing "too much weight" then you're obviously not even getting the basic calorie requirement, which is roughly 2,000 per day for an average height, non-active woman.

You need to ge out of the snack mentality and start eating three meals per day, each including a decent amount of nutrients. Toast/cereal for breakfast, piece of fruit or fruit juice, milk on your cereal or a yoghurt or peanut butter etc on your toast. Lunch that includes carbohydrate plus protein plus veggies plus fruit. Dinner ditto. You should be looking at around 400 + 400 + 800 calories over three meals (can be shuffled around) plus snacks.

What you're giving on your shopping list is way too little in terms of nutrients, even adding in what you can get from the cupboard...and that won't last more than a couple of weeks. As I said before, yes it sounds mean, but on £10 per week you can't afford to be buying wine, not if you're not actually eating enough for health.

ChocClare

I quite fancied this which I saw in last month`s Waitrose magazine (which I get for free) http://www.waitrose.com/recipe/Split_pea_and_mint_croquettes_with_minted_yogurt.aspx

Split peas are 49p for 500g in Tesco's. Can't say fairer than that!

I think you're quite right to want some wine if you've just left your community, but do be careful - I have just watched my friend (just come out of a divorce) turn from a lovely, fun-loving, occasional-glass-quoffing sweetheart into a really unpleasant drunk. Luckily she had the sense to realise what she was doing before it became a problem. If you want to celebrate to be going on with, then good for you!