Help! £40 to feed family for the month

hm71_2

for lunches my kids love what I call cheese on toast special, bread, tomato sauce spread over it (can use blended tinned toms) chopped onion, mushrooms, chopped ham ( i use the tinned stuff as no-one will eat it in sarnies) grated cheese on the top & grill. fills up quite well.

Toonie

Just wanted to say good luck for the month. If you are looking for a sweet treat, then Twinks hobnobs are dead cheap to make.

Also, I find that crumble is good as a filler if having a light dinner-I've done this a few times, when we've not had much for dinner to make BF feel he's eaten loads-normally I use a (bashed whoopsie) tin of fruit and add some frozen berries and lastly I make scones for breakfast for a cheap weekend treat (its cheaper than buying bread) and BF wakes up to the smell of baking which puts him in a good mood! :D

victoriajj

jackk wrote: »

Obviously i’m not sure what supermarkets you have access to, but every little helps

goodluck x



Tesco Sage & Onion Stuffing Mix 170g £0.58 – They sell a value version for about 20p ish

Tesco Value Whole Chicken 1.30kg £2.79 – do you have an aldi, i got a chicken for £2.20 there.


2 x Tesco Value Chopped Tomatoes 400g £0.42 – Buy whole and chop them yourself, they’re cheaper.


2 x Tesco Whole Milk 3.408ltr/6 Pints £4.24 going to freeze one and this will hopefully last us Asda are selling 4 pint cartons of cravendale for £1.00


2 x Onions Loose Class 2 £0.36 – Sainsburys are selling a bag of basic onions and carrots for 40p until tomorrow i believe, some fruit also.


Colmans Traditional Chicken Casserole Mix 40g £0.47 – supermarket own brand are cheaper, taste fine though.

also if you have a concord nearby they are dong sugar for 69p a kilo and if you have a Farm Foods they are doing milk, 6pts £1.50 & 4 pts for a £1 both full fat and s/skimmed

buxtonrabbitgreen

CoD wrote: »

9oz red lentils, 1 tin tomatoes, carrots chopped, onion chopped, stock (from cube) or just water. cook lentils and veg, blend, season.

you can also add some curry powder for curried lentil soup

Thanks for this. I had all the ingredients so made it to leave for the kids for lunch tomorrow.

Blairweech

Okay, I know I shouldn't say this but...

if your local supermarket still accepts cheques.....

you could buy some more shopping 4-5 days before your OHs payday and pay for it with a cheque, so that by the time it clears you will have been paid. Not sure if supermarkets still accept cheques though...

Mariel

I'm not sure you can do the cheque trick any more. I tried it once a couple of years ago forgetting that a cheque guarantee card is now also a debit card so it was refused. I was very embarrassed. And hungry!

shezza

Hi, my OH and I stumbled onto this a few weeks ago and we have done it a couple of times since. We shop at Sainsburys (I know not the cheapest, but I much prefer their value range which is pretty much comparable in price with all the other supermarkets) and I bought their jar of value bolognaise sauce (27p), to this we added a tbsp of tomato puree and a couple of tbsps of Quark mixed it all together and it tastes just like the tomato and marscapone sauce you buy in the fresh section, but at a fraction of the price, just add value pasta and you have a lovely tasty filling meal for about 60p total. We have added meatballs as well sometimes but as you are on a serious budget I would go with the veggie option. I also buy the 8p chicken curry noodles and add them to stirfry and you really can not taste the difference between them and the expensive Amoy ones. Hope this helps x

mbaz

1 day down, 23 to go, going well. OH hasnt noticed yet!

Going to do my shopping today starting at Aldi to see if there's anything on the tesco/asda section of the list I can get there. Will let you know how much I spent in total later!

1st - carbonara (just found a jar in back of cupboard)
2nd Lasagne (with added lentils ) and berry crumble
3rd Bolognaise
4th Veggie burgers with homemade chips
5th defrost a curry
6th lentil soup
7th chicken dinner
8th chicken casserole with yorkshires (leftovers)
9th Defrost a curry
10th lasagne (hoping to bulk out sauce enough with lentils to s-t-r-e-t-c-h to two)
11th chicken and rice
12th shepherds pie (make 2 and freeze 1)
13th veggie sausages and mash
14th Beans on toast (gotta crop up somewhere)!!
15th chicken curry with 4p sauce
16th chicken casserole (hopefully made enough on 8th to s-t-r-e-t-c-h )
17th pasta with cheese and tomatoe sauce
18th shepherds pie from 12th
19th risotto
20th Homemade soup
21th Chilli
22th Egg and chips
23th Shezza's sauce and pasta (I'll always call it that now!)
24th - Go to take away in middle of night when OH's salary goes in!!

patchwork_cat

How old are your children? I only ask because my family get through nearly 20 pints of milk a week - which is about the 3/4 pint each and with cheese and yogs makes it about equivalent to the pint for my kids. ( we are cereal addicts though!) Is this 12 pints realistic for your family? It may well be if they are on school milk etc.

LucyLocket

It looks to me like you've got the ingredients there for home made pizza. On a Saturday night I dig out a DVD DD9 hasn't seen for a while and the three of us have home made pizza in front of the TV ( I usually prefer us to eat at the table). DD thinks it's a huge treat, particularly if I pop some corn for afterwards. The popping corn is some minor outlay to start with but a bag lasts for ages. On an even less nutritious note an alternative to pizza would be to do the same thing and serve chips with curry sauce. When I was little my mum used to make chips and serve them to us on a paper napkin wrapped in newspaper because that was the way they came from the chip shop then. We thought it was a big treat! Not sure that would work nowadays:-)