Help! £40 to feed family for the month

Ibex

mummysaver - you beat me to it! I have frozen cheese in blocks but find the crumliness a bit off putting nothing wrong with it taste wise though.

evie451

mbaz wrote: »

ooo that's good to know. I have a lidl nearby. So that's 4 supermarkets we'll be trawling on Thursday!!! My boys are going to love me!

yes it is! particularly as Mr M? charged me 84p for 500g, i am off to my local Lidl later

donnajt

mummysaver - hand on heart, your post wasn't at all condescending, i've found everything you posted really helpful and look forward to receiving more, as for the praise - keep it coming lol!

mummysaver

There is a new thread about lentils getting more expensive, due a a shortage of supply. I'm glad to know I wasn't imaging it! Looks like lot of harvests have been poor this year, wheat, rice, potatoes, onions and now bloomin lentils! No wonder the cost of everyone's shopping keeps rising.

Will be practising using yellow split peas and see if I can notice any difference, haven't so far, other than they need blending if you want them to disappear.

Glad I didn't offend you Donna, sometimes it can be easy to type something and hear it one way in your head, but when you read it back it sounds different iyswim! Glad my wafflings are useful to you lol! It's nice to find people who share the same sort of ideas about food, so many people I know just think I'm nuts for meal planning, when they find out about the rest of it they really think I should be sectioned!

mbaz

Gosh only 3 days to go!!!


My fridge is depressingly bare!! The only good thing is I've been able to give it a really good clean!!!


I had to give boys their shreddies with a drop of milk and water today although they didnt seem to notice any difference! I cant believe this month is nearly over. At the beginning it felt like it was going to take forver to get to the end but I'm almost there!
1st - carbonara (just found a jar in back of cupboard)
2nd Lasagne (with added lentils )
3rd chicken and rice
4th jacket spuds with smartprice beans
5th defrost a curry
6th lasagne
7th omlette
8th chicken dinner
9th casserole in giant yorkshire
10th canelloni
11th Beans on toast
12th Jacket spud
13th ate for free!!!
14th Egg and chips
15th curry (bulked out with lentils!)
16th veggie sausages and chips
17th left-over-bulked-out-curry
18th 4p curry sauce and chips
19th chicken risotto abd syrup sponge and custard
20th cheap asda jacket spuds and value beans
21th Egg n chips
22th 4p curry
23th Shezza's pasta sauce
24th - Gruel pie

mummysaver

Well done mbaz - what a change from the start of the thread when you didn't know how you were going to manage. I think everyone who's read this and followed your "adventure" has learnt something. If we all keep it up we'll spot each other when we book our hols to the Bahamas with all the money we're saving lol!

I tried the Mr T's 4p curry sauce the other day, and I was really surprised, it was quite nice, I was expecting to have to add quite a lot of stuff to it, but I didn't need to, just a spoonful of curry paste, but then I was making a huge amount, so perhaps should have used a couple of tins! So thanks to all the people here who recommended it. Going to try the tinned sweet and sour sauce at some point this week as well, positively luxurious at 24p!

boredofbeingathome

Just adding that i too have tried the curry sauce, i am thinking of adding chicken, mixed beans and toms to it tonight served with rice...truely delicious.

patentgirl

I have added two to my Mr Ts delivery on Wed so will let you know how it goes down in our house!!

you have done so well mbaz and totally agree with mummysaver about us all learning something sad it is coming to an end soon!

ShelBell

Hi all,

Mbaz, well done for getting through the month! very inspiring.

I have found myself in the same boat as you for the month 25th Sept - 25th Oct, and have inventoried my cupboards and freezer (in the weezl thread). am aiming to spend between £30-£50 to include all food and cleaning/personal products. So it looks like I'll be picking up your mantle when you finish off!

mama67

I use this alot, it is great cooked in the slow cooker with extra onion, carrots, peppers and some polish sausage choped into it.

Serve over rice makes a lovely fairly cheap dinner.