Help! £40 to feed family for the month

Bongedone

6 bottles or Worcester sauce. I cannot imagine why you have that many. Takes me months to use one.

You may be able to make a bean chilli which would last a few days with that budget.

jamespir

RAS wrote: »

9p noodles and some whoopsie vegetables for a stirfry (you can just about get away with the worcester sauce instead of soy sauce).

More vegetables and a curry sauce. See if you can get some bargain pitta or some reduced price nan.

Beans on toast - again see if you can get a reduced loaf as this can go towards breakfasts as well, or go with the curry.

Do you have anything in the freezer? And flour or other ingredients?

The other thing I used to do when this hit was to go to the coat rack and check evey pocket, thenn do the same with the wardrobe. Amazing how many odd pennies there are to be found. Even 25p helps.

It might be a good idea to sit down now and menu plan and then price up for the period from Saturday until the next pay day? Then you get what you need on Saturday.

thanks for you help dont have a freezer but i did find some smash in a tin in the back of the cuboard and the sell by date is may 09 so should be ok so i have got 2 smart prize pizza (reduced to 20p as date is up today ) some noodles and some cheap vegtables so i can do food till saturaday thanks for your help all that offererd advice

jamespir

Bongedone wrote: »

6 bottles or Worcester sauce. I cannot imagine why you have that many. Takes me months to use one.

You may be able to make a bean chilli which would last a few days with that budget.

they were 10p each in farmfoods b4 christmas so i stocked up

so_here_we_are

Get some vegs, and use the jars of curry sause and make a veggie curry (gf will like also) and it should cover 2 also get some milk as you can live on weetabixs and tea for breaky. Also bread and beans and eggs - I lived on Eggs on toasts for a week yummy

Any of the above should see you through....

Ianna

Dried chickpeas and cheap veg like carrots can make a delicious curry. You could make one chickpea and one veg. Blend the chickpeas to form a cheap humous and have with smart price bread for lunch. If you don't like chickpeas you could try making rice and mixing it with the mint sauce - not the tastiest meal I know but it'll keep you going.

Auzelia

smart price pasta, a tin of smart price tomatoes and some garlic and cupboard spices for a nice pasta dish

Barneysmom

I got a banana from Tesco the other day for 14p so you can have a piece of fruit.:cool:

Stephen_Leak

Bongedone wrote: »

6 bottles or Worcester sauce. I cannot imagine why you have that many. Takes me months to use one.

This makes me suspect that the OP "sleep shops", like so many others. Next time you go shopping, use a list. Not only does this make sure you don't forget to get anything you need, but also it stops you buying stuff that you already have.

Also, this has got to be the simplest and cheapest recipe for the most wholesome and filling end result – ever. My box of dried peas cost 36p, so each serving cost just 9p!

PEA SOUP

Serves 2

INGREDIENTS

125g (½ a 250g box) of dried peas
500ml of water
Ground pepper to taste

METHOD

Soak the peas in water according to the instructions.

Put the peas into a saucepan and cover with fresh water. Bring to the boil, then turn down the heat until it is just boiling (simmering).

Put the lid on the saucepan and continue cooking until the peas are soft. Check the liquid level from time to time and top up if it starts to dry out.

If you have a food processor, put the soup in it and blend it to the desired consistency. If you have a hand blender, put it in the soup and blend it to the desired consistency. If you don’t have a food processor or hand blender, use a potato masher, press the soup through a sieve with the back of a spoon, or leave it lumpy.
Season with the pepper. Continue to cook for another couple of minutes

ADDITIONS & ALTERNATIVES

You can use fresh, frozen or tinned peas. These do not need to be soaked.

You can also make this as Pea & Ham soup, using the leftover cooking water from a boiled bacon joint.

TIPS

Pea soup can be any consistency from a thin liquid with soft peas floating in it to a thick paste you can stand the spoon up in.

robpw2

Dont buy cheap beans they are 29p at mo
Buy cheap spaghetti its only 14p !!

omen666

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