Help! £40 to feed family for the month

Bogof_Babe

Buy a pack of economy rice and a medium onion. Fry or boil half the chopped onion, mix with cooked rice and half a heated tin of value peas, and pour over the heated tin of curry sauce. Approx 70p for two servings.

Pudding for 10p a serving - 13p value swiss roll, sliced and covered with a made-up sachet of value custard.

If you don't mind identical meals two nights running, you just have enough money (and curry sauce) to repeat this the next day.

jamespir

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

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.

i do make a lsit i only brought the 6 bottles of worceser sauce cause they were 10p each before christmas

jamespir

robpw2 wrote: »

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

i know i got some absoulutley lovely

noynoy

ive found buy the way
if you eat lots of cheese..grate it you use less.

.if you melt it on cheese on toast dont completly cover the toast ..just spread it once its melted

bulk out your grated cheese with 1 raw grated carrot ..good for vits and a little cheeper than cheese

allways try the smart price stuff first if no good move onto the shop brand stuff

water down whole/semi skimmed by 1/3

ditto washing up liquids shampoo liquid soap

wash your loo rolls into oval shapes stops the kids/dh pulling too much off

poundstercher bog rolls are just as good as andrex ones !

dont but cheep bin bags or wahing up liquid it really is false economy that sid cheap washing up liquid is good for using round the house

tinned toms and baked beans are fab for bulking out casseroles and are very cheep plus good for vits and tasty too

if you like your butter but cant bear tjhe ultra cheep stuff have two lots one nice stuff for sandwiches and one ultra cheep for cooking

6p noodles are just as good for stir frying as egg noodles if you dont boil them too long

in fact my 2 sons loves this
6p noodles with a 2 of cheep hot dogs 2 tablespoons of sweetcorn and 2 table spoons of peas costs about 50p for 2 meals
add a tin of chopped toms and the whole tin of tin of baked beans hotdogs and you have enough for a family casserole dish cost about £1.50 for the whole family

wigglebeena

Tomato puree is effectively cheaper than tinned tomatoes now (39p for basics tube in MrS): same flavour for a small amount.

clutterydrawer

noynoy - wash your loo rolls?! please elaborate!

thanks for the other tips though, very handy

miggy

clutterydrawer wrote: »

noynoy - wash your loo rolls?! please elaborate!

thanks for the other tips though, very handy

I wondered too! I think it might have been meant as 'squash your loo rolls' - I've seen this elsewhere and the idea is to squash them slightly so the tube bit goes oval not round. This is of course cruel to Andrex puppies because they can't pull the paper off the roll as fast but the same applies to families, who will be slowed down in how much paper they can unreel at one go.
HTH!

clutterydrawer

miggy wrote: »

I wondered too! I think it might have been meant as 'squash your loo rolls' - I've seen this elsewhere and the idea is to squash them slightly so the tube bit goes oval not round. This is of course cruel to Andrex puppies because they can't pull the paper off the roll as fast but the same applies to families, who will be slowed down in how much paper they can unreel at one go.
HTH!

ahhhh I see, how ingenious!

We don;t have a loo roll dispenser so can't do that one :rolleyes: but i guess unravelling it by hand takes even longer soI'm probably winning already on that one

pixie1

This is one of the best threads i have ever read, truly amazing!

Well Done Mbaz! Inspirational isnt the word!

Pix
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noynoy

psml lol yes squash not wash lol ..ha made me chuckle anyway!!