6000 meals under 50p in 2010; feeding your family on a low budget

boredofbeingathome

Allegra wrote: »

Weezl's lentil pate !

And lovely it is too:D I am making some today whilst i have some time off.

weezl74

Thanks Bigmumma and BOB. I was just popping on actually to say sorry to Mark if I overstepped a line by analysing DS1s cheese. I noticed you usually thank contributors and (because I'd worried I'd said too much) I checked and you hadn't with that one:o

I wanted to say oops and sorry if it was a bit much, and by way of explanation I was pretty angry with the criticism you got and said what I did out of a kind of protective feeling.

Loving all the ideas on this thread Mark et al, you are an inspiring bunch :T:T:beer: keep going please!

Steel_2

Just popped in to say great threat and keeping my fingers crossed that you achieve your goals mark88man.

I always keep an idea in my head of budgeting around £1 per person per meal, although breakfast is invariably less and dinner can be more. Some summer days with canny shopping, a good day's egg laying from my girls and a good crop of fruit and veggies in the garden it's been as low as 20p.

Those days are good days and give me immense amounts of satisfaction, because they usually mean that what's on my plate has almost all been raised at home.

We all have our own individual goals and aspirations, as well as our standards, ethical code, experiences and desires. It's ridiculous for anyone to come on a forum of all places, read between a few hastily typed lines, make assumptions and judgements and then quote government statistics to push people to think and behave along one narrow avenue.

By all means share, enlighten and inspire others with your knowledge and your experience, but it's a mistake to beat them over the head and be superior in attitude and condescending in tone. As some posters have found out, they get rejected and then ignored. Suddenly your opinion, which may be valid, counts for nothing because no-one is listening any more.

misscousinitt

Just catching up on the thread after a few days absence - it moves so quick - can't believe it.

Anyway, nothing to add at this time, but didn't want to read and run - I think you are doing fab! Keep up the good work....

A

mark55man

weezl74 wrote: »

Thanks Bigmumma and BOB. I was just popping on actually to say sorry to Mark if I overstepped a line by analysing DS1s cheese. I noticed you usually thank contributors and (because I'd worried I'd said too much) I checked and you hadn't with that one:o

I wanted to say oops and sorry if it was a bit much, and by way of explanation I was pretty angry with the criticism you got and said what I did out of a kind of protective feeling.

Loving all the ideas on this thread Mark et al, you are an inspiring bunch :T:T:beer: keep going please!

No offence taken - I rarely take offence at anything, and would absolutely never take offence at someone as helpful as you - *hugs* . I just had too much work and too many posts and didn't do a proper job with the thanks button.That's all for now just taking a lunch break (woopsied bread, carrots and apples :rotfl: will catch up later when I get home

nimbo

thans so much for this, it has truley inspired me...

P.S i love cheese

weezl74

spurred on by those nice comments from Mark:D, a couple of other ideas for with pasta:

2 bags smartprice pasta shapes cooked drained with 1 whole jar of asda pesto stirred through, along with half a bag of frozen fine green beans snipped in half also stirred through. If you don't super-drain the pasta, the little bit of remaining moisture will help the pesto flavour all the pasta shapes

This would make each person be having a whopping 166g of pasta each which is a pretty enormous helping, so I think you'd be left with lots to have as cold pasta salad for lunch boxes...

even if it all got polished of, it's 33p per portion, so plenty left for a nice pudding...

knithappens

just wanted to derlurk, and show my support, i am not a big poster, but read alot, getting lots of tips and inspiration from this thread, so thankyou.

Karrie2129

Weezl that's a brilliant idea! I always have a bag of green beans in the freezer and just love pesto!! Thank you!

whichwhydoIturn

hi omg i love this idea.

just dont know where to start

could you tell me where the ideas for the meals are? or is it using everything of meals & no waste.

thank you ....