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

PolishBigSpender

HappyMJ wrote: »

This is only 1 portion of the NHS's recommended "5 a day" of fruit and veg.

And this is the problem in eating 'cheap'. It's very difficult to achieve a balanced diet - already on this thread, I can see that the original poster is feeding many 'value' things - which often contain lots of hidden things which are about as healthy as a kick in the face.

Eating cheaply and healthily using only fresh ingredients - great! But so far, this really, really doesn't appear to be healthy in any way. The UK's healthy eating initative is fantastic - and I think many advocates would have a heart attack at some of the things being fed so far.

PolishBigSpender

Again - is this diet really healthy? No vegetables there at all - and while it's 'cheap', it's certainly not healthy at all.

Rachel85

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Again - is this diet really healthy? No vegetables there at all - and while it's 'cheap', it's certainly not healthy at all.

I thought potatoes and carrots were vegetables - and that rasins were fruit?!

tiff

I get the point about healthy eating, but some people have to eat according to their very limited means to get by.

rachbc

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Again - is this diet really healthy? No vegetables there at all - and while it's 'cheap', it's certainly not healthy at all.

Orange juice, raisins, carrots and strawberries - sounds pretty like 5 a day to me!

Cheese and chicken for some protein and hm bread and spuds for carbs - sounds pretty balanced to me!

Doom_and_Gloom

PolishBigSpender wrote: »

Again - is this diet really healthy? No vegetables there at all - and while it's 'cheap', it's certainly not healthy at all.

I'll think you'll find that rasins, orange juice and strawberries are fruit and that carrot is a vegetable :rolleyes:. That is rather healthy. Okay it's not 5 a day (as they have to be 5 different fruits and vegetables and potatoes don't count) but it's better than a lot of people manage. I agree it could be healthier but it seems fine to me for an omnivorous diet. There are after all carbs, protien and fat in the day.

The only thing I see is that there are roast potatoes but no mention of cost of oil unless butter was used?

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Nikki, I think you are doing great dear, your not living on chips and burgers all the time, you have protien and fruit and veg in there.I was brought up during ww2 with a lot less protien than that and I survived. We were lucky to see friuit at all in a month, let alone five pieces a day.This fixation with five a day is total tommy rot .Of course in an ideal world it would be fine, but sadly we don't live in an ideal world, we live in a normal world, where we do what we can with the bext of what we have .Third world children survive on a handful of rice a day
You go for it and I hope you succeed

SavvyMoneySaver

rachbc wrote: »

Orange juice, raisins, carrots and strawberries - sounds pretty like 5 a day to me!


Cheese and chicken for some protein and hm bread and spuds for carbs - sounds pretty balanced to me!

To be fair to PSB nicki changed the menu completely after he posted his comments. Good luck with the challenge nicki I will watch closely to see how you get on.

Kimitatsu

Potatoes do not count as a vegetable for the purposes of your five a day.

I admire all of you on this thread but my query would be that there should be fresh fruit and veg included in there - as a guide for the purposes of a financial statement for any financial institution they allow £25 per adult and £15 per child per week for food (not including toiletries and cleaning products) which is deemed to be sufficient to have a healthy balanced lifestyle.

I will be following the thread from the sidelines but I am afraid I wont be joining in your challange :beer:

k.o.d

I think Dominican monks live on less frugal diets, there is raising your child to be economical with money, and there is raising your child to be a skinflint, this in no way constitutes a varied balanced diet for a child. Personally I think you are being unfair to the kid, may not be a popular view on here, but we am not going to scrimp on something as basically essential as a varied diet for a growing child