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

misscousinitt

Just popped back to lend support - well done for continuing to post while you have all this with the kitchen and heating etc... going on...

Hope its going a bit better today for you.

A

mark55man

heating back on. hurrah - we have had half a kitchen this week, next week - its all gone. plasterers plumbers electricians - god its like a ballet!!

today 9th March - B/F 6/6 - Lunch 5/6 (DS2 schol dinners all week) - Supper 4/6 (kids Pizza, OP,OH - chicken sandwich)

mark55man

people breaking rules on this thread again - tsk tsk tsk

and I missed all the fun

(PS It was so warm last night - almost tropical - need to turn the heating down now :-)

ChrissieT_2

I feed 8-10 people 4 nights of the week, and use lots of Pony carrots. They are just the same as expensive ones, just come in a 12.5kg net and are bent or broken, though often straight. They're £3.95 per net, so cost about 25p per meal - 2.5 p each. Usually do another veg as well. Potatoes are good in sacks - £4.95 for 25kg, so 25p kg or 35p ish per meal. Buy them from farm shop and keep in garage. Can't do cheap supermarkets. Live in country and not worth petrol to scout for stuff that might not be there.
Hope I'm not repeating other stuff in thread. It is quite long.

miss_clarabelle

Hi Mark,
I'm quite new here and hadn't spotted your thread before but I LOVE IT! What a fabulous idea. I'd love to do something like this, but as I live on my own it's so much harder when you aren't buying fresh food in bulk (and if you do it goes out of date). Still, this is really inspirational and creative!
I haven't read all of the pages, so I apologise if this has already been asked/answered, but do you use money off vouchers? eg 50p off kingsmill etc. And if you do then do you count that as free food?
Best of luck, keep at it. x

mark55man

hi clarabelle

I tend to use vouchers on my online shops, but don't attribute them to individual meals, but use the label price. Mr T tends to give points rather than money off so every now and again we goto cafe rouge for moules. I do try and get woopsies, and am getting quite good at that. These I use at the reduced price.

Don't worry that the thread is long - I would miss out the first few and last few pages as the others best for recipes and chat - I've got a bit boring in the last few pages, and the first few are a bit controversial rather than helpful

miss_clarabelle

Thanks Mark. I will keep popping back to check your progress

miss_clarabelle

Thanks Mark. Keep up the good work. I'll keep popping back to see how it's going. x

P.S. I totally agree MrT's vouchers are best for treats. When you have no money and you can have a lovely treat for free...e.g. weekend away or pizza express (my favs) or BOTH, yay. The tv ad tells it like it is!

Penelope_Penguin

I have moved 3 off-topic posts discussing forum rules to the current Forum Rules thread, so as not to take this thread off topic any further.

Penny. x

mark55man

Thanks Penny