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

Lesley_Gaye

Hi Mark

have just read the last few pages of your challenge and am amazed you are still up for it in such chaotic conditions, blimmin' well done. Have been spending lots of time on Weezl's £100 a month for 4 people thread and neglected you.

We have set up a workspace to store some docs, including the meal planner, and I have set up a meal planner for DP and self, with a price point of £1.50pppd, with 50p for main meals. Weezl suggested you may like to have a lookie as it is the same as your price point

If you do, I'm afraid the workspace needs an email address to access it, which is a pain. Or I can whizz over my Excel file. If you'd like to, just give me a shout and I'll do the necessary

mark55man

Hi Leslie. it is a nightmare - I will look at Weezl's pages when we are back up again. Although she has so many posts it will take a while. I will register my email addy at that time.

hi all - I know most of you do GC challenge - well Feb was £450 and Mar was £730 - so a good incentive to keep costs down for the future - and under the circumstances I am reasonably happy

misscousinitt

Hi Mark

Glad to see you are still hanging in there...

How's the extension coming? Any end in sight?

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mark55man

hi there - kitchen arrived from ikea, tiles nearly finished - probably 2 weeks before its usable

thu 1st - wed 7th

7 days = 126 meals
42/42 breakfasts
weekday lunches - 18/30
weekday suppers - 12/30 (spuds and toasties) rest microwave meals
weekend lunches - 6/12 (toasties)
weekend suppers - 6/12 (spuds and beans)

78/126

=1356/1685

uolypool

Lesley_Gaye wrote: »

Hi Mark

have just read the last few pages of your challenge and am amazed you are still up for it in such chaotic conditions, blimmin' well done. Have been spending lots of time on Weezl's £100 a month for 4 people thread and neglected you.

We have set up a workspace to store some docs, including the meal planner, and I have set up a meal planner for DP and self, with a price point of £1.50pppd, with 50p for main meals. Weezl suggested you may like to have a lookie as it is the same as your price point

If you do, I'm afraid the workspace needs an email address to access it, which is a pain. Or I can whizz over my Excel file. If you'd like to, just give me a shout and I'll do the necessary

hi can you give me the link for weezls £100 month for four challenge please

zippychick

Hi Uolypool

There are two threads

The original discussion - where the plan is discussed, recipes tested and designed etc

Giving it a whirl for shirl - testing of the actual plan

Hope that helps

boredofbeingathome

Hi Mark- yes it is an incentive to keep the old groceries down. I get upset if i go a penny over..lol.

Glad to see that the kitchen is nearly finished - you will have to put up some pics

mark55man

hi bob - piccies sound like a good idea - i will scavenge some of my OH who has been diligent in journalling the transformation

thu 8th - breakfast 6/6 lunch 6/6 (toasties) supper 0/6 = takeout
fri 9th - breakfast 6/6 lunch 3/6 (woopsie sandwiches) supper 0/6 = takeout
sat 10th - breakfast 6/6 lunch 5/6 (lidl pizza) supper (6/6) - baked potatoes

Lesley_Gaye

still doing well Mark. Surprised you can even track it at all at the moment

DP keeps wanting to buy a pasty or a takeaway, so have decided to have a fun budget, like Weezl, that he can use (or rather I can allocate) to buy stuff like that. Saves him messing up my sums then! And saves me getting cross at him

mark55man

kitchen still dragging on - not sure what happened today. to be honest i've lost count of meals and budgets over the past few days - very much not under 50p though

when i get a bit more time i will wrap up properly, but for now the challenge and i are on a break

probably best if we just let this drift slowly down the list of threads (i am not good at goodbyes) - but that doesn't mean i haven't been hugely grateful and informed by all you good people - even the arguments have been fun