Help!

Butterfliesarepretty

I need to cut down on my food bill. I made cheese and onion pie last week and it lasted three meals for me.
the ready made puff pastry is 85p in asda/tesco and I made a flan with this last week too and it gave me four meals.
I like pasta and pesto, do not eat much meat apart from ham slices. I take lunch to work usually pasta and yogurt.

I have £175 to live on after bills paid on the 16th till next month. so £15 a week, I have cereal drink semi skimmed uht milk, eggs, have two cats so get cheapest dry food from asda.

I like chocolate too its my only pleasure and have banned wine so far as I can't afford it. I stay in all weekend and now have to stop going anywhere to save money.

help need some good cheap recipes that can be kept in fridge for day after.

Please help.

Norman_Bean

Macoroni cheese with tuna and a breadcrumb topping is my best cheap meal - lasts 4 of us two meals and is tasty - I serve it with peas.

H and I eat the 9p noodles from Tesco as a meal, not very healthy I don't think but certainly cheap and filling.

HTH a bit

Norman x

vandanfc

At the top of the page is an OS tools resource bar - click the indexed collections link and you will find loads of recipes. Or better still here is the link:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=235198

ellas9602

hello

£15 a week should be doable, stick with us and you might even have some change.
Do you have any food in at the moment that we could help stretch for you as a starting point? do you have a freezer? where do you shop?
Which foods are your favourites, apart from chocolate
x

carriebradshaw

I eat the 9p noodles too sometimes,but with some veg added and either leftover meat or tinned tuna it makes it a little more healthy & filling too

Butterfliesarepretty

Hi I am just going to get a list of the contents of my cupboard and fridge and freezer now and post on here.
Thanks for your patience and help.

Butterfly_Brain

A tin of Tuna can go a long way - you could make a tuna pasta or fishcakes or even tuna pasties.
Eggs = omelletes, frittata (use leftover veg and put in)fried eggs, boiled eggs, poached eggs
I agree with the cheap noodles you could always add a few veg to them
Pkts of pasta in sauce means that you cook eveything in one and the basic ones are quite cheap and there are quite a few varieties.
Make your own soup such as minestrone or parsnip etc add croutons or dumplings to make it more filling.
Jacket potatoes are filling and you can add anything to them such as lefover chilli, bolognaise or just plain grated cheese
Look out for whoopsies in your supermarket and freeze.
Go to the library and get out some wartime cookbooks - they knew how to stretch food out in those days.
HTH

Butterfliesarepretty

Right here we go.
Freezer

Bag of 40 birds eye fish fingers - not good quality very thin.
Bag of peas
1 cod fillet in batter
Frozen mango pieces - half a box
Asda value mince
Julienne carrots
Only a few chunky chips left.

Fridge

Four eggs
half jar black olives
red peppers in a jar
aubergine pesto sauce
half litre of semi skimmed uht milk
Six tomatoes
Red pepper
Potatoes
Red onions - plenty
2 normal onions
half tube tomato puree
Jar of Raitia for curries
1 yogurt
jar of mayonnaise (hellmans light)
Clover spread
block of cheddar and chesire cheese - asda own

Cupboard
3 tins of tomato soup
tin of kidney beans
jar of chilli sauce
tin peach slices
bag of long grain easy cook rice
two packets of cheap flavoured couscous
2 pack of super noodles
tin branston beans
egg noodles - plenty
lasagne sheets - plenty
family size bolognese sauce
tin of sweetcorn
tin of smartprice tuna chunks
4 slim a soups

Cereal
Frosties
Crunch Bran

I prefer cereal every morning than toast but also like all cereals too.
Want to cut down on bread as sandwiches can be boring at work.

funkymonkey849

£15 a week should easily feed you - I spend about this or less for all my meals. If you don't eat much meat this is good as it will help to keep the cost down.

Here are some of my cheap meals to give you some ideas, I try and eat them a few times a week:
Beans on toast
Value noodles
Jacket potato with beans or tuna
Lentil soup - so easy to make and very cheap!

Rice is cheap and filling. Add cooked rice to your tomato soup to make it into a meal, or stir in pesto and a bit of cheese sort of like a risotto.

phizzimum

have you tried tesco value chocolate? it's only 28p for a 100g bar and I think it's just as nice as branded bars (especially the white choc, mmm!). it's great for baking with too so you could make some choc chip cookies, muffins etc and they could last you the week. means you can still have your little treat (and quite right too!) without breaking the bank.

Butterfliesarepretty

Hi yes I think I will get the tesco chocolate tonight but will put a tenner in my cars tank for work tomorrow and saturday.:cool:

I'm still entering the competitions but never win anything.;)

feeling more positive about baking and cooking and freezing stuff.