Tips for dropping my food bill?

ultimatedingbat

Student here also living on around £10 per week in food (approx £1.50 of that is on bread & milk) but I share my food bill between 2 of us. between us we spend around £15 between us.

We love 9p noodles and also the 5p pancake mix! I also buy bread when its going off and freeze it. Similarily with meet. I bought a 2kg thing of mince, had gone off by a day, for £2!

BigCraigJohn

And late evening trips to the supermarket (about 8 or 9) can prove very profitable, bakery items and fish etc can be heavily reduced and as above you could stock up or just go down when need be. Got 4 nice rolls from asda earlier for 20p or so.

Spitroast

Jars of curry sauce in morrisons for 12p now.. ok with pasta.

I make chilli and bolognese sauces in bulk then freeze them and have them with rice/pasta through the week. Cheap, healthly, quick (in microwave) and tastes good.

welshmoneylover

I take my hat off to you all for living so frugally food wise. But do you ever stop and think about what you are doing to your health?

You maybe paying a heavier price years down the line.

Debt_Free_Dreamer

welshmoneylover wrote: »

I take my hat off to you all for living so frugally food wise. But do you ever stop and think about what you are doing to your health?

You maybe paying a heavier price years down the line.

Eating cheap is often more healthy because:-

I cook all items myself, no ready meals with too much salt
Limited luxury items, puddings, biscuits, cakes etc.,
Fresh food, not processed and frozen stuff

:j


Cheap healthy meals include

Jacket potato and beans
Sprag Bog
Chilli Con Carne
Vegetable stew
Tuna Pasta Bake
Home made pizza
Vegegtable soups

None of this is cheap tinned crap (don't do that) and all of this is healthy and good value. You cannot get more healthy than cooking for yourself.

sistercas

have a look at THIS THREAD

Weezl is aiming to provide a healthy meal plan for a family of four for 1 month for a £100

it is certainly worth looking at for frugal meals which will also deliver all the health requirements too