Needing food ideas

minjara

Hi there, I've done a major shop and parents have done some approved food for me. I get Mr A tomorrow and AF whenever. This is what I have ordered:

Beef frying steak x 3
Bag of frozen sweetcorn
Bag of frozen peas
Oven chips
Variety crisps
6 Milk Chocolate Bars
2 tins Baked Beans
2 tins Tomato Soups
1 Naan bread Mix (enough to make 3)
3 Strawberry Jelly Cube Bars
1 Instant Custard
1 Stir In Carbonara
1 jar BBQ Cooking Sauce
2 Boxes of Rice Snaps
1 x 8pk Flour Tortillas
1x 6pk Finger Rolls
1 pack Scones
1 4pk Teacakes
1 6pk Crumpets
2 thick bread loafs
Filled cheese and Tomato pasta
6 strawberry yogurts
4pk Chocolate mousse
6 ltrs milk
15 eggs
1 tub of cottage cheese with chives
400g cheddar
1 pack puff pastry
1 pack sliced thin ham
500g pork mince
1 pack pork sausagemeat
1 pk 8rasher bacon
garlic
Lettuce
Celery
4 Baking Potatoes
Half Cucumber
Szechuan sauce
2 packs Stir Fry Veg
1 Bag Red Onion
1 Bag Carrots
1 Bag Kale
1 bag Jaffa Oranges
1 Cantaloupe Melon
1 Bag Granny Smiths
1 Bag Bananas

Not fantastic but there we go. AF is mostly junk food treats:

1 Box of Cup cakes
2 pk of caramel biccies
Peanut Satay Stir Fry Sauce
Bounty Bars x 3
2x Snow Bites
1 Caramel Fudge Cake
8 pks Noodles
24 bgs Beef Jerky
5 pks cookies
3 pks malted milks
3ltrs squash
1 bg of jaffa cakes
1 bx Mr Mash
1 can Hot dogs 8
Tomato and Basil Ryvita
Soreen Loaf
Dumpling Mix
Pineapple Chunks

And then with whats in the house:

10 Chicken Breasts
500g Turkey Mince
10 Fish Fingers
10 Fishcakes
6 Fish Fillets
Smileys
Kidney Beans
Cous Cous
Savoury Rice
Pasta
Rice
Most herbs and spices
Jams
Marg/Butter
Dry sauces
etc.

As many ideas as possible would be great. Reason all this as we have the money but all this needs to do as long as possible. The only rules are no mushrooms, no tomato, no lamb, nothing spicy as partner is allergic to tomatos and has ulcerative colitis. Thank you in advance for help.

Minjara

Trinny

Hi There

Just a quick question - do you cook from scratch at all? if you dont then its just a case of assembling the ready prepared stuff you have bought. and doing some kind of menu plan for the weeks ahead. If you do cook then meat can be made into stirfry, casserole, bolognaise etc. It looks like most of the list is stuff you chuck in the oven - heat and serve. This is fine, but i am not sure where you need the help, and if you plan to do any "from scratch" cooking.

Best Wishes

Trin

Butterfly_Brain

TBH with you there is a lot of junk food on your list
If you are trying to save money and reduce some of the horrendous additives in foods these days you would be better buying some frozen and fresh fruit and veg and cut back on the sweet treats - i am not saying don't have any but limit them to once a week

PasturesNew

Your shopping list is just a bunch of stuff to mix n match. You need to start looking at what you're buying and start trying to make some of this stuff yourself.

e.g. some easy things to start with would be the fishcakes, crumpets and savoury rice. Just take ONE item each week that you buy ... and try to make it yourself (don't try to do everything at once or you'll not eat any of it and then never bother trying again).

And your junk food/snack list is the biggest I have ever seen in the whole world!

ciderwithrosie_2

You've got plenty of ingredients there, some suggestions would be....

• Chicken and bacon pie (with the puff pastry for the lid)
• homemade sausage rolls with the sausagemeat, seasonings and puff pastry
• savoury mince, with some of your peas and sweetcorn and the dumpling mix
• cottage pie
• Chicken/beef stir fry with the veg, noodles and chinese sauce (isn't it spicy tho?)
• hot dogs and baked beans with cheesy mash on top
• turkey mince, onion, sweetcorn and kidney beans rolled up in the tortillas served with some salad
• Fish, chips and peas
• steak, baked potato, peas and sweetcorn
• Bananas and custard
• Ham/bacon, carbonara sauce and pasta
• Chicken skewers, satay sauce and egg fried rice
• poached eggs on toast
• Baked potatoes, cottage cheese and baked beans
• homemade vegetable soup
• Bread and butter pudding

Errrr, can't think of any more at the moment

regards CWR

wssla00

minjara wrote: »

Hi there, I've done a major shop and parents have done some approved food for me. I get Mr A tomorrow and AF whenever. This is what I have ordered:



As many ideas as possible would be great. Reason all this as we have the money but all this needs to do as long as possible. The only rules are no mushrooms, no tomato, no lamb, nothing spicy as partner is allergic to tomatos and has ulcerative colitis. Thank you in advance for help.

Minjara

I think there are some dinners here, but do come and see the meal plans and try that as it's a great way of planning food for the month. I can post my shopping list if you like. I spend about £55 a week on everything including toiletries and the cats and I have LOADS of treats too! But i'm no way near the best at this! In fact i think im one of the worst lol!

1. Chicken Stir fry
2. Ham and Pineapple french bread pizzas (if you can get some french bread or use the hot dog rolls)
3. Steak and onion burgers with chips
4. sausage plait
5. fried rice with egg, sweetcorn, peas and some finely sliced ham
6. Chicken satays and noodle stirfry
7. cheese and potato pie using the mash onions and cheese
8. naan bread spicy pizzas with chicken and some curry powder and onions if you have them
9. BBQ chicken with rice
10. Baked beans cottage pie (using some more mash and a stock cube mince and some beans)
11. Fritatta
12. hot dogs and onions
13. fish pie- fish fillets, sweetcorn, milk, flour butter topped with mash
14. BBQ fajitas? Mix a little chilli into the bbq sauce and use it with sliced onion and chicken breast serve with tortillas
15. Cheese and ham quesadillas- mix chilli powder, ham and cheese and some fried onions to taste then put into tortillas and toast each side till cheese has melted and serve with salad
16. Eggy bready hammy garlic bake- italian herbs, slices of thin ham stale bread, eggs, milk, cheese and crushed garlic roasted in a pan- thanks to someone on OS who posted a version of this... can't remember who now!
17. Pasta carbonara
18. If you had some spinach and a pot of pasta sauce you could make cheats lasagne- a layer of filled pasta, a layer of spinach and layer of pasta sauce, topped with cheese repeat until the dish is filled and bake in the oven for about 20 mins

er that's all I can think of at the moment. but there will me more. I will get my thinking cap on!

killielila

wssla id be interested to se your shopping list mealplan always ike to see how other shop/ buget

wssla00

Ok It's a bit wordy but bare with me (or should that be bear with me- i donno!)

You are more than welcome to see it. TBH a lot of my budget is "trimmings" if you know what I mean. Here is my meal list for this month, and this is how I work out what to buy, taking in what I already have in the freezer and the cupboards. This amount would easily do a family of at least three, but I freeze my leftovers so often I don't have to buy food for a day. I also use my leftovers for my lunch.

List of foods
1. Chicken and mushroom risotto Y
2. Chicken Katsu Curry (Breaded chicken fillets, rice and curry sauce) Y
3. Steak and ale stew Y
4. Roast chicken and trimmings Y
5. Gammon and trimmings Y
6. Bbq ribs sweetcorn and chips N
7. Chicken fajitas Y
8. Sausage casserole Y
9. Chilli and rice N
10. Pizza Y
11. Roast beef and peppercorn sauce N
12. Burgers and chips Y
13. Chicken curry N
14. Lamb roast Y
15. Gammon and trimmings N
16. Chicken roast N
17. Chicken stew N
18. Chicken fajitas N
19. Roast chicken and trimmings N
20. Sausage and mash N
21. Bacon burgers and chips N
22. chicken dippers and potato wedges Y
23. fish and chips Y
24. Steak and ale stew N
25. Butternut squash risotto Y
26. Chicken and mushroom risotto N

(Excuse the Y and the N this lets me know if I have the stuff in the house or not)

Then I order my foods....

Meat comes from a butcher but you could get it from Asda, tesco or even farm foods which is pretty good.

Horseshoe Gammon Joint 2-3 people Min 750g 1 £5.25 £5.25
Special Offer Topside of Beef 4 - 5 people Min 1.25Kg 1 £9.95 £9.95
Pork Loin Ribs 1 x 340g portion 2 £1.95 £3.90
Steak Mince 1 x pack = 454g 1 £3.50 £3.50
Farm Assured Boneless Chicken Thigh Pack of 8 = 1Kg 2 £6.95 £13.90
Whole Farm Assured Chicken 2-3 people min 1.25kg 2 £6.99 £13.98
Perfect Beef Burgers 4 x 113g / 4oz Burgers 1 £3.50 £3.50
Shin of Beef 1 x pack = 454g 1 £3.50 £3.50
Streaky Bacon 1 x Pack = 454g 1 £2.50 £2.50

As I said though you could really reduce on this as it's from a butchers rather than tesco

Then, I order online a BIG shop this one is an Asda one as I had a free delivery voucher:

2 Allinson Premium bread flour £2.90
1 ASDA 20 Tie Top Refuse Sacks £1.50
1 ASDA Arborio risotto rice £0.94
1 ASDA Biccy bites £0.75
1 ASDA Burger buns - white £0.64
1 ASDA Burger ketchup £1.28
1 ASDA Carrots £0.50
1 ASDA Celery £0.78
1 ASDA Chocolate caramel biscuit bars £0.75
1 ASDA Cola zero £0.47
1 ASDA Cooking sauce - bbq £0.98
1 ASDA Dr thunder zero £0.64
1 ASDA Lemon lime - zero £0.64
1 ASDA Peppercorn sauce £0.33
1 ASDA Prawn crackers £0.35
1 ASDA Puffin bar £0.75
1 ASDA Puffin bar - mint £0.75
1 ASDA Shallots £1.37
1 ASDA Smartprice Butter - salted £0.85
1 ASDA Smartprice Cheese slices 10s £0.49
1 ASDA Smartprice Pizza Cheese £1.98
1 ASDA Smartprice Red kidney beans in water £0.19
2 ASDA Thai style vegetable crackers £0.48
1 ASDA Tropical crush £0.64
1 Butterkist Popcorn toffee £1.00
1 Catsan Hygiene cat litter £8.37
1 Heinz Squeezy tomato ketchup - reduced sugar £1.00
1 HP BBQ sauce - honey woodsmoked £1.35
1 McCain Homefries straight oven chips £1.00
2 Sharwoods Naan mix £1.00
1 St Andrews Ale £1.23
1 Thomas Cat treats - chicken £0.57
1 Walkers Frazzles - bacon £1.00
1 Walkers Wotsits - cheese £1.00
2 Wyke Farm Just Delicious Extra Mature Cheddar £5.00


As you can see I have a lot of treats, then I bake cakes and muffins from value flour etc as well. I also have fruit in the fridge and use fruit from tins as well as frozen veggies and berries already in my freezer and fridge to get my 5 a day. I use Iceland or farmfoods for this. I also get my milk and juice delivered from the local milkman. This costs me £5 a week. My cat food comes from pets at home- £20 for the month.

So if I work it out- £43.00 for Asda shop £59 for meat £20 for pet food £17 for toiletries and cleaning products (Homebargains) about a tenner in Asda for frozen veg, fruit and tinned fruit last week on their 4 for £3 total for the month this month should be £150 which is about £37.50 a week. Plus a fiver a week for milk and fruit juice So less than estimated but that gives me a bit of leeway in case I fancy something else.

This will last me the month.

Hope this helps!