How to survive on what’s in the store cupboard (plus a little money)

Fruball

You have plenty there so don't worry.

Try a local market for veggies/fruit or Aldi/Lidl etc as they often have good buys.

As long as you plan meals around what you have, you might not even have to use the whole £20!!!

curlytop12

large free range eggs 99p at aldi

RAS

Are you non-wheat?

HH62 wrote: »

Freezer

Broccoli-not much, maybe 2 servings
Cauli
Sweetcorn - turkey and sweetcorn soup?
Bacon -
3 packs of 6 quorn sausages 18 sausages will make you 9 meals at least. Toad in the hole, green lentils and sausages, sausage and bean casserole, Hot potato salad with sausages, sure you have a few more ideas.
stewing beef 500g Given you already have loads of chilli, make half into a curry and half into a casserole? Anyway, enough for 6 meals here
Parmesan cheese
Grated cheddar
Turkey breast - roast or casserole - there must be enough for 4/5 meals here including cold with salad, sliced for sarnies, remnants for soup, pasta sauce (white with mushrooms), stuffed pancakes,
2 x chicken breasts - this is 2-4 meals depending how you use them. Half a breast for a stir fry for example
6 x HM Chilli portions - on top of the above!

Pantry
Olive and veg oil
Tinned toms - loads
Tinned kidney beans - loads
2 x tin butter beans
2 x tin mushrooms
Cocoa
Pasta - with tuna sauce, white sauce, pesto
Rice - with the curry and the chilli
Lentils - green and red - green with the sausages, red as soup, maybe a bit of bacon added
Quinoa - salads for work/lunch?
Creamed coconut - this is a basic West Indian dish. Kidney beans, loads of thyme (2 tsp) and creamed coconut to coat. A lot more intersting than you think.
2 x tin salmon 4x tin tuna - lunches or pasta sauce/bake
2 x jar pesto - with pasta and to bulk up the flavour of potato salads
tomato pur!e
3 x small tins baked beans - brekkie
Tea-plenty
Coffee-plenty

You probably have enough meat/substitutes to make main meals for a month here. On top of that can you take soups for lunch, using the red lentils and some of the beans with veggies and a bit of bacon?

OK IMO, you need potatoes, cheap seasonal or whoopsie veggies
(carrots for example), eggs for omelettes and batters, flour for batters and maybe pastry, bread, oats for porridge and flapjacks, sugar for baking, weezl recommends frozen mixed veggies as well, curry powder, a couple of very cheap noodle packs.

Penelope_Penguin

We have an existing thread on this topic, so as this one has fallen from the front page of OS, I'll add it to that

cuddlymarm

Hi

Maybe the cauli/ brocolli etc could go with a cheese sauce made with the grated cheddar. Any odds and ends of veg could also make fridge bottom soup ( basically whatever you have with a stock cube and a few herbs/pepper/chilli powder etc) Jackets pots with cheese or baked beans or bacon are lovely now its getting colder. A bag of value spuds can go a long way as well (cook extra for bubble and squeek the next day) Egg and chips/potato wedges are filling and as long as you are not staying on a restricted diet for weeks on end will do you no harm.
I agree with the make do as long as possible becuase its amazing how long what you have will last.

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ixia

Go to aldi if you have one nearby the following veg are 39p this week- cabbage, mild onions, beetroot, salad potatoes, parsnips and cauliflower.

Domsmummy

Hi. Im hoping some of you nice people can help me.

I have £15 left until 10th November for grocery for my family. Which isn't to bad but i have a 3month old and 23month old who will both need nappies in this time. I know it isnt as bad as i think as i have quite a bit in the cupboards but am panicing so can't see the wood for the trees. During this time i need to feed 2 adults an my toddler.

Is this even possible?

Thanks for any help you can give during this time.

BitterAndTwisted

Of course it's possible so do not despair!

Have a look on this site fro some VERY cheap recipes. You can feed a family of four on £100 a month apparently.

http://www.cheap-family-recipes.org.uk/

Want to pop a list of what you have in the store-cupboard, fridge and freezer so folk can give you some ideas?

Domsmummy

Thanks

Ok just need to calm down.

I have:
5kg Pasta
5 tins chopped toms
4 tins kidney beans
5 tins beans
800grams Beef mince
chickens breasts
rice
couscous
1 n 1/2 onions
carrots
5 leeks
parsnip
courgette
Abergine
8 flat mushrooms
apples
bananas
lentils
frozen sweetcorn
potatoes
Plain and selfraising flour
Bread flour
some fish(OH won't eat)
Marge
2 pots of single cream
weatabix
oats

Few other bits and pieces.

Ok that seems like quite a bit for 2 and half weeks, i would like to put of shopping for aslong as possible so i don't end up in same situation next month.

I will have to get some squash soon as my son just will not drink water.

Thank you.

bluebag

Don't panic, you can do this. I've been in a much worse situation in the past.

When I was totally skint I used to use the cheapest nappies in the daytime when I could pay more attention to the hygeine and used a better quality one for night time.

You have quite a few things in the pantry and I'm sure others will be along with some meal plans.

I'll have a wee think and come back and post whatever I can think of.
You are not alone.

Forgot to say a$Da does 750ml cheap but low sugar squash in apple and blackurrant, lemon and orange for about 29p I think.