How best to spend £13.93 to live for a week?

Fire_Fox

c-m wrote: »

Need to provide for just myself for 6/7 days. All meals. I generally eat something like a pain au chocolat inthe morning (guess i won't now), I go home for lunch on workdays and then one meal in the evening.

I have the folowing:

2 tins red kidney beans
2 packs of supernoodles (just remembered these)
Rice (300g)
Salt
Black pepper
Curry power
MSG
Ginger powder
Crushed carlic
Crushed chilli
Mayo
BBQ sauce
Soy sauce
Cayenne pepper

Can you turn these into something tastey?

Mixed bean curry = £1.66 for three meals and loads of onions left
SP onions 74p
Tin of chickpeas 33p
Tin of SP tomatoes 31p
KTC creamed coconut 28p
Your curry powder
Can of your kidney beans
Your rice

Chilli con carne = £2.05 for three meals and loads of corn left
Smartprice frozen mince 87p
Tin of SP tomatoes 31p
Can of your kidney beans
Bag of SP frozen corn 87p
Your garlic and chilli
onions leftover from curry
Your rice

Chicken stir fry = £2.30 for two meals and loads of chicken left
SP chicken legs £1.80
SP stir fry veg 350g 50p
Frozen corn leftover from chilli
Your supernoodles
Your ginger/ garlic/ soy

Chicken and sweetcorn in white sauce with jacket potato = £1.03 for two meals
Leftover chicken legs
Leftover sweetcorn
Leftover onions
Can of Batchelors condensed soup 53p
1kg SP potatoes 50p

£5.38 for ten evening meals. :beer:

For lunches have
- jacket potato with SP baked beans (29p)
- jacket potato with tinned pilchards in tomato sauce and chopped onion (83p will do three days)
- jacket potato with bacon (SP cooking £1.13) and sweetcorn in your mayonnaise.
If you fancy a change have chilli con carne with jacket potato and have pilchards in tomato sauce with rice. :rotfl:

A total of £2.25 for lunches. :beer:

For breakfast have porridge (58p), milk (4 pints £1.53) and SP raisins (65p). Or at the weekend leftover bacon, SP eggs (91p), homemade potato and onion rosti (like hash browns ), SP baked beans (29p) and SP ketchup (34p).

A total of £4.28 for brekkie, all meals together £11.91 :beer: Enough left for a bag of SP apples (67p).

Lisaberry

One of my husbands favourite dinners (although lacking probably any nutrients) is some value pasta mixed with value baked beans and value sausages!

It was a weekly 'feast' in my uni days!

I always think of big brother with their £1 per person per day budget - and they still make room for tobacco and booze!

blossom30

Hi C-M with most of your ingredients you could make a big pot of minestrone soup that would keep you going for a few days. You can sometimes pick up celery at the end of the day in the supermarket for cheap as chips and the kidney beans could be used in the soup instead of barlotti beans. I use the wee leaves from the celery stalks as they give added flavour to your soup. I also use the 40p carton of passata from Tesco as a base for my soup. I think we could all go back to basics when it comes to cooking meals and we probably would save a fortune. good luck shrewdal

wssla00

There is loads of info on small budgets and food on the OS forum

here are some:

£40 to feed a family for a month
How to survive on little food and a little money

ampafc

littleyellowspider wrote: »

Let me get this right. You joined this forum in August 2006 and haven't learned enough to prevent yourself getting in this situation in the first place?

How did you manage to get into this muddle?

Why did you feel the need to post this? No need to be so offensive, imo.

MellyB_2

wssla00 wrote: »

There is loads of info on small budgets and food on the OS forum

here are some:

£40 to feed a family for a month
How to survive on little food and a little money

I've read the mBaz thread (£40 for a month) and I think it's become legendary now! It became a bit addictive - brilliant ideas from everyone though...:D

whichwhydoIturn

HI there is a web called supercook.com dont know if i am allowed to put that here. enter in what you in your cupboards and it generates meals for you please delte this if i shouldnt have put the web name.helped me out a few times i can tell you x

kiwi07

merlin68 wrote: »

Me too I have a freezer full of reduced items, then every week I do a big order from approved foods and food bargains. I could live out of my house for about a year. I am having to poke food in the most strange places. lol

I like this thread about food bargains!! Questions for you: What is the "Approved foods and food bargains"? is it special online shopping site? Thanks:rotfl:

wssla00

approved food http://www.approvedfood.co.uk/
Food bargains http://www.foodbargains.co.uk/

Both sell things either short date or after the best before. Pretty good value

kiwi07

wssla00 wrote: »

approved food http://www.approvedfood.co.uk/
Food bargains http://www.foodbargains.co.uk/

Both sell things either short date or after the best before. Pretty good value

thanks:rotfl: