£50 to feed two adults till Sept 27th

sparkleworld

Bramble as somebody else has suggested what about putting a sign at the front gate or as near to the road side and your property saying

FREE
RANGE
EGGS
SOLD
HERE


Is there a carboot sale nearby? it might cost you £5 or £6 pound for the pitch but if you sold the eggs at £1 for half a dozen you'd make your money back in no time.
Advertise in your local shop windows that you have eggs for sale

hope you get through it and good luck.

whichwhydoIturn

hello, try supercook.com you list what food you have in your cupboard/freezer etc and it generates a recipe.i have used it many a time.good luck.:)

bigsmoke

bramble,

i'm afraid i'm nowhere near as experienced as a lot of the folk on here, but i did notice last night that Tesco are selling 3kg bags of pasta for 2 pounds at the moment. the big bags of rice are also about a pound a kilo, if you're looking to bulk out lunch time salads.

adding lentils or beans to a rice or pasta salad may sound like carb overload but is really filling and somehow seems a little more interesting than the rice/pasta on it's own.

i'm a veggie but i've seen people on here talk about picking up bones/carcasses from their local butcher for free too, which would add some extra nutrition to your soups. also it's probably worth asking the butcher what they have going cheap? a friend shops at a ridiculously expensive organic/free-range 'celebrity' style butcher, but buys whole racks of pork ribs for a fiver because apparently everyone else is too snobby to eat that kind of meat these days!

good luck with it anyway - keep asking questions and come back with any tips you pick up!

bs x

Aesop

I can't help OP but am trying to cut down on my budget of £10 a day to feed a family of 3, so this is fab! Thank you for all the ideas, have bookmarked Weezel's site and will have a look later.

DH is fed up with Sandwiches for lunch, so pasties and things might make his lunch more interesting.

Thanks again! What a helpful thread. :beer:

bramble1

the chickens are a family effort, we do sell eggs but money goes back into the chickens. i could see if any one at work wants any though

right. store cupboard contents are as follows
5 x merague nests
pack of noodles - 6 nests
1 x supernoodles
1 x oxtail soup
1 x savoury rice
1 x tin of tuna
1 x kidney beans
crisps
1x potato bake
1 x pasta bake
2 x bisto
marmite
mustard
semolina
pasta
hotsauce
curry pasta
curry sauce
enchilada
chicken tonight
bread flour
yeast
currents
plain flour
self raising flour

freezer - chips, peas, mix veg, cocktail sausages, Lots of ice cream

maman

aureol212 wrote: »

I can't help OP but am trying to cut down on my budget of £10 a day to feed a family of 3, so this is fab! Thank you for all the ideas, have bookmarked Weezel's site and will have a look later.

DH is fed up with Sandwiches for lunch, so pasties and things might make his lunch more interesting.

Thanks again! What a helpful thread. :beer:

I don't want to hijack Bramble's thread but do you mean £10 a day, as in £300 a month aureol? If so there are heaps of ways you can get that down.

Good luck Bramble. I'm sure making some money on the eggs to offset your worries would help both this month and in the future.

Aesop

maman wrote: »

I don't want to hijack Bramble's thread but do you mean £10 a day, as in £300 a month aureol? If so there are heaps of ways you can get that down.

Good luck Bramble. I'm sure making some money on the eggs to offset your worries would help both this month and in the future.

yes, I have a budget of £10 a day - to be fair, this includes everything, all the toiletries, cleaning stuff, toilet rolls, etc, as well as food stuff, including vegetables and fruit. The only down side is I don't own a freezer. We only have an icebox. So until we can afford a chest freezer, I am unable to bulk cook and freeze which is what I would love to do. It has to fit in the ice box. (Oh doesn't include DS' nappies and wipes, use his child benefit and vouchers for that.)

ciderwithrosie_2

Corned beef pasties are fairly cheap and filling. I can get at least 6 big pasties out of a tin of corned beef, some boiled, mashed potatoes, grated onion and a few flavourings - beef oxo, worcester sauce, pepper, tomato ketchup, sprinkling of herbs. These are really good served hot with carrots and peas, a good beefy gravy and some english mustard on the side.

Another cheap meal I do is jacket potatoes with creamed mushrooms - soften some sliced mushrooms in butter, add cornflour, milk, salt and lots of black pepper and some chives or parsley if you like, and spoon over the split and buttered jacket potato, can always serve some bacon with this for the dedicated meat eaters.

Risotto or egg fried rice can be cheap if using up leftover veg and meat.

regards CWR

babyshoes

HM pastry is so easy to do. The basic recipe for shortcrust is half fat to flour plus some water, I usually use 50g fat (butter, lard, marg etc) to 100g flour. This quantity will line a large quiche dish with a little leftover. Make sure everything is cold - put fat in fridge and flour in freezer for a few hours before using. Wash hands in cold water for a while, dry them well and use your fingertips to rub the fat into flour. When it looks like fine bread crumbs, add a tablespoonful of water and a squeeze of lemon juice. (using fizzy water can make it a bit lighter but is not necessary) Bring it together with a palette or butter knife. Add more small amounts of water as necessary. When it will JUST stick together, quickly use your hands to form it into a ball - it should not be sticky. Place the ball in a plastic bag or clingfilm and refrigerate for at least 20 mins - can be overnight. Flour a clean surface and roll out to desired thickness. Use as desired.

You could use this recipe with the mini sausages you already have to make sausage rolls, or for pasties with leftover stew, jam tarts, foraged fruit pies etc.

I usually stretch mince meals with a couple of handfuls of oats and a grated carrot. I add the oats when the mince is just about browned to soak up the meaty flavour, then add some beef stock. They soak up the colour and flavour of the stock and are almost invisible in the final sauce.

Scones are easy and filling, and would use up that self raising flour you have. They can be savory or sweet and I know my Mom has used them as a bread subsitute when times were tough!

If all else fails, baked beans are very healthy and cheap. Beans, carb such as potato, bread, rice or pasta and some sort of veg or (foraged, free) fruit would provide most, if not all of the nutrients you need to stay healthy.

Good luck!

parsonswife8

Tins of mackeral are cheap...on buttered toast with thin slices of onion and tomato and very good for you. As are sardines.

Pasta, rice, potatos, beef mince, pork mince for meatballs, eggs for omelettes, fritatta, egg mayo sandwiches, baked potatoes with baked beans, chilli mince, tinned creamed mushrooms, savoury mince, soft white cheese and chives....

Egg fried rice, gnocchi with spinach and garlic and cheese, pasta carbonara with some bacon bits and egg and cream, rosti, bubble and squeak, corned beef hash, meatloaf, quiches, pies, traybakes, scones, muffins.....

Porridge for breakfast, fried bread and poached or fried egg with baked beans, omelettes, scrambled egg on toast.

It is possible to eat cheaply and healthier, you just have to put your mind to it and also, forage and buy the cheapest available, fruit and veg and be canny about the meat and fish.