In a bit of a desperate situation here - I really need your expertise!!

katholicos

tibbles209 wrote: »

4 bananas
150g strong cheddar cheese
1/2 a cucumber
Flora light
1/2 jar black bean sauce
2 jars tomato based pasta sauce
1 pint semi skimmed milk
1/2 loaf of white bread
2 brown rolls (frozen)
150g cod (frozen)
250g basmati rice
400g wholewheat couscous
1 sachet Ruskoline crumb dressing
400g penne pasta
HP sauce
2 very large white onions
500g bag of red onions
1kg potatoes
Jar of raspberry jam
Jar of peanut butter
Jar of honey
Jar of chicken gravy granules
500ml sunflower oil
Ground black pepper
2 sachets quaker oats so simple apple and blueberry flavour
1/2 sachet old el paso smoky BBQ fajita seasoning mix
250g Great Scot vegetable broth mix
Chicken stock cubes
Beef stock cubes
2 sachets tomato ketchup

5 breakfasts:

Oats so simple x 2 brekkies
toast x 2 brekkies (with jam/honey)
Banana


5 lunches :

Cheese on toast using a couple of slices of bread and a bit of your cheese and 1 of your tom sauce sachets

Peanut butter sarny and 1 banana

banana sarny

Beefy stick cube drink with brown roll and a banana

Paupers pizza 2 slices of bread toasted on one side...turn em over, spread pasta sauce on and sprinkle a little cheese and grill.


5 dinners:

Fish n homemade chips-oven cooked or fried ( You should still have lots of spuds left for other meals).

Cheese n pasta bake (using some pasta sauce, some of your penne pasta and top with cheese)

Baked Potato with cubes of cucumber and couscous (add a stoc cube to the water to flavour it)

Vegetable broth (with added stock cube maybe) with brown roll.

Black Bean sauce with basmati rice.

Hope you go on alright

Paulie'sGirl

Hi,

You've had some great help on the meal front. For a delicious yet really cheap meal from the potatoes and onions make boulanger potatoes.

Peel and slice 2/3 decent sized spuds into slices about the thickness of a pound coin. Chop half of one of your onions fairly small. Grease a baking dish. Layer potatoes and onions in the dish, seasoning as you go with salt and pepper. Make up a chicken stock cube a bit more concentrated than usual. Pour over the stock til it nearly reaches the top layer of spuds. Top up with a bit of milk. Dot the top with the flora and bake at 180 til the potatoes are soft and the liquid reduced. Enjoy!

It sounds dull but its really tasty and very filling.

Best of luck holding out til payday. The supermarket card is a great idea, but try and keep a bit of a store cupboard going all the time, then you always have stuff in to fall back on.

I would use the cucumber with the cheese in the brown rolls for lunches. Go to town on the cucumber, and sprinkle it with salt. Butter the buns. That way you'll need less of the cheese.

I would make up a handful or two of the couscous to make a salad. Heat some of the sunflower oil in a saucepan, add a chopped red onion and let it soften. Then add a good teaspoon of the fajita spice. Don't allow the spices to burn! Then add a good two handfuls of couscous and stir in the spiced oil. Pour over chicken stock made up quite concentrated and turn off the heat. Put a lid on the pan and leave it for 10 mins. Fluff the couscous with a fork and add chopped cucumber. Spicey couscous for lunch or snacks.

PGxx

weezl74

tibbles unless you can incorporate your sunflower oil and your jar of peanut butter in then I'd be a little concerned you're going to be too light on calories over 5 days. This is especially true if you are tall, athletic, male and active (or any of those ).

Please consider, for example, stirring some of your oil through for example your flavoured cous cous meals.

All the best and please do keep us posted.

annie123

not going to even try and beat the great ideas so far, but just as a thought, do you have any foreign cash stuffed in a draw?
My son found just over 3 euros earlier this year and after a bit of grovelling the bank changed it for him for free.
Or MrS or MrT vouchers?

zarazara

tibbles209 wrote: »

Hi there,

Well due to being pretty hopeless at budgeting I unfortunately have all of 2 pence left to last me the next 5 days until my pay comes in Travel to and from uni isn't a problem as i have a prepaid bus pass but my big problem is food! This is where I'm hoping you wonderful people can come in, I've seen how creative and resourceful you all are and I'm hoping you might be able to give me some ideas of anything I can make with the stuff in my cupboard. Bear in mind I have 2p so i cant buy anything at all. This is what I have;

4 bananas
150g strong cheddar cheese ---cheese sandwich
1/2 a cucumber

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cucumber sandwich
Flora light

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for spread for the sandwiches or melted on hot cooked pasta
1/2 jar black bean sauce

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use on pasta or cous cous or rice
2 jars tomato based pasta sauce

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use with pasta and/or dilute some to turn into a soup
1 pint semi skimmed milk
1/2 loaf of white bread
2 brown rolls (frozen)
150g cod (frozen)
250g basmati rice

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400g wholewheat couscous
1 sachet Ruskoline crumb dressing
400g penne pasta
HP sauce
2 very large white onions

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bake in oven,sevrve with melted spread and/or cheese
500g bag of red onions

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ditto white onions and save some to make an onion and potato soup
1kg potatoes----bake ,chips,mash with fried onions and eat with HP sauce, tasty.
Jar of raspberry jam

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sandwich
Jar of peanut butter

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sandwich or baked potato filling
Jar of honey

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sandwich-
Jar of chicken gravy granules

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pour over mashed potatoes
500ml sunflower oil
Ground black pepper
2 sachets quaker oats so simple apple and blueberry flavour
1/2 sachet old el paso smoky BBQ fajita seasoning mix
250g Great Scot vegetable broth mix
Chicken stock cubes

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crumble into potato and onion soup or mix into cooked rice.
Beef stock cubes

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make into a hot drink or crumble into potato and onion soup
2 sachets tomato ketchup


I need to somehow make this stretch to 5 breakfasts, 5 lunches and 5 dinners.
I need to bring lunch to uni with me each day, any ideas? I've only got basic tupperware, no fancy flasks or anything. Thanks in advance for your help you lovely people!

should be quite doable. use the seasonings ie pepper stock cubes etc to change the flavour of the rice pasta potatoes, make soup,eat the fruit and veg. and remember its only 5 days and pay day is soon.:) forgot to add, you could try frying the bread in the sunflower oil for extra calories.

bluebag

You have a lot of onions and some chicken stock, an onion soup is easy to make. A potaoe bake using sliced onions, sliced potaoes a little stock mixed with ketchup all layered and baked till the spuds are tender.

Get doon the back 'o the sofa lass! always a few coins in there.

tibbles209

Paulie'sGirl wrote: »

Hi,

You've had some great help on the meal front. For a delicious yet really cheap meal from the potatoes and onions make boulanger potatoes.

Peel and slice 2/3 decent sized spuds into slices about the thickness of a pound coin. Chop half of one of your onions fairly small. Grease a baking dish. Layer potatoes and onions in the dish, seasoning as you go with salt and pepper. Make up a chicken stock cube a bit more concentrated than usual. Pour over the stock til it nearly reaches the top layer of spuds. Top up with a bit of milk. Dot the top with the flora and bake at 180 til the potatoes are soft and the liquid reduced. Enjoy!

It sounds dull but its really tasty and very filling.

Best of luck holding out til payday. The supermarket card is a great idea, but try and keep a bit of a store cupboard going all the time, then you always have stuff in to fall back on.

I would use the cucumber with the cheese in the brown rolls for lunches. Go to town on the cucumber, and sprinkle it with salt. Butter the buns. That way you'll need less of the cheese.

I would make up a handful or two of the couscous to make a salad. Heat some of the sunflower oil in a saucepan, add a chopped red onion and let it soften. Then add a good teaspoon of the fajita spice. Don't allow the spices to burn! Then add a good two handfuls of couscous and stir in the spiced oil. Pour over chicken stock made up quite concentrated and turn off the heat. Put a lid on the pan and leave it for 10 mins. Fluff the couscous with a fork and add chopped cucumber. Spicey couscous for lunch or snacks.

PGxx

Those sound lovely! I might go and make that couscous now so I can bring it for lunch tomorrow. I've got tons of ideas for meals now, this week isn't going to be too bad after all


Katholicos - I never thought of fish and chips! I have those breadcrumbs too to coat the fish. That does seem a bit too good to be true for a maakeshift dinner

Weezl I'm a 5'8 female and not particularly active, I might have peanut butter on toast a couple of days for breakfast to try and get some extra cals in though I will keep you all posted about how the week goes!

annie 123 im afraid not =( all ive got is my 2 pence (well 3 pence now, i found a penny on my bedroom carpet )

jackieglasgow

I am with bluebag, down the back of the sofa, and all your jackets/bags, I have had a few nice surprises out of unworn clothes in the last few months.

Shysarah

tibbles209 wrote: »

I never thought of fish and chips! I have those breadcrumbs too to coat the fish.

Could even really go to town and fry some onion rings to serve with this especially if you coat them in the crumbs..

Mashed potatoes - add a few fried onions or boil potatoes, fry onions and then shape into patties and grill/fry

Best of luck hunny xx

bluebag

Might be worth you putting say one tin a week in you store cupboard when things are a bit more flush. A tin of tuna or corned beef, some cheap soups or canned ham can stretch simple ingredients into rather good meals.

Next time you have a spare quid or somethings on special offer, easy way to establish a small storecupboard.