Eat Healthily on a Budget?

tessie_bear

we are trying the meat free monday idea and having jackets pots with various fillings

michie_moo

tessie_bear wrote: »

we are trying the meat free monday idea and having jackets pots with various fillings

I do like jacket potatoes

quintwins

we do jacked taies/pizza/pasta and then usually at the end of the month chips and egg

i buy surf liquid i get huge big bottles from makro for £10 but i buy them on bogof, which is usually twice a year, some for my dishwasher tablets it works out alot cheaper, espicially as i only use half the recommended amount (which you can't do with the liquidtablets and they do tend to be alot dearer aswell)

if you have lots of freezer space you could go shopping late at night for the best reductions and freeze food, i do this alot altho not so much lately cause my freezers full, i make my own bread but i also have 2-3 shop bought loafs a month aswell, the biggest expense in our house is 'real butter' we both love it but it's £4 a block and we use about 3 a fortnight so when were skint i don't buy it

MrsBartolozzi

http://www.cheap-family-recipes.org.uk/index.html?opt=rcost

Have a look at this site. It has been put together by Weezl74 and some regular OldStylers over a period of about a year. The main aim of the site is a family meal planner to feed 2 adults and 2 teenagers all day every day for a month at the cost of £100 all in. While there might not be a complete planner that's right for you to eat all the meals from you'll definately get ideas for cheap, healthy meals there!! One of the planners is vegan, ideal for ideas for your non-dairy eating son.

tessie_bear

that is such a good idea buying the washing stuff bogof...it can be expensive...we have egg and chips on our meat free monday sometimes but felt worried to mention it on a healthy thread... i feel better now iv admitted to it

michie_moo

MrsBartolozzi wrote: »

http://www.cheap-family-recipes.org.uk/index.html?opt=rcost

Have a look at this site. It has been put together by Weezl74 and some regular OldStylers over a period of about a year. The main aim of the site is a family meal planner to feed 2 adults and 2 teenagers all day every day for a month at the cost of £100 all in. While there might not be a complete planner that's right for you to eat all the meals from you'll definately get ideas for cheap, healthy meals there!! One of the planners is vegan, ideal for ideas for your non-dairy eating son.

Many thanks to you - I shall have a good look over that website :T

tessie_bear wrote: »

that is such a good idea buying the washing stuff bogof...it can be expensive...we have egg and chips on our meat free monday sometimes but felt worried to mention it on a healthy thread... i feel better now iv admitted to it

I do bulk buy when I can (BOGOF's) but don't always have the £ to do so (even though it does save in the long run.
:rotfl: about the egg and chips. I guess it's not unhealthy so long as you don't pile on the chips?!

quintwins

michie_moo wrote: »

Many thanks to you - I shall have a good look over that website :T



I do bulk buy when I can (BOGOF's) but don't always have the £ to do so (even though it does save in the long run.
:rotfl: about the egg and chips. I guess it's not unhealthy so long as you don't pile on the chips?!

:eek::eek::eek: you have to pile the chips on it's a treat i love chips and egg, i fancy some now

so you have a meal planner i find this helps, an i have chips and egg on it for the last fri of the month

you could also look at some of the short dated site, i did an order with aproved foods lately and got loads

michie_moo

quintwins wrote: »

:eek::eek::eek: you have to pile the chips on it's a treat i love chips and egg, i fancy some now

so you have a meal planner i find this helps, an i have chips and egg on it for the last fri of the month

you could also look at some of the short dated site, i did an order with aproved foods lately and got loads

Perhaps I should have a 'treat' day? And, oven chips aren't so bad!

Ooooo, where is this site - Im clearly not as good at this as I thought

quintwins

http://www.approvedfood.co.uk/

i'm in n.ireland so my postage was £12 but i got my mum to order with me and we split it, i'm acually not convinced i'm really helping i think i'm just making you unhealthy

do you have access to a farm shop/market they tend to be cheaper (we are healthy i swear) for fruit, altho i find in mine anyway my supermarket veg lasts longer so is better in the long run, i buy 20kg bags of taties for £6 (maris pipers aswell so much nicer than value) and these last us 2 week, granted we don't do maked taties with them in the first week, if you don't think you can use this many, you could see if a neightbour or family member would go halfs with you or you can freeze cooked taties aswell (and cooked/filled baked taties and cook from frozen i've never tried this tho )

Gigervamp

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