1st budget shop, Help!!!

Learning2Budget

have a look on mysupermarket.co.uk we do online shopping, cos then i can see what i'm spending and where is cheapest too.x

mooomin

MoneyMax wrote: »

Jude Cat has to have whiskers unfortunately, he loses all his hair if we switch, weve tried!!

Might be worth trying a pouch of the cheap stuff from Aldi to compare. If he is ill, then change back, but my friend checked the nutritional information on Aldi stuff compared to her wet food and it's actually better :eek:

I'll be moving my two on to it once they're finished demolishing the mountain of Felix I got on special offer last month

I changed them from Go Cat (£2.50ish for 1kg in my local shop) to Aldi stuff (£0.99 for 1kg) and was expecting full-on kitty tantrums, but they were absolutely fine with it, hurrah!

Trajal

flying_fresian wrote: »

Might be worth trying a pouch of the cheap stuff from Aldi to compare. If he is ill, then change back, but my friend checked the nutritional information on Aldi stuff compared to her wet food and it's actually better :eek:

I'll be moving my two on to it once they're finished demolishing the mountain of Felix I got on special offer last month

I changed them from Go Cat (£2.50ish for 1kg in my local shop) to Aldi stuff (£0.99 for 1kg) and was expecting full-on kitty tantrums, but they were absolutely fine with it, hurrah!

I remember doing something similar to this with a very high-maintenance siamese cat. She wouldn't take a straight switch so I started buying both for a short while and merging the two, mixing about half a pack of each, eventually (about a week) weaned her onto just the cheaper stuff and she didn't notice.

That'll teach her to ignore me for a full half hour when I got home from work!

MoneyMax

flying_fresian wrote: »

Might be worth trying a pouch of the cheap stuff from Aldi to compare. If he is ill, then change back, but my friend checked the nutritional information on Aldi stuff compared to her wet food and it's actually better :eek:

I'll be moving my two on to it once they're finished demolishing the mountain of Felix I got on special offer last month

I changed them from Go Cat (£2.50ish for 1kg in my local shop) to Aldi stuff (£0.99 for 1kg) and was expecting full-on kitty tantrums, but they were absolutely fine with it, hurrah!

Ive tried every brand going, even Aldi etc... he loses his hair and loses weight, was such a relief to find that hes ok on whiskers! No costly vet bills now either, he was on steroid jabs to keep him from scratching his fur out!

MoneyMax

Learning2Budget wrote: »

meal plan, it's the way forward, lol!
I make everything from scratch now and make double portions, so i freeze half for days when i'm short on time.
I mqde a list of all meals i can make easily without recipes, and rotate them round, got about 3&1/2 weeks worth of meals then i try making summat new every now and thn to mix it up a bit. Good luck, L2B.x

My youngests nursery does a meal plan then they send it home for you to pick your childs choice of 2 mains and desserts! Maybe I could copy it

RAS

MoneyMax wrote: »

Tinned Toms x 6
Pasta - Tonnes
Tuna x 2
Tapioca x 1(dont ask)
Various noodles
Rice
Plenty of herbs and spices
Baked Beans x 3

Also forgot last night I bought 3 for £10 meat whilst getting milk from co-op, so 1 x Chicken (whole), 10 Burgers and some spicy chicken drummers.

Go over to the Money Saving Old Style forum and read up on Rubber chicken

Stir fried with some noodles
Curried with rice
Pasta bake
roast,
cold with baked potatoes

then cook up the carcass for HM chicken soup.


Make some of the burgers into meatballs, with tomatoe sauce and pasta.

You use some of the mince for a bolognaise style sauce to bake as lasange or just with pasta.

The thing you need to get your head round are

Using small potions of meat to flavour things
Put your meat into sauces to bulk them up

Where appropriate bulk up the meat with things like beans (chilli) or lentils (curry) even porridge oat if need be.

elsiepac

MoneyMax wrote: »

Tinned Toms x 6
Pasta - Tonnes
Tuna x 2
Tapioca x 1(dont ask)
Various noodles
Rice
Plenty of herbs and spices
Baked Beans x 3
Also forgot las night I bought 3 for £10 meat whilst getting milk from co-op, so 1 x Chicken (whole), 10 Burgers and some spicy chicken drummers.

More than I thought after writing it down!

Hi there

I think you have enough for a week but you're obviously lacking fresh fruit/veg. Fruit is easy just get loads of apples and bananas and have one of each a day each. That's 2 of your 5 a day. Then things like runner beans are in season and new potatoes are on offer everywhere too, so you can have those things (or similar) as accompaniments to the meat products. Buy a bunch of spring onions (like 70p), I assume you have mayo, also some toms, cucumber etc, hopefully you have salt, pepper, chilli flakes (my storecupboard essentials!) and you have tons of healthy pasta salad for lunches...etc and so on!!!

Good luck!

LC

joedenise

Sorry but can't recommend porridge oats for bulking out mince - it just doesn't work for me! I prefer to use extra veg to bulk, such as grated carrot, tin toms or passata, courgettes, loads of onions, garlic, grated potato etc. I find the porridge makes it a bit "slimy".

Denise

rdchick

For Kitty food - ours is a Whiskers Kitten too (we will one day try and change it maybe when he goes to adult food) do you have Tesco Club card vouchers? right now they are doing the exchange again and £5 is £10 for pet food so we're gonna stock up on some nom noms for Billy as I think they're doing 36 pouches for a tenner still xxx

MoneyMax

Some good ideas, thanks x

Ive decided to use good ols MS Excel and make a 4 weekly meal planner just like LOs nursery then do the shopping list underneath, leaving a column for notes ie - make double and freeze it! etc blah blah blah!

My stepson is really fussy but im not offering him anything weird!