£50 left for food shopping till the end of the month help!!

babyfruitella

If you HAVE to have bottled water, Tesco Value 2 litres is 17p. My little boy drinks that quite happily!

CH27

You need to be firm with the faddies & stick to be firming.

You run the budget, you do the cooking so you make the rules:D

quintwins

i think fussy eating is learnt, when your meaning there is very few foods babys won't eat, but then they see mummy and daddy do it, i'm not fussy at all but my hubby isn't keen on veg but he always has some on his plate so they kids know we all eat it, we also have a wait til everyones done rule and if they don't eat there dinner theres no pudding and it gets reheated later if there still hungry, that doesn't happen very often it's usually always clean plates here

try value squash our water is awful in in the water filter and cold from the fridge so we get orange squash it's 28p and we use about 5 bottles a week (theres 5 of us and we all drink it) it's still cheaper than bottled water

value rice pudding is cheaper than making it, but not as creamy and will be great for bulking out meals

i'd get a packet fo beef shin (you only need a wee bit) and make stew it reheats great

i would use your philly for a nice pasta bake, make a huge sheperds pie (i split 2 800g packets into 5 and we always have plenty, i bulk it out with onions, frozen peas sweetcorn and carrots or if we have none a handful of value frozen veg) we use alot of frozen veg as i find it better value and quick and easy you can even buy pre chopped frozen mushrooms, onions and peppers this is fab for throwing in your slowcooker, i would turn you chicken into a casarole and a pie, i only ever use 3 chicken breasts in casaroles ect sometimes 2 if there big and we always have loads

also another vote for value pizza here i add extra cheese, ham, sweetcorn, chicken pineapple just whatever we have in really and put ground pepper on top hubby says it's as nice and the pizza shop, this and value garlic bread is our treat meal

value tomatoe soup is quite nice aswell if you need cheap lunches my kids love it so we always have some in, value noddles with frozen peas and sweetcorn and soy sauce topped with cheese also make a nice lunch


you do have quite abit in and could do this fine if you put your foot down and refuse to pander to childishness (thats wat is it no-one acually likes No veg they just don't want to try it or don't liek the idea) and don't waste money on thing liked bottle water

meg72

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

I couldn't see the BOGOF chickens online so you might not be able to get them.


These do seem to be in store only.