Food for single person in flat

FrugalLina

I am on my own and one way I have found useful to save money is to cook a large pot of stew/soup and live on that for several nights in a row. Some find it boring, but I am quite happy to do that. I do vary it a bit with different bread, a potato, or dumplings or rice on the side.

allybee101

I also have a crummy ice box 'freezer' that's as useful as a chocolate teapot and no microwave at home (but one at work).
I find it easier to do two small shops a week so that I don't have a fridge full of stuff waiting to go off. I can also make better use of yellow stickered items from the supermarket.
I try and write a meal plan so that I don't end up spending ridiculous amounts of money on carp.
Tonight I cooked my dinner (pizza) and a chicken stew in the oven together. The chicken stayed in longer, but I haven't had to put the oven on twice. The chicken was a reduced item and will make 3 meals, possibly 4.
I have a budget of around £25 a week, although I have gone slightly over that today as I have stocked up on some cupboard staples due to the bad weather- I don't want to keep trekking off to Mr A in all this white stuff.

Try soups, stews and cheap cuts of meat that can be cooked long and slowly. You will end up eating the same a couple of days running sometimes but as has been mentioned already you can ring the changes with different accompaniments e.g rice, pasta, potatoes.

If you make a meat sauce with mince, onions, tomatoes, herbs and garlic you can divide it into portions and create several different dishes
- add kidney beans and chilli powder/spices when reheating to make Chilli con Carne. Serve with rice
- add some mixed veg and serve with pasta for Spag Bol
- add carrots, mushrooms etc and top with mash potato for Cottage Pie.

A whole chicken can produce roast chicken, sliced for sandwiches, chopped up and added to pasta, risotto, curry etc.

squeaky

Hi

There are all sorts of threads that may help you... all of those mentioned above, plus:-

Single person - can I eat for £60 a month?

Food for single bloke in flat

Single Money Saver living on my own

Help a Single Saver

saving money/single person/keeping warm!!

Saving Money On Food For a SINGLE person

What can a single person use on this board?



I'll add your query to the second thread in my list shortly. Good luck

BitterAndTwisted

I think we could possibly help the OP more if we had an idea of what they have in their store-cupboard. I think it could be a huge disincentive to get cooking for yourself if you've few basic ingredients in the kitchen and don't know how to get started.

sparrer

I bought a slightly bigger than usual - 4 1/2 litre - sc from am@zon for £24. I can cook a whole chicken, veg, pulses, dried beans etc as I did yesterday using a tomato based sauce, or sometimes it'll be a curry, herbs, or whatever takes my fancy. Admittedly I have good freezer space so I portioned 11 meals from it but a smaller quantity made to cover a few days will keep in the fridge. If in doubt give it a boil up in a saucepan every couple of days but you shouldn't need to. Like others I'll eat the same for several days and I don't mind that, I don't get bored with good flavours.

I don't spend more than £20 a week on food, that's more than enough to eat well. I could pare it down more but it's what I budget for. The animals cost me more than that!

Thanks squeaky for the links, I'll have a browse through those