Breadline Families - Make Stuff Go Further Tips

FatVonD

I don't think I've used the correct flour in any recipe ever, whichever it needs you can guarantee I only have the other one :rotfl:

On topic, a pizza can be stretched to feed more by adding more inexpensive sides such as value garlic bread/coleslaw/jacket potato. Works well if, for instance, you've found a reduced-price pizza but there's only one of them.

NewCustomerOnly

lol thats really funny cos I do that! Have been using garlic bread instead of an extra pizza for ages.

Todays idea is to mix some reduced or special offer Heinz/Branston beans with a cheapie Value tin. I did that and the kids didnt notice!Lots of hardworking mums I know have to choose between a main meal and electric if the weather's colder than expected (like now!) Beans are nutritious, hot and filling and quick after work.

onlyroz

Regarding pizzas, we've been making our own. You can buy bases for about 50p each, and a jar of sauce that will do 3 pizzas for around 80p (or cheap bolognese sauce will do the job just as well). Then top with whatever you want.

seabright

bigmomma051204 wrote: »

I was going to say, look at the Old Style board for recipes etc.... MUCH more useful than some blog someone is doing to get attention and make a semi-political statement!!

Plus, everyone on Old Style is lovely!

What's the problem with having more than one resource? Yes, the posters on Old Style are great, but some of the threads are off-puttingly long.

I found the blog interesting and well written. Isn't everything written and available in the public domain "done to get attention" in one way or another? And most things are semi-political one way or another, daily life is political.

StudioBeau

Chick peas - 33p
Chopped tomatoes - 34p
Chili flavour packet - 62p
Kidney beans - 33p
Rice -10p

Feeds 4 easily - £1.72

Biscuits for pudding - 14p for about 36, 3 for each person, 14p lasts 3 days so lets call that 5p per day.

For lunch, jam sandwich, packet of crisps, raisin pot. 26p for jam, lasts at least 20 sandwiches, so lets say 5 days for 1 pot, 5p per day. Multi pack tesco crisps, works out as 23p per day for the whole family, bread is 21p per day for the whole family, raisins are done by buying 1kg and splitting into little tupperware. Works out as 10p per day for everyone.

Day total so far: £2.36

Breakfasts, 2 slices of toast with marg - 38p per day for everyone. Or cereal, more pricey but still well within budget.

If we work on toast for breakfast, that is £2.74. Leaving £1.26 for fruit for snacks, treats like chocolate biscuits, buying slightly nicer bread or slightly nicer jam, etc. Bulking out the chili with a pepper and an onion. All for under £4 for a family of 4.

NewCustomerOnly

wow thanks for that,so similar to us - uncanny. my only problem is the jam co-op is nearest but most expensive - can be up to two pounds

i just really hope that one day someone from the millionaire governmentv reads this,struggling mums are putting kids before themselves and getting malnourished themselves or going to food banks like these families in daily mirror

http://www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news/our-hidden-poor-the-desperate-families-begging-811877

*max*

Jam sandwich, crisps, raisins...that is all processed sugar/carbs and fat. Zero protein. It isn't very healthy to have everyday, and it wouldn't keep you going all afternoon.

It would be better to have something like couscous or rice salad with pulses and some peas/sweetcorn and lettuce leaves, which wouldn't be much more expensive IMO.

NewCustomerOnly

some truth in that but for my kids
couscous definite no no
sweetcorn - cold and unappetising when yoiure freezing
lettuce - wont keep them going and they wont eat it
whereas
jam= fruit if can afford the better ones
bread excellent for dig system
crisps - nutritious as high energy and potato
beans pulses,high energy and hot and comforting
raisins - whats unhealthy about those? vit c/fibre

hardworking mums holding down two low paid jobs cant afford fancy fresh food - if it gets old it goes off and has to be thrown away

BitterAndTwisted

Jam sandwiches for a kid's lunch? Christ, my family was poor when I was a child. Dirt-poor but we were never fed a jam piece for lunch.

Fancy fresh food? Not if you meal-plan and buy in season only what you know you will cook. I scour the reduced sections in my local supermarkets for cut-priced veg and I can get a decent selection to feed myself properly and I'm unemployed with a food-budget of less than twenty quid a week. It's just that I eat the same veg two or maybe three nights in a row. With a family you probably wouldn't have to do that.

NewCustomerOnly

seriously, maybe you dont know how bad it is out there - guess what some mums do on a thurs when money has run out so no dinner money - Yup, keep kids off school - have you read that daily mirror food bank link

its probably a bit easier if no kids to feed -remember how much they need when growing, they never stop eating

actually, it would be worth a study on links between austerity tory cuts and school attendance - older kids with no ema miss loads of days when mum hasnt got five pound bus fare