Any Ideas??

Churchmouse

Behave yourself MrBE and get back to your meatloaf thread!! :rotfl:

TKP_3

Showed OH, he says even he wouldn't be that bad, although he is not welcome on any shopping trips...
He is learning... waaaaaaay prefers homecooked to ready meals (yay)
Lucky man has lost 1/2 stone since I started cooking from scratch and cutting out all the processed cr*p. Wish I had lost that too...

Good luck with the meal planning, I hope you can return most of it and buy real food.

MrsTinks

My oh knows he really shouldn't even contemplate coming home with shopping like that... Fine if we have the spare money but so much beer and utter rubbish! I'd throttle him after forcefeeding him every little bit of sugarloaded rubbish!
Definitely a LARGE sack of spuds (£5-7) 25Kg. Scour the local supermarket for reduced veg and fruit. You may have to forego meat most of the month other than some tinned tuna and maybe reduced meat or very cheap cuts cooked in a slowcooker?
Ham and peasoup is fairly cheap (I use bacon joint as it's cheap - get one from Tesco and chop into 3 - should feed you for as much as 4-5 night if you minimise the meat in each serving...) Good luck (and make him take the beers back!!!)

tracy107

Me and my partner tend to get a months shopping for around £50 for me him and a baby.

We buy a huge 1k bag of pasta for aroung a £1 at asda, big sack of potatoes for around a fiver, bag of rice and some tinned tomato's, beans, tuna, sardines etc. Big bottle of juice. DD's tinned spaghettis etc (she loves spaghetti hoops lol. A big bag of chicken breast fillets. 2 trays of smartprice mince, a chicken or pork joint ( whatever is on offer ) and some corned beef, cheese and sandwich meats. And of course super noodles at 5 packs for £1, eggs, small pack of bacon. bread, 12 cartons of long life milk for £6 and a selection of cheap fresh fruit and veg with what is left and a box of cereal

Our general week consists of

Mon: corned beef hash cost around £2 for 3 of us
Tue: jacket potato with cheese or tuna around £2
Wed: tuna pasta around 50p as we buy a large bag of pasta
Thur: mince and mash with boiled veg £3
Fri: Bacon and Egg with boiled rice or pasta (surprisingly yum) £1.40
Saturday : beans, noodles and egg on toast 50p
Sunday: meat with potatoes and veg £3

This still leaves us snack foods and a little extra for the next week, keeping the cost down.

Hope this helps

nodwah

What a list! how did it take him 2 hours to get that?? sounds like he only went to a garage anyway!
It rivals the time my OH + friend were sent by freind's wife to get dinner and came back with a case of beer and a punnet of Kiwi fruit!

belfastgirl23

This is exactly why I shop online. DH invariably wants to come and do shopping with me. He gets in the way, races through the aisles, hogs the trolley so I end up wandering around with arms full of flour trying to find him He HATES any suggestion that we should look at prices before buying something. He doesn't take any interest in online shopping though. And there are codes on the vouchers and codes bar so I usually end up getting delivery for free. It's also good cos it gives you a chance to substitute etc.

I would try taking the most expensive items back though and getting some basics instead. Otherwise you could try suggesting to OH that he pay for the snack foods since they are treats and not part of your usual shopping. At very least I'd get the £ for the beer out of him

But be gentle, he's learning too and I'm guessing this is one mistake he won't make again!

nodwah

Meant to say that if you can't take the crisps back , if multi packs are open, you can mush them up and use them for topping on things like pasta bakes or even in place of breadcrumbs for coating things.

johanne

try this thread Meal for 2 for 50p

Or just a thought do you have any points/vouchers you can cash in? I.e. nectar points (500 is £2.50 of shopping at sainsburys) or any tesco clubcard vouchers hanging about? (yes i know they are worth more NOT using them in store.. but i would say in this case.. use them to get food not deals)

All else fails... eat as nice as possible meals yourself and give him 8p noodles every night.. with half a tin of value beans on 1 slice of value bread toast on a sunday as a "treat" hehe.

deb_buffy

Psykicpup wrote:

Send him out to find a sack (25kg) of potatoes (£5-6)
go to Lidls or where ever & get some veggies (£2-3)
maybe get some cheese too (£3 big block)x2
Tins of Pilchards(or other) in Tom sauce (60p?)
minced meat ie beef ?
a chicken?
big bag frozen sausages?
more pasta? you dont say how much you have
cheap tins of toms & beans...
more eggs

then you can bulk out with baked pots & pasta meals etc
I would do maybe half a cauli as cauli cheese
my pilchard bake - reciepe to follow -pm me!
spag bol
mince & mash (with peas?)or cottage pie
leak & potato pie
saus egg & chips
Rubber Chicken - search the site
Bangers & mash...

add to above suggestions & repeat (((hugs)))
I would leave him to survive on that shopping tooo - theres only 5 ready meals there! - do send him again tho just go too & dont let him to the till until you have checked - he has to learn how to shop sometime!
My bro in law used to offer to do 'jobs' to help & then do them badly so he wouldnt be asked to do it again!:eek:

Thanks for those ideas. could definatly do most of them. What are pilchards? have heard of them but never cooked or tried them.

deb_buffy

johanne wrote:

try this thread Meal for 2 for 50p

Or just a thought do you have any points/vouchers you can cash in? I.e. nectar points (500 is £2.50 of shopping at sainsburys) or any tesco clubcard vouchers hanging about? (yes i know they are worth more NOT using them in store.. but i would say in this case.. use them to get food not deals)

All else fails... eat as nice as possible meals yourself and give him 8p noodles every night.. with half a tin of value beans on 1 slice of value bread toast on a sunday as a "treat" hehe.

No havnt got any vouchers i can cash in, onlt just started collecting them so not really got enough. Good idea about the meals for him though lol.