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You have £10.........What's on your essentials list?
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goggler
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I am stoney broke. Due to some unexpected outgoings, I am hoping to make next month a store cupboard month. In an attempt to absorb as many of these outgoings as quickly as possible, I am only giving myself £10 to buy any extras I need for next month, these include the following:
Bread (childrens' lunches)
Eggs (versatility)
Potatoes
Pasta
Tinned Spaghetti (kids won't eat beans, but allows me to have a couple of mega cheap fast dinners)
and that's me really, may add a couple more things when going through the cupboard, but I think I have plenty of everything else to see us, even if it does get a bit odd towards the end lol
So, I pose the question. You only have £10 - what do you buy?
Bread (childrens' lunches)
Eggs (versatility)
Potatoes
Pasta
Tinned Spaghetti (kids won't eat beans, but allows me to have a couple of mega cheap fast dinners)
and that's me really, may add a couple more things when going through the cupboard, but I think I have plenty of everything else to see us, even if it does get a bit odd towards the end lol
So, I pose the question. You only have £10 - what do you buy?
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Potatoes (chips, boiled, baked, mash, wedges, the list is endless!)
Mince (i split a packet for 3 meals if needs be, lasagne, spag bol and meatballs)
UHT value milk- cheaper than fresh
Eggs (boiled, scrambled, fried, poached, omlette)
Value tinned tomatoes- can make EVERYTHING with this!
Big pag of pasta.0 -
For me it would be
Potatoes
Onions
Celery
Carrots
Mixed dried beans
Passata
Pasta
Cheese
Flour
Oil
Eggs
Milk
Cheese and onion quiche with mash and veg.
Dried bean, soaked and cooked with carrots, onion and celery, in a tomato sauce either with pasta or topped with mash.
Veggi burgers - grated veg, bind with egg, served with wedges.
Flat breads with poached eggs
Cheese and potato pie with dried, soaked, cooked beans in a tomato sauce
Cold veg pasta salad for lunches along with veg soup and flat bread.
Veg stew with cheese dumplings."Start every day off with a smile and get it over with" - W. C. Field.0 -
Aliasojo - it's not too bad - I have a chest freezer, which is half full and has lots of meat in it. Plus I have 5 kilos (!) of rice, lots of tins of tomatoes too, so a very tomatoey ricey month at my house lol0
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Cheese
Potatoes
Pasta
Rice
Milk
Bread Flour & Yeast
Tea Bags
Beans
Onions
Carrots
Swede
Whole chicken
I generally have most of the above in except the veg, as I tend to stock pile when on offer.0 -
So here's my final list, all of which are value products (subject to change)
Bread x 4 =1.88p
Potatoes x1 = .89p
Eggs x 2 = 1.70p
Chips x 1 = 82p
Sausages x 1 = 1.00p
Spaghetti in sauce x 4 = 96p
Powdered sauce mix x 4 =1.00p
cornflakes x 1 = 46p
plain flour x 1 =52p
bourbons x 3 = 69p
Total = 9.92
I know some people will think that my sauce mixes and bourbons are frivolous, but the biscuits will replace wrapped choc biscuits in lunch boxes, which I don't have time to make, and the sauces will be used in the slow cooker, where I would have used beer or wine in the sauce, which I can't afford this month.
Whatcha think?0 -
pasta,cheese,onions,spuds,tinned tomato's,eggs, porridge,flour,butter/marg for pastry,milk,rice,tea bags,and as much mince as I could buy with what's left.This can be streeetched to lots of meals with the addition of a few oats from the porridge and some chopped onion for flavouring0
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Catfood for Daisy-first priority for me!
Bread
Coffee
cereal
potatoes
Milk
bag of Iceland frozen sausages
Mushrooms
Onions
Chopped tomatoes0 -
So here's my final list, all of which are value products (subject to change)
Bread x 4 =1.88p
Potatoes x1 = .89p
Eggs x 2 = 1.70p
Chips x 1 = 82p
Sausages x 1 = 1.00p
Spaghetti in sauce x 4 = 96p
Powdered sauce mix x 4 =1.00p
cornflakes x 1 = 46p
plain flour x 1 =52p
bourbons x 3 = 69p
Total = 9.92
I know some people will think that my sauce mixes and bourbons are frivolous, but the biscuits will replace wrapped choc biscuits in lunch boxes, which I don't have time to make, and the sauces will be used in the slow cooker, where I would have used beer or wine in the sauce, which I can't afford this month.
Whatcha think?
No milk for the cornflakes? Buy 2 sauce mixes instead of 4 and use the spare 50p for some longlife milk. Or a pint of ordinary, and water it down to make it go further. Use half as much sauce mix in your recipes - doubt it would make much difference.I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe
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Me? Milk. I could eat my way through my store-cupboard not needing anything else. Can you go down with scurvey in a month?0
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