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You have £10.........What's on your essentials list?

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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?
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  • cleggie
    cleggie Posts: 2,169 Forumite
    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.
  • aliasojo
    aliasojo Posts: 23,053 Forumite
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    goggler wrote: »
    So, I pose the question. You only have £10 - what do you buy?

    Alcohol. I'd be seriously stressed if I only had a tenner to last a month. :D

    Sorry, no help whatsoever but I wish you luck and I hope the month passes quick for you. :D
    Herman - MP for all! :)
  • Pooky
    Pooky Posts: 7,023 Forumite
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    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.
  • goggler
    goggler Posts: 66 Forumite
    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 lol
  • hermum
    hermum Posts: 7,123 Forumite
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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.
  • goggler
    goggler Posts: 66 Forumite
    edited 20 May 2012 at 8:27PM
    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?
  • [Deleted User]
    [Deleted User] Posts: 17,413 Forumite
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    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 flavouring
  • spike7451
    spike7451 Posts: 6,944 Forumite
    Catfood for Daisy-first priority for me!

    Bread
    Coffee
    cereal
    potatoes
    Milk
    bag of Iceland frozen sausages
    Mushrooms
    Onions
    Chopped tomatoes
  • Bogof_Babe
    Bogof_Babe Posts: 10,803 Forumite
    goggler wrote: »
    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.
    :D I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe :D

  • BitterAndTwisted
    BitterAndTwisted Posts: 22,492 Forumite
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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?
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