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

lostinrates

For me it would be pulses/lentils/ beans but only because i can get free mlk, eggs that can be deferred paid for. So i need a cheap peotein source really.

For fresh food i would forage...um, for a lot of fresh food i do forage!

corrag

For me it would have to be:

Basics Baked Beans
Basics Tinned PlumTomatoes
Bag of spuds
Mature cheese
Basics Bag of pasta
Basics Bread
Tinned Pilchards
Basics Frozen mixed veg
Basics biscuits - I'd have to have something sweet

mummybearx

There's a coupon going about for 80p off a pack of Wright's bread mixes. Most cost 89p in my local MrT's, so you could get 4 packs of bread mix for 36p, gives you another £1.52 to spend

That's if you can find time to make bread, it's something I only really do once in a blue moon xx

Stephen_Leak

Bread, milk, eggs, rice, pasta, potatoes, onions, frozen mixed veg', frozen peas, tinned tomatoes, baked beans, maybe a tin of kidney beans ...

sweetilemon

Rice, pasta, chopped tomatoes/passata, potatoes, sausages, go to morrisons/ any supermarket before closing for 5p whoopsie packs of rolls/bread, value natural yogurt, beans and value soft cheese, mince and woopsie veg to freeze and popping corn for snacks. In reality id stuff myself at work (work in a kitchen).

hulda

Bulk bin milk powder, rice, lentils, tomato sauce, sugar, potatoes, baked beans and the cheapest mince I can find. The milk powder, rice and sugar would make creamed rice/rice pudding, which would be breakfasts sorted,. The rest of the ingredients would make slow-cooker stews for dinners, and a baked potato would cover lunches. If any money was left over I'd buy woopsied veges to add to the stew, or the cheapest apples for snacks.

goggler

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

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 have a couple of bottles of milk in the freezer, so I'm good there

I could buy two mixes instead of 4, but they're on special at 4 for a £1, rather than 36 p each......

goggler

zepsgal wrote: »

There's a coupon going about for 80p off a pack of Wright's bread mixes. Most cost 89p in my local MrT's, so you could get 4 packs of bread mix for 36p, gives you another £1.52 to spend

That's if you can find time to make bread, it's something I only really do once in a blue moon xx

I will have a nosey for that - thanks!!

tessie_bear

have you got any nectar/tesco/boots points that you could buy something with.....im going out now but will be back to see what i can come up with....good luck

Sambucus_Nigra

Milk, cheese, 12.5 kg bag spuds, onions, and the cheapest tinned toms and bags of noodles I could find. Save the rest for an emergency.