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

Jacksmummy-1979

Potatoes
Cheese
Eggs
Flour
Pasta
Tins tomatoes x 2

quintwins

I have a very good store cupboard so i can honestly say i'd buy a sack of spuds and fruit, i can get a 20kg sack of spuds for £3 (granted not my usual ones but in times of need the option is there) i would then aim for £1.50 a week of fruit as my kids are still small and i feel fruit and veg is important to there growth (i have lots of frozen veg) i have some uht milk which i normally usse to make yogurt we could drink, plenty of frozen meat, pasta, abit of rice we're not really rice people and lots of cereal.


It's an ongoing joke that if there was ever a food shortage my family would come to me, first thing we'd run out of is prob ice cream.

Butterfly_Brain

Eggs
Milk (Dried would work out cheaper) to make it more palatable try adding a few drops of vanilla extract and ½ teaspoon of sugar then chill in the fridge overnight.
Cheese
Pepperoni slices for making HM pizza
Pasta
potatoes
Stock cubes
Bread Flour
Yeast
I would look at the super six in Aldi every week so that you can pick up cheap fruit and veggies or use tinned or frozen.

tessie_bear

id go for a bag of potatoes and some mince....then make mince and boiled pots/shepherds pie/spag bol (if you have pasta)...id get some milk and the cheapest teabags
might be worth a visit to a fruit market to buy some fruit and veg...i wouldnt rush to spend all the cash and sort of drip feed it if that makes sense...sort of spend it as the week goes on

hope u go on ok

flippin36

In honesty I would go shopping late in the evening and see what I could get cheap - yellow sticker reduced to clear. I never pay more than 19p for bread, I have bought milk and eggs for a few pence. There is always fresh veg and fruit (it just needs freezing or eating quickly).

Other than that baked beans, big bag of spuds and cheese will always provide a nutritious meal. A pack of mince can be stretched and a whole chicken can do many meals if you use your imagination. Homemade bread and hm chicken soup is quite cheap and filling.

Good luck.

HappyMJ

I wouldn't buy spaghetti in sauce in tins. Yes it seems cheap and easy to make but dried spaghetti and a tin of tomatoes will go so much further for half the price.

meg72

I make a meal plan using up whats in store and see how many meals I can do, then only buy what I absolutely need.

Spendless

Bread/bread products -hopefully as whoospsied and 'double duty' eg pitta bread could be for packed lunches, or cut into strips and served with a curry, or bread rolls that could also be pizza bases. Failing that it would have to be a bread mix.

butter/marg

milk.

Depending on what I didn't have pasta/rice/potatoes. Pasta would take precedence over rice for me so I could make pasta salads for lunches and save on bread. Don't do rice salads due to food poisoning experience some years ago (not cooked by me!). Potatoes would take precedence over both rice and pasta.

tinned toms

onion

cheese

squeakysue

Mine would be
Bread (reduced preferably)
Eggs
Potatoes
Onions
Carrots
Cheese
Mince
Tinned toms
Milk
Cheap cornflakes
Bag of apples/satsumas

I do have a good stock of pasta/rice and meat in the freezer though so would be confident of getting plenty of decent meals and packed lunches sorted

mama67

I would say that really a list is needed of everything in your freezers/cupboards if the £10 is just to round out things, as posters don't know what exactly there is to work with before the topup shop.