Anyone got a nice spaghetti and meatballs recipe?

mama67

purplevamp wrote: »

They're £1.75 without a drink, £2.05 with a drink or £2.50 with a milkshake. My two had the £2.05 one (I added up wrong :rolleyes: ). Their school doesn't give a discount for more than one child. When it was just me and my oldest son I was on Income Support and therefore entitled to free school meals, but no such luxury now :rotfl: . They only have dinners at school about once a week, normally on a Friday. TBH they probably wouldn't eat some of the cack served up anyway.

Ours are £2.10 daily at the primary school, this is main & dessert and includes the cost of transporting it in from an outside caterer. (small village school - 60 kids total so no kitchen).

At the secondary school my DS1 takes £2 daily but buys what he wants from the canteen. Hot meals are I think £1.50 including dessert.

aytch

Lil_me, after a fairly good January am back in for £140 this month, lower spend as we are away on a weeks all inclusive holiday and it is a shorter month, so going for a much lower spend!

:beer:

sashanut

Hi all

Please put me down for £200 this month - thats for 2 adults & DD who likes to have expensive soya milk & various other items that fit in with her diet regime - no cheap pasta meals as she doesn't eat carbs! Tried to do the challenge on my own last month & looks like I spent around £200 +.We should be able to come in under that - I had a temp job over Xmas & filled the freezers with upmarket cheap food.....

I realise my biggest problem is menu planning - I just find it really hard to do until the day we are actually eating. But, if I DO know in advance what we're having, I feel much more relaxed about it....so why can't I sit down & do it at the very least weekly???? Mental block? Ostrich-like stupidity? BTW I don't buy ready-made meals - it's all OS catering here....

Need to get to grips with everything around here & starting with the food, hope the rest will follow as I have been backsliding with knobs on. BUT this year I am NOT buying any new clothes - so far have resisted!! Forgot to mention I have so much stuff I haven't worn that I could clothe a small nation...

jackie_w

Many of you have mentioned these coupons (not the delivery ones), where do you get them from. Thats one thing I can never ever find .

Oh can I just ask, this isnt a grocery question but, I just wanted to ask, you people who have a dishwasher.

I have just noticed that the water hasnt totally drained away from the bottom? I have never noticed this before, so, I dont know if this is usual or not? Does anyone know if it is? No warning sounds or anything coming from dishwasher.


Jackie

Blairweech

I STILL have not hsad time to read the thread - spend so far £20 (on milk).

I haven't even updated my sig yet, what the hell did I say my challenge was???

LouiseJ

Morning everyone:hello:

I am happily baking my way through Sunday Morning. I have made

Lemon Drizzle loaf cake

Sausage Rolls

Fairy cakes

And am about to make some biscuits.

These are all for next weeks packed lunches for all 4 of us to go with our sandwiches...if they last that long!

danksshady

doing quite well this month, keep sending other half to asda for top up shopping as he can resist over spending better than me

mk_wotsit

mrssnowy wrote: »

Help please,have found a bag of gram flour in cupboard(1 kg!)
Does anyone know if I could make chapati type thingys?

Fl*****g element gone in oven,new one not here till next Wed, so will have to have SC meals till then.

Gram Flour is what sticks everything together in Onion Bahjees!!! YUM!
.....Don't need the oven for these either!!

sashanut

OK have made another pot of lentil/veg soup - must be good as DD ate some cold last night (yuk) & then ate the rest warm for breakfast along with her cereal! It's a SW recipe but if anyone wants it, just LMK. Will update sig re spends when have worked out/remembered how to do it.

Any tips for making me menu plan???? SOMEONE PLEASE FORCE ME......

witchypoo

Wow you have all been so busy already! I'll try and glance over the posts properly later, but for now I wanted to get my personal challenge posted:
4 week month, £200 budget. Fingers crossed!