£7.00 per week - menu ideas

Malfiore

Great to see OP came back - it's nice to be wrong in this case

Love this thread, going to try the yogurt recipe next!

Soworried

I thought I would post a few of the meals we have eaten this week.

Battered sausage, chips and peas.
1 sausage each, which is 4. 24p (Bought at Lidl, half price weekend offer)
Home made chips. 1 kilo potatoes 33p. (Bought at Lidl, 7.5kg for £2.50)
2x tins of mushy peas 8p. (bought at Mrt)
Batter home made with a pinch of salt, cup of plain flour and an egg, add a touch of milk. (Flour 52p at Lidl for 1.5kg, eggs 10x for under 90p at Lidl) Probably 15p.
Total meal cost= 80p or 20p a head.

Gammon in cheese sauce.
Spaghetti 75g a person, so 300g. 30p (Bought at Lidl, 500g for 49p)
1/6 of a kilo of gammon. 67p. (Bought for £4 at MrS)
Cheese sauce 33p (3 for £1 at MrT)
400g of cauliflower 52p (£1.20 a kilo at Mr S)
Total meal cost = £1.82 or 45.5p a head.

I will post some more after I work the costs out. I hope this helps people.xx

Soworried

Jacket potato with home made coleslaw and chicken.
4x large potatoes. 39p (Aldi)
4x chicken portions £1.29 approx (2kg for £3.19 at MrT)
2x carrot 12p (1.5kg at MrS for 75p)
Half a cabbage 18p (36p at MrT)
2x onions 15p (5kg at MrT for £1.49)
Mayonaisse 8p (48p a jar at MrS, 1/6th of a jar used)
Total meal cost= £2.21 or 55.3p a head
We had spare coleslaw as well.

This could be made cheaper with basics coleslaw. 39p at MrS

Soworried

Vegetable pasta
1 carton of passata sauce (29p at MrT)
300g of pasta quills 18p (30p for 500g at MrT)
1 onion 8p
1/2 celariac cubed 21p (42p each at MrT)
1 pepper 36p (3pk of basics £1.07 at MrT)
Cheese 120g 60p (400g £1.99 at MrT, creamfields brand)
Total meal cost= £1.72 or 43p a head

Soworried

Vegetable curry and rice
Mysan curry 25p (£1.25 at chinese supermarket, makes 5 pints)
1 onion 8p
100g of mushrooms 25p (400g at MrT 97p)
1 pepper 36p
2 carrots 12p
300 gr basmati rice 24p (£4 for 5kg at MrT)
Prawn crackers 5p (2kg chinese supermarket for £2.99)
Total meal cost= £1.35 or 34p a head

This can be made cheaper by using long grain basics rice 40p a kilo and basic curry 19p
You can also add in any left over meat you have. Which tends to be sausages or chicken for us.

Soworried

Toad in the hole.
8x sausages 48p
1 onion 8p
Home made batter 15p
mashed potato using 1kg 33p
Splash of milk to mash 5p
1/2 a roasted celeriac 21p
1/2 cabbage 18p
Gravy 45g of granuales 13p (500g at MrT £1.39)
Total meal cost=£1.61 or just under 41p per head.

Again it can be made cheaper if using basics gravy.

I will stop posting now as you will all be sick of me but I hope it helps somebody x

Twinny99

This whole thread has been brilliant!! You are all so resourceful, not to mention generous with your time. Im glad the OP came back. This shows me just how much money I WASTE by not shopping around - time for me to change I think - thank you all x

Danni-R

I've just done a 'virtual' shop on mrt's web site and its come in at £7.70 for stuff I know I'll eat and not small amounts either for the week of lunches and dinner. I'm not sure how they taste but the sausages have made it on there along with the packets of white sauce (want to make lasagna) and curry sauce for when I want a take away!

Well done on putting together some great menu ideas BB. I'm a lerker and felt I should come on in and say hello!

I agree that really its not that healthy (I've tried to put frozen veg and sweetcorn etc in there) but for a short term fix til more money comes in its not all bad!

Thanks to everyone for posting their ideas.

quintwins

soworried thats fab some really good ideas, battering stuff is a good idea as it makes it more filling even tho it's not very healthy, oh that note anything can be bulked out with yorkshire puddings which cost very little to make.

We're having pasta bake for dinner, the sauce was completely made with reduced veg (peppers,mushrooms, tom and onions) and a few tons of value chopped tom with some mixed herbs and garlic salt, works out way cheaper than even value jars.along with the reduced cheese i keep buying grating and freezing it's gonna be a very cheap dinner (pasta was on amazon bulk buy and only 40p a bag)

Soworried

Battering is not healthy quintwins but it was our chippy night