£7.00 per week - menu ideas

gailey_2

Not sure much help.

but y local spar has veg cardboard shopper with always far too much veg in it. Got bags of white onions for 25p a bag other day got 2 bags as onions last ages.

Co-op-we have alarge one:) basically anyting on promotional endsshort dated fresh tends to end up in reduced section as they nearly always have too much. Their reduced meats are on top deli counter.

Morrisons redutions approx 7pm onwards sometimes have to hover,

what happens is meat and fish counter reduce stuff at counter then wheel it out to reduced so get single beef and pork steaks for like 89p and fresh fillet fish for 49p.

What i then do is cut it up small and pad it out with veg to make sweet and sour pork-co-op do value sweet and sour 49p and beef and veg casserole.sometimes just little bit of meat can liven up the meal.

Soworried

MrS has put their Mixed beans in mild chilli sauce on special. £1.09p a tin or 4 tins for £2 :eek:
I am going to grab 12 tins today if they have any in, these are lovely served with rice or couscous.

MissOrganised1972

Thanks everyone for your input on this thread. I have been reading a page or 2 each night before bed over the last month or so! Love it! Going to miss it as it obviously moves a lot slower now! However, I have been having a go my own meal plans, attempting to include fruit & veg portions where possible. Bit busy with Christmas preparations (umpteen school concerts etc to go to) but will get onto it when I can & post some suggestions ASAP!
:-)

skogar

A bit late I know but a quick answer to the question about eggless baking.

A good chocolate cake recipe is the one for cockeyed cake from the I Hate to Cook Book by Peg Bracken. Recipe on many websites so google to find it. Sorry as I'm new I can't post links. Tastes very nice.

I think making it in a large square tin makes a bit of a wide flat cake. I keep meaning to try mixing it in a mixing bowl and baking it in a loaf tin for a better shape but haven't got round to it yet.

Butterfly_Brain

Super six this week
Brussels
5 Lemons
1.5 kg maris piper potatoes
1.5kg carrots
750g parsnips
600g clemantines

All at 69p

:j brilliant selection

MissOrganised1972

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Super six this week
Brussels
5 Lemons
1.5 kg maris piper potatoes
1.5kg carrots
750g parsnips
600g clemantines

All at 69p

:j brilliant selection

Wow! Brilliant selection!

Soworried

I think we will be having parsnip soup for lunches this week.

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I made a big vat of parsnip & apple soup last week using bendy parsnips from Morrisons reduced bits, and some wrinkly apples from the fruit bowl and it was delicious.I still have two half litre pots left for today and tomorrow.I have found that late Sunday afternoon is a good time for reduced veg in Morries.I can get quite a lot which will be used in soups.I had a HUGE swede a few weeks ago which only cost me 29p and it was all used up in a casserole and four litres of chunky soup.

Soup is so easy to make and so 'forgiving' for clapped out veg :) Nowt gets binned in my house.Even some of the off cuts of peelings from cauli's or brocolli will go into the freezer in a bag until I get enough for a pot of soup.add some lentils or barley and you have a very filling,warming lunch for pennies with a few croutons made with dried out bread.

I don't buy bread myself anymore as I eat crackers instead, but DD gives me a few crusts left over from a sliced loaf and I put some garlic infused olive oil on a plate and soak the bread into that and sprinkle some sea salt and ground up black pepper on it and a few Italian herbs and chuck on a tray in a slow oven until dried out and chop up into squares.
I get a good sized boxful for a couple of slices of bread that cost very little when you think how much ready-made crutons cost to buy in a packet at the supermarkets.

I try to see if I can replicate stuff from the shops myself at home for less cost than the shop and often its trial and error but most things I can make a bit cheaper and with more flavour.I do adore herbs and spices so use quite a few of them at home My DGDs boyfriend has a great chilli plant that he has grown so I snaffle a few chillis from him and use them in my cooking.I have even dried them out and saved them for cooking with when he has had a glut.
If there is reduced piece of pork fillet I will cut in half and freeze it two pieces, as coated in egg & stuffing mix it will make a good filling mid-week meal for me with lots of green veg.reducing the size of the meat content is not too hard as when I was growing up the meat was rationed anyway so smaller portions of meat and larger helpings of veg helped my late Mum streeeetch her rations further.
I think that flavour is paramount when cooking and if you have a good stock of herbs ,spices and condiments almost anything can be made to taste fantastic.

Butterfly_Brain

Aldi super six this week is very disappointing

Little gem lettuce
cucumber
4 pack garlic
spring onions
celery
savoy cabbage

All 39p

I have bought some garlic, spring onions, celery and cabbage mainly to make a big batch of celery soup and to freeze some for putting into stews, I plan to slice and freeze the spring onions for putting into stir fries, the cabbage will make some cabbage parcels and I will use it as a side veg, garlic is a staple in this house so I would buy it anyway, 39p is a very good price for it though.

This is up to the 15th January and the new super six starts on the 16th January.

JackieO ...I picked up a reduced pork fillet in Aldi yesterday for £2.35

Butterfly_Brain

he super six at aldi from Thursday 16th will be

Swede
Baby potatoes 1kg
Onions 1kg
Chanteney carrots 500g
Tomatoes six
Butternut squash each

All priced at 49p

Fantastic mix much better than all the salady stuff that we had had for the last fortnight.