£7.00 per week - menu ideas

joedenise

Will definitely be popping into Aldi tomorrow to pick up a couple of butternut squash (or should that be squashes?). Need to check how many onions I've got, but suspect I've got enough this week.

Thanks for updating.

Denise

TubbyRunner

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

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.

I'll have to remember to take my shopping bags to work tomorrow, and to actually walk to Aldi, it's about time I started to fill my pantry.

Thanks for posting the update on the Super Six .

Butterfly_Brain

Just bumping this up because there seem to be a lot of people in need of it at the moment. It would probably equate to £10-£12 now but it has lots of cheap ideas

edinburghlad

This is such a good idea. Looking to try and cut down my spending and challenge myself to pay off debts.

lilbert

Read this thread several times over since it first began and still love it every time. Were not that hard up but I can use the basic recipes as a baseline and add lot of veggies etc. And its good to know I could feed my family in a very hard situation.

Butterfly_Brain

Bumping because it is needed again

Sally_A

One of my cheapest meals is:-


Boil potatoes, add cabbage, carrots, parsnips, leeks, swede (or whatever you have) and any other sad looking veg left over from the weekend - this is a fab meal for Wednesday/Thursday.


Heat tray in oven with oil and chopped onion in base. 180C


Roughly mash the veg. Place in oven for 15 mins.


Remove from oven, make a dent with the bottom of a ladle/big spoon - break an egg into each hollow - place back in the oven for 5 - 10 mins until egg set.

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For extra culinary panache - use old cheese, ie the hard crusty edges, grated on top.


And for the piece de resistance, if money allows, a few rashers of smoked bacon - cooked in oven for 20 mins at the same time as the spud mix until crispy.


Down until the half way line I marked this should be no more than 80p to £1 per person.

jackel

Thanks Sally A for your "Veg Hash" recipe. Thanks also Butterfly Brain for bumping up regularly - so necessary. One thing I would really like to encourage people to do(and now is the time to get started) is to grow your own veg - the best money saver ever. I know most people haven,t got much space but pots,tubs and growbags can yield worthwhile amounts. A row of runner beans along a fence can save a packet especially if you salt them in containers for the winter(still using ours from last year). jac.xx

Butterfly_Brain

I am still using my runner beans, french beans, broad beans, courgettes and tomato sauce made from my own garlic and tomatoes, I still have perpetual spinach growing in the garden as well.

Lilyplonk

jackel wrote: »

.......... I know most people haven,t got much space but pots,tubs and growbags can yield worthwhile amounts. A row of runner beans along a fence can save a packet ..............jac.xx

Thanks for this idea.

I've got a garden that I'm only just 'coming to grips with' - I'm so inexperienced with plants/growing things that it's .

I reckon that this is something that even I can manage - plus it will disguise the fence while adding a little bit of colour with those lovely red flowers that they produce before the pods :T. I'll check out my local Garden Centre for some plants in trays ..................