£7.00 per week - menu ideas

moments_of_sanity

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

i would opt for eggs on a tight budget, they can be turned into a filling meal and 15 eggs are only £1 in farmfoods.
i went shopping this morning and aldi has reduced their 2l milk to 95p and butter has gone down to 95p

I agree, eggs are really good for a filling meal, DH came in yesterday having started work at 3am and not managed his lunch and I gave him a huge omelette made with 4 eggs, total cost was 27p and he was full right through til dinner.

Butterfly_Brain

Fredula wrote: »

Do you get hungry just having fruit for breakfast (on the days that you do)?

How do you manage if you're really hungry? I get shakey, and I think it's due to poor diet because I'm not actually hungry... It's odd. I'd worry that I'd get shakey if I just had fruit for breakfast, but would like to try it.

Get yourself checked for diabetes

Butterfly_Brain

aldi super six for the next fortnight is really good

salad potatoes
plum tomatoes
pears
chestnut mushrooms
rhubarb
baby sweetcorn

all at 59p

so much better than the last offers.

fairy3

Can vouch for the tomatoes - scrummy, wish had got more

Butterfly_Brain

The offers are still on until Wednesday 28th. I went in today and got more of eveything and I will top up again on Thursday when we go shopping.
I have frozen six packs of the rhubarb and I also have frozen four rhubarb crumbles.
My rhubarb in the garden has another year before I can start using it and as we all love it, I want to stock as much as I can
The pears are lovely as well, you just have to leave them for a few days to soften up a bit. I have also peeled and quatered a bag of them and froze them as well just for a pear and chocolate pudding nom,nom,nom

Butterfly_Brain

Super six this week:

baby corn
oranges
romaine lettuce
large vine tomatoes
mushrooms
fun size bananas

All at 69p

Butterfly_Brain

I have started using the local market and greengrocer for a lot more fruit and veg because they both have some good deals, plus the stuff is fresher and larger than Aldi and you can buy whatever you need.
Mind you we have been living on salad for the last two weeks.

I still buy frozen though especially in aldi, it is a shame that their frozen veg range isn't bigger.
Farmfoods isn't bad but you have to bear in mind that their bags are only 750g whereas Aldi are 1kg bags

Bargain_hunter_6

There is an excellent website - I am a new user so MSE website won't let me paste the direct url but search for thriftylesley.com - which has lots of good recipes how to feed 1 person for £1 per day. It also has weekly shopping lists for all of the ingredients you need for that week's recipes.

Possession

Bargain_hunter wrote: »

There is an excellent website - I am a new user so MSE website won't let me paste the direct url but search for thriftylesley.com - which has lots of good recipes how to feed 1 person for £1 per day. It also has weekly shopping lists for all of the ingredients you need for that week's recipes.

Lesley is an MSE-er from this very board.

iAMaLONDONER

I assume £7 per week is now almost impossible unless you already have some essentials to start with or have some kind of (staff) discount at supermarket(s)