£7.00 per week - menu ideas

debbym

Having done week 1 of a menu for £7 with no store cupboard (for 1 person only I bow to ButterflyBrains superior talent!) I have decided to change 1 thing
Instead of jacket potato with beans for dinner on 2 of the nights I would like to substitute a tub of coleslaw for the beans Tescos everyday range 20p - instead of 26p for the beans
Menu should now read
Day 1
3 cups of tea throughout the day – otherwise tap water
breakfast -Cornflakes with milk and sugar
lunch -2 rounds ham sandwiches
dinner -Jacket potato with coleslaw
Day 2
3 cups of tea throughout the day – otherwise tap water
breakfast- Cornflakes with milk and sugar
lunch- 2 rounds ham sandwiches
dinner -Pasta with garlic and tomato
Day 3
3 cups of tea throughout the day – otherwise tap water
breakfast-Cornflakes with milk and sugar
lunch- Beans on toast
dinner -Sausage carrots and mash
Day 4
3 cups of tea throughout the day – otherwise tap water
breakfast-Cornflakes with milk and sugar
lunch -2 rounds ham sandwiches
dinner -Jacket potato with coleslaw
Day 5
3 cups of tea throughout the day – otherwise tap water
breakfast-Cornflakes with milk and sugar
lunch-2 rounds ham sandwiches
dinner-Pasta with garlic and tomato
Day 6
3 cups of tea throughout the day – otherwise tap water
breakfast- Cornflakes with milk and sugar
lunch -Beans on toast
dinner -Sausage carrots and mash
Day 7
3 cups of tea throughout the day – otherwise tap water
breakfast-Cornflakes with milk and sugar
lunch-2 rounds ham sandwiches
dinner-Pasta with garlic and tomato

Now working on week 2 with the following carried over from week 1
carried over to next week:
3 portions of pasta
4 sausages
19 days worth of teabags
9 days worth of cornflakes
half a head of garlic
half a tub of sunflower spread
half a bag of sugar
plus 15p

jackel

Hello to all - Have only reached page 7 yet. Had to say THANKS to you all for a brilliant thread. The meals and shopping plans are really marvelous. Our OAP is just buying less and less and we are getting worried. All the info. is a big help. I don't post oftain sometimes the threads move so fast I can't keep up with a relevant comment. Thankyou all again - have a feeling these tips may be lifesaving ! jac.xx

midnight_express

jackel - make sure you are claiming all the benefits you are entitled to. You can check on entitledto.com

PhGage

debbym wrote: »

Day 3
dinner -Sausage carrots and mash

Day 6
dinner -Sausage carrots and mash

Now working on week 2 with the following carried over from week 1
carried over to next week:
4 sausages

If there's no freezer, do you suggest cooking the sausages to stop them spoiling? Would cooked sausages last well enough to be carried over into the next week?

quintwins

I wouldn't cook the sausages to keep them, a packet of sausages should keep for around a week anyway, if you have easy acess to a supermarket maybe by them on day 3 and then eat the rest early in the 2nd week.

does anyone acually eat 2 rounds of sandwichs? i'd feel sick if i had 2 rounds for breakfast. Anyone who's finding things tight and wants to buy ham tesco new price drop book has a £1 off £3 spend of cooked meat, i don't buy value ham but if you had a freezer you could stock up and freeze it, you'd get 2 400g packets for £2.30 (they also have £1.50 off £6 of cheese and catherdral is down to £2 so 3 blocks for £4.50)- problem is this does rely on having more than £7 a week or else thats you weeks budget gone.

rosieben

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

She has PM'd me Rosie, she is a medical student and as such does some awful hours, but she does appreciate what we are doing for her. Her Mum has come up trumps and given her some store cupboard stuff and herbs and spices. There is a Morrisons Aldi and Lidl close by and Asda a few minutes drive away
Her Mum gave her a tin of Mackerel and a tin of sweetcorn and she has mashed them up to go in sandwiches, which I might try

Thanks for that BB, I take back all I said about having suspicions

queenpig

Butterflybrain@ quintwins. Thank you for those menus and lists I don't need personally at the moment myself. But I am going to print them off and keep them. You never know when you need that "just in case" emergency food plan. I hope that makes sense.
Thank you
QP

quintwins

queenpig i have to say i also don't follow these meals everyday of teh week, but by throwing a few in it means i have enough in my budget for chinese or steak and chips

i made beef stew once and completely forgot the meat, no-one relised until i was cleaning the kitchen after and noticed it in the fridge, i put bisto granuals in mine

beef stew

beef shin £1.10 (don't need much it's more to taste)
few big spuds 35p
3-4 carrots 20p
large onion 10p
salt, pepper, steak seasoning 5p
gravy 5p
total- £ £1.85 per person 46p

stir fry

value stir fry mix £1
bean sprouts 60p
4 value sausages 23p
tbsp soy sauce 5p
total £1.88 per person 47p



veg curry

2 tins value curry sauce 30p (just seen this online they havent been in my store for years and used to be 9p)
1/3 bag of value mixed veg 25p
1/4 bag of frozen cauliflower 23p
value rice 10p
total 88p per person 22p

if like me you can't get value curry (my sainburys doesn't sell it either) i've made this before and it was very nice and very cheap

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showpost.php?p=13078961&postcount=854

debbym

PhGage wrote: »

If there's no freezer, do you suggest cooking the sausages to stop them spoiling? Would cooked sausages last well enough to be carried over into the next week?

Sausages should keep for a week in a fridge if kept in an airtight bag.

Most fridges also have a icemaking compartment - you can freeze small amounts of food in there (I used to have to do this as a student), it doesn't work as well as a proper freezer but so long as you use it within a month its fine

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

All well and good in an emergency but otherwise an incredibly unhealthy diet full of high GI carbs & sugars and barely any protein or veg/fruit!! :eek:

That's exactly what this is - an emergency menu. I would never suggest that you lived like this all the time. It was an illustration of the fact that all the wonderful recipes that use proportional prices e.g. something like "a pinch of chilli powder 5p" don't work when it really hits the fan because you can't use them if you are starting from absolutely nothing (think of all those poor souls who got flooded out this summer); the supermarket won't let you just buy 5p worth you have to buy the whole thing. Yes it is unhealthy, yes it is monotonous but at least it proves it is possible to keep body and soul together if you find yourself in this mess until you can start to dig yourself out.

quintwins

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

All well and good in an emergency but otherwise an incredibly unhealthy diet full of high GI carbs & sugars and barely any protein or veg/fruit!! :eek:

i don't think for £7 you can expect much really, aslong as it means your not hungry and still alive theres not much more you can expect, i wouldn't recommend anyone trying to live off £7 a week long term.