£7.00 per week - menu ideas

quintwins

Soworried wrote: »

Tesco own brand
Ingredients:

Maize, Sugar, Salt, Malted Barley Extract, Niacin, Iron, Thiamin (B1), Riboflavin (B2), Folic Acid, Vitamin D, Vitamin B12.

Kelloggs
ngredients

Maize, Sugar, Barley Malt Flavouring, Salt. Niacin, Iron, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin), Vitamin B1 (Thiamin), Folic Acid, Vitamin D, Vitamin B12.

The stats are comparable except on the sugar, kelloggs contain almost twice the level.

i'm getting over twice, value has 3g and lelloggs as 8g!!!! my kids love value cornflakes btw, not that i don't they make very nice choccy buns but i'm not a cereal person unless i have no other options.

quintwins

Soworried wrote: »

Thankyou DebbyM, yourself, BB and quintwins have helped me more than you can realise.x

i really should ahve read the whole thread before i replied instead on doing loads of quotes:o

you've done really well yourself soworried and you've had some brilliant suggestions, i don't think anyone on here ever relises how much there posts help so many people i know i lurked and found lots of help on here for a long time before i ever posted.

Soworried

quintwins wrote: »

i'm getting over twice, value has 3g and lelloggs as 8g!!!! my kids love value cornflakes btw, not that i don't they make very nice choccy buns but i'm not a cereal person unless i have no other options.

OOPS! 2 nights running you have had to correct me quintwins.:o
It must be the vodka I had about an hour ago. x

debbym

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

eggs are not expensive but a great source of protein.

Agreed good for protein but even the cheapest battery eggs from Tescos are 85p for 6 - that's 12% of the entire budget as given on this one food.

Re: the allowance of sugar - I am suggesting 2 sugars in each cup of tea plus 1 teaspoon of sugar on the cornflakes for breakfast. That's 7 spoons a day (about 45g I just spent 30 seconds weighing it - yes I am that OCD) across 14 days that's 630g sugar - more than the bag specified which was 500g. If you read the whole post you'll see I don't use sugar in my tea so I wouldn't use this much in 2 weeks either but my OH and inlaws would for example which is why I included it. "Half a bag" was a good average amount for a realistically costed emergency plan:)

quintwins

lol soworried i was acually thinking wow double i knew it was more but not that much, i'm so glad i'm a toght!!!!! then i checked i was like wow now i'm really glad :rotfl:

Soworried

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

Not at all, this thread is on my subscribed list and I merely went through the list to read all new posts since my last visit which is what I always do when I dip into MSE

That reitarates my last post.

Soworried

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

I buy my eggs locally for just £2 for a tray of free range. Mr T isn't the only source of food

But this thread is not about you or where you shop. It is about the poster that has just £7. She does not have that farm shop.
The others are trying to help her out and it seems you just wish to pick at their help.
Please show me where I have been aggresive?

debbym

quintwins wrote: »

i really should ahve read the whole thread before i replied instead on doing loads of quotes:o

you've done really well yourself soworried and you've had some brilliant suggestions, i don't think anyone on here ever relises how much there posts help so many people i know i lurked and found lots of help on here for a long time before i ever posted.

Well said - I'm really impressed by all the stuff you've spent your time posting soworried. Here's to helping people not just having a go at them:T

quintwins

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

I buy my eggs locally for just £2 for a tray of free range. Mr T isn't the only source of food

Not everyone has that option, for a start if you only have £7 for food your food and you don't live within walking distance of town you won't be wasting money on the bus and everything will be done in one run, and 30 eggs are hard to transport home with no car, also thats still 2/7 of the budget and no-one wants to live off egg and ham omlettes for a week.

I really thought you were trying to be helpful by stating this isn't the healtiest approach however i now feel you picking holes.

The fact is £7 doesn't stretch far at all, i'm using up my freezer ready for a big meat order before xmas (i don't shop in late nov or dec as i hate the busyness and cold, i only buy milk, bread, spuds and fruit and veg from the farm shop up the road) and i have £10 a week for the next few months aswell as all my stocks, and this will barely get us enough milk, bread and fruit for the week, if i didn't insist my kids had milk and fruit £10 could prob last us the month, healthy food is more expensive, it shouldn't be that way but it is.

Soworried

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

It's not a farm shop, it's a local chuck keeper that sells eggs at their garden gate. Has anyone suggested to the OP that she should look for something similar locally or ask neighbours growing fruit/veg if they have any surplus for sale. Lots of people have gluts at this time of year and there must be some allotments nearby. You have to become incredibly creative when you have no money and I know all about that, been there done it

Why not suggest that then instead of critiquing other peoples posts?
You seem to have the knowledge to help out yet wish to post it in a negative manner. Please don't, you could help the poster and people like myself.
I really am not trying to be aggressive or cheeky in anyway, I just want you to see that your posts are not helping the way you may think they are.