£7.00 per week - menu ideas

Fruball

I think I may have improved on the last meal plan for under £7 :j

Shopping List (Mr T except potatoes)

1 courgette 34p
1 onion 19p
3 carrots 23p
1 value whole chicken £2.07
Value eggs £1.25
Value stuffing mix 15p
Value chicken stock cubes 10p
Value lemon curd 22p
Sieved passata 29p
Value rice 40p
value white rolls 35p
value frozen peas 95p
potatoes, ald! 39p

TOTAL £6.93!!!

Breakfasts and Lunches would still be either a fried egg or lemon curd in a bread roll (still 2 short for the week for two people)

Dinners would mostly be chicken based so would need dividing up into portions to last the week.

Roast Chicken, 1/2 mix made into stuffing balls, one potato made into wedges or as roasties, peas and a carrot.

Egg fried rice with chicken and peas

Chicken risotto using 1/4 onion, 1/2 courgette and peas

Chicken casserole made with 1/2 passata, stock 1/4 onion and 1/2 carrot - served with rice

Veg casserole with stock, carrot, 1/4 onion, 1/2 courgette, 1/2 passata and peas - served on jacket potato each

Chicken soup with hm stock, 1/4 onion, 1/2 carrot and rice - with stuffing dumplings

Frittata made with remaining eggs and remaining potato and any leftover peas.

Portions would not be large but it would be a fairly healthy diet for such a lean budget. A second pack of rolls at 35p would be good served alongside dinners as a filler.

debbym

Fruball wrote: »

My colleague and I have been puzzling over how to do a whole week of meals for 2 people for £7 and I have to say - I just cannot do it healthily. But I think I would be happy to eat it for a week or two if money was really tight.

So

Shopping list
(all sourced at MrT online, today except for potatoes)

Value tinned tomatoes 31p
Value Lemon Curd 22p
Yellow split peas (500g) 49p
Value rice (1kg) 40p
Value spaghetti 24p
Deli counter 100g double gloucester cheese 48p
Value butter 98p
15 eggs 1.25
Value pork sausages x 8 56p
value coleslaw 20p
value white rolls x 12 35p
value peas 900g 95p
3 mushrooms 20p
4 baking potatoes from ald! 39p

Grand total = £7.02 (ok it is over the £7 but you could probably find 2p in the street if you went looking )

Breakfasts/Lunches = either a fried egg or lemon curd in a roll - one day would be one sausage in a roll (You would be 2 rolls short so I would suggest a lie in on the weekend and get up for lunch )

Dinners -
Risotto made with 2 sausages and peas with tiny bit cheese on top

Jacket potato with cheese and coleslaw

Casserole made with 2 sausages, 1/2 tin toms and split peas - serve with wedges

Omelette with peas

Spaghetti with mushrooms, butter and black pepper (even better if you could get your hands on a clove or two of garlic)

Pea soup followed by tomato risotto

Spaghetti made with 2 sausages and lots of peas tossed in butter.

If you had any seasonings/stock cubes etc then this would be all the better for it.

I know this is not a healthy week's food but should be bearable for a short while as I think it offers a bit of variety.

If you had butter already then that 98p would be better spent on some fruit or vegetables but I couldn't eat dry pasta - pasta with butter, salt and pepper is actually very good so I would personally rather have the butter than the fruit/veg.

For an extra £2 you could include a reasonable amout of fruit/veg. Even one extra carrot would be an improvement on the above :rotfl:

wow! I'm seriously impressed
If you take out your frozen peas and substitute 2 tins of garden peas instead (21p each)(for the omelette and rissoto) that would save you another 53p for some extras like fruit.:T:T:T then you've really nailed it!

Fruball

I think my revised version that I posted just before your post is better as it is is better meat than sausages and more veggies.

TBH I am surprised at what can be achieved - imagine what you could do with double the budget!! :rotfl::rotfl:

quintwins

FRUBALL woul you be portioning your chicken before or after you cook it?

also are you using all your eggs? as you could do scambled egg one morning.

Fruball

quintwins wrote: »

FRUBALL woul you be portioning your chicken before or after you cook it?

also are you using all your eggs? as you could do scambled egg one morning.

I would cook the chicken in the SC so I could get every single bit off the bone! Then portion it up for the 7 days allowing more for certain meals - ie chicken dinner would need more than a risotto.

Re eggs - I have allowed an egg per person most days for breakfast or lunch, 4 eggs for Frittata, plus one left over for the egg fried rice. You could do scrambled egg on a toasted roll instead

Soworried

Fruball, that is great. I would love you to post a double the budget version. x

Fruball

Soworried wrote: »

Fruball, that is great. I would love you to post a double the budget version. x

Okay - I will post a £14 for two people meal plan and shopping list tomorrow

(again, it would be short term rather than long term as I doubt you can get all the nutrients you need in such a tight budget)

Soworried

That is fine fruball, my situation , like many I suppose is temporary. No sick pay but on the sick.

mum26

Fruball wrote: »

I think my revised version that I posted just before your post is better as it is is better meat than sausages and more veggies.

TBH I am surprised at what can be achieved - imagine what you could do with double the budget!! :rotfl::rotfl:

Lol, how swish would you feel with £15 after a few weeks of £7, it shows how inventive people can be though, I love these threads, they always give me helpful tips :T:T

Soworried

mum26 wrote: »

Lol, how swish would you feel with £15 after a few weeks of £7, it shows how inventive people can be though, I love these threads, they always give me helpful tips :T:T

Same here, we are a family of 4 and the thought of a meal plan for just £28 a week is exciting. I am sad I realise that.