£7.00 per week - menu ideas

quintwins

debtmess wrote: »

I wish I could be a mfw however the chances of a mortgage to begin with is as far as it gets
On my wages for the job I'm taking I could just about mortgage a shed Haha.

theres plenty of people over there savings who plan to overpay when they do get a mortgage, or like me are savings in the hopes of saving enough to ever get a mortgage, i'm a sahm and my hubbys on minium wage btw so it can be done , house prices are really really low here tho :T

theres some awful nice sheds out there

let me know where you decide to put it.

prepareathome

quintwins wrote: »

thats went right over my head and i have no idea what you mean, but were all happy for some new cheap recipe ideas

:osorry what I mean is to buy everything I use for a weeks meals would cost more than £7 but can then use them so that it works out £7 a week or less

Like to night doing a concoction as hubby calls them

100g diced beef 25p ( portioned from a 400g bag ys costing £1)
120g tomato puree 1p? ( from 850g tin from AF last week for 3 for £1)
I onion 15p
Then I just throw in what I feel like
Ginger -1tspn(5p)
Celery Salt - 1 tspn(5p)
Salt
Pepper
Handful raisins 10p (from a bag that cost 69p)
2 packs cous cous 17p ( 12 packs 99p from AF)

Not decided on vegetables yet as only just put meat on, but with dig around in freezer and fridge - see what needs using up if anything so will come back to you with that.

Will serve I think with cous cous for a change since got plenty from AF and they were 12 packs 99p and I will use 2 so 17p

Now I know this will come to nearly £1 for just evening meal but it could be cut down and fancy touches left out or it could be portioned to do two nights depending how much water I add to the stock done that before now - no room in freezer to do it tonight and in reality at this moment in time I do not need to. We could share just one pack of cous cous if we needed to but not so filling

(I am actually taking a chance as cous cous contains paprika as colour and I am allergic to it but usually when added as a spice so hoping so little in this I will be ok....it also if flavoured with herbs and spices it sounds lovely)

See am not sure if this should go here or start a store cupboard menu thread or maybe there is one ( only found thread about whys and reasons for one so far)

cazmcd2000

oh the shame! After reading this great thread I've realised I'm a great big fat waster. I can eawily spend £100 to feed 2 of us and my recycling bin is exploding with unused veg. Thank you so much for the thread - you guys are an absolute inspiration.
I hereby pledge to stop being such a wasteful muppet.
Now if I can only get him to eat cheese and fish.....

THANK YOU!

Soworried

cazmcd2000 wrote: »

oh the shame! After reading this great thread I've realised I'm a great big fat waster. I can eawily spend £100 to feed 2 of us and my recycling bin is exploding with unused veg. Thank you so much for the thread - you guys are an absolute inspiration.
I hereby pledge to stop being such a wasteful muppet.
Now if I can only get him to eat cheese and fish.....

THANK YOU!

Do you mean that you have thrown veg out? :eek:

Prepare and Quint, I have no clue what either of you is talking about. What if DFW and MFW?

quintwins

Soworried wrote: »

Do you mean that you have thrown veg out? :eek:

Prepare and Quint, I have no clue what either of you is talking about. What if DFW and MFW?

debt free wannabe

and

mortgage free wannabe

Soworried

quintwins wrote: »

debt free wannabe

and

mortgage free wannabe

Thankyou, then I am a MFW and struggling to not become the other one. :rotfl: I just searched it, it seems like a good goal to have for when I can get back to work.

quintwins

theres a board on here hun it's very helpful

[Deleted User]

quintwins when you say value philly, do you mean a basics range cream cheese or is there one by philadelphia

quintwins

i mean the value soft cheese spread

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=263761485

meg72

quintwins wrote: »

i mean the value soft cheese spread

http://www.tesco.com/groceries/Product/Details/?id=263761485

Asda also have this at 50p I would recommend the Chilli one.