£7.00 per week - menu ideas

Butterfly_Brain

Aldi Super six this week...........Iceberg lettuce, carrots, savoy cabbage, white onions, broccoli and celery all 39p

Rabbit

Thanks everyone for such a brill thread - so many great ideas, you have really inspired me to be more careful and menu plan. I feel I have not been as thrifty recently and this has got me back on track with so much more to learn.

We have a new Aldi - it's great and I agree with others that it is so calm in there, no music which I hadn't realised until recently.

I have spent the last few days scribbling down recipes, hints and tips. You are a wonderful bunch of people to give so much of your time to writing these menu plans that I'm sure are helping so many of us. Please keep them coming :T

parkgirl

Saw something on here a few pages back about rosehip syrup. I love that - we used to get it at school when I was a little girl. It's years since I tasted it. I think I might be a bit frightened about picking rosehips but I wonder, can you still buy it? Sorry - I know that's not very OS but nobody is going to drink/use gallons of the stuff (I shall probably be the only one in our house to like it!!)

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Parkgirl - Hi, yes you can still buy it, on Amazon and probably other places, i would try your local healthfood shop/chemist or just google it to choose somewhere, but its very easy to make, not that ive made it.

Suffolk_lass

Save_Dosh wrote: »

Parkgirl - Hi, yes you can still buy it, on Amazon and probably other places, i would try your local healthfood shop/chemist or just google it to choose somewhere, but its very easy to make, not that ive made it.

Lakeland sell it too but it is pricey

MellW

Hello all, I just joined a few days ago and am a lone parent now with 2 teenaged boys.

I'm struggling financially now so I'd like to say a massive thank you for the menu ideas...I shall be using them as my inspiration! Thank you for taking the time and being generous enough to bother spending your time on them.


p.s. is there a separate thread for budget menus running?

skyehusky_2

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Aldi Super six this week...........Iceberg lettuce, carrots, savoy cabbage, white onions, broccoli and celery all 39p

yum, home made cheap and tasty coleslaw anyone?

quintwins

MellW wrote: »

Hello all, I just joined a few days ago and am a lone parent now with 2 teenaged boys.

I'm struggling financially now so I'd like to say a massive thank you for the menu ideas...I shall be using them as my inspiration! Thank you for taking the time and being generous enough to bother spending your time on them.


p.s. is there a separate thread for budget menus running?

Heres one on how to feed a family of 4 on £20 a week which would prob be more suited if you have teenagers.

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4148389

Rabbit

Hi everyone,

I went to Asda today (Bletchley, Milton Keynes) saw Smart Price Mushy Peas at 18p and then they went through the checkout at 4p -

MellW

quintwins wrote: »

Heres one on how to feed a family of 4 on £20 a week which would prob be more suited if you have teenagers.

Thank you! I've started to have a good look around and there's so much advice I'm going to be busy reading it all for weeks!

Thanks again