£7.00 per week - menu ideas

ajuk

Chicken Leg quarters are £1.09 at Aldi, Cheap frozen Sausages from farmfoods is another good one, have either with pasta or maybe frozen chips, and some tins of Smart Price Carrots, you might be able to even get some condiments to make it tastier such as Smart price mixed herbs to sprinkle on the chicken with some salt when it's raw.

ajuk

OK so it's two people breakfast and lunch and dinner? It may be possible, but not healthy. I hope you like Sausages and pasta? I'm struggling to see how it's possible really, you may need to go trawling through the reductions a lot.

quintwins

ajuk wrote: »

OK so it's two people breakfast and lunch and dinner? It may be possible, but not healthy. I hope you like Sausages and pasta? I'm struggling to see how it's possible really, you may need to go trawling through the reductions a lot.

Not a healthy long term soluation but it is do-able, a few of us did meal plans near the start and tried to get as much fruit and veg in as possible, def not 5 a day, but filling and ok for a week or 2 max.


Wow 3p peas pity none of us like mushy peas, at 3p i'd bet my dogs would :rotfl:

Butterfly_Brain

quintwins I use the mushy peas as a base for pea and bacon soup.
ajuk you evidently haven't read all of the thread there are meal plans and recipes from page one

quintwins

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

quintwins I use the mushy peas as a base for pea and bacon soup.
ajuk you evidently haven't read all of the thread there are meal plans and recipes from page one

they don't like ham and pea soup either hubby acually really dislikes peas the rest of us eat peas but usually in casaroles.

ajuk

I also suggest road kill.

Butterfly_Brain

My hubby dislikes peas as well But the rest of us like them so he can have toast

missymoo81

Wow, what an inspiration!! I have just read this thread from start to finish and I am amazed and in awe at the time and effort people have put in to helping the OP and each other. The ideas are fantastic, and I am definitely going to be trying a lot of them. Love the soup recipes, I live on soup in the winter, and I never thought of making pasta bakes with mock Philly and passata..... So many great ideas. Thank you so much you are all super stars x

hkminca

Can I make a suggestion? Depending on where you live obviously, but there is lots of free food to be had by foraging.
Think of all the apple trees out there that never get picked, or the blackberries, wild damson's, sloe's and plums?
Don't forget it can always be worth asking, politely of course, if you see a tree in someone's garden that's full of fruit, if they'd mind if you took some for yourself. Most gardeners would rather their excess crops get used than go to waste.
Then there's eldeberry flowers which can by eaten, dandelions for your greens, nettles for your tea and plenty of wild herbs out and about.
If you're near the sea then look for cockles, whelks, seaweed or soft shelled crabs. Don't forget you can always try your hand at fishing!
I'm no expert when it comes to foraging but even in patches of waste ground or parks you can probably find something.
This time of year is the time to get out there and fill your freezers with lots of free fruit - to supplement the not so healthy, but cheap meals the rest of the year.

And if you don't fancy foraging, why not try enrolling for mystery dining? I did 3 years ago when we were short of money. We now eat out minimum once a week, for free, plus when we were short of cash it gave us something to look forward to.

Butterfly_Brain

hkminca I am an avid forager and have been since the children were small, it just seems that we have gone backwards with all the cuts and have less now than we did 25 years ago and things were really tough then with 15% interest rates and there were no tax credits or childcare help then, you had to rely on family or friends, mind you we didn't have all the elf and safety pc nonsense in those days.
I have just made 2 litres of rosehip syrup, 6 jars of apple and rosehip jam and still have 10kgs of onions to pickle :eek: ( I chat to a man on the market and he gave me a special deal £5 a bag:D) my local greengrocer wanted £10 a bag:eek:

I am off to see if there are any sweet chestnuts around at the weekend

This is one of my favourite sites
http://www.self-sufficient.co.uk/foraging.htm