£7.00 per week - menu ideas

newlywed

dasophster wrote: »

No you don't need to soak mung beans before cooking, they don't take long either about 40 minutes to an hour, they don't contain the toxic compounds some other beans do. Mung beans are really more closely related to lentils.

Cheers for that. The packet says soak overnight which is why I still have 3/4 of a bag left!!! Now I have summat to use them for!

Butterfly_Brain

tins of mandarins are 19p in Asda at the moment they will be nice substituted for the peaches in the pudding and 10p a tin cheaper as well

quintwins

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

tins of mandarins are 19p in Asda at the moment they will be nice substituted for the peaches in the pudding and 10p a tin cheaper as well

Same in tesco, my kids love these but i'm not that keen, i prefer the ones in the blue tin, i loved tinned oranges and rice pudding

GreyhoundAngel

Hi,

I've recently had two sudden declines in the household finances (drastic decline in WTC & loss of what were meant to be guaranteed extra hours) and now I've also got Redundancy confirmed in Jan (just found out).

So, I just wanted to say thank you to everyone who's posted suggestions on this thread ... it's been thought provoking & invaluable to me.

Angel x

Butterfly_Brain

Aldi Super six until 8th Dec
Cucumber, 6 pack tomatoes, 1kg onions, broccoli, 3 pack courgettes and celery all at 49p

Lexxi

Soworried wrote: »

Spicy lentil casserole
1 onion 8p
2 cloves of garlic 6p
1kg of potatoes 33p
4 carrots 24p
2 parsnips 22p (MrS 85p a bag)
2 tsp of cumin and chilli powder 2p
1 litre of water and 2x stock cubes 20p
100g of red lentils 10p (MrT 2kg for £1.99 indus brand)
Total meal cost=£1.25 or just under 32p a head.

I will stop posting now as I must be driving you all nuts x

I tried this tonight, it was so lovely I had two bowls! I have enough left for lunch and another meal, thanks for the recipe

Butterfly_Brain

aldis super 6 deals for next two weeks. 5 pack lemons 69p, 1.5kg maris piper potatoes 69p, 600g satsumas/clementines 69p, 500g brussels sprouts 39p, 1kg carrots 39p, 500g parsnips 39p deal starts sunday 9th dec and till 29th dec.

Cornucopia

This is my (very tasty/very cheap/very quick) meal:-

- 1 pack of Bean Sprouts (Asda, 50p)
- 1 pack of dried noodles (25p)
- Other veg, thinly sliced (carrots, courgettes, onions) (~40p)
- Tablespoon of peanut butter (5p)
- 1 egg (15p)
- Pinch of spice (curry powder or chinese 5 spice)
- Few drops of Soy sauce

Prepare the noodles and stir-fry the vegetables. Combine them in the pan, and add the spice and peanut butter. Stir well and add the egg. Stir the egg until cooked and mix it in to the other ingredients. Serve. Serves 2-3, costs about 60p per head.

quintwins

I made banana bread last week, so cheap

2 bruised bananas (i acually used 3 some bits were really bad and needed binned so the same amount as 2) assuming 14p each (i got mine reduced) thats 28p, and 2 packets of sponge mix 22p each/44p (i got these on 3 for 2) and thats it i didn't add any eggs because i had none and it worked fine, when i mentioned this somewhere else i was told you didn't need eggs the banana did the same job.

Bananas 28p
2 x sponge mix 44p
3x instant custard 18p

total 90p but thats a good 3 puddings for 5 of us, i acually cut it in half and frozen a few smaller slices for the kids to have with custard as after school snacks


Taking into account my whoopies and offers it cost something like 3p per portion.

Butterfly_Brain

That's awsesome quinny, I must [STRIKE]Nick[/STRIKE] try that