£7.00 per week - menu ideas

ButterflyBee

Thanks SAVVYMUMMY and Stitching Witch

Another budget saving suggestion to use!

NSD today though.:T

LolaLemon

been reading this all day (backwards, now down to page 11!)
Thanks for all teh great ideas

antw23uk

Fantastic thread and BB I am planning to do your menu for this coming week (you posted at the begging of this thread :T)

I must confess if I can get away with a couple of weeks of shopping for under £10 a week I wont have to confess how skint I am to the OH and so wont get moaned at for spending so much on the horse
Damn snow and ice meant I had to spend out on 'Assisted Livery' and its made me seriously skint :mad:

WantToBeSE

BB- can you please tell me if i need to drain the tinned fruit for your cake?

Butterfly_Brain

No need to drain the fruit wtbse have pm'd you x

GreyhoundAngel

ButterflyBee wrote: »

I remember when my mother used to dilute 1lt whole milk into 2lt of semi-skimmed milk and freeze one when we lived in South Africa (use cooled boiling water) I think I will be trying this as well. I never used to notice the difference. What are your ideas and comments on the suggestion.

BB - I do a 50/50 split with our whole milk and there really is no difference in taste to any semi-skimmed milk shop bought. Well, for me anyway.
It was seeing that it cost the same to buy whole as it was to buy semi, that i decided I'd "do it myself" at home

Butterfly_Brain

When we had a really tough month we used to buy a tin of evaporated milk (18p back then 48p now) and dilute the can to 1½ litres and leave it in the fridge.

GreyhoundAngel

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

When we had a really tough month we used to buy a tin of evaporated milk (18p back then 48p now) and dilute the can to 1½ litres and leave it in the fridge.

*Shudder* ... that's heresy !! ... sadly I actually love evap milk and it wouldnt last long enough to get watered down

Fruball

GreyhoundAngel wrote: »

BB - I do a 50/50 split with our whole milk and there really is no difference in taste to any semi-skimmed milk shop bought. Well, for me anyway.
It was seeing that it cost the same to buy whole as it was to buy semi, that i decided I'd "do it myself" at home

I wouldn't water down our milk as I need extra calcium and so do my children as they are growing.

Butterfly_Brain

Calcium comes from other sources such as eggs, cheese, salmon, yoghurt, rhubarb, sardines, spinach, baked bean, brussel sprouts, sesame seeds, almonds, pak choy, apricots, cabbage, brazil nuts, carrots, cashews, cauliflower, celery, butternut squash, figs, leeks kelp, kippers, oatmeal, oranges, parsley,sweet potatoes, wheat flour and many more