£7.00 per week - menu ideas

Avaangeline

When I was living away from my boyfriend with a newborn baby and being a student I didn't have very much money so i budgeted a pound a day for food (for just me not the baby she was on formula)

It was actually so surprising how much you could eat for just that little amount a day!
Lidl aldi Iceland and asda are ones to go to!

BREAKFAST
A cheap big box of cereal- 0.99
2 pints of milk- £1
= £2 and thats breakfast for a week!

LUNCH
bag of rice grains- £1
Tin of peas- 20p
Tesco everyday value cooking bacon- 80p
Boil the rice and peas, chop up the cooking bacon (lovely for cheap stuff!) then put all in a frying pan cook until the bacon is cooked then season (i wont add seasoning stuff to the amount as they last ages)
That is lunch for a week for £2!(you might need to buy an extra bag of rice depending how much you eat)

DINNER
Obviously you won't want the same thing every single week so mix and match it

Tesco every day value small potatoes-60p
Iceland 4 chicken and mushroom pies- 1.50
Iceland 4 steak pies- 1.50
Peas- 20p
=3.80

80p over budget but i think this is good!!

Other breakfast idea's

Tesco every day crumpets 12 pac X2- 1.40
Cheapy butter- 60p
=£2

tesco every day value cooking bacon (lasts ages!!)- 80p
2 loafs of every day value sliced bread- 50p each = £1
You have bacon sandwiches for a week for £1.80 the whole week!

15 every day value eggs- 1.34
tesco every day value cooked ham 60p
- Omelette each day for 1.94 a week

2 loads of tesco value bread- 50p each = £1
1 tin of value jam- 30p
OR
Lemon curd 22p
OR
Value cream cheese- 40p
toast for a week for under 1.50
(could also have this as lunch option with out toasting bread)
Other Lunch options

Bag of ready made salad- £1
Tesco value mayo- 35p
1.35p salad

Tesco flavoured instant noodles- 15p x14 = 2.10

Tesco every day cooking chips- 90p
Value cheese- 1.24
Cheesy chips- 2.14!

Tesco cream crakers X2= 50p for 2 packs
Value cream cheese- 40p
tea bag 80 pack- 26p
= £1.66

Tesco value cup of soup serves 4- 20p in order to feed 2 for a week buy 4 boxes = 80p
Tesco value bread- 50p
Tesco digestives- 40p
Slice of bread and cuppa soup and a chocolate treat= 1.70

Dinner Options

Iceland crinkle cut chips- £1.00
Value fish fingers- 60p for 12 X3 = 1.80
Every day value sweetcorn- 30p
Every day value peas- 30p
=3.40

Tesco value 8 sausages= 56p x2= £1.12
Iceland crinkle cut chips- £1.00
Tesco value cooking bacon- 80p
OR replace eggs with sausages (same price ish)
=2.92

Tesco 8 breaded chicken burgers- £1 X2 =2
Bag of salad- £1
=£3

Value 6 pitta breads- 22p x3 = 66p
bbq sauce (will last more than a week though)- £1.00
Asda chicken breast chunks- 2.00
Sweetcorn- 30p
Small potatoes- 60p
(this meal is a little more expensive and chicken may not last all week but it is deffo worth it at 4.67)
Fry the chicken and then mix in a bowl with the bbq sauce and sweetcorn put inside the pitta, then cut the potatoes up to make homeade wedges!!!!

Hope ive helped x

Butterfly_Brain

Super six this week
Celery
4 pack garlic
spring onions
cucumber
tomatoes
3pk lemons

Fruball

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Super six this week
Celery
4 pack garlic
spring onions
cucumber
tomatoes
3pk lemons

Priced at 49p

PattiPickle

Just read through this from start to finish and wanted to say thank you for the fantastic and amazing help, hints, advice and especially the recipes and shopping plans. You should all be part of a wonderful road show travelling round the country showing people how to not only make their money stretch further, but also improve their shopping and cooking skills. You are the real champions of the art and I think you are all amazing. :T

learningtosave

debbym wrote: »

Since this thread contains so much info that it is getting hard to find I've collected the links together so far (when its complete we can ask one of the posters from page 1 to cut and paste it in - pretty please; WIP of course:D bear with me up to p8 and its the school hols:rotfl:

Useful Links
Cheap Family Recipes
Meal for two for 50p thread
Scrummy cheap meal thread
Who doesn't have a stock cupboard thread
Fare share food banks
The Trussell Trust foodbank Network
Trussell Trust Homepage
Frozen veg v. fresh veg medical article
Turkish Food Supermarkets (London based)
Updated prices Cheap Family Recipes
50p til Christmas
Old Style vs the USDA head-to-head challenge
http://www.mumssurvivalguides.co.uk/


recipes
Flour tortillas
Yogurt in a slowcooker
Battered Sausage Chips and Peas
Jacket potato with home made coleslaw and chicken
Vegetable pasta
Vegetable curry and rice
Toad in the hole
pea and ham soup
Tuna Fish Pie
Chicken portions with pea and spring onion champ
Chicken noodle soup
sausage casarole
Beef stew and dumplings
sherperds pie
Onion rings
bacon, onion, tatie soup
quiche
Cheese and bacon lasagne with chips
breakfast hash
Banana yogurt and toasted oat pots
Mushy pea curry and rice
Home made pizza and chips
Sausages with home made croquettes and celeriac mash and peas
Fish cake and salad
Sausage and bean pie
Roast chicken dinner
PG's hm pizza.
mini pizzas
Falafal burger with garlic bread and cheese
Spicy lentil casserole
Creamy courgette lasagne
Cheats' sausage casserole.
Smoked salmon jacket potato
Mussel spaghetti
Bacon hash


menu plans
2 people for 3 weeks upfront (qwintwins)
Menu for 2 (ButterflyBrain) week 2 - with recipes

One thanks wasn't enough so double and triple thanks for all the handy links!!!:j

markdebby

Jackel, I am not a cook but I made your tea loaf today and it turned out well. Do you have a similar recipe for wheaten loaf....using cups as a measure?
Many thanks Sylvia

jackel

Hi Sylvia - Glad your loaf turned out ok. Sorry I really am NOT a cake type cook, just make this one so that DH has something to cut at(I have a slice occasionally too) so I don't have another recipe. jac xx.

expressman33

The best tip for cheap food is shop after 9:00 pm. Most supermarkets sell of stuff dead cheap. I have had a chicken for 10p and loaves of bread for 2p

Nelly11

Please dont ignore the Newbies, your menu plan has been a godsend to me, just had my work cut by half and dont know how im going to meet the mortgage payments. Please dont discount us all as fakes, I subscribed to the thread having just read the first page only to read on and find you had been duped! There are some strange folk out there xxx Keep it up please BB:A

kittiej

I need to look over the thread re the duping.

No matter there is a positive to this in that the thread has inspired and helped many other people so a big thank you to all contributors :T

PS welcome Nelly x