£7.00 per week - menu ideas

Butterfly_Brain

Bernadine is Chelsea housewife.
I have her book as well, it is brilliant, plus I have two of Shirley Goode's.

Boodle

Some great info being added here - thanks all for sharing!

Regarding egg/dairy-less baking:
Malt vinegar is a great deal cheaper than apple cider vinegar and does the job - the small amount needed does not affect the cake's flavour. If you use self raising flour (often the same cost as plain, though this does vary occasionally) then you cut out the cost of baking powder too. I find that as long as veg oil is used rather than a butter/marg, then the lack of egg or egg replacement does not seem to matter.

Prices have risen considerably. I have had to up my budget to accommodate this + another small mouth to feed. Still managing so far... but should never get cocky!

Hope everyone is getting by and is well x

Upsidedown_Bear

Mooloo wrote: »

I have one of Shirley's books left. Lent some out and never got them back. She has a blog called Shirley's Good Life I think. Followed it for a while but I also have Bernadine Lawrence's book written in the 80's about living on £28 a week or something similar. She is on MSE somewhere but I can't remember her avatar.
I get great Inspiration from www.Mortgagefreeinthree.com

Shirley's blog is great

http://shirleygoode.blogspot.co.uk/

Bernadine's first book was "How to feed your family for £4 a day, the benefit book".

http://www.amazon.co.uk/Feed-Your-Family-Four-Pounds/dp/0722518226/ref=sr_1_sc_4?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382968641&sr=1-4-spell&keywords=Bernardine+Lawrence

Then "How to feed your family for £5 a day" which I have.

http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Feed-Your-Family-Day/dp/0722525710/ref=sr_1_sc_2?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382968641&sr=1-2-spell&keywords=Bernardine+Lawrence

This was updated and reissued last year
Must get a copy and compare to the previous one.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Feed-Your-Family-Day/dp/0007485654/ref=sr_1_sc_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1382968641&sr=1-1-spell&keywords=Bernardine+Lawrence

Butterfly_Brain

Soup and pudding night tonight
I got some mushrooms from aldi for 69p and will make soup for tonight with a a pint of home made vegetable stock from the freezer, cornflour, a knob of butter 5p and ½ pt milk (13p from a 4 pint bottle that cost £1) and I will serve that with some reduced crusty bread from the co-op that cost me 15p last night. I will also make a crumble using what I have in the stock cupboard using a crumble mix 39p, a can of apples and raspberries reduced in Aldi to 49p a tin plus a tin of custard 17p.

Total cost for tonight is £2.07 for four of us so approx 52p each

tessie_bear

i picked up the feed your family for £5 from home bargains for 99p
hth someone

Butterfly_Brain

Thanks Tessiebear is that the new version?

adindas

Chunkysmum wrote: »

I'm a new member who's just come into alot of financial difficulty as I am a student awaiting bursary payments. NHS bursaries think you can live off fresh air and pay the nursery with smiles. :mad:

Anyway, I read the meals for £1.00 thread which was great but unfortunately, I think alot of the ideas are a bit outdated now as they'd cost twice the amount.

I was wondering if it'd be possible to feed two adults for a pound a day for a week, assuming you have no basics in? Any shopping lists/menu ideas would be great.

Spaghetti with tomato sauce.
Buy spaghetti from pounland. You could 3 canned tomato souce for £1 in pound shop also currently available on Tesco 4 canned tomato for £1. This will be less than £7 a week is not it ...

tessie_bear

hi the book i got is bernadine lawrence how to feed your family for £5 a day
its a paper back and says rrp was a fiver but on sale for 99p isbn 978000748565-9
hth

tessie_bear

my book is the one in upsidedown bear link right at the bottom

Soworried

The tinned potatoes were down to 14p a tin in MrT today. They also have tikka masala jars at just 20p.