£7.00 per week - menu ideas

Butterfly_Brain

tessie_bear wrote: »

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

I have her original feed your family for £4 a day so I will get DH to take me over to HB in Bletchley next week and see if they have it. I have had it out of the library before and wrote all of the new recipes down, so it will be nice to get a copy of my own especially at that price

jackel

Thanks Tessie Bear - got a copy of £5 a day from HB yesterday. Certainally worth having especially at 99p. Bargin of the week ! jac. x

Butterfly_Brain

Super six at aldi from Thursday the 7th for two weeks will be;

Royal gala apples
Large flat mushrooms
Cocktail vine tomatoes
Persimmon
Ramiro peppers
Conference pears
All priced at 89 p

Don't think that I will bother at those prices :eek: I will get seasonal stuff from the market instead

Fruball

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Super six at aldi from Thursday the 7th for two weeks will be;

Royal gala apples
Large flat mushrooms
Cocktail vine tomatoes
Persimmon
Ramiro peppers
Conference pears
All priced at 89 p

Don't think that I will bother at those prices :eek: I will get seasonal stuff from the market instead

That is the first time I have seen the super six priced above 69p. The 39p super sixes seem very few and far between now too, that is if they even still do them at that price

Butterfly_Brain

I am going in this afternoon to get some more satsumas, apples and mushrooms at least they are things that we eat regularly

joedenise

Fruball wrote: »

That is the first time I have seen the super six priced above 69p. The 39p super sixes seem very few and far between now too, that is if they even still do them at that price

Absolutely agree! Wish I could get there this afternoon but unfortunately I can't as DH has the car again today - grr it's a real pain at times only having the one car - but at least it's a lot cheaper!

Denise

cornishchick

Lidls have 1kg carrots and 1kg onions on for 50p . .. might pop in if out that way.

Butterfly_Brain

Sadly we don't have a lidls near to us

Lesley_Gaye

Boodle wrote: »

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

Hi Boodle

I used to do this many many years ago, but have completley forgotten the quantities of vinegar, can you enlighten me?

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cornishchick wrote: »

Lidls have 1kg carrots and 1kg onions on for 50p . .. might pop in if out that way.

Brilliant, thanks for this info. Will pop into Lidl on way home.