What is the least you've survived on?

tinkle

Hello!

Topic says it all really. I have the grand sum of £1 to last until Thursday. And hardly any food in the house All I have in fridge is some carrots and 1 onion.

Cupboard: I have plenty of pasta, rice, tomato puree, passata, breadcrumbs, a few cartons of soup. chicken tonight sauce, enchilada sauce, herbs, salt/pepper, red lentils, broth mix. Porridge, which i've been making for breakfast with water.

In freezer: Frozen peas, 1 side of salmon, and a few bread rolls.

Starting to struggle without basics such as bread, milk, butter cheese..

Does anybody have any imaginative ideas for me!?

Thanks :money:

sjprmc01

Well I had just over a fiver since we'd to do me till mon but if the wors came to the very worst I till have a £1.50 manufacturer voucher I can use for bread, a £2 club card voucher (but I'd rather not have to use that) and a penny jar, if it came to it....it's prob got about £2 in it! However I've already had to spend on toilet rolls so have about £3 left! And that's for me, OH and3 x dds. (only coz tax credits made a muck up and didnt pay us even though we called re review) the house, however is quite well stocked!

Sounds like you have enough to make some decent meals......I forgot what you had in though, to make any suggestions! *goes off to reread*

quintwins

what about savory rice with peas?

pasta ofcourse

soup

more soup made with broth mix and, carrot and onion

salmon in sauce(whatever jars you have) with peas and rice? because it's in sauce it should last 2 meals

toasted bread rolls

Do you have any tinned items?

Given you have pasta and passata to make sauce, i would mainly live off pasta and buy a few tins of beans and tinned potatoes.

sjprmc01

Ok, If poss, I'd try to get some YS bread for cheap (less than 50p). And spend the other 50p on either a pint of milk or some value cheese spread or jam.

Continue with the porridge, sandwiches/soup with bread for lunch. And a rice or pasta based dinner.

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

Buy a pint of milk and some basics stock cubes.

You've got plenty.

quintwins

i acually came back to suggest going ys shopping, few nighst ago i got breakfats muffins for 15p and 2 small blocks of cheese for 9p.

tinkle

Oh, I have stock cubes!

Thanks, used to being a bit lazy and not HAVING to survive on what's in the cupboard. Lunches for work was the thing I was struggling with, but could easily take pasta... Thank You :-)

Kitchenbunny

Is this just for you?

You've got some bread rolls in, and packet soups so there's lunches taken care of. Soup and a roll - depending on how many packets of soup you have. Then...

Using one bread roll. Grate the roll and fry the breadcrumbs in a little oil. Add some salt and pepper and use as a topping for pasta (pangrattato). Make a pasta sauce from the passata, or even use the Chicken Tonight type sauce as a pasta bake dish (leftovers are also awesome). Then, using the salmon, you can have a salmon pasta dish.

Using the lentils, cook them until soft in some water flavoured with herbs and a bit of salt & pepper. Drain and mash them, and you can shape them into burgers to have with the rolls, on their own, or into little nibbles to snack on. You can add peas as a side to most main meals or into the meal itself (like in the pasta bake, for example). The soup mix should have dried peas in it too, so soaking that to boost one of the packet soups should increase the food value.

I would, using my £1, buy fresh vegetables on reduced, and some milk (also on reduced if possible). It will be a stretch until Thursday, but it looks do-able with a little effort and planning. Might be worth checking your loyalty cards online to see if you've any vouchers that might help you out.

All the best.

K xx

blossomhill_2

There was a time when we lived entirely on Heinz tinned syrup sponges - because we had no money and having bought one it had a coupon on which made the next one free
Then praise be! The local paper had a free KFC voucher in it, so I scrounged another and we walked 3 miles to KFC to get the meals - and 3 miles back
But your post brought tears to my eyes, so I feel for you

Fishcakes, bulking up the fish content by using porridge, lentils and breadcrumbs
Or risotto using the onion, carrot and sauce
Would the £1 get a pack of value bacon bits, plenty of taste for little outlay?
Blackberries are plentiful in the hedgerows right now ... free food

tinkle

Thank you so much everybody, lots of ideas that I would never have thought of. Thanks :-)

tinkle

Ps. Blossomhill, syrup sponge sounds so so good right now!