Feed a family of four for £20 a week challenge

Skint_yet_Again

Cobbinstones this is my attempt and the nearest I could get to £20. Hope its enough to feed 4 (theres only 2 of us) I wont pretend its the healthiest menu and I'm not sure your DS would eat it. Prices are @sda checked today on my supermarket. co . uk

cornflakes 46p
12 pints milk 2x6pts (3.41L) 2.96
3 x brown loaves 1.41
peanut butter 62p
white bagette 40p
tin tuna 54p
ham and beef paste 32p
cheese spread 43p
30 eggs (2x15) 3.00
20 frozen sausages 1.00
butter/spread 1.00
plain flour .40p
sweetcorn 1kg 1.00
tomato condensed soup 62p (makes twice the amount add water)
smart price noodles 4 x 11p 44p
2 x finger rolls (12) 1.00
1kg chicken portions 1.60
mixed veg 1kg 75p
mayo 48p
gravy granuals 20p
tea bags 27p
swiss roll x 2 .50p
rice pudding x 3 .36p
tinned peaches x 2 .58p
tinned pineapple x 2 .64p
mixed dried fruit 500g .64p
tin beans x 3 .78p
frozen chips 1.5kg .82p
£23.22
breakfast
cornflakes with mixed dried fruit, peanut butter on toast, boiled egg and toast
lunch
sandwich - cheese spread, meat spread, egg & mayo, tuna & mayo. 1 slice swiss roll, small portion mixed dried fruit.
dinner
1.hot dogs 8 rolls 8 sausages (2 each) & chips & sweetcorn.
2.tomato soup with crusty bread
3.roast chicken (cook half the bag of portions & shred off the bone)with yorkshire puds with veg & gravy
4.remaining chicken portions with veg/sweetcorn & noodles
5.toad in the hole 8 sausages, batter made with flour & egg & milk, veg gravy
6.omelete and chips, beans (8 eggs)
7. remaining 4 sausage chopped with beans & egg on toast
pudding
rice pudding (with or without mixed fruit)
tinned fruit
pancakes with peanut butter or tinned fruit & light syrup they come in

cobbingstones

Thanks so much skint, looks fab :-)

Butterfly_Brain

5 jars of onion marmalade made today using 2kg of onions
Also a lovely HM (39p a pack S6) celery soup that we had with 2 of the part baked baguettes from Aldi 39p straight out of the oven, sliced and wolfed down by the four of us and there was plenty.

BigMummaF

cobbingstones wrote: »

Hello all

Could I ask for your help please? Is it possible to spend £20 weekly for a family of four when your children will not anything mixed? My ds is autistic and although I am extremely lucky as he will eat most things, but he will not under any circumstances eat spag bol, shepherds pie, cassoroles or anything with the ingredients combined. Also nothing with onions, mushrooms, pulses, peppers, potatoes, beans, sprouts, offal, any soup (other than tomato) or spicy foods.

He loves his fruit and most vegetables.

If anyone can produce a menu with these restrictions for £20 I would be very very happy! :-)

Just a suggestion, but you could still make the eg. shepherds pie, for the rest of the family, & cook the ingredients for your son separately. It may be worth investing in one of those saucepans that has three or four compartments inside to help cut down the fuel costs, something like this or this.

culpepper

BigMummaF wrote: »

Just a suggestion, but you could still make the eg. shepherds pie, for the rest of the family, & cook the ingredients for your son separately. It may be worth investing in one of those saucepans that has three or four compartments inside to help cut down the fuel costs, something like this or this.

Or you could use foil and put his separate portions in little foil packages but all in the one pan.

MellW

I bought 1kg of lean mince for £5 and have made 3 x2 person portions of bolognaise and 2 x2 person portions of mince and veg for the freezer for my boys.....chuffed with myself for actually getting round to doing it instead of leaving leftovers in the fridge and forgetting them!

So I'm counting that as 50p per person as I already had the veg, stock, tomatoes, herbs, garlic, onions etc.

quintwins

MellW wrote: »

I bought 1kg of lean mince for £5 and have made 3 x2 person portions of bolognaise and 2 x2 person portions of mince and veg for the freezer for my boys.....chuffed with myself for actually getting round to doing it instead of leaving leftovers in the fridge and forgetting them!

So I'm counting that as 50p per person as I already had the veg, stock, tomatoes, herbs, garlic, onions etc.

Well done, my freezer broke yesterday so i've spent ages cooking stuff up and have def decided batch cooking ins't for me.

If it's a choice to buy more expensive mince all well and good but i just wanted to point out that value mince is £2.89 (it's went up by £1 in a year:mad:) for 800g so if your really struggling 2 packets of that would be more value for your money altho slightly more money.

MellW

Thank you quintwins, yeah I did look at the price but there's just something stopping me going for the value mince so I try to go for mid price...

I'm a vegetarian and don't like to spend too long browsing the meat aisle or I start to feel a bit quesy! :rotfl:

quintwins

MellW wrote: »

Thank you quintwins, yeah I did look at the price but there's just something stopping me going for the value mince so I try to go for mid price...

I'm a vegetarian and don't like to spend too long browsing the meat aisle or I start to feel a bit quesy! :rotfl:

oh dear, i look at it this way all my mince dishes are more or less half veg, for savory mince i addonions, carrots, peas and sweetcorn, for spag bol i make my town sauce so tomatoes (both tinned/passtata and fresh) onions, peppers, peas and sweetcorn so for all the meat they acually get abit moe fat doesn't matter. i bought some mid level mince awhile back from tesco when it was bogof it worked out cheaper than value but it was horrible really scummy and grisly i never get this with my value mince, but i'd never buy frozen thats a step to far for me so i know where your coming from.

Karena_3

~Chameleon~ wrote: »

Your children are eating far too much fruit per day which is high in sugar, albeit natural sugars, but still far too high and a contributory risk for diabetes. You should only include a maximum of 1-2 portions of fruit/juice per day. The rest should come from a variety of vegetables, making sure to include lots of colourful and green leafy veg, not just the starchy varieties.

I don't like to sound like a fuss pot but here goes.

There are children who drink vast amounts of fizzy drinks and have sweets,crisps,biscuits and burgers most days.These are the major risk factors in diabetes statistics.I count a couple of extra portions of fruit per day in this post....for hungry children this is hardly a major issue in an otherwise balanced diet.