Feed a family of four for £20 a week challenge

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pamsdish wrote: »

Aldi Super 6 Fruit & Vegetables Offers - 69p from 23rd October - 5th November 2014... Plums (500g); Satsumas (600g); Cox Apples (6-10); Mushrooms (380g); Butternut Squash; 3 Mixed Peppers...

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Thank you so much for posting Pamsdish, I have just been looking around to see if I could find what they were going to be. All lovely things this week, especially the peppers as they are really expensive again in the shop.

An easy and cheap meal for us this evening, egg, chips and beans. Total cost 27p for 3 eggs, 23p tin of beans and about 20p for the potatoes, dinner for 2 of us totalling £0.70/35p each

craigywv

can I join in too please? we had a packet of sausages fried,2 mushrooms sliced thinly also fried,hm potato bread from leftover mash,hm soda bread, hm pancake,and an egg each so that's 1.00 for sausages 27p for 3 eggs 2 mushrooms 15p and had the flour in for the breads etc so that's 1.42 for the dinner ...about 48p each and we are all stuffed to capacity, son cant even eat jelly I made so that's a 39p saving till tomorrows tea.

moments_of_sanity

craigywv wrote: »

can I join in too please? we had a packet of sausages fried,2 mushrooms sliced thinly also fried,hm potato bread from leftover mash,hm soda bread, hm pancake,and an egg each so that's 1.00 for sausages 27p for 3 eggs 2 mushrooms 15p and had the flour in for the breads etc so that's 1.42 for the dinner ...about 48p each and we are all stuffed to capacity, son cant even eat jelly I made so that's a 39p saving till tomorrows tea.

What.....no room for jelly :eek: this brought back memories of what my youngest DD said when she was little...I had said she couldn't have pudding as she hadn't eaten all of her dinner at which point she said 'Mummy, everybody knows you have 2 tummies, one for dinner and one for pudding'! :rotfl:

chinagirl

Ooh goody, Aldi money off vouchers. I am going there tomoz

Ladyluck1

We very often live on £20-£25 a week and I don't find it too difficult
We're only 2 adults and 2 young children (they generally eat 1 adult portion between them)
I find veggie dishes like daal, jacket potatoes with beans and cheese, and pasta with a tomato and veg sauce to be really helpful with cost most weeks!
I also make my own chipattis now.
I'm really glad it's getting colder now too because I'll e using my slow cooker a lot! For cheap cuts of meat to make stews etc.

moments_of_sanity

Our dinner today is going to be sweet and sour pork with rice so I have listed below the ingredients needed (credit for sweet and sour part to the Frugal Queen). This is a meal for 2 people.

Pork chops, £1.26 (63p each)
50g tomato sauce, 3p
Half a tin of pineapple, 27p
50g brown sugar, 10p
50g malt vinegar, 2p (50g works out at approx 50ml)
1 tbsp soy sauce, 8p
1 cup of rice, (227g), 14p

Leaving out the rice and pork, mix and heat all the ingredients. Whilst that is heating chop the pork into small bits and once the sauce has heated, place the pork pieces in. Simmer on a low heat until the pork is completely cooked or slow cook the above for a couple of hours. Cook the rice and serve

Total cost of dinner £1.90, so £0.95 each

thenanny2die4

I have a challenge for you.

A couple of weeks ago, DH came in with a massive marrow, given to him by a customer. Now, I'm all for bartering, but neither of us are marrow fans, so I think his customer got the better of that particular deal...

What can I do with it then?

I'm veggie, DH isn't. DH hates ginger.

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Use it for a Halloween candle holder, carve several faces and put in several candles it will make a spectacular show!!!

Butterfly_Brain

Went to Aldi this morning and have another £5.84 to put in my coupon pot and I picked up another Daily Mirror while I was in there because the coupons don't run out until next Thursday night and seeing as we always shop on a Thursday it means that we have two shopping weeks worth of coupons :D:D win, win

Dinner was early today because DH won't be home until very late because of the school disco.
We had butternut squash soup from the garden and HM granary bread followed by an apple crumble again from the garden total cost was:
Butternut squash............ free or 69p super six
Onion 8p
HM Granary loaf ....grainy flour 53p(500g), yeast 7p knob butter 10p = 70p
Apples free or 50p lb on the market
crumble topping ........flour 10p fat 25p, oats 5p

Total cost of a two course dinner £1.60 for 5 of us = 32p a portion.
It would have been £2.79= 56p a portion if we had to buy the squash and apples.

This will easily feed six people

Butterfly_Brain

thenanny2die4 wrote: »

I have a challenge for you.

A couple of weeks ago, DH came in with a massive marrow, given to him by a customer. Now, I'm all for bartering, but neither of us are marrow fans, so I think his customer got the better of that particular deal...

What can I do with it then?

I'm veggie, DH isn't. DH hates ginger.

I usually fill marrow with a bolognaise mince, just scoop out the flesh and add to the bolognaise before returning it to the shell with a good handfull of grated cheese or fill with chilli or anything that you know that the family likes