Feed a family of four for £20 a week challenge

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Butterfly_Brain

Aldi super six this week

3 persimmons
bag of 6/7/8 gala apples
bag of 6/7/8 conference pears
250gvine tomatoes
pk 2 pointed peppers
250g flat mushrooms

All at 69p

The mushrooms can be used to make a soup, a mushroom tart,or they can be stuffed or sliced up to go into a meal.

The peppers can be made into a pasta sauce with the tomatoes, or made into a soup, sliced up to add to something else to make a meal

The tomatoes could be cut in half and put on a tart with mozzarella and a sprinkle of herbs and you could add some sliced peppers as well.

The meat offers are:

400g Specially Selected British Pork Sausage – Lincolnshire, Cumberland and Pork & Apple

360g British Beef Meatballs

200g back bacon, unsmoked, smoked, dry cured

£1.49

380g Pulled pork with sweet barbecue sauce

1.26kg chicken drums and thighs

pork loin medallion chops

£2.19

Butterfly_Brain

Maitane wrote: »

Hmm, that seemed like a poorly thought out reply in order to stir up some bad feeling there pelirocco.

ButterflyBrain managed to post some statistics from a reasonable source and it would be useful if you did too.

Personally, I haven't seen or heard of any 22% benefit or wage increases since 2008 and certainly not during the period I was employed by the DWP but I'd love to see the proof of them happening.
It would help me feel somewhat less depressed about what seems like a lack of dignity and humanity shown by the Government to those truly down on their luck.

Thank you Maitane x

thenanny2die4

A few pages back I asked for suggestions to use a massive marrow that DH had been given by one of his customers. Well, I finally decided to do something with it (well, about a third of it anyway).

So, I made a sort of veggie bolognese sauce - onion, mushrooms, garlic, very finely diced carrot and swede, red lentils, tomato puree, a tin of plum toms, Italian dried herbs, nutmeg, cinnamon, a bit of brown sugar, s&p). I cut four fat slices off the marrow, peeled them and scooped out the seed part and popped them in the oven to cook until they were just tender, and then made a cheese sauce. I filled the rings with the bol, covered the whole lot with the sauce and sprinkled a bit of extra cheese on top and bunged it all back in the oven.

It was flippin' lovely! :j

Not sure how much it cost to make but it certainly wasn't an expensive meal and it was very filling - there's loads left for lunch tomorrow as we only had half and there's also a lot of the bolognese left over which I'll freeze in portions.

Maitane

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Thank you Maitane x

No probs. Such a shame that we had to put up with a very unnecessary post amongst the helpful suggestions in this thread.

moments_of_sanity

Today has been a day of sorting out the freezers. When DD was living at home we had one 6ft freezer, one 3/4 size freezer and the bottom part of a fridge freezer so now she has gone to Uni I felt it time to sort them all out so I played at freezer tetris today and have managed to switch the 3/4 size freezer off having fit it all in with the big 6ft one! No meat will need to be bought for the foreseeable future I am ashamed to say.


Todays dinner was left over beef stew for DH and I had 2 sausages and I grabbed a bag of frozen mash from the freezer so tonights meal was very easy and nutritious (well DH's bit). Total cost of dinner was £1.50 for the 2 of us.

lilbert

moments_of_sanity wrote: »

Today has been a day of sorting out the freezers. When DD was living at home we had one 6ft freezer, one 3/4 size freezer and the bottom part of a fridge freezer so now she has gone to Uni I felt it time to sort them all out so I played at freezer tetris today and have managed to switch the 3/4 size freezer off having fit it all in with the big 6ft one! No meat will need to be bought for the foreseeable future I am ashamed to say.


Todays dinner was left over beef stew for DH and I had 2 sausages and I grabbed a bag of frozen mash from the freezer so tonights meal was very easy and nutritious (well DH's bit). Total cost of dinner was £1.50 for the 2 of us.

I did a freezer inventory yesterday too. I bought a bargain 6ft freezer off eBay in spring and my standard chest freezer was always bursting. When I first transferred everything it filled about 1/3 of the freezer. Now its bursting again! Shocked at how much I've managed to stash away in it, meat mostly. I would be lost without it though.

Soworried

I really need to do a freezer inventory as well. I just seem to have lost my motivation this last few weeks.
I made a meal plan but then can't be bothered to make what is on it. I'm not even sure of everything we have in there.
I need a shake or a kick up the bum.

Thanks for the super 6 BB x

moments_of_sanity

lilbert wrote: »

I did a freezer inventory yesterday too. I bought a bargain 6ft freezer off eBay in spring and my standard chest freezer was always bursting. When I first transferred everything it filled about 1/3 of the freezer. Now its bursting again! Shocked at how much I've managed to stash away in it, meat mostly. I would be lost without it though.

Me too Lilbert

My DD's BF is one of 5 children and he is always amazed that I never 'run out' of anything, if he is here for any length of time during the day and I ask if he wants dinner, it is never a problem to grab something extra from either the freezer or my 'stock' shelves in the garage. He can't believe I keep 15/20 cans of beans in at all times as he says he would be lucky to find half a tin at his and there is never a back up of anything .....even the thought of that sends me into a panic! :eek:

I have put all the meat types together, so chicken in one drawer, pork in another etc as I found with it spread out all over the freezer i didn't really know how much of each I had even with my inventory list. I would skim read until I found what I was looking for but never really 'notice' if I had more of them in another drawer. Hopefully, this new system will keep me on track!

lilbert

I think it does come from panic. I like to know if OH lost his job tomorrow I could at least feed us for a couple of months with minimal milk and fresh veg shops.


Defrosted a pack of mystery meat yesterday didn't label it (I never learn!) could identify it for my list so decided to defrost it and use it.
Turns out its pork. (I think!) diced pork so I've made up a batch of pastry to make some pasties with it. Not sure wether to do pork and apple or pork and thyme.