Feed a family of four for £20 a week challenge

joedenise

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Super six from 20th Nov

6 pack tomatoes
500g chantenay carrots
savoy cabbage each
3 pack lemons
swede each
1kg onions

All at 49p

Quite disappointing

Morrisons have

Red onions 49p
broccoli 49p
sweetheart cabbage 49p

I'm not too disappointed with the Ald! SS as I always need onions and also buy cabbage every week. Need to buy some tomatoes & lemons as well this week so will be buying 4 out of the 6. May also buy a swede, depending on size, to have on Sunday if I decide on a roast as we both love mashed swede with plenty of butter & black pepper!


Also need to go to Morries so will probably pick up some broccoli as well.


Denise

moments_of_sanity

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Super six from 20th Nov

6 pack tomatoes
500g chantenay carrots
savoy cabbage each
3 pack lemons
swede each
1kg onions

All at 49p

Quite disappointing

Morrisons have

Red onions 49p
broccoli 49p
sweetheart cabbage 49p

I will be buying 4 of the items, onions, lemons, swede and cabbage so not too bad for me but not great for making complete meals with.

I have some Blewit mushrooms growing on my lawn in the back garden, no idea where they have come from but in my foraging book it says they are edible! :rotfl:

Fruball

Don't forget to thinly slice and open freeze some lemons then chuck in a bag ready for Christmas drinks

I love savoy cabbage so that will be featuring almost daily for the next fortnight

We love swede too so will be using everything from the 6. Can't wait to make swede and carrot mash for the first time this season

Butterfly_Brain

I have lots of swede, kale, cabbage, parsnips and turnips in the garden so I don't need to buy much

threeboysmummy

hi i love reading the thread ...and have got some good ideas, my question is i have 5 in my family and the kids are 13 16 and 19 ,so they all eat adult portions and the oldest one has to have a large pack lunch as he does manual work and needs a lot to sustain him, the older two are also autistic, am strugling with 25 pounds i cat get it below £270 a month how do you all do it ?

cuddlymarm

Hi

I found when I had kids with hollow legs at home that value bread and jam filled them up. Also bigger portions of spuds and veg at meal times. Teenagers burn up energy and also your food budget so I always made sure that they knew what they could snack on so that they didn't eat anything planned for a meal. Scones and muffins can be made quite cheaply and frozen till needed ( scones I make and freeze uncooked and then pop a few in when I have the oven on )
I hope this helps a little
Cuddles

threeboysmummy

thanks didnt know you could freeze un cooked scones.... how long do the take to cook and do i need to defrost them first ?

moments_of_sanity

Bread pudding is a favourite in our house, I have posted a link below.

This doesn't need to be made with 'fresh' bread either so I save all the tops and bottoms of the loaves (as no one here eats them) and when I have enough I make one of these. DH has a manual job and he says it fills him up really well. I make it, last one cut into 10 pieces and then I freeze it, DH then grabs a piece from the freezer every day and take it to work with him. It is a very easy recipe and very cheap per portion :j

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/13355/bread-pudding

A quick work out of costs, this is based on Ald! Prices (apart from the mixed spices)

500g bread, £0.25p
500g dried fruit, £0.84
1.5 tbsp mixed spices, £1.23
600mls milk, £0.25p
2 large eggs, £0.18p
140g light muscovado sugar, £0.30p (on offer in A$da's for £1.00 for 500g)
100g butter, £0.38p
2 tbsp Demerara sugar, £0.04p (on offer in A!di at £0.79 for 500g)

Total cost for the whole 'pudding' will be £3.47. You can easily get 10 pieces out of this which would make each individual piece £0.34p or you could get 15 smaller pieces at £0.23p each.

threeboysmummy

bread pudding sounds great ... the boys wont eatint , but my OH and myself will...

one question for the experts which works out cheeper to buy asd.. smartprice and have it delivers foe £1 or drive 5 milles to alde or 5miles in the oposit direction to lid...

we live in the country so are a distance from any shops, i dont have any need to go into town as i work from home so the trips would be just for food shoping ....

Butterfly_Brain

moments_of_sanity wrote: »

Bread pudding is a favourite in our house, I have posted a link below.

This doesn't need to be made with 'fresh' bread either so I save all the tops and bottoms of the loaves (as no one here eats them) and when I have enough I make one of these. DH has a manual job and he says it fills him up really well. I make it, last one cut into 10 pieces and then I freeze it, DH then grabs a piece from the freezer every day and take it to work with him. It is a very easy recipe and very cheap per portion :j

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/13355/bread-pudding

A quick work out of costs, this is based on Ald! Prices (apart from the mixed spices)

500g bread, £0.25p
500g dried fruit, £0.84
1.5 tbsp mixed spices, £1.23
600mls milk, £0.25p
2 large eggs, £0.18p
140g light muscovado sugar, £0.30p (on offer in A$da's for £1.00 for 500g)
100g butter, £0.38p
2 tbsp Demerara sugar, £0.04p (on offer in A!di at £0.79 for 500g)

Total cost for the whole 'pudding' will be £3.47. You can easily get 10 pieces out of this which would make each individual piece £0.34p or you could get 15 smaller pieces at £0.23p each.

I don't use milk or butter in mine, it is a wartime one that my mum taught me and it is lovely and less calories