Feed a family of four for £20 a week challenge

Nargleblast

ButterflyBrain I agree porridge is the moneysaver's best friend. My DS aged 16 has it for breakfast every day with cinnamon and golden syrup. He complained because we had run out so he had to have muesli this morning instead! Fortunately it is payday and a consignment oats and other goodies is being delivered by A$da so all will be right with the world.

Savvy_cash

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Had a cheap and cheerful macaroni cheese special tonight that fed 5 of us
I used
1 pkt budget spaghetti 20p,
2oz/50g Aldi extra mature cheddar, grated 30p plus 2oz/50g 30p to go on top
1tsp dried mustard 8p
I onion diced 7p (Aldi 5 onions 33p),
2oz/50g flour 5p
½ pint/300mls milk 47p
½ pack Aldi pepperoni slices (99p) 49p

£1.96/ 39p a portion

Dice the onion and put in boiling salted water with the pasta

Make cheese sauce as usual using flour, mustard, milk and cheese.

Mix the cheese sauce into the pasta/onion and put into an ovenproof dish.
Sprinkle over the rest of the grated cheese and lay the pepperoni slices on top, put under a hot grill until the cheese is golden and the pepperoni is cooked.

This macaroni cheese recipe is tonight's tea-yum yum! Thanks again for posting these great cheap and easy recipes

Butterfly Brain-is there a thread with all your recipes somewhere? I've found a few by searching through old threads, just wondered if there was an archive of them

enjoyyourshoes

Replace mince with dehydrated quorn (Tesco sell it) but rehydrate with tinned toms & Oxo

Can replace from 100% to 10%. I usually do 60% mince & 40% quorn and no one tells especially in lasagne etc.

1.26 Kilo tin tuna (Asda) and use it to batch make Tuna lasagne, tuna pasta bake, tuna quiche and freeze for the week

Need to make cooing easy.

Haven't done costing not sure if its a low as your challenge, but its easy, cheaper and efficient use of you time

Butterfly_Brain

Savvy_cash wrote: »

This macaroni cheese recipe is tonight's tea-yum yum! Thanks again for posting these great cheap and easy recipes

Butterfly Brain-is there a thread with all your recipes somewhere? I've found a few by searching through old threads, just wondered if there was an archive of them

I am afraid not, but I will post recipes as often as I can x

amandaatnumber7

I'm finding this thread very inspiring you guys are fantastic!

I'm not sure I could feed my family on $36.92 (which is equivalent) food is very expensive here in Perth more so than in the eastern states.
We have 2 major supermarkets to choose from and 1 independent (who are more expensive imo) and are still waiting for Aldi to open over here.

joedenise

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I am afraid not, but I will post recipes as often as I can x

BB - are your recipes in the Recipe Index at the beginning of the Grocery Challenge thread? Would seem the logical place for them to go.

Denise

Butterfly_Brain

I don't think so, but there are lots of great ideas there from other o'sers though.

I do have some recipes on the £7 a week thread, bearing in mind it was for two adults and a tot in 2012:

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4084527

Butterfly_Brain

If you get the Daily Mirror today there is a £10 off coupon in Aldi if you spend £50, plus other smaller coupons.

Because we go shopping every Thursday we got two papers, that way we will be able to use the coupons next Thursday as well .

Plus in the Sun there is a £5 coupon for fruit and veg in Morrisons no strings attached you just buy your £5's worth and it is deducted at the till :j So time to get brussels, parsnips and carrots and freeze them for free Christmas day veg :j

That is another £25 in my coupon pot :j

moments_of_sanity

I used my Morries voucher today BB and got the following

1 large Savoy cabbage
1 cauliflower
1 broccoli
1 honeydew melon
6 kiwis
Bananas
2 punnets of red grapes

All for £5 so very pleased with that. The fruit will be made into smoothies by vegetarian DD, cauliflower will be steamed and some made into cauliflower cheese, broccoli will be steamed and the remainder put into a quiche and I could (if allowed) eat the cabbage all to myself with lashings of gravy! :rotfl:

I have another voucher to use so will buy some other bits and pieces on Sunday, mushroom, onions, runner beans etc as I find the veg really helps to bulk a meal out.

Butterfly_Brain

That is great MOS, we won't be going to Morries until Sunday, which is the last day, but I already know what I want.

A sack of spuds £2.00
parsnips 69p to freeze for Christmas day
brussels stalk 99p to freeze for Christmas day
red onions 69p
beansprouts 49p
garlic 49p

Total £5.35 cost...........35p :j