Feed a family of four for £20 a week challenge

moments_of_sanity

Today is home made cottage pie

250g minced beef....£0.86p (750g pack £2.59)
4 carrots.....£0.07p
1 large onion....£0.05p
1 tin of baked beans....£0.24p
Mashed potato.....£0.05p

Total cost....£1.27 / £0.64p each

I also managed to get a reduced to clear tin of condensed milk so made a millionaire shortbread..

Condensed milk....£0.53p
205g Butter....£0.78p
45g Caster sugar....£0.04p
150g flour....£0.05p
75g brown sugar.....£0.11p
30g honey.....£0.41p

Total cost £1.92, easily makes 10 servings so £0.19p per serving. A full price tin would be another £0.53p added to the total cost and would make each individual serving £0.25p

Butterfly_Brain

Sunday
Breakfast porridge and banana with a drizzle of maple syrup......... porridge 5p, banana 8p each maple syrup although expensive goes a long way and it is £2.99 a bottle in aldi, but it will last for a month so approx 10p a drizzle

Total cost: £1.15 for five @ 23p a portion.

Dinner was both breasts of a small aldi chicken £2.99 with roast potatoes (Free with Morrisons coupon) brussels (Free with Morrisons coupon) 2 carrots 6p (25p 500g aldi) and HM Yorkshire puddings 20p
£3.25 for five of us, (DD is a vegetarian but she likes a meatless roast dinner ) 65p per serving

Supper was boiled egg sarnies, crusty bread 65p (Morrisons) 10 boiled eggs 70p some mayo 10p's worth and some home grown cress. With a couple of fairy cakes (5p each) and a cuppa to follow.
£1.55 for five = 31p each

Total cost for Sunday - £5.95

Breakfast yesterday was apple porridge with a sprinkle of cinnamon basically a couple of slightly stewed eating apples ( I had a few sad looking ones that nobody wanted to eat in the fruit bowl from last week) with a couple of tsps sugar on top or to taste , with a sprinkle of cinnamon to taste Porridge 5p, apples from last weeks budget and cinnamon from cupboard, but you can buy it for 45p a jar in Aldi
25p for five

Lunch was apple and parsnip soup with cumin (parsnips were free morries Fruit and veg coupon deal), apples last of fruit bowl and cumin from cupboard, again 45p in Aldi so lunch was approx 2p plus some hm bread rolls 45p.
Total 47p

Last night we had a bacon pasta.
I used ⅔ of a pack of Sainsbury cooking bacon chopped into chunks £1.15 a pack so 76p's worth
6 quartered mushrooms from the market 30p
I sliced onion 8p
A couple of handfulls of frozen sweetcorn 8p
A tin of chopped tomatoes 31p
a tbsp tomato puree 6p
2 cloves garlic, crushed (25p a bulb) 8 cloves = 3p a clove so 6p
8 handfuls fuselli from a farmfoods 3kg bag £2.50 about 50p's worth

Total cost : £2.15 for five @ 54p a portion.
(DD has some of the sauce poured over her pasta with some grated parmesan before I put the bacon in.)

Total cost for Monday £2.87

Today breakfast was cornflakes total cost 31p box cornflakes from morrisons and we used ½ a box 15.5p, 1 pit milk from a 4L bottle from Aldi 95p so 25p and some sugar 59p a kilo in farmfoods or aldi 8p = 50p for five of us

Lunch was the rest of the parsnip soup and a HM roll (45p for all of us)

tonight is Chicken and bacon pie using up the left over chicken from Sunday and left over bacon( 39p ) from last night with Morries freebie roasties and some of the freebie brussels.

HM pastry 30p, hm white sauce 25p, chicken leftovers so already counted in Sunday's meal, bacon leftovers 39p, I have a few mushrooms left 20p, a couple of carrots 12p
£1.26 for four people @ 31.5p each

Total cost for Tuesday= £2.21

The carcass is in the stock pot bubbling away so we will have a nice warming chicken soup for tomorrow lunch time.

moments_of_sanity

BB, I know this sounds a daft question but when you boil the carcass how do you remove the fat from it as the chicken soup I have made previously has had 'globules' of fat sitting at the top?

barneydee_2

Sorry for butting in, but a good idea for getting fat of the top of stock is to let it go completely cold then using ice cubs the fat sticks to the ice cubs the just throw away I do this and it works rely well
Dee x

moments_of_sanity

barneydee wrote: »

Sorry for butting in, but a good idea for getting fat of the top of stock is to let it go completely cold then using ice cubs the fat sticks to the ice cubs the just throw away I do this and it works rely well
Dee x

Thank you, I will give that a go :beer:

vhalla1478

Or, allow to cool, scrape the fat off the top and use it to pre-stew vegetables when making soup.

Butterfly_Brain

The thread has just been included in Martin's weekly email :j

Butterfly_Brain

barneydee I let the stock cool and then skim the fat off of the top

Had cornflakes and milk for breakfast = 50p for five of us, so that has finished the box .

The chicken soup was lovely, basically just the stock with the chicken pieces from the carcass and a handful of sweetcorn using a basic white sauce as a base, served with slices of garlic bread (35p). 60p for the whole meal for four of us.

Butterfly_Brain

Just made a big batch of mince

800g Mince (Aldi £2.59)
4 Carrots 32p
2 large onions 24p
200g lentils (£3.49 for 3kg in Morrisons in the world food aisle) 18p total £3.33.
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Butterfly_Brain

Breakfast this morning was porridge with summer fruits that were left over and a drizzle of maple syrup which is better than using honey which I am not too keen on especially if you are diabetic like me, it gives sweetness without the need for sugar. £1.50 for five, or 30p a bowl

Lunch was a mushroom omelette 10 eggs (FarmFoods) 70p, a few sliced mushrooms 30p and a good grating of pepper £1.00 for five of us.

£17.55 + £2.50 = £20.05 so far this week
But everything has been made from scratch and is quite healthy

Dinner tonight is the cottage pie and broccoli costed yesterday.