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Feed a family of four for £20 a week challenge

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  • Fruball
    Fruball Posts: 5,739 Forumite
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    I read this with dismay
    http://www.debtadvisorycentre.co.uk/advice/feed-your-family-for-less-than-20-a-week-0-4204-0.html

    Seeing as it is from the debt advisory centre, most of it isd processed rubbish

    That is bad. So lacking in protein too from what I can see :(

    I would like to see our government members sit down to those meals for a week.

    In a pinch, it is better than some people would manage but seriously, that is one nasty meal plan.
  • nursemaggie
    nursemaggie Posts: 2,608 Forumite
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    I read the meal plan Yuk. Veg no variety at all. Won't have frozen mixed veg in the house. I do make my own up and vary what goes in it. Never put carrots in we both eat lots of those raw as snacks. I don't think there are enough veg.

    Fancy eating from that list all the time. Don't know about anyone else I would go off my food. We went to Ald! last night on there last hour no other customers. I did 5 weeks shopping of basic stuff plus a couple of weeks meat and frozen veg for at least a month. Included cleaning stuff too.Forgot the coffee. I did that just before Christmas too they moved it for Christmas stuff. At least DS can go for some from Mr M, theirs is not any more expensive but I prefer Ald! and it goes further.

    You would have thought they would have done a week with a rubber chicken. I think it is the cheapest way to eat apart from eggs which you would not want every meal. Come to think of it we ate a lot of eggs when I was a kid because we kept chickens. Rationing!

    Fancy not adding at least another weeks menu in two months. I did not think the processed stuff was too bad but then we do not eat puddings. I would not buy any of those. We are just not that sweet toothed. It's much better for you.

    I do buy a local natural yogurt which I mix with a few of Ald!'s frozen fruit in winter and fresh when things are in season. A tip for storing the frozen fruit. I take them out of the packaging and put them in zip lock bags. They take up less than a quarter of the space. I only have the narrowest smallest FF, 4 small draws. My kitchen is microscopic.
  • Soworried
    Soworried Posts: 2,369 Forumite
    How would they have portions of the sausage casserole left over to freeze when it was made with just 4 sausages :(
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  • Fruball
    Fruball Posts: 5,739 Forumite
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    Soworried wrote: »
    How would they have portions of the sausage casserole left over to freeze when it was made with just 4 sausages :(

    I started a post about that earlier and then deleted it as I just couldn't be bothered. Isn't it disgusting that they think it is acceptable to have less than 1 (impossibly cheap) sausage per person as a main meal :(
  • Soworried
    Soworried Posts: 2,369 Forumite
    Fruball wrote: »
    I started a post about that earlier and then deleted it as I just couldn't be bothered. Isn't it disgusting that they think it is acceptable to have less than 1 (impossibly cheap) sausage per person as a main meal :(

    I can't believe that they would recommend feeding a family this way. Maybe we should forward them some better meal plans.
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  • Pips_Mum
    Pips_Mum Posts: 2,893 Forumite
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    Basically 8 meals from 4 sausages!!!
    Shopping is from 3 different shops too so little to no chance of anyone going to all 3, think of the wasted petrol/bus.

    So glad I follow this thread, ideas are much nicer :-)
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  • merzal
    merzal Posts: 290 Forumite
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    It has to do lunch on Wednesday too so 10 meals, assuming it is feeding 4 people. Also I'm not sure 2 baking potatoes would only cost 20p each loose...
    No tea or coffee either-def couldn't cope with that!!
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  • AnnieO1234
    AnnieO1234 Posts: 1,722 Forumite
    Folks this meal plan is from a private firm! It's not the governments debt advisory service but rather a company called Gregory penningt@n trading off a similar name.

    Xxx
  • Fruball
    Fruball Posts: 5,739 Forumite
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    Pips_Mum wrote: »
    Basically 8 meals from 4 sausages!!!
    Shopping is from 3 different shops too so little to no chance of anyone going to all 3, think of the wasted petrol/bus.

    So glad I follow this thread, ideas are much nicer :-)

    No, it's worse than that. Lunches for the adults on Wednesday is LO stew AND tea for them all on Thurs is LO stew!

    So that = 10 meals from 4 sausages... However, there seem to be sausages left over from the pack of 20 at the end of the week so you could use more. Either way, a very poorly thought out meal plan!
  • It goes to show that some of these overpaid experts haven't a clue on many people's plight.
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