£1 A Day For Food and Drink For 2 For A Year!

sarah222

I think this is achieveable but with alot of planning and searching. I go to our local supermarket on a Friday night about 9pm its great for reduced bread I get loaves for 2p and stock freezer with it lol. If you start including the fuel I use tho going to the supermarket I suppose I might over do the £1 a day but I do one major shop a month myself and then go on fridays for cheap fruit, bread and milk. I get casserole veg packs for 10p and they would do a couple twice in a heart stew. I also buy the reduced meats then when I can and some pulses and pastas and can feed the 4 of us 2 meals for around £3 and we are big eaters. Im not doing this challenge and I spend a fair bit normally on meat but I am trying to be more animal friendly in the meat I buy and do my own meals rather than cheating and buying ready made or take aways it has made me more aware of cost savings. I wish you well and will follow your progress.

Helen2k8

Sounds interesting... The cynic in me says you might spend £1 a day but you'll rack up some health problems in the meantime. Especially if you end up overdoing the factoryfoods.

Growing your own is great but beware crop failures.
If you really want to prepare for living "off grid" so to speak, get yourself some backyard rabbits. Excellent feed-meat conversion, food can be grown or foraged, breed like, well, rabbits. And depending on age and breed you get the furs to use too. And if you really want to get into it, you use the rabbit dung to feed worms which then go to feed chickens for your eggs...

Will you be bartering? You could try going beating and seeing if you get a brace of pheasant (though most perks go to the regular guys).

Roadkill?

Just some thoughts, everyone's already said about using local markets etc

System

Helen2k8 wrote: »

Sounds interesting... The cynic in me says you might spend £1 a day but you'll rack up some health problems in the meantime. Especially if you end up overdoing the factoryfoods.

Growing your own is great but beware crop failures.
If you really want to prepare for living "off grid" so to speak, get yourself some backyard rabbits. Excellent feed-meat conversion, food can be grown or foraged, breed like, well, rabbits. And depending on age and breed you get the furs to use too. And if you really want to get into it, you use the rabbit dung to feed worms which then go to feed chickens for your eggs...

Will you be bartering? You could try going beating and seeing if you get a brace of pheasant (though most perks go to the regular guys).

Roadkill?

Just some thoughts, everyone's already said about using local markets etc

I LOVE the idea of rabbits. Would I buy male and female for them to mate and then eat them as they get older?:T

purpleivy

The whole thing about Weezl trying to live for less was that her diet was nutritionally sound. She became pregnant during the time I believe, so this was really important. I expect her thread is here somewhere, her recipes on the site the OP mentioned.

Helen2k8

Newfoundscotty wrote: »

I LOVE the idea of rabbits. Would I buy male and female for them to mate and then eat them as they get older?:T

Yes and no
Have a read http://rabbittalk.com/forum14.html

There is still a culture of raising them in battery cages, which I am not comfortable with, so you have to read between the lines. I am setting up a "colony" system - I have two sisters living together in a pen, when they are old enough I'll buy a male. I'm hoping the sisters will be happy to stay and raise their kits together BUT they might need to be separated. I've decided to keep the male separate in order to control litter frequency - some just keep all the bunnies together.

I'm aiming for a middle ground between battery farming (productive, easy to run, easy to spot illness) and a colony (more natural behaviour, less stress, varied diet, low input, harder to spot disease and problems, harder to maintain well).

Different breeds mature differently, generally you're looking at 12 weeks for a tasty bunny but the better furs are from about 16 weeks.

How are your hutch building skills?

vodkawitch1

I have voted yes. Yellow stickers are your friends as is soup.

ecoelle

Hiya, i think this is entirely possible, especially if you are only saying the £1 is for food, so it doesn't include any bills or anything. The book below is a good read, look out for it in the library of course, not buying it! I have it and it's really interesting, although some of the sources in the book may be outdated the ideas are all still valid.
http://www.amazon.co.uk/How-Lived-Year-Just-Pound/dp/1906593124

I think if you have the money to be able to buy in bulk and then average it out at £1 per day then it's definaely doable, i shall subscribe to the thread and see how you get on.

Also check out this thread for recipe ideas, and of course the old style thread:)
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4084527

thriftwizard

Wishing you the very best of luck! And I'm sure it can be done, with a bit of luck here & there & a lot of hard work. Looking forward to hearing from you as you go along.

Kitchenbunny

Best of luck with this - I'd be interested to see some of your meal-plans. Planning is the one thing I could never do without, and sticking firmly to a shopping list! I envy you the back garden of veggies, as we can't here, but one day I'll have the space and I already have a list of what I'll grow.

I can second the usefulness of homemade soup. I would never have thought such scant ingredients could turn into multiple meals (tasty ones, too). I've voted yes, that you can do it, but watch out in the long term. Habit becomes routine, yes, but it can also be a drag, and it's very easy to cut corners when tired or fed up.

Keep it up.

KB xx

System

I would like to say yes but i worry about your diet being lacking in good quality protein though i guess you could substitute meat for beans and lentils and of course theres eggs.

I look forward to the results.:)