Prue Leith in the Daily Mail - £50 a week menu

Jojo_the_Tightfisted

It's better than any other 'budget' menu.

But I can't see how one chicken leg and some celery is going to keep a fully grown man going for six hours until dinnertime.

Going4TheDream

red_devil wrote: »

she had to go round all the different supermarkets to buy the stuff which is time consuming and not money saving. The food did not look filling either.

Depends where you live as to the accessibility to several shops/supermarkets, but for me once a month I do a bulk shop and visit 2 or 3 places with the best deals on what I want. Yes it may take a whole morning but it certainly saves me money. ( and we no longer waste any food)

Since becoming more savvy I have cut my supermarket bill from around £320+ a month to around £200/£230 ish and that is despite rising food prices, the only thing we don't eat as much or as before is fresh fish or lamb, but apart from that we eat much the same foods.

For me the morning I spend is worth the £90/£120 saving I make.

Popperwell

Meat is mainly what I have cut down on more than anything unless it is yellow stickered. I have quite a lot of fish in the freezer from when Mum was alive but again I look for offers or an example...Aldi's three fillets of smoked mackeral £1.49 usually £2.49 in Tesco's...and you cannot freeze the Tesco's version.

I thought about a recipe Nigel Slater did on his programme(I think it used rack of pork)and he got a lot of meat off it the way he cooked it but being single £6+ in Tesco's seemed a bit expensive.

If I can make space in the freezer, portion it out so I get a few meals out of it then just maybe it is value for money...

I did laugh today...I usually have one meal a day or stretch out food I buy so I spend 50p-£2 a day for food...there was an article on another website about the tricks the supermarkets get up to part us with our money.

One company said on average we spend an extra £27 to what we originally intend but then it turns out they deliver boxes of ingredients and a recipe plan and a box of 3 meals for two comes to...£36.

Well I can spend £10 and if careful make some nice meals for one and possibly get up to 10 meals. Not saying it would not be nice to have so much money that you could have this luxury but in these austere times...no way. Then again I doubt I will ever be a customer there.

Popperwell

All I came out today in Aldi's and Tesco's was a bag of salad, a cheap loaf of bread, some garlic sausage, tomatoes, a cucumber, a dessert and mini pork pies(that last item was yellow stickered)so even in Aldi's I am careful.

freyasmum

Yes, the protein may have been slightly light, but it was entirely refreshing to see a budget menu with a good selection of fruits and vegetables - so often people think cheap = exclusively horrendous processed foods :eek:

Well done Prue :T

Justamum

freyasmum wrote: »

Yes, the protein may have been slightly light, but it was entirely refreshing to see a budget menu with a good selection of fruits and vegetables - so often people think cheap = exclusively horrendous processed foods :eek:

Well done Prue :T

Don't forget that you get protein from other things - even pasta and potatoes contain some protein so it all adds up.

Skint_yet_Again

rice pudding ..... cook in oven for 3-4 hours :eek:

Think I'll save electric and money and stick to tinned

Popperwell

Skint_yet_Again wrote: »

rice pudding ..... cook in oven for 3-4 hours :eek:

Think I'll save electric and money and stick to tinned

A can is enough for one person such as myself...but I guess home made would work well especially in a slow cooker...

quintwins

Popperwell wrote: »

A can is enough for one person such as myself...but I guess home made would work well especially in a slow cooker...

Pudding rice is quite dear when you consider a tin is 12p, granted not the healthiest option, but when you factor in the cost of electric and milk, it's prob the cheapest, btw we love value rice pudding in this house

hunters

My mums home made rice pudding is horrible but don't tell her

I like the puddings in the menu think I will print it out.