I need help with making this food last please.

hollyh

Due to Ds1's 16th Birthday and my car breaking down this month I am really skint. I need to make this food last as long as possible. I have £30 to spend to add to it and I need to spend wisely.

I can't think of anything but 2 meals so I need some help. I know you're all fantastic at this sort of thing.

This is all the food I have in the house and I will need cat food, rabbit food, sawdust, hay and cat litter to add to my shopping list too.

Stock cubes
gravy granules
1 egg
1/2 pk lard (which looks mockingly at me for not being able to make pastry)
2 onions
1/2 swede
Loads of pasta
Loads or rice
1/2 pk risotto rice
Flour all types including bread
Yeast
A billion herbs and spices
Cocoa powder
10 small potatoes
2 tins of sweetcorn
1 tin of chickpeas
1 tin of kidney beans
1 tin of mushy peas
2 tins of beans & sausage
1 tin spaghetti
2 tins beans (thought these could be lunches on toast)
Veg oil
1 loaf of bread
2 apples
1/2 bag oven chips
1 battered cod fillet
1 pk frozen mixed veg
1 pk frozen roast potatoes
4 bread rolls
2 mini baguettes
6 sausages
1 chicken & mushroom pie
3/4 bag frozen peas
3/4 bag frozen carrots
Pk glazed parsnips
4 Yorkshire puds
3 fish fillets
6 wraps
1/2 pk diced beef
2 fishcakes
1 chicken breast
1 pk BBQ chicken
1 pk BBQ pork
Weetabix
Oats
Little bit of milk

This has to feed 3 for all 3 meals because it's the easter holidays. I'm going to shop online I think because the petrol/delivey fee will be about the same. There's a market tomorrow that does really cheap fruit and veg so I will get that there.

So far I can think of fish pie and sausage, chips and beans.

boultdj

Chicken beast,part of an onion,1/2 tin of sweetcorn and then take your pick, with rice as a stir fry or add broken spaggetti/pasta and do as a chicken & sweetcorn soup.
The bbq chicken with rice.

neveah

holly i can see bbq chicken wraps
cod chips and muShy peas
you could serve the yorkshire puddings with diced beef and gravy in them and pototo and veg
if you have tuna you could have tuna pasta with sweetcorn peas and mayo or salad cream xx

hollyh

Thanks, this is all helping

I have

5kg potatoes for £2.38
A block of value cheddar for £4.37
2kg Clover for £6.00 so I can use it for baking too, I may see how much the value butter is instead
15 eggs £1.34
1 bag rabbit food £2.39
8lt cat litter £2.69
2kg Go cat kitten £4.20 this will last 3-4 weeks

So that's £20.98 so far all ready and I need about £6 for the market and £6 for the rest of the rabbit bits and I haven't even started on meals yet.

hollyh

The butter is more per kg than the clover but I have reduced it down for 1pk not 2 saving £3.00.

boultdj

So now you can add spanish/cheese omlette's and jacket potatoe to the idea's list.

sjprmc01

You said you will go for SM delivery, but remember you have to have a minimum spend before they will deliver and I thilnk its £25

hollyh

I have it at £35.00 now for 11 days meals and I still need to pay delivery charge and rabbits stuff and market.

PollyOnAMission

What about a chicken, veg and chickpea stew? You might have to add in a value tin of tomatoes but they are very cheap. The one chicken breast could go a long way if mixed with chickpeas and lots of veg. Depending what you can get cheap, maybe courgette and peppers? And onion. Or whatever you have frozen. You could make it very tasty with your herbs and spices, and serve it with rice which will take it even further

angelpye

What I can see is:
Veggi chilli
Chicken and mushroom risotto
Beef stew and dumplings
Spanish omelette
Fish cakes + battered fish, chips and mushy peas
Parsnip soup and baguettes with cheese
If family size chicken pie with pots and sweet corn (if not then keep frozen so one can have and freeze left overs of other meals - we call this freezer night!)
BBQ chicken with egg fried rice and peas
BBQ pork with same
Homemade pizza
Homemade pasta sauce with pasta
Fish pie
Toad in the hole with frozen carrots and gravy
Jacket potatoes
Potato bake with homemade tomato sauce

For these you would need tinned tomatoes (4), garlic, mushrooms, basil, onions and I always have roasted diced sweet potatoes in my chilli (Jamie O recipe)

Hth - you didn't say how long to last?

angelpye

Ps then there are comfort meals like egg, potato wedges (great with a little chilli and paprika sprinkled before oven) and beans.

I think you could do it even with pet needs - bread 70p a loaf, apples and bananas etc and baking things cakes like banana loaf, chocolate fairy cakes, flapjack etc. I made syrup sponge yesterday from a BBC website recipe and it was so cheap but lovely. My favourite desert is baked apples, cored with raisins or sultanas stuffed in then syrup or honey, cover and bake til squishy - yum!