Can this last 8 days ?

debtmess

I can do a small shop, basically were going away 8th April for a week, 2 days after booking this the washing machine went meaning I need to replace.

Will be able to do an online shop when I return but for now I have.

Loaf of bread
12 small pitta breads
Frozen peas and sweet corn
Around 2kg potatoes
1 bag of pasta
7 carrots
3 onions
2 jars of pasta sauce
3 passata
Half packet orange lentils
2 tins beans
3 tins chopped tomatoes
4 tins tuna
A tub of smash
Packet sauces for casserole
1 box suet
2 packets grated cheese
4 lots of frozen cubed beef
2 frozen chicken breasts
Oil and spices
Half packet plain flour (do have baking powder as well)
Yeast
3 packs plain rice cakes
Jar of jam
4 apples
Net of satsumas
Jar of pesto
Half bag porridge
Half box cereal
Dried fruit

I hate being in this situation. It's been a while, I could walk to local sainsburys or lidl with £15 I have saved in coins (jar)

Any ideas and better items to buy to ekk this out

House is made up of 2 adults 3 growing boys

lindseykim13

I think it would be a struggle if that list is for all your meals.
Lunch
I would probably use the bread for sarnies, you might get 2 days from this depending on how many slices are in the bag. Jam sarnies?
2 days of pittas with the grated cheese.
Depending on how big your bag of pasta is you should get a few days with some peas and sweetcorn-the pasata for sauce?
Perhaps buy another loaf of bread and do beans on toast for the rest of the lunch's.
Dinners
You can easily get a couple of casseroles out of the beef/chicken with mash, carrots, onions, sweetcorn. Not sure on the quantity you have on the meats. Use any meat left for basic mash, meat and veg with some gravy ect
Not sure that would do you 8 meals though so i'd get some jacket pots or something to go with the tuna.

Brekkie
Big box of weetabix (value stuff) cheap and cheerful should see you out.

Edwardia

If you have any sugar, you have apple crumble.. or you could core out the whole apples and stuff them with dried fruit and jam and bake them.

Much as I hate Smash I think losing your washing machine qualifies as an emergency so how about mixing it with drained tuna and some of the sweetcorn and peas to make fishcakes for the kids ?

Casserole sauce with beef plus carrots and lentils to eke it out..

Pesto in mashed spud makes it less boring.. baked jacket spuds with cheese or tuna or beans if baked beans

Pasta bolognaise with beef, pasta, sauce or using onions, passata/tinned tomatoes whichever makes most food for fewest ingredients..

If you had rice you could do curry with beef, sweetcorn, peas, onions, tomatoes/passata or if you had some couscous you could go a bit Middle Eastern and fill the pittas with a spicy mixture of beans and lentils (even if baked beans, just add some curry powder).

If ypu had a suitable packet mix you could do a fish pie with drained tuna in sauce with onions and sweetcorn plus mix breadcrumbs and grated cheese as a bubbly golden crunchy topping.

If you have milk, you could dice up onion and spud, put in ovenproof dish with the merest whiff of nutmeg and black pepper or a bay leaf and pour a little bit of milk in to give the spuds and onions something to soften in, before doing the cheese/breadcrumb mix as a topping and bung in the oven (this without the cheese is Pommes Delmonico). You could experiment and add a little bit of porridge in with the cheese and breadcrumbs if it's the old-fashioned unsweetened kind.

I'm no expert on suet puds but maybe you have enough ingredients to do a suet pud with satsumas and/or apples or the jam ?

Alternatively, kids could have carrot batons with dried fruit and satsumas as snacks.

Baked beans on toast.. curried baked beans on toast..

Chilli con carne using beef, suitable casserole mix or tomatoes or passata with onions and sweetcorn and chilli

Chicken diced and chucked in a casserole mix or done as a sort of stir fry with Asian spices, sweetcorn, peas, slivers of carrot, onion.

If you could use the £15 I'd suggest some YS veggies as you don't have many and you could eke out the fish, casserole mixes, beef and chicken with them.

Hope that helps

Fire_Fox

Get some more porridge oats for breakfast and have the dried fruit or chopped apples and teaspoon of jam with that, keep the bread for lunches. Nowhere near enough dairy for three servings per person per day so buy some milk or dried milk.

Don't see any oily fish - 'at least once a week' - 400g cans pilchards or mackerel in tomato sauce are under £1, if you mash in the bones that is extra calcium, and of course the meat supplies protein, essential fatty acids, various vitamins. Long chain omega-3s can be really helpful in eczema and some behavioural issues BTW. :T

Beans or lentils count once per day towards 'at least five a day' and are packed with minerals, so you could try to spread those out through the week. Maybe buy an Aldi whole red cabbage (~50p a kilo) for the blue/ purple family plus another choice of frozen green veggies like broccoli (~£1 a kilo)? Kidney beans would be good if you run out of lentils and baked beans, they are cheap, filling and count as blue/ purple.

If your kids are not big on vegetables or pulses every day hearty soups could be the way forward. Also chilli con carne (I put sweetcorn in mine) or chicken and lentil curry to stretch the meat, both are good with jacket potatoes if you don't have rice. You seem to have loads of tomatoes, they would work in any/ all of these but you will need a few more onions.

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debtmess

Thank you, great ideas so far it's just disheartening when something go's t**ts up just after you have planned something , seems crazy after being paid 2 days ago that after council tax bills and now a washing machine it's gone.

Edwardia

Re: the washing machine.. ours was only bought in December, today it flooded the kitchen and I mean flooded. OH mopped up, moved the machine and looked at the pipe connecting machine to drain. Totally clogged up with limescale, undissolved laundry powder and dog hair despite filter. Once cleaned it's now fine.

So sometimes it does pay to look at the simple things first. Must admit I would have been on the phone to the manufacturers

Butterfly_Brain

debtmess wrote: »

I can do a small shop, basically were going away 8th April for a week, 2 days after booking this the washing machine went meaning I need to replace.

Will be able to do an online shop when I return but for now I have.

Loaf of bread
12 small pitta breads Use as mini pizzas just spread with a little pasta sauce top with cheese, sliced onion and swetcorn
Frozen peas and sweet corn
Around 2kg potatoes
1 bag of pasta
7 carrots
3 onions
2 jars of pasta sauce
3 passata
Half packet orange lentils
2 tins beans Baked , butter or kidney beans?
3 tins chopped tomatoes
4 tins tuna Tuna Fish cakes or Tuna pasta use 2 tins per meal = 2 days
A tub of smash
Packet sauces for casserole
1 box suet
2 packets grated cheese Macaroni Cheese, Cheese on Toast,
4 lots of frozen cubed beef Make a huge casserole bulk out with lentils, beans and chunky chopped veg, use what is left in Pies or Pasties = 4 meals (I recommend cooking it all together because it saves on gas or electricity because my casseroles are always done on 160c for 3 - 4 hours)
2 frozen chicken breasts, Cook and slice and use in a stir fry , curry or chicken pie
Oil and spices
Half packet plain flour (do have baking powder as well)
Yeast 3 packs plain rice cakes
Jar of jam Jam tarts or add to porridge
4 apples, slice and top with a sponge cake mix and serve with custard
Net of satsumas
Jar of pesto
Half bag porridge
Half box cereal
Dried fruit

I hate being in this situation. It's been a while, I could walk to local sainsburys or lidl with £15 I have saved in coins (jar)

Any ideas and better items to buy to ekk this out

House is made up of 2 adults 3 growing boys

I would go to Lidl rather than Sainsbury because you will get more for your money. Aldi super six is great this week, leeks, new potatoes, I kg carrots, 1 kg onions, brocolli and parsnips all at 49p , but they had the onions reduced even further to 39p on Tuesday.

You will need milk and Asda have 6 pint bottles for £1.49
15 eggs are £1.35 in Aldi

Plain and SR flour is on offer at 45p a bag

Porridge is 75p a kilo in Aldi and Asda

I would get a 1kg bag of LG rice for 40p Bring the rice to the boil, drain and rinse then in a baking dish pour in either a tin of tomatoes and 2 tsps of mixed herbs with a pint of water or a jar of bolognaise sauce plus a pint of water, then cook the chicken breasts and chop into chunks plus lots of veg, top with grated cheese and cook in the oven on a low heat until the rice has absorbed the liquid. This would work with pasta or sliced potatoes as well.

debtmess

Edwardia wrote: »

Re: the washing machine.. ours was only bought in December, today it flooded the kitchen and I mean flooded. OH mopped up, moved the machine and looked at the pipe connecting machine to drain. Totally clogged up with limescale, undissolved laundry powder and dog hair despite filter. Once cleaned it's now fine.

So sometimes it does pay to look at the simple things first. Must admit I would have been on the phone to the manufacturers

Darling ds stood on the door to reach a cupboard, whole door feel off breaking the plastic surround that hangs the door onto 2 hinges, it magically also has a slit in the rubber seal (can ip only imagine ds again but that's a downside to ds) a quote to fix would be more than a new machine.

debtmess

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I would go to Lidl rather than Sainsbury because you will get more for your money. Aldi super six is great this week, leeks, new potatoes, I kg carrots, 1 kg onions, brocolli and parsnips all at 49p , but they had the onions reduced even further to 39p on Tuesday.

You will need milk and Asda have 6 pint bottles for £1.49
15 eggs are £1.35 in Aldi

Plain and SR flour is on offer at 45p a bag

Porridge is 75p a kilo in Aldi and Asda

I would get a 1kg bag of LG rice for 40p Bring the rice to the boil, drain and rinse then in a baking dish pour in either a tin of tomatoes and 2 tsps of mixed herbs with a pint of water or a jar of bolognaise sauce plus a pint of water, then cook the chicken breasts and chop into chunks plus lots of veg, top with grated cheese and cook in the oven on a low heat until the rice has absorbed the liquid. This would work with pasta or sliced potatoes as well.

Thank you Aldi is out as is asda but do have sainsburys n lidl nearby

merlot123

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You could try here for a cheap washing machine.

merlot123