No money and need help with food plan, please

greenpixey

savetosave wrote: »

Hi do you have mayo and flour or eggs?

Mayo, plain flour and oil. No bread ..but I got a couple of coppers and 5ives in a jar to buy a loaf of sliced bread

greenpixey

RAS wrote: »

greenpixey

You have plenty of protein there, so that is a good start.

Can I check a few things, please?

Do you have any bread, oil, marg, fat of any sort?

How much dry pasta do you have?

loads of pasta shapes and spaghetti, got oil.

RAS

greenpixey wrote: »

Mayo, plain flour and oil. No bread ..but I got a couple of coppers and 5ives in a jar to buy a loaf of sliced bread

Can either yourself or OH go out late in the day and see if you can pick up reduced loaves from the supermarket?

Alternatively go for a basics sliced wholemeal, which is often cheaper than white and more filling.

Freeze half so it does not go off.

RAS

any baking powder or eggs?

greenpixey

Thank you Sam4000 for taking your time with your post. Some great ideas there that I will be doing, much appreciated x

greenpixey

RAS wrote: »

any baking powder or eggs?

No sorry, no baking powder or eggs

RAS

Lunches
1 tomato soup – add some cooked pasta shells and heat. Also stir in a teaspoon of oil if possible
1 lentil soup Ditto
1 baked beans
2 spaghetti hoops
Pasta shapes with mayo and a couple of rashers of chopped fried bacon (possibly some peas)?
2 pasta n' sauce cheese/broccoli (add some peas?)

saterkey

could you do an shopping order on a credit card so you don't have to pay it till next month?

greenpixey

saterkey wrote: »

could you do an shopping order on a credit card so you don't have to pay it till next month?

I got no credit cards, cut them up a couple of years ago. Don't buy anything on credit anymore.
Thanks to MSE we got ourselves out of debt a couple of yrs back... Hubby decided to venture into a new business in October and at the moment it is just breaking even...so we are doing cut backs left right and center to make it work.

RAS

Mains – assuming the potatoes are large
Make a load of roast veggies/wedgies with the potatoes, an onion, carrots, oil and towards the end add the beetroot. Keep them at the just baked stage as you will re-heat them later. That solves the problem of the potatoes needing using quickly. The roast veggies can be kept in the fridge for 2-3 days or frozen.
Hot dog bake? Add 1 or 2 tin of hot dogs (not very nice ones) to portions of the roast veggies and heat.
Wedgies with fish fingers and mushy peas (use the peas as a carb contribution and keep the wedgie portions lower)
Burger bake Wedgies plus a burger per person
Pasta mains
Pasta and tomato and bacon sauce
Take the other onion, chop and fry, add 2 or three tins of tomatoes and herbs to make a basic tomato sauce. Chop and fry 4 rashers, add the mushrooms and enough tomato sauce to make meal.
Freeze the rest of the tomato sauce
Pasta in chicken/mushroom sauce.
Cook enough pasta until almost done, drain add a tin of chicken/mushroom soup and heat well. Maybe grate a little cheese over the top and grill quickly?
Rice mains
Rough chilli
Assuming you can chop the burgers (use the Mexican one anyway)
Chop 2 burgers and fry- try to break them up. Add some of the frozen tomato sauce and cook until down, add 2 tins of kidney beans and serve with rice.
Noodle mains
Fish – cook with tomato sauce and serve with the super noodles – bin the BBQ flavouring and add some herbs and oil instead