wise people help me please

maman

Not the healthiest but I find a good filler is pasta with passata/tinned toms sauce (made with a few herbs, seasoning and perhaps an onion) with frankfurters chopped into it.

I usually buy the £1 frankfurters in Aldi or Lidl but probably your best bet is tinned ones from Iceland. 8 for 75p according to website. Hot dogs would be a good filler for teenagers too. Onions aren't essential as long as you have ketchup!

Good Luck and keep us posted.:)

P.S. I'd definitely ask their dad to take them for Sunday.

cateerob

hot dogs, i hate them the kids love them will look into that, yes i can get to an asda but is a 30min bus ride away so seems silly spending £2.80 on bus fares this week when i have so little money will go and stock up when i have money next week.

pigpen

Bulk mince meals with lentils, grated veg (carrot, courgette, swede etc) .. try to pick up the yellow sticker stuff!!!

Value bread is fine toasted .. I'd recommend something less awful for sandwiches though.

RAS

cateerob wrote: »

just been looking at some of these prices, the cheapest I get potatoes for is £2.50 and the value noodles in my Tesco are 40p, I think in need to move out of London.

Potatoes are expensive (particularly at this time of the year) and low food value compared with pasta.

Noodles cost a lot more for less calories than pasta.

Do you have acces to a Sainsbury's, Lidl or tesco?

All have value pasta and rice at about 32-40p per packet.

One packet pasta is 6 portions.

Add a small jar of value mayo for about 40p and you can use the pasta for pasta salad lunches. You could use some of the tuna to add a bit of flavour and use the rest for a tuna pasta bake another day.

Use the chicken sauce to make two days pasta sauce.

With eggs and sausages on your list, make a toad in the hole.

Get a 500 mil bottle of cheap oil (rape seed is usually cheapest and best health wise).

If you have any sugar make porridge oats into flapjack.

Get some budget split peas and make split pea soup for lunches - with pesto drizzle for daughter.

That can also be used to make a dahl to go with rice and a frozen pea and potato curry?

What can you find on the whoopsie stalls?

K9sandFelines

Can't really add what's already been said apart from the oats will also bulk your chilli/spag bol out aswell as lentils. Could you set up a new email address and register online somewhere for free delivery, for a first time customer. That way you might be able to get a few things you mightn't normally, particularly heavy cat litter and food, rice, pasta, potatoes and tins ... they all weigh a bit!

sjprmc01

Remember online supermarket shopping has a minimum spend of more than the OP has for the week.

What about milkandmore? (I think its called that) delivery from the milkman they usually have free delivery or something the first time

Valli

As an aside if you are in receipt of Child Benefit and a single parent you can have that paid weekly instead of 4-weekly which might help? Check their website.
http://www.hmrc.gov.uk/childbenefit/

-taff

make a meal plan first before you go and buy stuff and check out 'a girl called jack's website

ditsykitchen

sjprmc01 wrote: »

Remember online supermarket shopping has a minimum spend of more than the OP has for the week.

What about milkandmore? (I think its called that) delivery from the milkman they usually have free delivery or something the first time

Tesc0 don't seem to have a minimum spend. I know asda's is 25, which is why I don't order from them. I rarely order that much at once.

Caterina

Is there a market near you? If so you could go at the end of day and pick up bits of veg that have fallen or have been discarded. You can ask stall holders for outer cabbage leaves "for your rabbits". I have seen perfectly good fruit and veg discarded at the end of market day so you needn't pick up rotten stuff!

Check if your local church or community centre has a food bank, they might be able to tidy you over until your situation is resolved.

Cheap (basic) flour, reconstituted powder milk and 1 egg should make you enough pancakes for a family meal, use it as lasagne sheets with tomato sauce and a sprinkling of cheese, but it contains more proteins and nutrients than pasta.

Whole meal flour, a pinch of bicarbonate and a cup of soured milk (add a splash of vinegar to milk) make you soda bread, probably much more nutritious than basic fluffy supermarket bread.

Any stale bread slices can be revived with a splash of milk and an egg nod and turned into eggy bread, fried in a small amount of oil.

If possible, forage for blackberries, they are starting to come out and a good handful, cooked with a chopped apple and topped with a couple spoonfuls sugared oats make a nice pudding.

Best wishes.