wise people help me please

Butterfly_Brain

You can make a sausage toad using four sausages cooked and sliced and use the other four in either a sausage pasta or a casserole with lots of veggies.

Use the cheese, an egg and an onion to make a cheese and onion pie and serve with salad and new potatoes

Use the tuna in a pasta bake, fish cakes in sandwiches or a tuna and sweetcorn pie.

Add curry powder to the hunters chicken sauce with veggies and serve with rice.

Check out the £7 a week thread there are lots of cheap ideas
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4084527

And weezl's
http://www.cheap-family-recipes.org.uk/costings.html?opt=rcost

cateerob

thanks everyone, I do get CB for my daughter, I get it monthly will look at changing it weekly, I normally get child tax credit of £200 ever 4 weeks so do a big shop then, but with both teenagers at home in the holidays they food is disappearing very quickly, no way would toad in the hole with four sausages feed me and the two teenagers I have an 18 year boy who would eat that..lol. omelette was nice last night I am just off to Tesco now to do a bit of shopping, a friend has invited us for dinner on Saturday, luckily I have a bottle of wine in the house so wont have to turn up empty handed and she will feed us(well me and my daughter, son doesn't want to come so he can have beans on toast) so that's good timing. have written a list using some of your idea will let you know how I get on. I am down to £11 as I had to top up the electric meter which I had forgotten about. But am confident it will be enough.

nad33m

Out of interest what do you normally buy and eat when you do a "normal" shop?

cateerob

ok so have been to Tesco and have

kidney bean - 21p
tin toms x2 - 68p
Passata 29p
spaghetti - 21p
chilli powder £1.
mayo 40p
cat litter £1.58
mince beef 750g £4.00 (am shocked at this)

So total spend £8.37

We are having Chilli and rice tonight, leftovers for the teenage boy tomorrow.
Spag boll sat
Bol pasata bake Sunday
Sausages chips and beans monday
Pesto and pasta Tuesday

Will be pasta salad or tuna mayo for lunch two days, we still have eggs so egg mayo or some egg thing for lunch

I just need milk and a loaf, got a 0.86 of your next shop at Tesco so will go back there for that oh and cat food, will try and get some bannas or apples the kids like them.so all sorted thnks for calming me down everyone wasn't that hard, just hate having no food or money. x

cateerob

normal shop as cheap as possible but I normally go and do £200 In one go and fill up freezer, buy cleaning stuff, tins ect, I do go for value brands. that £200 last three of us and two cats four weeks, apart from fresh fruit/bread and milk and the odd treat if we have extra cash , I know I need to think about this more carefully. We do buy a bit to much ready made crap the teenagers like it but it is expensive.

affordmylife

just wanted to wish you luck.

it can be done and with the advice on here I know you guys will survive.

do you have any pals that could help out too.

I know mine would have us over for dinner or give us some left overs etc.

don't let pride get in the way. needs must x

affordmylife

also make some yummy flapjacks with your breakfast oats x

jpscloud

In my local Mr T's the turkey mince is £2.50 for 500g - I never buy other kinds of mince now as it's absolutely lovely in anything calling for mince with the right seasoning (beef stock cube for spag bol or chili, cajun spices for savoury mince fillings etc.)

AAAAND best of all it seems to marry really well with red lentils in stews, bolognaise and chili so that makes it go a lot further. I recently made a spag bol and forgot to put the lentils in, and it just didn't taste right!

Valli

If you have some flour you could make Twinks hobnobs, which use far less golden syrup IIRC

And I second that about not being too proud to ask for/accept help. If the boot were on the other foot I be you would offer...

maman

Congratulations, cateerob, you sound well sorted out and far more positive.:)

I'd suggest that when you get money coming in again, you start building up a storecupboard of long life food like tins of beans, tomatoes, meat, fish and pasta and rice. I've done this in an upstairs cupboard and when we have a tight month I 'shop' from there. Just a tin a week or a special offer, it soon builds up.