Really tight shopping budget for October!

Butterfly_Brain

I can see a few recipes in there
Minestrone soup
Tin of tomatoes
250ml hot vegetable stock
some spaghetti broken into small pieces
clove of garlic
oil preferably olive
salt and pepper
basil if you have it
a little grated cheese if you have it

Heat a saucepan with a little oil in it
Add the tomatoes and stock, bring to the boil and add the pasta
Add the vegetables and bring back to the boil
Reduce the heat and simmer for a few minutes, then season to taste and add basil if you have it.
Serve with grated cheese and sliced basic garlic bread (33p)

Use the savoury mince to make a bolognaise or a meatloaf with home made tomato sauce

Dinosaurs, waffles and beans for another meal

The peaches are lovely topped with a sponge mix and served with custard or as a peach crumble.

I take it that there are only 2 of you at present, so £20 a week is perfectly doable.

Ladyluck1

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

I can see a few recipes in there
Minestrone soup
Tin of tomatoes
250ml hot vegetable stock
some spaghetti broken into small pieces
clove of garlic
oil preferably olive
salt and pepper
basil if you have it
a little grated cheese if you have it

Heat a saucepan with a little oil in it
Add the tomatoes and stock, bring to the boil and add the pasta
Add the vegetables and bring back to the boil
Reduce the heat and simmer for a few minutes, then season to taste and add basil if you have it.
Serve with grated cheese and sliced basic garlic bread (33p)

Use the savoury mince to make a bolognaise or a meatloaf with home made tomato sauce

Dinosaurs, waffles and beans for another meal

The peaches are lovely topped with a sponge mix and served with custard or as a peach crumble.

I take it that there are only 2 of you at present, so £20 a week is perfectly doable.

That's very helpful thank you!
Yes just two adults and a nearly 3 year old that doesn't eat a lot!

Butterfly_Brain

Would you like me to see what I can come up with meal plan wise?
What supermarkets do you have close by and do you have a local butcher, greengrocer or market?

Ladyluck1

Yes please!
We have a lidl next door, a cooperative not far away that always have reduced meat! Morrisons is a car drive or fairly long walk away...Also a local fishmonger open Wednesdays.

HappyMJ

Ladyluck1 wrote: »

Yes please!
We have a lidl next door, a cooperative not far away that always have reduced meat! Morrisons is a car drive or fairly long walk away...Also a local fishmonger open Wednesdays.

Fish is generally too expensive per portion....although you should have one oily fish portion per week it's not essential. Sardines are much cheaper canned from Lidl so that should suffice.

Butterfly_Brain

Do you like mackerel and tuna? Both are relatively cheap and tasty

Ladyluck1

We all like tuna and I'll eat mackerel.

gailey_2

we have large co-op near us too great for reductions.

got chicken fillets for £1.45 other day so keep eye out.
got reduced wraps.

you need wraps and chicken or turkey add with faitta mix.

My kids loved tinned peaches all by themselves sadly co-op stopped doing value peaches.

we buy co-op value squash as 44p for small bottle.
also co-op value ketchup 46p.

kids age 2.5. 4 and 7 would eat breaded dinos with waffles and frozen peas providing they had ketchup.

soups easy one.

as is girl called jacks carrot and cumin burgers.

co-op do value kidney beans not sure how much less than 50p.

the carrot, bean and cumin burgers are tasty.

as is carrot and coriander soup with cumin.

llds fairly cheap for veg too they have special offres on specific things other week think was peppers at 29p check their website they have some deals that start thur others weekend deals and were doing a fab 4 few months back.

morries also has some random cheap veg deals, good for reductions. and lots of value lines.

we in same boat this month trying keep costs down.

every night we go on great reduced hunt.

dont discount smaller shops like

spar-got 7pints milk tonight 15p each
tesco express and sainsburys local once got gourmet sandwiches for 10p and 20p in co-op.

even m&s simply food can have some mega bargains.

the kids like

tin tuna
tin sweetcorn
mixed into pasta.


pasta with passatta.
tomato and basil soup.

fresh herbs always seem to be reduced.
or can use dried.

good luck.

are you entitled to healty start vouchers as that can be used for milk or fruit and veg.

Ladyluck1

gailey wrote: »

we have large co-op near us too great for reductions.

got chicken fillets for £1.45 other day so keep eye out.
got reduced wraps.

you need wraps and chicken or turkey add with faitta mix.

My kids loved tinned peaches all by themselves sadly co-op stopped doing value peaches.

we buy co-op value squash as 44p for small bottle.
also co-op value ketchup 46p.

kids age 2.5. 4 and 7 would eat breaded dinos with waffles and frozen peas providing they had ketchup.

soups easy one.

as is girl called jacks carrot and cumin burgers.

co-op do value kidney beans not sure how much less than 50p.

the carrot, bean and cumin burgers are tasty.

as is carrot and coriander soup with cumin.

llds fairly cheap for veg too they have special offres on specific things other week think was peppers at 29p check their website they have some deals that start thur others weekend deals and were doing a fab 4 few months back.

morries also has some random cheap veg deals, good for reductions. and lots of value lines.

we in same boat this month trying keep costs down.

every night we go on great reduced hunt.

dont discount smaller shops like

spar-got 7pints milk tonight 15p each
tesco express and sainsburys local once got gourmet sandwiches for 10p and 20p in co-op.

even m&s simply food can have some mega bargains.

the kids like

tin tuna
tin sweetcorn
mixed into pasta.


pasta with passatta.
tomato and basil soup.

fresh herbs always seem to be reduced.
or can use dried.

good luck.

are you entitled to healty start vouchers as that can be used for milk or fruit and veg.

That's really helpful thank you!
I don't think we are entitled to healthy start... DH earns a bit too much for us to get them unfortunately.
We are cutting back and budgeting though so it should get better very soon.
It's just this horrible October!!

Butterfly_Brain

I do not shop in lidl or Morrisons, so I am finding it hard to find the prices so I will use a mixture of Asda and Tesco for a ball park figure if that is ok