Advice needed on getting more for my money - please!

Miss_Fox_2

Hi everyone,

I wondered if anyone could advise on how I can get more for my money when it comes to my food shop?

For example, in November, I need to:

• Organise 9 dinners for myself at home - so I'd be thinking something like frozen chicken or fish, with frozen chips (don't worry... I do cook them before I eat, ha!). This element of it is quite cheap so I've no issue with this part really.
• Then I'll be at college for 8 evenings in the month so I usually make myself a lunch carton full of pasta to have for my lunch and for my college session that evening. I've got dried pasta at home and sauces that last, so again, this one isn't so much the issue.
• Then that leaves me with needing to organise 12 lunches - now, usually I attempt to make sandwiches but I'm useless in that I don't do them in the evening so I'll rush the next morning and opt to catch the train rather than make my lunch.

Obviously, I just need to be more lenient with myself in making sure I actually make food so I'm just after some tips on perhaps where I can be doing better, and also perhaps some tips on what I can make. I was thinking just make pasta for the other days but then I'd be on pasta every day and simply that'd get boring very quickly so anything anyone can advise, please go ahead!

Thanks in advance!

skitler

where are you going to eat these meals, at home or on the hoof.?

do you have any dietary requirements, or are you like me and will eat any old muck.?

Miss_Fox_2

Hi - sorry, should've said!

The 9 dinners are for at home, the other 8 meals I'll be having during my break at college in the evenings (but I'll be making enough so I can also have it for my lunch that particular day).

Then it's the lunches which I'll eat in the office and ideally make that morning or the night before.

No particular dietary requirements, I am a bit fussy though - not massive on vegetables and salad. I don't mind having a bit of lettuce leaf etc on my sandwiches though... ha! Love hummus and carrots etc though... I think it's almost, if you can smother it in something, I'll have it!

skitler

you can make a stew/big-soup type meals and put that in a stew/soup flask, there are a host of varietys you can do.

if you have a car you can get a small gas stove (camping) to warm things up on!!

baked beans then add things like sausage, spuds, bacon mushrooms, chopped up in the stew flask.

your going to want warmer stuff in winter I assume.

see if you can find a microwave in the collage

make some hm pies you can eat warm or cold, ready made pastry is usually on offer as it has a ubd.
cheese&onion
meat&onion/potato

im sure there will be plenty more better ideas when the workers get home and log on, but if I think ov owt ill let you know.
hope that has helped, but there just my fav's
as well as fish finger butties (not the best cold though)

skitler

What are You Making For Dinner Tonight ?

have a look on this thread you may get some ideas

Miss_Fox_2

Thanks for all that, I'll have a look at what I can do!

Also - the link you just sent, it wasn't there, can you send again please!

skitler

Miss_Fox wrote: »

Thanks for all that, I'll have a look at what I can do!

Also - the link you just sent, it wasn't there, can you send again please!

I just copied and pasted it, I don't know how to send links and stuff like that, I can berley type (or spell) but its a thread on here so if you paste it into the search box it should find it for you.
copy and paste is my limit and gets me by.

its in old style money saving thread heading

Gigervamp

Here's the link to that thread. Click here. It's worth having a browse on the old style forum.

skitler

thanks gigervamp. how dose one do that by the way, if its not too diff to explain.

regards

Gigervamp

I copied the link, then in the quick reply box, I typed the post. Then I highlighted the words "Click here". Next, I clicked on the little picture of the globe at the top of the reply box. This brings up another box which you paste the link into. Click "ok" and it's done.

Queenriderbrekke

Much better explanation of how to put a link than what I was trying to explain, thanks Giger x