Meals Help!!!

nikki11

Hi everyone, after an unexpected bill came out at the weekend, I have £40 to do until Friday! :eek: I have went through cupboards, fridge and need help on meal ideas!
No particular order:

List

Tin of spaghetti hoops
Bisto gravy granules
Spaghetti
Flour
Yeast Satchet
Vanilla Extract
Cocoa Powder
Bic of soda
Pack of beef rice
Pack cottage pie recipe mix
half pack marshmallows
white sauce mix
pineapple slices
tin fruit cocktail
syrup
peanut butter
bread
4 flour wraps
reggae reggae sauce satchet
6 sausages
2 eggs
green&yellow pepper
milk
all condiments
half pack mince (freezer)
half a quiche (freezer)
wedges
4 York puds
I battered fish fillet
6 fish cakes
4 peppered pork chops
oven chips
potatoes
2kiwis
3 bannanas

I also have bag Brussels sprouts, small bag cocktail sausages and 2 Chinese pork chops that have been in the freezer 1/2years:o is it still ok to eat them?

Thank you for getting this far-seems I have loads when I write it down-its knowing what to do to make it stretch!!!

Fosterdog

How many do you have to feed on that? How many meals do you have a day? Any packed lunches/leftovers needed for next days lunch?

nikki11

To feed me,dh and dd2, can have porridge/toast for breakfast, just lunch and dinners!

trolleyrun

Sausages and mash, chops and chips, fish cakes and rice, spaghetti with the white sauce and a chopped pepper thrown in.

If you can get some frozen veg cheap, you can serve with these dishes. Tinned tomatoes are cheap, and if you can get some onions, you could make a spaghetti sauce with the mince. Soups can be cheap for lunch, served with some bread.

I'd definitely eat the stuff that's been in the freezer a long time

MrsAtobe

Or cottage pie with mince, the mix and potatoes, bulk it out with a tin of baked beans. Perhaps toad in in the hole with the cocktail sausages with onion gravy? You do need to buy some frozen veg to accompany it though.

As for lunches, peanut butter sandwiches, the quiche, or possibly sausage sarnies if you don't cook them for your evening meal, or cook the cocktail sausages?

Butterfly_Brain

The freezer stuff will be fine, but may have a touch of freezer burn which can affect the texture and taste, but definitely safe to eat.

Butterfly_Brain

I can see a few meals in your list:

Sausage and mash with yorkshire puds with veg and gravy

Fishcakes and chips

Fry the mince, add the pre cooked beef rice, some chopped peppers and herbs of choice and put into a shallow baking dish pour over the white sauce and bake for 20 minutes. serve with any green veg

Peppered pork chops with potatoes and a green veg

Quiche and wedges

Banana custard just slice the bananas a tin of warmed up basic custard (17p)

Use the eggs to make pancakes, either sweet or savoury

Butterfly_Brain

Check these threads out, they have lots of cheap meal ideas
£7 a week

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com
/showthread.php?t=4084527

£20 a week
https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/4148389

Lookingtothefuture

Hi Nikki, from your above list you have a few meals already. These are my suggestions;

* toad in the hole, using flour, eggs, milk, x4 sausages. Serve with a little mash, and veg (frozen sweetcorn and peas are just under £1 a bag and last a while)

* sausage pasta! using the remaining x2 sausages, x2 onions, garlic, tin of chopped tomatoes and pasta. I serve this with a garlic baguette at 32p from mr a.

* wedges! fish cakes and spaghetti hoops.

* a cottage pie! made with the half a pack of mince and again lots of veg to pack it out. I use frozen sweetcorn, frozen peas, carrots, and a tin of baked beans.

* the pork chops with mash and veg (sorry a bit repetitive with the old veg lol!)

* quiche! served with the rice with the chopped up peppers and if you have a cheap egg place near by to you try an egg fried rice with peppers and the quiche.

I would then probably buy a chicken to do a roast, then do a chicken casserole with some of the remaining chicken, then make a chicken soup from the bones and lastly either use the chicken in sandwiches or do some little chicken, carrot and pea toad in the hole thingys, my kids love them

Breakfast would be porridge (with jam, 29p basics from the three big stores) or toast. Snacks would be fruit. You could bake a cake too.

I think it is completely achievable, don't panic! Look at buying cheaper, it's only short term and you never know you might actually prefer it good luck! Let us know how you get on!

Lookingtothefuture

Just looked at your list again.... You have flour and yeast, what about a hm pizza? You could buy cheese which could then be used for the pizza, as well as sandwiches/ cheese on toast etc

Butterfly_Brain

I agree and if you use mozzarella it is very cheap at 44p a ball