No Money For Three Weeks - Help with Menu Please

asparagus1968

3WayFreedom wrote: »

Hello again

Thank you all for your suggestions.

I have peeled, blanched and frozen the parsnips. Ty for the suggestion Annie.
I also have a penny jar with £2.76 ... not much but will buy more bread/milk as and when needed.

I have bought some yellow stickered milk and bread (both gone into the freezer 2 pints and 2 loaves for £1.10 not bad going. )

I am going to use one of the pints and a tablespoon of the natural yoghurt to make more natural yoghurt in my slow cooker next week. Little one and I love yoghurt and with a few raisins thrown in, it is a healthy snack.

Thank you Polly, I have had a quick look at Jack Munro's site and it looks full of fab ideas.

I am planning on buying some cheap flour today and making an apple and raisin crumble with it. And then I cam freeze it and serve it with white sauce (milk, sugar & cornflour) sometime during the next 3 weeks.

I am making a basic tom and meat sauce with one lot of mince and shall have it over a couple of meals with rice. The pasta I shall make macaroni cheese with and sweet pasta (pasta, melted butter and sugar.)

Thanks for the whole menu Auntie Sceb, I shall be following plenty of it.

I do have a slow cooker yes Hornet Girl, I shall look up a simple rice pud recipe and have a bash at it. I do love milky puds.

I have also cooked the chicken (in the low cooker, on slow for 8 hours.) The bird just fell apart and was very tender. I have managed to make the bird into four meals. Chicken & Veg, Chicken & Chick Pea Jalfrezi, picked chicken for sandwichs and a chicken carcass, mixed veg and onion soup in the slow cooker as we speak.

I still have a long way to get through the next three weeks but you ideas have been inspirational... thank you all very much. x x

wow, impressed, I think I will try some of your ideas out too:A

Spendless

Morning, Thanks for this thread. Though I've been here many years and dip in and out of this board, as a household we are currently under a great deal of emotional stress and have been all year and it's leading to us making unwise and unhealthy meal choices, as we are picking up 'picky bits' or ordering take-aways, eating out cos we've 'got nothing in' or no time to get anything together. We did all the previous over the last 3 days!:o Though not having financial issues at the minute, it will lead to them unless we take action

Up early I read through this thread, and it's inspired me to just go and do a stock check of my cupboards and I have loads in. Some things I have I didn't even realise as they were bought for son's cookery lessons. I've just discovered 6 sachets of dried yeast and most of a pack of bread flour for example! What I lack is meat and fruit and I could have bought both cheaply yesterday at our market (see above as example as to why we didn't get round to it) and the amount I have in for some people on here they wouldn't need to shop at all, I'm not that good though.


What's your 15yo nephew doing about lunches? Do you need to provide a packed one or is he having school dinners and are they being paid for for him? I have a 14yo boy and no how hard they can be to fill! I think the answer is to make their meals filling so they don't go cupboard raiding later and have something in for that 'starving as soon as they get home from school' time.

Good luck. Interested to see how you get on.

ETA _ if you need to google recipes, I find if you add the word cheap or easy, it finds recipes that don't have you using 92 different ingredients half of which you don't have in (grrrr, a modern bugbear of mine!) and from there you can probably work out what to substitute or omit.

I also wanted to add, I'm with the posters saying about powdered milk. Though I've not used it and hadn't thought about it for years, it was a staple in our house when I was a child in the 70s. No way would my mum have wasted precious bottled milk for making sauces.

asparagus1968

hope you are getting on ok OP.