Meal Suggestions etc, Please (I have £30 A Fortnight to Spend).

whiteguineapig

can you get your cat food bill down? we buy royal canin online and its cheaper

Butterfly_Brain

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

Shop in Aldi or Lidl where the prices are still cheaper than the main supermarkups.
Use your local butcher, fishmonger, greengrocer and market for fresh food.
For example I got 4 punnets of strawberries and 2 punnets of grapes for £3 yesterday.
We ate one punnet of strawberries last night and I made a couple of jars of jam this morning with the rest.
DH and the kids have wiped out the grapes already (DD to a big bunch to work with her today)

We are going foraging for blackberries if it stops raining later and we know where there is an old damson orchard, walnut tree and apples for the picking.
I also want to get some elderberries to make wine and sloes for sloe gin to give as Christmas presents.
Hawthorns make a lovely jelly and I want to look for a sweet chestnut tree, so we will go a bit farther afield than we usually do.

Butterfly_Brain

Sardines are only 34p a tin in asda at the moment and tuna chunks in brine are 64p in aldi. they also have a large bag of frozen salmon for £3.99 and you get at least 6 good sized fillets in the bag. They also do frozen tuna steaks at £3.49 a bag and lots of other good deals on fish steaks.
Farmfoods have really good deals as well.

Tiddlywinks

Zennith - tell us what you already have in your cupboards so that we can then help with what your next shop should be.

Have you got spices? How much rice and pasta? Milk powder? etc?

zennith

Tiddlywinks wrote: »

Zennith - tell us what you already have in your cupboards so that we can then help with what your next shop should be.

Have you got spices? How much rice and pasta? Milk powder? etc?

Hi,

I have loads of pasta and rice in stock.

I have herbs and spices, salt, pepper and some cooking oil.

Ketchup, salad cream and Mayo.

Cheese sauce powder, curry sauce powder, a bag of flour, suet and sugar.

A tin of tomatoes, a carton of passata and a tube of tomato puree.

Some frozen peas, sweetcorn and onion, oh and 4 fish fingers.


A bag of milk powder (I use it in coffee).


I have no fruit, veg, bread, eggs or cheese at the moment.


I get my benefit a week tomorrow.

zennith

Butterfly_Brain wrote: »

Sardines are only 34p a tin in asda at the moment and tuna chunks in brine are 64p in aldi. they also have a large bag of frozen salmon for £3.99 and you get at least 6 good sized fillets in the bag. They also do frozen tuna steaks at £3.49 a bag and lots of other good deals on fish steaks.
Farmfoods have really good deals as well.

They sound good

No Farm Foods local, although i think they now deliver.

zennith

Thankyou for all the tips and advice everybody! :T


No local Morrisons, i'm afraid (although i think they have started delivering over here).


Not seen any fruit to pick/forage.


There is a local Lidl very close.


Delivery charges usually put me off buying from Pet Supermarkets, but i will look again.


I gave up on soups with the hot weather, but should try them again.

googlejuice

If you like curry Zennith then you could easily live on £15 a week.

I used to live off lentil curry, potato curry, spinach (bought cheap at it's sell by date) and any veg.

A bags of lentils and then cook those with rice to accompany. All you need is a few onions, tomatoes and some spices.

The lentils aren't a lot, they're really nutritional and easy to cook.

You probably do this already but making bigger portions and freezing half will make cooking cheaper.

Gigervamp

Lidl's tinned tomatoes are good. They're better quality than the supermarkets value ones, but the same price.

zennith

googlejuice wrote: »

If you like curry Zennith then you could easily live on £15 a week.

I used to live off lentil curry, potato curry, spinach (bought cheap at it's sell by date) and any veg.

A bags of lentils and then cook those with rice to accompany. All you need is a few onions, tomatoes and some spices.

The lentils aren't a lot, they're really nutritional and easy to cook.

You probably do this already but making bigger portions and freezing half will make cooking cheaper.

Oh i do have some curry powder, but am out of lentils though.