Help me make a weeks meal plan from this;

Ladyluck1

Hi!
I'm stupidly left with the money in my purse until Friday which is £1.28 anyway I have a few bits in but not sure how to convert into a weeks worth of breakfast, lunch and dinner.
Also I'm on a low carb diet....
2 adults and 2 small children who eat about 1 adult portion between them. This is what I have in;

Cupboard:
Whole wheat pasta swirls 400g
Some straight to wok noodles x3
A pack of roasted veg couscous
Flour also gram flour
Baking powder
About 200g plain oats
Sugar
Coffee
All sorts of herbs and spices plus soy sauce, fish sauce, chilli paste.
Also 5pks of hula hoops
About 5 slices bread and 4 pitta breads
10 custard creams

Fridge;
Some lo beans about 1/4 can
Spinach
Spring greens
Cream cheese
Margarine
Half cucumber
A tomato

Freezer;
Frozen mixed peppers
Frozen carrot, onion, celery mix
Frozen chips (not many left)
A white fish fillet
4x sausages
A ready meal curry
Frozen broccoli (6 florets)
Fish fingers x 4
A loaf of bread

I also have some turkey mince, a tin chopped tomatoes as was going to make bolognese for tonight's dinner
It probably seems easy to some but I'm having trouble putting it all together!
Any help very appreciated

Ladyluck1

Forgot to say the smallest one also has a full box of formula milk, which lasts over a week

boredjellybean

making a Bolognese is a great idea - pad it out with as much veg as possible & if you have any some oats or lentils/tinned beans? then you could make another meal or two from it later in the week

My hubby's fav dinner is fish finger sandwiches so maybe you could do that?? EDIT: use the pittas for this!!!!

The flour could be used to make scones of a cobbler topping

Sausages with a pepper/carrot/tom sauce & served with noodles

MandM90

I'd forget about the low carb diet for the moment (well, actually I'd forget about it forever , but that's not what you're asking!) as without eating all the protein and low carb veg yourself it might be tricky this week!

Write down everything you have in order of what's going to go off first. Add the beans and some veg to the bolognese tonight. Bulk it so you can have LOs for lunch tomorrow.

Give the LOs cream cheese and cuc/tom sandwiches for lunch/breakfast.

The porridge will probably do you all about two days.

With remaining money you could buy some value beans and bread for beans on toast.


To avoid the situation in future, maybe next time you shop add an extra couple of packs of rice/pasta and some tinned toms to your basket

Make chappatis with the gram flour - all you need is flour, oil, water, salt. You could chop the sausages up, fry with some herbs, spices and peppers and stuff inside chapattis for an easy, filling meal.

Spring greens/spinach and noodles can make a stirfry.

Cook ready meal curry up and add some broccoli and cous cous? Should stretch to all of you with pittas/chapattis on the side.

Fish finger sandwiches - either make more chapattis and save bread for toast in the morning, or use pittas.

Ladyluck1

MandM90 wrote: »

I'd forget about the low carb diet for the moment (well, actually I'd forget about it forever , but that's not what you're asking!) as without eating all the protein and low carb veg yourself it might be tricky this week!

Write down everything you have in order of what's going to go off first. Add the beans and some veg to the bolognese tonight. Bulk it so you can have LOs for lunch tomorrow.

Give the LOs cream cheese and cuc/tom sandwiches for lunch/breakfast.

The porridge will probably do you all about two days.

With remaining money you could buy some value beans and bread for beans on toast.


To avoid the situation in future, maybe next time you shop add an extra couple of packs of rice/pasta and some tinned toms to your basket

Make chappatis with the gram flour - all you need is flour, oil, water, salt. You could chop the sausages up, fry with some herbs, spices and peppers and stuff inside chapattis for an easy, filling meal.

Spring greens/spinach and noodles can make a stirfry.

Cook ready meal curry up and add some broccoli and cous cous? Should stretch to all of you with pittas/chapattis on the side.

Fish finger sandwiches - either make more chapattis and save bread for toast in the morning, or use pittas.

Thanks! Yes I love chipattis... I thought maybe pacora with some defrosted broccoli and gram flour too!
I do usually stock up the store cupboard every shop but the las couple of month have been tough money wise. We've had a fair few things break on us including the microwave which we can't afford to replace yet!
BUT October is my extra child benefit payment month so will stock up with a few bits not to touch for emergency weeks like this

MandM90

Ladyluck1 wrote: »

Thanks! Yes I love chipattis... I thought maybe pacora with some defrosted broccoli and gram flour too!
I do usually stock up the store cupboard every shop but the las couple of month have been tough money wise. We've had a fair few things break on us including the microwave which we can't afford to replace yet!
BUT October is my extra child benefit payment month so will stock up with a few bits not to touch for emergency weeks like this

Another thought - value 1kg of rice is 40p. You could easily jazz that up with your herbs and spices. Not very exciting, but should help you get through!

kezlou

what about fish pie?

Could use the white fillets with the broccoli,carrots, and greens basic white sauce over the top. sometimes we have this with cous cous or pasta. Or even on its own

RAS

Forget the diet until you get more money.

Ladyluck1 wrote: »

Hi!
2 adults and 2 small children who eat about 1 adult portion between them. This is what I have in;

Cupboard:
Whole wheat pasta swirls 400g - at least 6 portions of 60g so two days worth. Cook the other 40 g and make into pasta salad
Some straight to wok noodles x3 - how many portions? Would you get 2 r three days worth out of this?
A pack of roasted veg couscous How many portions?
Flour also gram flour
Baking powder
About 200g plain oats - porridge for breakfast
Sugar
Coffee
All sorts of herbs and spices plus soy sauce, fish sauce, chilli paste.
Also 5pks of hula hoops - the littleys will not die if you feed them a packet a day between them.
About 5 slices bread and 4 pitta breads
10 custard creams - two a day - one for each child?

Fridge;
Some lo beans about 1/4 can
Spinach
Spring greens
Cream cheese - mix a little in to the pasta bake if you have enough otherwise use for sarnies for lunch.
Margarine
Half cucumber
A tomato

Freezer;
Frozen mixed peppers
Frozen carrot, onion, celery mix
Frozen chips (not many left)
A white fish fillet
4x sausages - use two to make a pasta bake - possibly as "meatballs"
A ready meal curry
Frozen broccoli (6 florets)
Fish fingers x 4
A loaf of bread - good

I also have some turkey mince - keep some back for stir fries

a tin chopped tomatoes as was going to make bolognese for tonight's dinner - suggest you use for two meals

OK

Mains

Make a tomato sauce and halve it

Pasta bolognaise with some one third of the turkey mince
Pasta bake with meatballs (sausages)

Stirfries
Make at least two with the turkey mince and some of the frozen veggies and th spring greens.

Lunch will be lean

Frozen chips and fish fingers/fish
Couscous
Cream cheese sarnies
Sausage sarnie (depending on the size of the sausages) or fill the pittas with them, cucumber and tomato?
you mentions pakora?
Eke out the frozen curry with veggies and serve flatbreads?
is there enough frozen carrot and celery mix to make soup one day?

If you have an egg, you have the makings of Scotch pancakes as a change for breakfast?

Ladyluck1

Thank you! I'll keep some mince back for stir fry for sure!
That should just about keep us going until Friday
Couscous is just one of those packets you add boiling water, it serves 2 I think. The noodles will feed us all per pack if I have enough veggies too so possibly 2 stir fries there.
Thanks!
Think I'm sorted

gallygirl

Do you have a Nectar card with any points on it, or any Tesco coupons about?

RAS

OK

Shake down everyone; check for pennies in pockets, in bags, rucksacs etc, down the back of the sofa, in little pots etc where small coins might be left. Any luck?

Then work out which of the supermarkets is near you and when they do their yellow stickers. To make your miniscule budget go further.

A bag of economy carrots @ 15p would make the stir fries a bit nicer and provide a carrot and corander soup. Plus some left over for a grated carrot salad to go with or in sarnies or pittas.

Alternatively a bag of budget porridge would provide breakfasts for the week and enough to make some flapjack with your sugar and marg.