Feeding friends cheaply in School hols?

savvy

kazmeister wrote: »

Wooah - put your foot down! I just read my list to my 15yr old and he was totally gobsmacked. His friends and DD's come round they have lunch, they have tea, they have sleepovers, but I control how much they eat, and its only at meal times apart from 1 small snack mid morning. I know what you mean about knowing where they are but its your shopping bill.

Good luck - I think you need it

Crikey, I can't echo that enough!!!! :eek::eek::eek: That's a ridiculous amount to entertain these guys.....................erm and no WONDER they all want to hang out at your house, who wouldn't with that amount of free food going every week, next thing you know they'll be putting in requests when you go shopping!!!

My lads have always known I've never been able to afford their mates to come in and eat at ours much, so they don't really offer much out. LOL we're in a better position these days, but they still don't offer their mates much. Sounds like a free for all in your house recovering spendaholic

I think you need to talk to your DD and say you're changing the way things are, that you now have menu plans and they can't dip in and out of the food as it's set aside for certain days, then offer her a small budget of around £25 perhaps, that she can decide to spend on food for her mates for when they come round, or something

LOL back to the topic, what about homemade hearty soups, beans on toast with cheese on top, pasta dishes and eggy bread??

Penny-Pincher!!

Cheesy Pasta-Makes 6 large portions

Value pasta twists (21p Tesco etc)
Cheese sauce x 2 (15p sachet in lidls)
UHT milk half litre needed(value 1ltr 32p)
Grated cheese (value?)

Boil up pasta. Make up cheese sauce with UHT milk, add pasta to sauce once made up, put in large oven dish and sprinkle with cheese...put under grill for 5 mins till golden.

Meal for under £1

Cheese & Potatoe Pie-4 Large portions

Mashed Spuds
Onion
Cheddar

Meal for under £1

Fry onion and add to mash spuds, sprinkle in some cheese and stir in. Put in an oven dish and sprinkle with some more cheddar...place in oven for 15 mins. Serve with tinned spagetti

HTH
PP
xx

newlywed

Or what about this thread - meal for two for 50p - must be some ideas here:-
http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=326929&highlight=meals

inkie

I would ask them to bring a packed lunch, and do likewise when my child went visiting.

kj*daisy

My brother used to have lots of freinds round and my mum would allow them to eat toast - get in cheap biscuits and jam etc. There was a cupboard for food they could eat so they didn't eat stuff meant for someone else, she'd fill it with cheap stuff and that was it. I wouldn't provide that amount of food for other people on a regular basis. No wonder they come to you, doubt they can access that lot at their own homes.

cheerfulness4

newlywed wrote: »

There was a thread on here some while back on your favourite toasted sandwich filling - think it was on OS board

Found it!! http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?t=85263

Oh bless u. Bacon saved! I shall enjoy looking at that after tea. :j Thank you newlywed.

Ooohh and the other site. Mine of information, aren't you?

newlywed

cheerfulness4 wrote: »

Oh bless u. Bacon saved! I shall enjoy looking at that after tea. :j Thank you newlywed.

Ooohh and the other site. Mine of information, aren't you?

Naaah it's this forum that's a mine of information - I've just bookmarked some of it into my favourites!!

sianb84

My mum used to have a box of value bits that we were allowed. She also always had the value stuff in the freezer.


When feeding the instead of a pack of crisps each put a few bags into a big bowl.

Make some pizza and chop into slices and serve with some chips or wedges (value or home made) Put the chips/wedges in a big bowl for them to help themselves.

Make some buns/biscuits and just put a few on a plate when you let them have some.

Some value bananas with some value custard all in a big bowl with some smallish bowls makes a cheap quick pudding.

Why not encourage a day at the local park so they are outside but make it clear to your daughter you will only be providing her with lunch.

Value coke/lemonade/squash or water.

Let your daughter know how much they are allowed for the week and put the stuff they can eat in a plastic box etc so she knows thats what there is and thats it no more.

big bags of pasta from tesco/asda etc. for £1 a few tins of value tomatoes, an onion or two and some value frozen veg. If you want to give cheese as well use value and grate some into a bowl for them to help them selves but onces it all gone it gone.

If they are going to have sandwiches a value loaf with some value jam.

If you try serving things all together on a big plate/bowl etc you can give them less of the more expensive stuff but more cheap stuff.

If they are going to have cereal they have value (for the milk you could always get some dried milk and make that up in an empty milk bottle!)

GreenNinja

recovering_spendaholic wrote: »

I sympathise as I am having this problem at the moment too. It's not DD2 but DD1 who is the problem as she seems to always have a gang of boys and girls (they are all 16) round and they all have appetites like I've never seen. Since Monday I have used three large loaves, a 500g tub of I can't believe it's not Butter, 1lb of cheese, a large tin of Family Circle biscuits (bought on Monday reduced in Supermarket), two tubs of ice cream, 2 tins of corned beef, 1lb sausages, 2lb bacon, 1kg bag of oven chips, 2 pizzas, a dozen eggs, 2 4 pint things of Cravendale milk, half a jar of coffee, a litre bottle of squash, 2 boxes of Weetabix minis, 4 tesco quarterpounder burgers, two tubs of hm chilli which I had made and frozen (2 portions per tub), a bag of pasta shapes, 2 tins of beans, a dozen bread rolls, loads of hm garlic bread which I had frozen, 2 packets of Asda savoury rice, a packet of 20 cheese slices, a batch of hm scones, best part of a jar of jam, 3 sugar free jellies, a tub of coleslaw, a packet of ham, a bottle of Barbecue sauce, half a bottle of ketchup, half a bottle of salad cream, a bag of salad leaves, two cucumbers, a 12 pack of Potato head crisps, two bags of value tortilla chips, a packet of chicken breast fillets and the contents of the fruitbowl. I went to Tescos yesterday and spent £116:eek: which should last for two weeks but I can see me having to go next week too! Thing is everyone seems to come here but they don't seem to land on other parents and eat them out of house and home! I don't want to come down too hard because at least when they are here I know what is going on and they aren't walking the streets but I just can't believe how much they eat. Then there is the mess they make when they prepare it all......... sorry, rant over now!

J.E.S.U.S !!!!!! I never knew kids ate so much, I see why my sister is always skint now, she has 3!!!!

scuzz

Limit what's in the house and if they see they can't eat enough for a zoo, they may hang out at one of the other's homes!:D

Failing that, just buy a load of the supermarket's cheapest brand stuff and put things out in bowls.

Give them a picnic and kick them out of the house down the beach or to the park or something.

Surely they don't have to "live" at yours for the entire duration of the holidays?