£10 to last a week - food plan appreciated

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I use UHT milk all the time as its always long dated and I see little differance between that and fresh,plus it seems to last longer IYSWIM.I buy a case of 6 cartons and they seem to last for weeks, plus it means I don't 'pop' to the shops and get tempted to buy the odd thing extra.Once you have a decent store of emergency stuff its like having a bit extra cash in the bank:)

When I start my DGS 'Ben Box' which he takes back to Uni I always just buy one or two extras when shopping like pasta or rice or tinned tomatos etc and it soon mounts up for him over the holidays.I always try to keep a store of tinned sardines or pichards along with tuna,sweet corn veg in case in the winter that I can't get out because of ice or snow. Porridge oats I usually buy in the summer when the supermarkets sell them reduced at they want the shelf space for summer stuff I always have a stash of rice ,lentils pasta,flours etc as I am an inveterate baker and prefer my own biscuits to shop bought ones.the only shop bought ones I buy are ginger nuts as I yet to have found a way of perfecting them :)Its suprising what you can make yourself though with very few ingrediants A £3.00 quiche in the supermarket can easily be made for a fraction of the price at home Its after all only a pastry case filled with a couple of eggs,diced mushrooms chopped up couple of rashers of bacon and a bit of diced onion,or what ever you fancy chucking into it.Cheap as chips really if you already have the bits and pieces in the fridge alreadyPastry takes 5 minutes to throw together and any left over pastry I wrap in clingfilm and stash in my freezer until I have enough left over bits to make either jam tarts or another pastry case :):).Not an inch of my freezer is wasted if I can help it

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melysion wrote: »

Hello

So, money has proved to be a little tight this month and I have worked out that I have £10 for which to buy food from now until payday (the 25th). I have in my cupboard:

Half a box of cheerios
Porridge oats
Plenty of tea/coffee/sugar
Dried spaghetti
Basmati rice
Few potatoes
1 chicken fillet wrapped in bacon and cheese (frozen)
one pork escalope (in breadcrumbs)
stewing steak (been in the freezer err ... a while so could be a tad dodgy)
herbs/spices/salt etc
3 eggs
2 rashers bacon
one large onion
Half a jar of jam
Quarter tub butter
cooking oil

I would much appreciate any thoughts/meal plans to utilise what I have as much as possible with very little extra spending. I do get free fruit at work and also free milk for cereals at work.

So eight days to feed yourself with what you have plus a few extras.

Do you have any flour?
That would make things like pancakes, pastry for pasties or soda bread

I have used dodgy looking stewing steak before with no ill effects You could perhaps make a casserole using ½ an onion and a couple of carrots (25p for 500g) and eat half one day and turn the other half into pasties that you can take for lunches = 3 meals.

Have the pork escalope with some new potates 49p in Aldi at the moment with some salad, an iceberg lettuce is currently 45p, tomatoes, grated carrot 49p and a cucumber 45p (Keeps well in a fridge for up to a week if you lay some kitchen roll over and then cling film it.)

Again use it in your lunch box as well.

Do the same with the chicken wrapped in bacon.

Use the eggs to make a quiche that will do both lunches and dinner with the eggs the rest of the onion and the bacon, or make a carbonara using the pasta.

Flour is 45p a bag, lard is 39p and baking marge is 39p
Milk lasts for a week so I would buy a 2l one for 89p, this will make pancakes, yorkshire puds, jam tarts, cakes and bread. 15 eggs are £1 in farmfoods and that will make scrambled eggs, omelettes, fried eggs, boiled eggs, poached eggs, quiches, in yorkshire puds, pancakes etc

melysion

Thank you all for all your great suggestions. Very much appreciated. I do indeed have a fair bit of flour so will be using that for sure