Eating for one month on £60

FrugalJo

Some more great tips - Thanks.
I'm struggling, kids go back to school and lunch boxes need to filled, plus when they come home they always want more food, read through the lunchbox threads again for ideas. Have spent my last £16.00 at Tescos to top us up for the week, thank fully freezer doing most of it.
No shopping money available until Tuesday week, and I am so going to get it together next week, proper budgets and targets to be set.

newlywed

justin1972uk wrote: »

Thai green curry paste and then grill. They're actually quite bland so can stand to be highly seasoned. You might want to remove the bones before serving too.

Thanks - think I only have a balti curry paste though (that thai curry voucher wouldn't print on my PC so I gave up).

Any other ideas?

NekoZombie

I would simply grill the sardines with some olive oil, then sprinkle with a homemade salsa made with chopped fresh tomato, onion, lemon juice, salt/pepper.

Bogof_Babe

I have noticed that some (but not all, so do check) cartons of fruit juice say they contain one portion of 5-a-day per 200ml, or sometimes 150ml. If you choose carefully and buy when on a 3 x1L for £2.30 offer (regular in Sainsburys and Co-op), you can drink one of your 5-a-days for around 12-15p.

Also you don't need a lot of certain veg to constitute a "portion" - e.g. a quarter of a medium cabbage would probably be one, or two heaped tablespoons of broccoli.

For health considerations, you should really budget for the 5-a-day first, then work around the meal plan from that point on.

lynzpower

Sorry, I meant custard in packets not cruimble mix! Obviousoly I missed a word out in my enthusiasm to save you 6p

Bogof_Babe

Tesco's Value ready made tinned custard is also 21p. It's quite nice, and vegetarian , but probably full of sugar, and sweeteners of dubious safety.

It would do for a once in a while can't-be-bothered fallback though.

Edit: for anyone wondering why I mentioned vegetarian, it's the first thing I always look for, due to living with a [STRIKE]fusspot[/STRIKE] man of principles :rolleyes: lol.

cocalls

hello there your butter seems high i buy the tesco value stuff at 53p (they also do unsalted) and its really nice. Will be making a crumble with it later with some blackberries i picked. (Have the scratches to prove it!)

MRSMCAWBER

Hi everyone

Got my shopping done yesterday...:T ..came in at 19.82euro -about £13.90 and that included:-

1.5 kilo pork steaks
1 kilo mince

1 kilo fresh brussels -mmmm
2 kilo carrots
1 kilo broccoli
2 kilo onions
2.5 kilo potatoes

mozzarella
4x250g yogs
300g lf cream cheese
lf creme fraich with herbs
3lt milk
lf liver sausage

tin sweetcorn
lrg tin pineapple
lrg tin peaches

lrg bag pistatios
50 teabags
sauerkraut

so this weeks main meals will be:-

1)pork steak with creamy pepper and mushroom sauce, broccoli, pots n peas
2)chicken n sweetcorn soup with fresh baked bread
3)roast chicken dinner with homemade stuffing
4)toad in the hole, potatoes, brussels, carrots n cabbage - when i have made the sausages
5)chilli n rice
6)creamy chicken n veg with pasta
7)shepherds pie brussels, carrots, broccoli n peas

And quite a bit of the meat will be made into sausages..that will last several weeks:T .... Dbelle..yep i have an electric mincer/sausage maker... its a bit of a faff whilst you get used to it.. but the end results are worth it - plus one batch makes quite a lot, so you dont have to use it that often... At the moment it will work out about £3.50 for the meat to make about 3.5lb of sausage....
OOOOOHH im jealous..i have just seen brisket on your shopping list... that is the only beef joint i like.... it has so much flavour and is so tender (unless you cook it like my sis :rotfl: ).. i am yet to find that out here.. much to hubbies disgust:rotfl:

I am actually finding that we are eating really well on this budget and im losing weight :j .. i have cut back on buying fruit...not so much because of the price, but because i can eat an obscene amount and i know its good for me..but it still has a lot of sugar in it...and we are talking about someone who can easily sit and eat a full punnet of nectarines, 1 of peaches and a huge bag of grapes without flinching we are still getting plenty of veggies... i cant have a dinner without loads of veg .... although when we first got here a 500g broccoli was £1.40:eek: ... we can now get it for 56p :T

I think the greatest thing has been getting portion sizes under control... i know mine have always been huge... now they are just right and i find im not snacking either....

Well it looks like we are both gonna come in on budget :T unless there is a major catastrophe of course..... well i had better get off and get something done

dbelle

I have to say its much cheaper shopping in Germany than here!

Forgot to mention the butter is a twin pack, so 500g. Reckon we will need more for the cakes/hobnobs/crumble and sauces etc.

Am having a really godawful day at work today and I really want to go and spend some money in the supermarket on junk food to cheer me up. This is when OS is hard!

On a positive note I got a free slow cooker yesterday, brand new too, unwanted gift. So I will have to experiment with that! I might buy some casserole beef or a very cheap cut of lamb instead of a brisket (sorry!) to try in the slow cooker at the weekend.

JHKE

dbelle... Brisket is lovely cooked in the slow cooker... actually thats the only way I've cooked it! lol