Eating for one month on £60

frogga

I was thinking about the extras too. Surely it cant include those?

dubgirl

Hi dbelle, you may also want to look at hotdogs. In my experience they are usually cheap and often on 2 for 1, certainly at Morrisons. I've used them chopped up in pasta bakes, omlettes, frittatas - very rarely eaten them as they are intended with a hot dog roll! And I have frozen them so a packet or tin will go several meals - thats feeding 2 adults and a 2 yr old

lil_me

If you try soaking the cat food go for warm water rather than boiling, don't want to zap the vitamins out of it.

With fruit and veg, it costs me about £15-£20 a week on fruit and veg for 4, but we do use a lot of fruit. Yellow stickered items can help, I'm doing a fruit salad today for the kids and me, I got kiwis for 5p each, 7 bananas for 40p, strawberries for 40p, 8 unwaxed lemons for 40p (use the juice from one and 'lemonade' the rest) last night and have some frozen raspberries and grapes already in. Will throw it together later for the boys.

Home Bargains can be good, we have one in Durham aswell, shame there isn't a Lidl near you as they had an offer on loo rolls last week when I was in.

mcardinalblue

frogga wrote: »

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My problem is the fresh fruit and veg. If you do the "5 a day" it costs a fortune! Fruit and veg is not cheep! My DS will only eat red grapes and bananas so I feel I have to buy those to make sure he's getting enough. Also spinach is REALLY expensive but as myself and the kids are veggie we need our iron.

Hi frogga

My husband has macualr degeneration so has been told to eat several portions of spinach a week with a view to stopping the progress of the disease. If you have a patch of soil or a container the stuff grows like weeds but also you can get big frozen bags of it from Iceland (for a pound I think but don't quote me). MCB

Desperate_Housewife_2-2

How about sprouting seeds? I read once that if someone had to live underground for a while, all they would need to take with them was some alfalfa seeds and fresh water as it contains everything you need. Now, I'm not saying I agree with this but there is something to be said for the sprouting of seeds and beans. There are loads, mung beans, sunflower seeds, aduki beans, chick peas, dried peas and they vary in nutritional content. Very cheap and tasty, always there fresh when you need them (if you think ahead)

I make a salad or have them as a snack. You can cobble up a sprouter out of some old jar and an old pair of tights!

Raspberry_Swirl

i've been spendin about £15-£18 a week this past month on 2 adults. we did start off with a full freezer and well-stocked storecupboard though...

it can be done.

we've been eating for dinner: lasagne, spag bol, pasta in tomato sauce, HM soups (hot n sour, ham hock), chickpea stew, curry, roast dinner (chicken or pork chops) with leftovers used for pasta/curry/casserole, sausage & chips, gammon & egg, corned beef hash....

lunches were salads in the warmer weather but this past week they've become a tin of soup with toast or a bagel (pack of 5 BOGOF in tesco at the moment!).

breakfast is weetabix (tesco own) and milk.

snacks have been tesco value maltloaf/cereal bars/yoghurts.

redsquirrel80

Raspberry_Swirl wrote: »

i've been spendin about £15-£18 a week this past month on 2 adults. we did start off with a full freezer and well-stocked storecupboard though...

it can be done.

we've been eating for dinner: lasagne, spag bol, pasta in tomato sauce, HM soups (hot n sour, ham hock), chickpea stew, curry, roast dinner (chicken or pork chops) with leftovers used for pasta/curry/casserole, sausage & chips, gammon & egg, corned beef hash....

lunches were salads in the warmer weather but this past week they've become a tin of soup with toast or a bagel (pack of 5 BOGOF in tesco at the moment!).

breakfast is weetabix (tesco own) and milk.

snacks have been tesco value maltloaf/cereal bars/yoghurts.

What's your hot & sour soup recipe? I absolutely love the stuff.. have been making the Thai version (Tom Yum) at home from some packets of paste I got, but interested to know how others make it

shopaholictiedtheknot

Loving this thread, I am really going to have to knuckle down and do some serious belt-tightening now - I keep playing at it but have finally managed to buy my own house and money will be v tight from now on! There are some great ideas on here, I love the sprouting seeds one and I am definitely going to try growing some spinach. We are going to get two kittens as soon as we move in to the new house (end of the month) and I am going to start them as I mean to go on - dried food as staple and the cheapy meat!:D

dbelle

I'm going to do my shopping list today (quiet day at work, I'm not pretending I don't skive sometimes!) and post it here later.

This will be based on Sainsburys and Asda prices I think. Hopefully I can make savings elsewhere if i spot a bargain. I reckon I am going to do 2 two week shops otherwise I bet everything will go off and it will all be wasted!

xx

shopaholictiedtheknot

redsquirrel80 wrote: »

What's your hot & sour soup recipe? I absolutely love the stuff.. have been making the Thai version (Tom Yum) at home from some packets of paste I got, but interested to know how others make it

Me too, I could live on the ones you get from the chinese takeaway!! I love all soup, OH and DD are always taking the mick out of me cos I eat it late at night as a snack! I make a thai one too but have done a hot and sour one using a packet sweet and sour sauce mix, ground white pepper (to taste depending on heat required), veg/chicken stock, soy sauce and lots of different veg - peas,carrot, courgette, spring onion, baby sweetcorn, mangetout - whatever you have in and then either chicken leftovers, prawns or any kind of cooked meat chopped up! it is lovely!