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£10 Shopping List
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Bunnie1982
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If you had to shop for a week on £10 and your store cupboard was nearly empty what would you have on your shopping list?
The reason I ask is because I am changing from weekly to monthly pay and the last week of September before I get paid will be the difficult week. I have been reading the "Meals for two for 50p thread" which has been really helpful.
The £10 needs to cover meals and also packed lunches for work.
This budget is for 2 adults
The reason I ask is because I am changing from weekly to monthly pay and the last week of September before I get paid will be the difficult week. I have been reading the "Meals for two for 50p thread" which has been really helpful.
The £10 needs to cover meals and also packed lunches for work.
This budget is for 2 adults
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Erm...
Onions.
Eggs.
Cheap bread or flour/yeast.
Beans (can't avoid them I reckon!)
Mince.
Tinned tomatoes.
Carrots (dead cheap and can take to work as carrot sticks, prob cheaper than apples/bananas...)
Bag of 37p pasta or £1 mega bag from Tesco
Big block of cheese, or fake Philly for sandwiches...
I have been in this situation myself (:eek:) but the real answer depends on exactly what you have already got and can use up.0 -
That's really helpful thank you.
Our store cupboard was nearly empty so we stocked up on all the essentials on Saturday. We had some money set aside for a meal for our wedding anniversary that we decided was better used to stock up our nearly empty cupboards.
Also the butchers near my Mum do 3 trays of meat for £5, we have given her £10 to buy loads of meat for us so we can freeze.
My parents and OH's parents are saving up their BOGOF's for us too.0 -
That's good. Remember to freeze meat in small portions so you don't end up using more than you really need...
I have such fear of not being able to buy food, caused by periods of complete skintness. It has become a sort of comfort blanket to me to have well stocked cupboards! I start feeling itchy if I am down to my last couple of tins of tomatoes, which unfortunately means I never get round to using up some of the stuff in the back of the cupboard. Mind you, the only time I can see myself actually wanting to eat that random tin of own brand new potatoes is in the event of nuclear holocaust...
Good luck, Bunnie!0 -
Baking Potatoes
baked beans
onions
eggs
tinned mackerel
tin of sardines
pasta
apples
cabbage
more cabbage (love it, esp with black pepper)
tinned tomatoes and/or pasta sauce
big lump of cheese
2 x sliced loaves
wouldn't bother with meat personally, I like it but on such a tight budget you don't get much for your money.
Meals: baked potatoes with baked beans; spanish omelette served with cabbage; pasta with tomato sauce and cheese; tinned mackerel with pasta or potato; cheese on toast, sardines on toast.
Sandwiches: cheese, mackerel, egg. Also a slice of leftover spanish omelette in the lunchbox with an apple.
This is very personal to me, not everyone adores cabbage and mackerel as I do, but there might be some ideas that appeal to you. Good LuckAll Art is the transfiguration of the commonplace
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If I only had a tenner and nothing in my store cupboard I would buy the following - All items cheapest of course.
A bags of oats.
2 litres of full fat milk and water it down to make 4 litres.
A small tub of marg.
A bag of spuds.
Block of mature cheddar. (Strong flavour so less is needed.)
1 small pkt of value mince.
2 tins of tuna.
1 pkt cheap pasta twists.
4 value bread loaves.
2 tins of tomatos.
Bag of onions.
2 apples.
Tin of value peaches.
Teabags.
Bag of value carrots.
One cabbage.
Cheap bottle of salad cream.
Value beans x 3 cans.
6 Eggs.
And my seven day menu would be
B/fast - Porridge or toast with marg. To make a slight variation on the porridge.One day I would day I would add a few peach slices (save juice). Or a diced apple.
Lunches - Day 1.Beans on toast (1 tin between 2 peeps)
Day 2.Baked potato with small amount of grated cheese and home
made coleslaw (shredded cabbage, grated carrot, grated onion and
dash of salad cream.
Day 3. Tuna pasta with pasta twists, can of tuna, can of chopped
tomato and grated onion.
Day 4. Potato peelings brushed with melted marg and then baked
for 30 mins. (Really scrummy) Served with bread and salad cream.
(Using actual potatos for nights meal.)
Day 5. Homemade soup and bread.
Day 6. Homemade soup with added pasta.
Day 7. Cheese on toast with home made coleslaw.
Dinners - Day 1. Tuna stack ums. Tuna, mixed with salad cream and grated
onion, layered between slices of toast.
Day 2. Bolognaise. Half of mince (save fat and juices off meat)
bulked out with oats and grated carrot and tin of tomatos added.
Served on a bed of pasta.
Day 3. Potato, onion, cheese and egg bake.
Day 4. Rest of mince cooked, with creamed potatos, cabbage and
carrots.
(Make lunch time home made soup from mince stock, shredded
cabbage, carrots, onion and sliced apple (tasty).
Day 5. Poached eggs and beans on toast.
Day 6. Vegetarian pasta. Pasta with tomatos, grated carrots,
grated onions and one table spoon of grated cheese.
Day 7. Home made oven chips with scrambled egg and baked
beans.
Shucks that was hard, spending only a tenner. Good luck!!!
Bams x.x.x0 -
I had a go at this then had to scrap it as I ran out of money and was still short of meals :rolleyes: . However, not to be defeated, I'll try again, but there will be a lot of Basics or Value stuff this time!
Right then, bread for the week - 2 large loaves x 50p (cheapo but not rock bottom) = £1
Milk - depends how much you use, and what for, but say one 4-pinter = £1.20
Spread for the bread = 75p (cheaper end of the range, x 500g pack)
Pack of 20 cheese slices (for lunch packs) 95p
Small jar basics pickle (for sandwiches) 45p
Bag basics crisps (12-pack) 60p
(lunch each day = 2 x cheese & pickle butties and a bag of crisps)
Bag mashing spuds £1.00
Bag pasta 27p
2 x onions 20p
4 x large carrots 32p
1 x cabbage 60p
tin minced beef & onion 48p
1 x pack Beanfeast bolognese style 73p
4 x basics corned beef pasties £1
2 x tins basics chopped toms 30p
1 x tin garden peas 23p
Evening meals:
(1) Corned beef pastie with mash & cabbage
(2) Pasta with half pack Beanfeast, made up with one tin toms and half onion (fried)
(3) cottage pie made with tinned minced beef & mash, with 2 carrots
(4) same as (1) but with peas
(5) same as (2)
(6) soup made with cabbage, onion, carrot & potatoes, served with bread
(7) you're on your own here - hope you have something in the freezer!
(if you can scrape together another £1.20 I'd go for a basics pizza 88p with a tin of basics beans and slice a small tomato and a bit of onion on top of the pizza. Make a few wedges with the remains of the bag of spuds, brushed with a bit of the spread.)I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe
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This is really impressive. I have no idea how to do the full challenge, but can I just say that lentils are really cheap, and lentils and rice together have the same protein values as steak - they're both second class proteins, but they have complementary amino acids, i.e. together they're the real deal. Thats what I've been told anyway. And lentils are *really* cheap - just need nice flavouring.
I agree about oats - cos they're dried, you get an *awful* lot for your money.2023: the year I get to buy a car0 -
The lists and meal plans are really impressive, I have noted them all down and will show OH.
I wonder if you could sustain a healthy diet living off only £10 per week?0 -
I would say you need a few more pounds than £10 to have a healthy diet. Maybe £13 per week so you can throw in a few apples, bananas, broccoli and peas.The menus are lacking in fruit and veg...however as a one off week they would be okay.0
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That's good. Remember to freeze meat in small portions so you don't end up using more than you really need...
I have such fear of not being able to buy food, caused by periods of complete skintness. It has become a sort of comfort blanket to me to have well stocked cupboards! I start feeling itchy if I am down to my last couple of tins of tomatoes, which unfortunately means I never get round to using up some of the stuff in the back of the cupboard. Mind you, the only time I can see myself actually wanting to eat that random tin of own brand new potatoes is in the event of nuclear holocaust...
Good luck, Bunnie!
If you do defrost more meat than needed, it's quite safe to freeze again after cooking.
For that random tin of own brand new potatoes, they're not too bad when fried with lots of onions a bit of soy sauce, and if you've got any bacon scraps or spare sausaged, just chuck them in. Especially nice when sprinkled with chilli and garlic seasoning!(99p a jar from poundstretcher, and very useful)Official DFW Nerd Club - Member # 593 - Proud To Be Dealing With My Debts!0
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