Daily Mail Live Below the Line Article

cbrown372

Anyone else thinking they could happily eat a plate of liver and bacon right now

Kidneys on toast was a favourite Sunday evening tea before playing board games when living at family home.

You're right Jackie, haven't seen that kidney with a pork chop for years and I do like a pork chop too.

GreyQueen

I've just washed up after eating a supper which featured home-grown onion and the remainder of the liver, pan-fried. It was very nice indeed.

PasturesNew

It's easy to list a meal you've just had, that's cheap .... but if others think it's minging then they won't eat it no matter how cheap it is!

Snails are free

I'm not one for lentils, porridge .... or snails.

I'd rather eat less often, or smaller portions, or stick with beans on toast, then try to eat what I consider to be "nasty, stomach churning food" - and we all have things we wouldn't touch with a barge pole.

big5

VfM4meplse wrote: »

My big problem with this is also the egg factor.

She is 4 months pregnant yet eating undercooked eggs, against advice. Salmonella, anyone?

If the eggs have the red lion mark on them, they are fine to eat runny, pregnant or not. The risk of salmonella from those eggs is very low.

BrassicWoman

I've been making a shopping list to see if I can do a week for £7 - give that wee bit flex to buy a spice - and am really struggling! The vegan milk is the pricey thing. Also wanting to keep to whole grains. I can survive on 20p packet pasta and sauce, and biscuits, and 25p jam and cornflakes, but I really don't want to

Might have another go pricing and typing up later. If I can get to a bearable list I'll start Saturday...

thriftwizard

So much depends on being able to be at the right place at the right time. I could have bought a tray of short-dated medium free-range eggs - that's 30 eggs, and truly free-range; we see the flock they come from when we go out walking - for £1 at our market on Friday. (Didn't need to, as we ourselves have 10 chickens, 9 of them in lay.) That's not a regular occurrence; they'd just mislaid a box of them for a week or two, but a tray of fresh "cracks" is usually £1.50 and perfect pullets' eggs £2. I did buy a whole tray of mushrooms, one of those blue plastic ones, for £2 on Sunday; most of them are in my dehydrator now, we had some at lunchtime, and there are plenty more to eat up yet. 19 lemons for £1, too, so there'll be several jars of lemon curd made in the next couple of days.

So if, like me, you're on the edge between town & country, have a decent street market and the time to visit it at the right moments, you can feed yourselves pretty cheaply, much of the time. And that's without mentioning foraging...

PasturesNew

BrassicWoman wrote: »

I've been making a shopping list to see if I can do a week for £7 - give that wee bit flex to buy a spice - and am really struggling! The vegan milk is the pricey thing. Also wanting to keep to whole grains. I can survive on 20p packet pasta and sauce, and biscuits, and 25p jam and cornflakes, but I really don't want to

Might have another go pricing and typing up later. If I can get to a bearable list I'll start Saturday...

It's £5 and 5 days; it's not £7 and 7 days.
Looks like that pricey milk'll have to go!


I gave up buying milk for over 20 years, simply because it was impractical - I was either out of milk, or had some in the fridge that'd gone off by a week and stank! So, the easiest thing, I figured, was to give it up. Only recently started buying the odd bottle here and there ... when I do buy it I then eat Weetabix for 7 days in a row to get through it all, before having a break for another month or so.

Hate the thought of using frozen/defrosted milk, makes me gag thinking of it.

BrassicWoman

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's £5 and 5 days; it's not £7 and 7 days.
Looks like that pricey milk'll have to go!

Progress, not perfection.. I'd be delighted if I did 7 for 7!

NewShadow

PasturesNew wrote: »

It's £5 and 5 days; it's not £7 and 7 days.
Looks like that pricey milk'll have to go!

But you can buddy up to share resources and double funds...

1 You must spend no more than £1 a day, for the 5 days, for all your food and drink

2 You are allowed to spend more than £1 a day however over the 5 days, you must not exceed £5

3 You must include the full cost of the item e.g. you can't budget for a portion of pasta - you have to buy the whole bag

4 You can share the cost of your food and drink with a partner or team e.g. between two of you, you have £10 for the 5 days to share the costs of ingredients (this makes it easier!)

5 You can use food you've grown yourself but you must account for production costs

6 You cannot accept free food and drink - you must ask for a donation instead

http://www.plan-uk.org/what-you-can-do/fundraising/live-below-the-line/six-golden-rules/

BrassicWoman

I can get to £7.00 at Asda but it's very very boring and not that healthy. And it relies on a lot of special offers! They didn't have any veg stew packs listed - or I might have swapped out the tinned veg and onion for that. Although there's nothing left for stock cubes.

KTC 1 x chickpeas, 1 x white kidney beans, 2 x chilli beans - £1
Pasta sauce - 38p
spagetti hoops 15p
fresh carrot 9p
1kg white rice 40p
500g smartprice pasta (white again) - 29p
teabags 50p
porridge oats 1kg 75p
value jam 27p
garden peas 21p
peanut butter 62p
2 x baked beans 46p
tin carrots 19p
curry sauce 20p
instant mash 28p
bread 36p
frozen nut cutlets x 2 = 85p

Total is bang on £7, so need to have your own bag already.

breakfasts - porridge made with water and jam - same every day. Cornflakes are cheaper at 25p but need milk, and are less healthy I think

lunches - sandwiches with bread, hummus (chickpeas + peanut butter) x 5, beans on toast at weekend x 2. A bit dull without lemon juice or garlic. And no spare bread to speak of so watching every slice.

Dinners -
1) chilli beans + rice
2) chilli beans + rice
3) white kidney beans + carrots + curry sauce + rice
4) white kidney beans + carrots + curry sauce + rice
5) pasta sauce + garden peas + pasta
6) nut cutlet plus mash + spag hoops
7) nut cutlet plus mash + carrot

hunger snacks - plain pasta or plain rice and jam if there is any jam left.

Hmm. Not sure there's anything like enough veg or calories there!