Can anyone help us?

MovingForwards

Bag of bananas
Bag of tesco value oats
Large bag of red lentils
Tesco value curry powder (if they still do it)
2l full fat milk and add 2l of water to make it go further.
Tesco value pitta breads x2
Tesco value cheese spread
One large onion
Tesco value veg stock cubes.

Alternate breakfast:
Between a banana, milk/water and oats smoothie

Lunch
Cheese spread on pitta

Tea
Make a huge pot of lentil curry (lentil, curry powder, onion and water). When cooked pull some out, add a few cups of water, stir in and mash down to make a soup.
Then either lentil curry or spicy soup rotated. Rationed with half a pitta to eak out the food.

Technically a couple of stock cubes can be carried forward to the following week.

I have lived on a quid and got the cheapest bread and cupasoup (tesco value veg), that was my lunch and only meal of the day for 5 days as I was that skint due to my marriage going belly up and being left with no money. I got used to saying to my workmates I wasnt that hungry and just wanted a snack, pretending I was going to cook something when I got home.

When it comes down to food in these situations you have to run with the cheapest items you can get and learn quickly how to make a meal and stretch it out.

RebeccaAnn

MovingForwards wrote: »

Bag of bananas
Bag of tesco value oats
Large bag of red lentils
Tesco value curry powder (if they still do it)
2l full fat milk and add 2l of water to make it go further.
Tesco value pitta breads x2
Tesco value cheese spread
One large onion
Tesco value veg stock cubes.

Alternate breakfast:
Between a banana, milk/water and oats smoothie

Lunch
Cheese spread on pitta

Tea
Make a huge pot of lentil curry (lentil, curry powder, onion and water). When cooked pull some out, add a few cups of water, stir in and mash down to make a soup.
Then either lentil curry or spicy soup rotated. Rationed with half a pitta to eak out the food.

Technically a couple of stock cubes can be carried forward to the following week.

I have lived on a quid and got the cheapest bread and cupasoup (tesco value veg), that was my lunch and only meal of the day for 5 days as I was that skint due to my marriage going belly up and being left with no money. I got used to saying to my workmates I wasnt that hungry and just wanted a snack, pretending I was going to cook something when I got home.

When it comes down to food in these situations you have to run with the cheapest items you can get and learn quickly how to make a meal and stretch it out.

They seem to have got rid of a lot of the value range. Back some years ago I lived on 10p beans and 23p bread from the coop. I was surprised at how much some of the items were.

m1kjm

If you're open to innovative protein sources you could try eating snails.

For the avoidance of doubt I'm not mocking anyone, it's merely a suggestion for your challenge.

My OH has eaten them although I won't.

Elona_2

When we suddenly got a bill and were skint I had a list of frugal recipes. One of the best was pea and ham soup - ham stock cube. couple of big potatoes, one big onion, two or three big carrots and dried peas made into a big pot of soup.

Potato rosti - big potato grated and wrung out in clean tea towel, one grated onion and an egg and bit of flour, shaped into rounds and fried in a little oil. Mashed potatoes could be turned into veggie burgers by adding grated onion, flour and egg and any leftover veg.

peachyprice

PasturesNew wrote: »

Today I've had 2 bits of toast with marg...
loaf 36p, marg 75p (but lasts about 2-3 months). 5p

Then I had some cheesy mash and beans.
Mash 16p, Cheese 20p, Beans 8p = 44p

So I've only spent 49p of my £1 today.

How many calories is that? No idea....
Is it healthy? Well, there's some stuff in there.... er cheese = protein ... beans = protein and one of the 5-a-day.

Sounds like an excuse to celebrate with a few digestive biscuits (31p/pack)

I've had 2 slices of toast = 20p it was Warburtons bread and president butter
I had peanut butter on it but that was a gift from USA

3 egg omelet 36p for 3 eggs, a slice of ham 20p and cheese 20p
= 76p

1/6th bar of Ritter chocolate = 33p

Ah poop, blew the budget by 26p, shouldn't have had the chocolate!

[Deleted User]

The brokest I have ever been was years ago when as a 17 year old living on my own in a bed-sit I had just a tin of Birds custard powder in the cupboard ,but I did have a mlkman delivering milk every day.
I lived for a week on custard every night for my dinner until I got paid It was several years before I could ever face custard again

I manage fairly well on a pretty low budget as I like to find ways to stretch my food cash to the best advantage .

I eat one main meal day in the evening and always cook from scratch. I have either cereal or porridge for breakfast depending on the weather, lunch is usually home made soup made with past their best veg sometimes y/s or just what's in the fridge as I waste very little, I don't eat bread, but crackers instead with the soup, spread with cream cheese.and a piece of fruit.

I bake my own cakes and biscuits as I prefer them.

Veggie curries or chilli with rice is nice and quite inexpensive (also uses up sad veg

I'm not a great meat eater but love any sort of veg so pile it up if I can

My treat is decent coffee and sausages, I can live reasonably well and healthily on a £60,00 per month budget for food and always have cash left over at the end of the month which goes towards my holidays.

But I do have a good store cupboard of herbs and spices, and if you have carrots onions, spuds ,cheese and eggs you can live pretty well.

I spend about a third of my monthly budget on fruit and veg but I don't buy or eat crisps, take aways, or ready meals at all.

Liver and bacon with veg is a pretty substantial meal and as another poster said a slow cooker is a must for making the cheaper cuts of meat go further.

Many people on these forums struggle to make their money stretch ,especially if they have kids.

I am lucky there is only me to feed and I doubt if I could eat 2000 calories in a day anyway, but I bet any of my strapping DGS could easily pack that away

JIL

I would be out at the back of Tescos, I would be a freegan.

But I think there are some fantastic meal plans on thrifty Lesley s blog.

moneyistooshorttomention

Admits I'd also be out the back of Tesco being a freegan. Otherwise I know I'd be literally hungry - even with cutting out all my organic foods and real coffee and doing the "cheapest everything".

It looked impossible to me back when this idea originally came up of "£1 a day eating challenge" and several years of inflation have happened since then. I wouldnt even begin to try - despite growing quite a bit of fruit in my garden now.

Add that eggs would be literally impossible - as I'm still "Me" and "Me" does not buy battery eggs.

Out,_Vile_Jelly

onlyroz wrote: »

Filling, yes, but at 42 kcal per 100g you're going to need to get more calories from elsewhere.

Most of the UK population could do with at least a temporary reduction in calories.

A proactive and resourceful person could also supplement their £1 per day with some hedgerow foraging, or chores on their local allotment in exchange for surplus veg.

I live in a scruffy part of Sarf London on an ex Council estate and there are walnut and damson trees if you know what you're looking at.

C_J

Useful interactive foraging map of the UK can be found here, just enter your town/city/location.