£1 per day advice

tessie_bear

its interesting this thread

I wonder what I would do with a pound...not a lot tbh I try and follow sw so dnt know if it is possible....suppose if that's all I had id try my best

I have never read that ladies book but I remember she went to socials with food student stuff I think ...not something I would have acess to although I do get invited to the docs once a year for a mince pie

hester got to say your advice is fantastic could u do some blog posts on the subject of cheap food although I know you have your hands full at the mo...im sure lots of people would find it really useful xx

buildersdaughter

I have written before that I was lucky, as a teenager, to spend some time in France, in a family that cooked very traditionally.
From them I picked up the habit of always putting bread and salad on the table (lest you think that's expensive; it was, for most of the year, HM coleslaw without the mayo, just a little oil & lemon to help it keep). Everyone had the chance to fill up cheaply and healthily.
Now I have my raised bed, I grow lambs' lettuce through the winter, to add greenery to the coleslaw.

ANDY597

Just noticed this thread and apologies if this has already been covered but I don't have time to read through the 3 pages at the moment.


When I was at my skintest, this was my strategy.


Go to supermarket and try and load up on the reduced items, several times a week if necessary until you get enough to last.


Go home, immediately batch cook and freeze in set portions. For me, it absolutely had to be set portions, the secret here is to try to ensure zero waste. Whole chicken is a great example, use the meat, the bones go for chicken stock, soup etc etc.


The freezer is your key to success.


Meal plan and rotate meals carefully otherwise at the end of the month you only have 189 Bolognese's left. Dry cupboard staples, rice, pasta are a must have.


Lunches were tricky, but I discovered if I was careful with fillings that you could fill reduced rolls bought for pennies in advance and freeze them too. Add salad fresh because that definitely doesn't work hahahha.


I think a £1 a day is a bit of a reach to be honest, so an adjustment might be needed here.

Good luck

Hard_Up_Hester

Thanks tessie I will do a couple of food posts on my blog.

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I would recommend a panny too, I have had 2 and they are brilliant, you can put the flour etc in at night and set the clock, wake up to a cooked loaf. You can do a quick loaf in 2 hours, but to be honest the 4 hour (white) or 5 hour (wholemeal) makes a 75% wholemeal loaf using flour from Aldi, its great bread, much better than the plastic stuff you buy. They are expensive but to be honest its an investment. I had my first one for 8 years and handed it on through freecycle when I bought a new one.

I use sage and onion stuffing to pad out mince. filling and tastes delicious.

markin

The is no way £1 can do 3 meals a day, with inflation it would be at least £3, depending when this challenge started 1990?

And if the kids start looking thin or just complaining you can probably expect the police at the door nowadays.

Getting a food garden going would help, rip up the grass.

joedenise

Have a look at the thrfiftylesley.com website. There are several mealplans for 2 @ £1pp/pd so you could double up for your family of 4. Personally the portions look small to me and some things are weird but certainly worth a look for some ideas.

Denise

Spendless

Is this for the whole year? Or just at some point during the year? I cannot see how you can possibly nutritionally do this if it's the former? Maybe ok at the beginning, when you have a stock cupboard and freezer stock to dip into, but not once you've used that

candygirl

Spendless wrote: »

Is this for the whole year? Or just at some point during the year? I cannot see how you can possibly nutritionally do this if it's the former? Maybe ok at the beginning, when you have a stock cupboard and freezer stock to dip into, but not once you've used that

Totally agree with this .Even I'd struggle , n I'm on my own

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Well I have just been food shopping for only the second time this month and spent around £22.60.I won't have to shop now for at least another 10 days I saw in M&S a 20 pack of their sausages they are 78% pork so very meaty and filling To me that is the basic building blocks for 10 meals for myself.
I cooked two and had with a salad (reduced pack of mixed leaves for 20p) used around half the pack plus a tomato and the end bit of the cucumber, some grated cheese and a very small jacket spud and I am full to the brim I shan't bother cooking tonight but will have possibly some cheese and a couple of crackers and some fresh fruit
My cereal this morning I costed at around 20p including milk (bran flakes from Aldi's very cheap)

Lunch: I costed around 60p for everything sausages were reduced along with the salad leaves and I had lots of smaller spuds in my veg box which I use up if I am adding to salad.

My crackers and some grated cheese and an apple (the apples had been reduced in M&S as well to 50 for 6) so my whole days meals comes to around a pound give or take a penny or two

I spend about a third of my food shopping cash on fruit and veg I managed to buy a pack of leeks this morning reduced which will make me a big pot of leek and potato soup which will do for at least 4=5 lunches My tiny spuds at the bottom of the veg box leftover will be peeled and diced for the soup.

I suppose it depends on you appetite and what you consider a plateful I usually have either some HM soup for a starters or a small pudding afterwards and its surprising how just the addition of a small course will turn a smaller meal into a quite filling on. Knocking up a quiche takes very little time and effort and costs far less than spending £4 buying on Off cuts of bacon can go (it's called cooking bacon )into a pasta dish or a quiche or even with leftover cooked potato and some diced onions and shredded cabbage makes a very tasty bubble and squeak, top a portion of that with a poached egg and you have a meal fit for a king