£1 per day advice

Ms_W

JackieO wrote: »

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

thanks JackieO, that was my way forward, by buying mostly ys foods.