sammy_kaye's £100 a month food budgetting

Beki

just bumping this for sammy as i see she's about a bit more now xx

[Deleted User]

Well thanks to the bad weather I have spent only £12.78 this month as I simply couldn't get out of the house.Yesterday I made a cheese cake with some Philly and icing sugar left over from Christmas.The base was crunched up biscuits from a tin of Chistmas biscuits, and I have just stewed some eating apples that were past their best, and a bit like me wrinkly .Topped with some custard thats two nights puds this week.
I cooked a small joint in my SC overnight on Saturday, and had some yesterday for dinner ,there is over half left in the fridge, so I am having some for dinner tonight with cheesy mash and pickle and the rest will be made into a shepards pie to go into the freezer. I have more than enough food to last me this week, so again I shan't be going near to the shops,(less chance of falling over and breaking something ) at my age I don't bounce very well:) I suppose I could do with some fresh veg, but as I have quite a bit of frozen stuff in the freezer it won't hurt to use that up first. I normally allow myself £120.00 per month for my budget and I am well within it at the moment ,obviously down to the fact that I haven't been to the shops.:j:j:jProbably have to spend the money I have saved on the extra heating though, but at least I won't be going above budget this month

weezl74

sammy_kaye18 wrote: »

Food Wise
tesco value bananas £1.25kg 81p
tesco value apples polybag - 86p
tesco value potatoes - 2.5kg x 2 £2.00 (we eat alot of potato's - also make our own chips too so saves a few quid buying big bags, mashed,roasted,boiled,jackets,in soup, potato pie, toppings)
tesco value onions - 2kg - 78p
tesco carrots - 1kg x 2 - £1.24
tesco value swede - 1kg 65p (again the above three handy to have for adding to soups or as portions for meals, little one and me snack on carrot sticks too)
brocolli - x2 a approx 48p each - £96p
2 x cloves of garlic - 35p each
tesco value mushrooms - 750g £1.47 (tend to bulk cook alot so the early use by date doesnt fuss me to much as i tend to cook or plana cooking day jsut after vie done my shop)
tesco unsmoked back bacon - 500g - 16 slices - £2.90 (we freeze 8 slices of it - could get the value stuff but its too salty - we use this in spag bol and bfs treat is a bacon and egg buttie on a sunday morning)
free range chicken (thanks hugh!!) approx 1.3kg - £4.80ish (stretched beyond belief - we have a roast - bf has a leg, I have a breast, ben our son is chicken phobic for some reason and wont touch the stuff so has sausages from the freezer, so im left with a leg, a breast and other bits of meat left on the carcass, so usually end up making a curry for bf, sandwiches for me, chicken and mushroom pie and some bunged in a pasta sauce before using the carcass for stock)
2 x 800g value mince - £3.30 (I divide each 800g in two so have 4 portions of 400g - these go into shepherds pie, spaghetti bolognese, chilli, and another meal - usually stovies and are bulked out with either other veg or a handful of oats)
fresh stewing steak - 0.370kg - £1.52ish - use this in casserole mainly bulked out with alot of veg,
fresh porkleg joint - £2.85 (this will be stretched in any way it can be whether it ends up sliced and in sandiwches or cutting into a form of chop or being cut up and added to a casserole style dish, stirfried whatever)
butter me up spread x 2 - 1kg - £2.96
tesco value cheese - cheddar mild - large - £4.93 (I tend to cut this in half, grate half of it and keep it in the fridge and freeze the other half)
2 x free range eggs box of 12 - £4.90 (baking, i do lots of the stuff! plus bfs egg and bacon butty, omelettes, dippy eggs, scrambled eggs, fried eggs, boiled eggs - plus bf refuses to eat anything but free range eggs always has done so we dont mind paying the extra on them)
4 x 4ltr semi skimmed milks - £5.36 (thsi sounds weird but i keep an old 4pint milk container from the last lot of milk we have then pour in 2 pints from a new bottle and add a pint of water - so it waters it down and i get 3pints in a 4pint bottle, then the other pint left int eh newly opened bottle is used for Bens drinks he has before bed - the watered down stuff we only tend to use on cereal and in tea)
500ml natural yoghurt - 78p (my treat for myself - also used if any bananas are left before they turn to make banana bread)
muller light multi pack (2 for £3.50) 12 yoghurts (ben and bf tend to eat these so it saves buying different ones for babe)
tesco frosted flakes - 750g - £1.29
tesco rice krispies - 600g - £1.37
tesco malt wheats - 750g - £1.18
tesco cornflakes - 750g - 97p
tesco wheat biscuits - 48 - £1.82
tesco hot oat cereal - 750g - £1.32 (we tend to eat a fair bit of cereal can you tell? bf likes to have a bowl before bed, ben usually has cereal or toast for breakfast and I'll have the occassional bowl in the evening but dont eat it for breakfast)
3 x tesco porridge oats - 1kg each - £2.07 ( these are awesome - i use them to bulk out meals, and make twinks hobnobs, not to mention obviously makign porridge and hoping to this month blitz them up in new food processor to see if i can make my own sort of ready brek - meaning the fine stuff as bf doesnt like the oaty texture - yet loves the hobnobs which ill never understand)
tesco value beans x 6 - £1.20
tesco value spaghetti x 6 - 90p
tesco value chopped tomatoes - 23p each x 6 - £1.38(these three seem self explanitory)
3 x tesco value quills - 500g - 57p
1 spaghetti = 500g - 23p
tesco value ketchup x 2 570g each - 50p (sometimes mix this with chopped tomatoes if ive run out of tomato puree find thats pretty good. Hopign this year once ive managed to grow my own tomatoes that ill be able to make my own additive free version. Also Ben seems to liek putting ketchup in with pasta and then putting grated cheese on top - my mil introduced him to it and he seems to enjoy it)
tesco value jam - 907g - £1.17 (again hoping to make this myself next year when i raid a bramble bush patch which no one seems to have found bar me :T )
1 x value lemon curds 411g each - 35p (same as above - wanting to try adn do homemade stuff this year too to save a few quid)
tesco vegetable oil - 3ltr - £2.21
sugar - 2kg parcel - £1.53 (helps with the baking and other general bits - tryign my hardest to cut it out of tea and get it off cereals etc so find its lasting ages longer than it was)
3 x 1.5kg plain value flour - 1.5kg each - £1.08
4 x 1.5kg self raising flour - £1.92
6 x 1.5kg strong white bread flour - £2.88
3 x tesco yeast - 48g each - £1.50 (like i said lots of baking - whether its bread, cakes, muffins, rolls, braids, etc etc i use alot fo flour and yeast - we dont eat alot of rolls but bf lieks them with icing on top and the bread never gets wasted - if it does go slightly stale its turned into french toast - am i the only person in the world who calls it eggy bread? - or made into breadcrumbs which bulk out the soups or other things)
3x 10 value fish fingers - £1.47 (ben enjoys them and its somethign different for us)

2 x orange juices - 2 for £2.50
2 x blackcurrant - 2 for £2.50
80 tesco value tea bags - 32p (self explanitory really)
tesco sultanas 1kg - £1.12 (these are eaten as a snack by my son Benji, put into fruit braids and rolls to make scones, put on top of cereals, put on top of yoghurt and a few bunged in a curry)

Hi there,

I thought I'd put all of sammy's original food list into tesco.com to see whether the much feared food price inflation has made lots of difference since sammy first posted. Good news all:j, you can still get all the food items for £98 :money::money: (and I expect that sammy got some of those things cos they were on offer then, and so I think you could still bring the whole thing in for £100, if you needed to...:))

Hope my little experiment helps someone somewhere, other than me!

Weezl x

slowandsteady_2

Thanks Weezl for that list, i found this thread invaluable in learning how to cut back and its interesting to see the prices nowadays

VenusFlytrap_2

:T:T:T for this thread, started reading it last night and finished tonight... while eating some of twink's HM hobnobs, which I made for the first time today, inspired by this thread! They really are lush, especially with raisins added. Mmmm! And even my dad and OH liked them too.

Would love to hear how Sammy's doing now, got loads of ideas from these posts - I'm making scotch pancakes when my mum comes round on Wednesday now and it made me very jealous reading about all the HM bread and pizza making... I'd love to do that but I get such bad stomach pains if I eat anything made with bread flour and fresh yeast, it's not worth the suffering.

Thanks again Sammy and others for the recipes and inspiration!:)

chaosweddings

Hi,
this thread inspired me to cut down on my food bill, i used to spend between £200 and £300 per month on food, i dont know how i used to spend that and am disgusted that i did !

there are 3 of us, 2 adults and one 11 boy !

i now spend around £100 per month and have been spending that for the last 6 months.

i cook from scratch everday, and if im working all day i put it in the slowcooker.

thankyou sammy !

lilmoi1985lm

bumped bump x

[Deleted User]

Quick question. I am reading this correctly in that the only fruit and veg bought for a whole month (back in 2008 when this post was first made) was the following?

tesco value bananas £1.25kg 81p
tesco value apples polybag - 86p
tesco value potatoes - 2.5kg x 2 £2.00 (we eat alot of potato's - also make our own chips too so saves a few quid buying big bags, mashed,roasted,boiled,jackets,in soup, potato pie, toppings)
tesco value onions - 2kg - 78p
tesco carrots - 1kg x 2 - £1.24
tesco value swede - 1kg 65p (again the above three handy to have for adding to soups or as portions for meals, little one and me snack on carrot sticks too)
brocolli - x2 a approx 48p each - £96p
2 x cloves of garlic - 35p each
tesco value mushrooms

For two adults we spend between £15-£20 a week on fruit and veg alone (buying in season etc to reduce costs). The above list seems to be very little for a month.

quintwins

Spider_In_The_Bath wrote: »

Quick question. I am reading this correctly in that the only fruit and veg bought for a whole month (back in 2008 when this post was first made) was the following?

tesco value bananas £1.25kg 81p
tesco value apples polybag - 86p
tesco value potatoes - 2.5kg x 2 £2.00 (we eat alot of potato's - also make our own chips too so saves a few quid buying big bags, mashed,roasted,boiled,jackets,in soup, potato pie, toppings)
tesco value onions - 2kg - 78p
tesco carrots - 1kg x 2 - £1.24
tesco value swede - 1kg 65p (again the above three handy to have for adding to soups or as portions for meals, little one and me snack on carrot sticks too)
brocolli - x2 a approx 48p each - £96p
2 x cloves of garlic - 35p each
tesco value mushrooms


For two adults we spend between £15-£20 a week on fruit and veg alone (buying in season etc to reduce costs). The above list seems to be very little for a month.

she did say at the start of her post that her freezer is full of frozen reduced bread and soups

tessie_bear

what a great thread...ill be back later with a pad to write some of the ideas down...thanks all who post