Sainsburys and Jamie Olivers Feed your Family for £5 Chat Thread

Penelope_Penguin

eve75 wrote: »

Hi this seems to be the board for sharing recipes so i thought i'd share mine - well my friend showed me how to make it.
This is enough for myself, my husband, 14yr old daughter, 12yr old daughter and 8yr old son so there's plenty to go around.

Well done :beer: I'm going to add this to the Meals for a Fiver Chat thread, to keep all ideas together.

Penny. x

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What irritates me is that daft woman buying 40 grams of cheese just for one meal I have always bought a block of cheese that lasts me a couple of weeks No housewife in her right mind would buy just 40 grams of cheese she would be shopping every blooming day

lswwong

:jHELLO BERNADINE!!!

OMG I cannot believe I found you here on MSE :jI have been thinking about you and your book for the last fortnight (I still have my (by now very yellow) 1989 copy). Only last week I quoted my favourite part of Derek Cooper's foreword to your book to a friend who runs a food charity (collecting unsold produce still in good condition from market stall holders which won't be good enough to sell on another day, and make meals out of them that same day for distribution to people who need them). Your book has been an inspiration and an examplary demonstration of responsible consumption using creativity, flair, resourcefulness, culinary skills and imagination; that's actually much more than just plain old "cook for a fiver", yours is an art form. Oh yes, it does spell "GASTRONOMY". I have ever been so inspired.

I will be thinking more of you and your book this afternoon as I will be volunteering to help with a cooking session at my friend's charity again. Tell you what, I could do with new ideas to cook masses of cauliflowers, cabbage and carrots. Believe me, one won't do justice to the ingredients if it's just boiling them .....

All best love to you and your family. Your kids must be grown up now?

Lou xxx

Reverbe

I fed my "family" ie me and my flatmate for about 30p yesterday. 2 14p tins of Sainsburys basics spaghetti in tomato sauce and he had a slice of toast with his. Really yummy. Cheap and we really enjoyed it.

I reckon Jamies fiver could last me all week.

Actually edited here as I recalled when I was at Uni and after on benefits I used to spend £5 approx a week on food and that included fresh orange juice,bacon and sausages for Sunday and fresh fish and chicken once a week. Now I have cut out those essentials to rare treats and with the advent of basics ranges I reckon I can cut it even further. I even eat a lot more fruit and veg now than I did then.

Reverbe

chelsea.housewife wrote: »

Thankyou so much thriftlady, I thought I'd be in good company here - lots of like-minded people.

I'm looking for a publisher for my book and am doing the publicity for it myself. Hoping to be on 'It Pays to Watch' on 7th May. We'll see.

I was a bit miffed when I heard of Jamie's campaign as I was the originator of the idea,
All of which is in my new, as yet, unpublished book. Maybe we should have a competition on its title.
Bernadine Lawrence

Can you prove that you were the first one ever to have this idea? After all you cant really say that it is a highly original and unusual one and your book is by your own admission unpublished so you cannot claim any breach of copyright or theft of ideas.People have been setting themselves challenges like this for years - you can even include the eat healthy during wartime ideas - you only need look at this board to see a whole range of challenges devised by MSE members - none of whom I note are claiming to originate their notions.

thriftlady_2

Reverbe wrote: »

Can you prove that you were the first one ever to have this idea? After all you cant really say that it is a highly original and unusual one and your book is by your own admission unpublished so you cannot claim any breach of copyright or theft of ideas.

Bernadine's first book 'Feed Your Family For £5 a Day' was published years ago.


Iswwong, my favourite bit of Derek Cooper's forward to the book is where he says that 'if gastronomy means making the best use of the resources available to you then this is it' -or words to that effect;)

thriftlady_2

lswwong wrote: »

I could do with new ideas to cook masses of cauliflowers, cabbage and carrots. Believe me, one won't do justice to the ingredients if it's just boiling them .....

Cooked veggies + cheese sauce + mash

lswwong

thriftlady wrote: »

Bernadine's first book 'Feed Your Family For £5 a Day' was published years ago.


Iswwong, my favourite bit of Derek Cooper's forward to the book is where he says that 'if gastronomy means making the best use of the resources available to you then this is it' -or words to that effect;)

Yep! That't the bit I love and refer to time and time again.

Confuzzled

BARGAINHUNTER! wrote: »

I think schools should be teaching the kids how to cook a family meal healthily and cheaply at school. You could even get primary school kids involved. People seem to live such busy lives nowadays that they don't have time to stand and cook (or they think they don't!) Lots a meals can be made cheaply and quickly especially when making use of the freezer!

i'm home educating my 7 year old daughter and what i refer to as 'home lessons' (cooking, budgeting, organisation, gardening fruit and veg, cleaning etc) is VERY important. if she can't even manage to do those things for herself how can i expect her NOT to get into a mess of debt when she leaves home?

it helps that i can easily throw in maths, science, social responsibility etc into these lessons but i think that they are some of the most important things i can teach her. whilst it's true some people are more airy fairy than others and some seem to have always been more level headed and practical i'd say about 90% of it has to do with attitudes in the home as they grow up towards money, waste, reuse etc.

sometimes if the family is too strict or go to far in one direction or ther other you'll get the opposite effect when the child grows up but generally speaking if we teach our kids these things now they will have a good solid foundation to build on.

my mother had an appalling snobbisness towards poverty even though we were VERY poor all of my years growing up. i'm one of those kids that went the exact opposite of her evenutally! i did suffer great debt and a sense of being owed something by the world thanks to her poor example til after many years of life showing me it most certainly did NOT owe me anything i came to my senses but i had to learn everything so much later in life and learn the hard way

children given the foundations early on will succeed so much easier than those without that. and not just in the home but in life in general, this is a mindset not just a simple measure here and there. mindsets for good or bad are so hard to break out of so start em off right i say. if parents won't do it then yes schools should do so.

Confuzzled

chelsea.housewife wrote: »

I am touched and encouraged by your messages. Cooking on a budget is all about being ingenius in the kitchen and making amazing dishes from basic ingredients. Take the potato, for example, one of the most versatile of vegetables and packed with vitamin c and minerals including potassium, magnesium and zinc. It's cheap, filling and nutritious. Here's my recipe for POTATO CHEESECAKE. It's yummy.

thanks for that i'll have to try it as i love cheesecake! have you ever tried it with sweet potato? i love pumpkin pie and i would think this would have a similar taste to pumpkin if sweet potato was used. i've tried making mock pumpkin pie with carrots but didn't care for the texture, i often get cheap value sweet potatoes (or buy them on sale) so maybe i'll give this a bash using those to try it out...