whats the cheapest youve did it for inspire me!

lilmisskitkat

moo2moo wrote: »

I found the only way to stop my lot eating crisps and biscuits was simply not to buy them. The kids accepted this quite happily and now help themselves from the fruit bowl. This has led to arguements at the dentist. Apparently they shouldn't be eating fruit between meals as this is v.bad for them, leading to tooth erosion. My youngests is worst as she eats 3 apples a day and the odd orange or 3 and grapes and mango and bananas.

Tell me about it! I try to give DD a healthy diet and end up getting grief from the dentist about it.

Dentist - "Oh they shouldn't eat fruit between meals, bad for teeth etc"
Me - "So what do i give her, crisps?! :rolleyes:
Dentist - "Well make sure she eats enough at meals to keep her full until the next one"
Me - "Erm, shes a child therefore she has a small stomach so cannot eat enough in one meal to keep her going til the next - between dinner and tea is 5 hours!"

I told her that its all very well telling me that but could she also tell DD's school who are constantly going on about 5-a-day in their healthy eating scheme - completely conflicting advice!

Kate xxx

arkonite_babe

in-it-to-win-it wrote: »

I've been reading this thead with interest. What a great idea about the leaving the lasagne in the fridge for the day. I've always ended up with slop in boxes or bags I as bag it when it's cooled down.

I'm assuming I should do this with shep/cottage pie too?

that would be correct

robpw2

i was goin to say i eat for a £1.oo a week when i was really desperate

destiny_star2006

how come robpw2

robpw2

well it means eating practically same thing but .
Tesco cheap white bread 17p
tesco beans 9p
tesco spaghetti (pasta) 17p
Sauce 39p
that leaves 18p for some packs of cheap noodles etc

Ok you dont get a lot but it would last you a week if your despeate

robpw2

maybe i should write a book on eating on a budget that would be a great read and it could help all us mses anyone got any ideas that could help or how i would go about getting it published etc
"food shopping for a family of four for just £10.00 a week"

moo2moo

Thats hardly an adequate blanced diet for a child though. I appreciate that as an adult you would get away with that for a very short period of time but I couldn't feed my children that long term, or even short term come to that. Its almost all carbohydrate. Diets like that were the main way rickets, scurvey, beri beri and pallegra came about.

robpw2

yes im not suggesting you feed that to a child my idea of a book is to have balanced diets for cheap costs .

destiny_star2006

okso for egg fried rice i make oil hot in a pan already cooled down rice beat an egg add to pan then chuck in pan is this correct will be trying it in a min

faye1978

Hi Destiny - This thread is really interesting. Regarding your brother and OH being hungry in between meals......do you put enough protein in their dinner? Meat, fish, lentils etc? I find that if I miss out a food group at dinner time, I get EXTREMELY hungry.

Also, when they go to Kickboxing, why not give them a snack rather than a meal? A Banana slice in Brown Bread is a really really good energy snack and would leave them hungry for dinner when they get in. Another is chicken, sweetcorn and mayo in a sandwich - or a small Jacket potato and wouild take no time to put together. Try googling high energy snacks.

Sounds like you spend FAR too much time cooking - I cook 2 meals most days as OH eats differently to me but I woul be B*****ed if I would cook 4 meals.

I don't keep biscuits, chocolate or sweets in the house as we will both gorge n them so if we want them that much we can go out and buy them. Crisps aren't a problem here as I don't eat them and OH will usually only eat a pack a day.

Just a couple of ideas