Got £1 and hungry

Felicity

One of my favourites.

1KG bag of Whitworths marrowfat dried peas, I can't remember the exact cost but about 60p

Follow the instructions on the back of the pack to make about 8 pints of pea soup. The pack includes the dissolving things you need to put in and the soup is one of the loveliest and most filling I ever had.

With the left over money you could buy either some extra veg (pad it out with cheap onions) or some bread rolls to have with it.

You can do the quick soak recipe (again on the back of the pack) if you are pushed for time.

I can't recommend it highly enough and it is lovely, nutritious and filling! It freezes into individual portions very well too (if you have any left as it is very moorish!).

Felicity (quite a newbie to os!)

Felicity

HappyIdiotTalk wrote:

Agreed, I get most of my fruit and veg from a local asian market shop and am constantly amazed when I walk out the door with three or four bags of the stuff and lots of change out of a tenner.

And the best bit is the fruit is ripe and actually tastes good! Not like the under ripe rubbish at the supermarket.

I still go to supermarkets, but I look at the perfect fruit and veg they sell with disgust. OK it looks nice, but its usually under ripe, tasteless and very expensive.

If anyone here is buying there fruit and veg from a supermarket I emplore you to try your local green grocers or asian shop. It'll save you loads of money so very MSE and will taste nicer and go further! Its win win win!

Me too! In particular two ingrediants that are HUGELY different in price are mangoes and fresh corriander! Pennies for huge bunches of corrainder in asian markets, 99p for a sprig in supermarkets!!!! :eek:

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Fantastic topic! some ideas here actually sound pretty good : D

Glad

Quackers wrote:

How & why does an almost 2 year old thread appear from nowhere

:rotfl:

I wondered that too quackers

filigree_2

Blimey, I'd forgotten about this thread. I did try my suggested menu, but instead of feeding two I ate it all myself

filigree wrote:

This should feed two adults for a day:
2 yogurts: 16p
banana: 10p
carrot: 5p
onion: 5p
tin toms: 18p
meatballs: 18p
noodles: 8p
jelly: 18p
orange: 10p
small potato if there are any pennies left

Breakfast: yogurt each with banana slices
Lunch: Soup made with half the onion, grated carrot, potato, the juice from the tomatoes and the flavour sachet from the noodles
Dinner: tinned meatballs cooked with the remaining tinned tomatoes and onion, served on the boiled noodles
Pud: jelly made with peeled orange segments

I was blooming hungry and had to have something extra later in the evening. I calculated the calories and it was only about 1000 or so, which isn't enough for an adult. It certainly wouldn't feed two :rolleyes: The soup was surprisingly tasty so it wasn't all bad. I'd tried hard to create a balanced diet and forgot about the calories. Oops!

I think it's perfectly possible to make one meal for £1 as lots of you have demonstrated. I also think it's possible to buy cheap stodge that fills your tummy for £1 per person, per day. I think the real challenge would be food that is filling and healthy for a whole day for £1, if you are shopping from scratch.

£7 for 7 days, now I might manage that *puts thinking cap on*

HappyIdiotTalk

filigree wrote:

Blimey, I'd forgotten about this thread. I did try my suggested menu, but instead of feeding two I ate it all myself



I was blooming hungry and had to have something extra later in the evening. I calculated the calories and it was only about 1000 or so, which isn't enough for an adult. It certainly wouldn't feed two :rolleyes: The soup was surprisingly tasty so it wasn't all bad. I'd tried hard to create a balanced diet and forgot about the calories. Oops!

I think it's perfectly possible to make one meal for £1 as lots of you have demonstrated. I also think it's possible to buy cheap stodge that fills your tummy for £1 per person, per day. I think the real challenge would be food that is filling and healthy for a whole day for £1, if you are shopping from scratch.

£7 for 7 days, now I might manage that *puts thinking cap on*

Could be a good way to diet then, limit yourself to £1 a day and watch the pounds melt off...

Probably not a good idea though.

Cazzdevil

Some fantastic suggestions here, I'll definitely be trying a few of these. I thought I was good having a food budget of £15 a week but some of these ideas will make my money stretch even further!!

hex2

Cazzdevil wrote:

Some fantastic suggestions here, I'll definitely be trying a few of these. I thought I was good having a food budget of £15 a week but some of these ideas will make my money stretch even further!!

Welcome to MSE - very good at challenging your perception of what is economical behaviour

As a student I used to keep £10 in an envelope and that was my food and essentials budget for the week. Always managed to be reasonably healthy in my choices, my mum was very OS so used to meals bulked out with a lot of veg. Small piece (5oz) of braising steak, one onion, one oxo cube, cook on low for hour and a half and served with lots of rice and some frozen peas used to be a favourite at under a £1. That used to be my sunday tea, and was the most expensive one of the week.

Cazzdevil

Thanks for the welcome.

Yeah my budget used to be £10 and I managed admirably on it, I don't eat red meat at all and eat very little white meat so as you can imagine a veggie diet is a bit cheaper anyway. I figured I should up it to £15 when I started a job which allowed me to go home for my lunch but for a few weeks I might knock it back down again as a matter of curiosity.

It'll force me to cook too - something I can do fairly well but don't really enjoy, so I need to become a little more creative methinks...

Pasta dishes are always my favourite cheap n cheerful meals by far.

EagerLearner

So hard to make a cheap meal that is also healthy though - next week I'd love to batch cook something even better than spag bol, chilli con carne, chorizo&sausage stew or chicken curry.

Any ideas guys? I know I can replace coconut milk with yoghurt in curries, but it seems to go bitty even if I add it before the curry has boiled. Maybe I should fold it in at the end...

Any ideas gratefully received.