Oh dear- £22 to last 9 days...

gunsandbanjos

Do you have things like bread/cheese/milk in?

gunsandbanjos

buxtonrabbitgreen wrote: »

there has been a thread recently on meals for 50p. I am hopless at finding things so perhaps someone could do a link for you.
My cupboard is bare as well. But only 3 days till payday.

This is the thread i think you're talking about;)

pnq06

Thank you so much!!! I looked at my list and thought disaster!!!

I will need things like bread and milk... and cheese for that matter!!!

Silly me had actually contributed to the 50p thread- its having a baby thats made my brain useless I tell you!!!

angchris

you could make a sausage casserole with the sausages beans onions and mashed potatoes
fish n chippos
you could buy a tin of corned beef and have stovies (sliced pots,onions,corned beef layered in a casserole dish, pint of beef stock poured over and cook in oven for an hour.)
minced beef n onion in gravy with mash n processed peas
make a cheap micro sponge to eat with custard one night?
marinade the quorn in the bbq sauce then slice into strips and maybe stir fry with pepper on offer at tescos at mo on top of noodles.
i`d be tempted to make a big soup to eat every lunchtime or supper, might get boring but would get you through till payday.
buy some eggs and do a spanish ommelette with cooked rice/peas onion boiled potato in it with chips or homemade wedges.
or do what we have had to do this month to get us through....my other half has been out with the metal detector around the local playgrounds in the bark chippings and found £16.31 a necklace a watch and millions of ring pulls :rotfl: has taken hours to find but at least we were able to go to tescos chuck it all in the coin sorter then go and buy a few basics to get us through.:o

KittyKate

OK: Here's what I'd make with what you have in, and a few storecupboard essentials:

Onion & Sliced Potato Bake (with a little milk, stock cube s&p). You can have that with beans, or a few grilled sliced sausages over the top!
Bangers & Mash & Gravy
Fish & Chips & Tin Peas
Shepherd's Pie & Peas
Pizza
Pasta & Sauce with Garlic Bread
BBQ Beans on toast or chips (with an egg if being extravagant lol)
Quorn in a veg & quorn risotto/mixed rice type meal
Noodles with a chinese sauce (you can buy a little packet for 39p and is a good way of filling up) and veg

You really should buy:
Bread
Eggs
Milk
Butter
Nappies
Large bag pasta (the bigger the better!)
Tinned toms
Block of cheese if you can
Flour (to make pastry, very filling)
Mushrooms (again these are filling - also mushrooms in a HM white sauce on toast is gorgeous!!)
Fruit, cheapest where I live is a big bag of oranges for a quid
Big bag of oats (for emergency breakfasts but great at bulking out pie fillings etc).
Bag of soup mix (split peas, lentils etc). Half a bag of this & half a bag of carrots equals a gorgeous filling soup which will last 2 days.

...I should think you can pick up everything you need for under £15.

got-it-spend-it

I'd buy a bag of lentils- about 69p for 500g. You can add 50g to s few carrots, an onion, a tin of tomatoes and some stock to make 6 or so portions of healthy lentil soup. You can also add them to mince to bulk it out for shpeherds pie or bolognese sauce.

Do you have a market near you? If so go late in the afternoon to pick up some great fruit and veg bargains. Don't forget tinned fruit too- mandarin segments, pineapple chunks etc are cheap and still give you vits.

Also if you do have any money off coupons you can usually use them off any shopping (without buying the specific product) at Asda. I do this each week with ones I've collected from papers, magazines or got with freebies and it's a great way to save an extra few £s.

Good luck with the challenge.

Mappygirl

When your making cottage pie or bolagnaise bulk it out with loads of veg - peas/carrots/brocolli whatever you can lay your hands on! That way there is more to so round and you can freeze some for another night! I freeze anything that's left over, even a small portion can used as DD lunch/dinner.

Cheapy meals that go down well in the mappy house are sausage, mash and gravy or sausage egg and chips. Spaghetti bolagnaise - value mince, tinned toms, whatever veg I've got in and tomato puree and some herbs. Corned beef hash (you'd only need to buy corned beef as you've already got onion, potato and beans) I find this makes enough for 4 adult portions and child portions.

It might be helpful to do a meal planner up until payday - it'll show exactly what you need to buy in and you know you'll have enough meals to last you.

HTH x

mrs_pepperpot_3

suggestions are buy value / cheap oats, you can mix it with mince and it takes on the flavour, milk perhaps dried? , 12 eggs and sack of spuds, some value marg and flour.... now you can make cakes.... scones, pancakes yourkshire + sausage + toadin the hole, jacket pots, if you are low on sugar cheap jam is cheaper and if you pop two heaped desert spoonfuls into cake mixture it will sweaten enough for 24. tinned fruit cocktail is very cheap at tescos, u can afford ten tins half a tin a day. frozen peas and rice are also a good idea so you can make a bits and pieces curry or special rice.

so : oats
dried milk
12 value eggs
value spuds
flour sr
marg stork x2 ?
tinned fruit cocktail
peas
rice thats less than 12 pounds at mr t

mrs_pepperpot_3

should make a muffin for breakfast snacktime each day (freeze them)
jacket potatoes x 2
shepheards pie x 2?
omlet
special rice
curry and rice
toad in the hole
hashed potatoes/ bubble and squeek with either cabbage or leeks or peas even
12 scones
flapjacks (if u have enough sugar or syrup or molasses)
hope this helps


just remembered 16p sausages at mr t, i bought some for my doggies and yes i knicked one... definetly good enough if pricked and grilled.

SmileyHappyBeing

mai_tai wrote: »

hiya

you can use boot points for nappies or if you have an aldi or lidl nearby they do big packs of nappies (50 for £4.99) I use these and they're great.

I second the lidls nappies, there great ...