£50 a week to feed family of 6, does anyone do it cheaper??

ok, Well we call ourselves vegetarian, but we do eat tuna, and fishfingers!purely because it was easier for when the children were yonger getting invited to macdonalds parties!

I have been using the meals i have found on the forum, for most of the meals i have planned this week!

Breakfasts:lots of choices!
value porridge, with value honey and mixed fruit
Value fruit and fibre
value frostie flake
toast and value jam
Toast and value spaghetti
egg on toast


Lunches
Pitta breads with tuna mayonaise
value tomato soup with ryvitas
value pasta and value sauce
Homemade pizza
Savoury rice quiche, which is a few packets of cooked savoury rice mixed with beaten eggs and milk, baked in the oven
Rolls with Fishfingers in
HM potato salad, and couscous

snacks puddings, hm cake, value cake mix made into fairy cakes, easy flapjack, which is porridge oats mixed with a tin of value peaches until binding together, then baked in the oven, variation is to add cornflakes to the mix, then make into cookies. Value yogurts, value custard, Value jelly and mixed fruit. HM bread, HM fruit cake, value crisps, HM doughnuts

Main meals

lentil dhal and potato wedges
lasagne with bogof lasagne sauce, mixed with courgette, mushrooms, onion, dried soya mince
Rice,tuna and sweetcorn bake
Shepherdess pie
Pasta with red lentils and tomato sauce
saag aloo
fish finger, beans and mash potato

You can tell at the end, i was running out of ideas!!

I have just made a lovely vegetable crumble, twice baked.

1 sweetheart cabbage
bag of new potatoes
onion
vegetable stock
bunch of carrots

cooked it all together in slow cooker, mixed in some onion gravy granules. Put it in the fridge for the night, then topped with crumble, made from plain flour and margarine, then baked in the oven for an hour. Really delicious!

here it is, value shopping!!
Qty Description Size Price Total 1 Tesco 6 Value White Pitta Bread Each £0.24 £0.24 1 Tesco Value Malt Loaf Each £0.20 £0.20 1 Tesco 10 Value Sultana Scone Each £0.34 £0.34 1 Tesco Value Sliced White Bread 800g Each £0.37 £0.37 1 Tesco Celery Each Each £0.68 £0.68 1 Tesco Spinach 500g Bigger Pack Better Value Each £1.90 £1.90 1 Tesco Courgettes Loose Class 1 Each £- £0.34 1 Chestnut Mushrooms 250g Each £0.78 £0.78 1 Tesco Garlic Each Each £0.34 £0.34 1 Value Onions 2kg Each £0.78 £0.78 1 Tesco Carrots 1 Kg Pack Class 1 Each £0.78 £0.78 1 Value Salad Potatoes 1kg Each £0.79 £0.79 3 Value Baking Potatoes 1kg Each £0.56 £1.68 1 Tesco Value Soft Spread 1kg Each £0.52 £0.52 1 Tesco Value White Full Flavour Cheese Each £- £3.28 1 Tesco Value Fromage Frais 6 Pack 360g Each £0.46 £0.46 1 Tesco Value Eggs Minimum Weight Box Of 15 Each £1.50 £1.50 1 Tesco Value Chocolate Mousse4 Pack 250g Each £0.28 £0.28 1 Tesco Value Strawberry Dessert 4x115g Each £0.46 £0.46 2 Tesco Value Low Fat Yogurt 4x125g Each £0.29 £0.58 1 Ryvita Original 250g Each £0.61 £0.61 1 Tesco Value Ready Salted Crisps 12 Pack Each £0.51 £0.51 1 Tesco Value Cheese & Onion Crisps 6 Pack Each £0.35 £0.35 1 Tesco Value Frosted Flakes 500g Each £0.68 £0.68 1 Tesco Value Oats 1kg Each £0.59 £0.59 1 Tesco Value Muesli 1kg Each £0.52 £0.52 1 Tesco Value Fruit & Fibre 500g Each £0.65 £0.65 1 T.Value Apricot & Milk Chocolatecereal Bars 125g Each £0.79 £0.79 1 Tesco Ground Cinnamon 40g Each £0.68 £0.68 1 Tesco Mild Chilli Powder 50g Each £0.88 £0.88 1 Crazy Jack Organic Green Lentils 500g Each £1.49 £1.49 2 Tesco Value Dried Mixed Fruit 500g Each £0.41 £0.82 1 Tesco Value Sponge Mix 227g Each £0.23 £0.23 2 Tesco Value Tomato Soup 400g Each £0.18 £0.36 3 Tesco Value Chopped Tomatoes 400g Each £0.21 £0.63 2 Tesco Value Spaghetti In Tomato Sauce 410g Each £0.15 £0.30 2 Tesco Value Tuna Chunks In Brine 185g Each £0.35 £0.70 1 Tesco Red Split Lentils 500g Each £0.84 £0.84 2 Tesco Value Instant Custard Powder 70g Each £0.08 £0.16 8 Tesco Calcium Enriched Soya Drink 1ltr Each £0.63 £5.04 1 Tesco Value Clear Honey 340g Each £0.61 £0.61 1 Tesco Value Strawberry Jam 454g Each £0.39 £0.39 1 Tesco Value Orange Marmalade454g Each £0.28 £0.28 1 Tesco Value Strawberry Jelly128g Each £0.08 £0.08 3 Tesco Value Golden Vegetable Savouryrice 120g Each £0.22 £0.66 4 Tesco Value Chicken Flavour Instant Noodles 65g Each £0.08 £0.32 4 Tesco Value Bacon Flavour Instant Noddles 65g Each £0.11 £0.44 1 Tesco Mediterranean Cous Cous 110g Each £0.55 £0.55 1 Tesco Coriander And Lemon Cous Cous 110g Each £0.58 £0.58 1 Tesco Basmati Rice 500g Each £0.90 £0.90 1 Tesco Value Spaghetti 500g Each £0.23 £0.23 1 Tesco Wholefood Soya Mince 375g Each £0.99 £0.99 1 Tesco Value Fishcakes 420g Each £0.78 £0.78 1 Tesco Nas Apple/Bcrnt Squash 1.5ltr Each £1.49 £1.49 1 Tesco No Added Sugar Apple Squash 1.5ltr Each £1.49 £1.49 2 Tesco Value Sugar Free Cola 2 Ltr Bottle Each £0.20 £0.40 2 Tesco Value Sugar Free Lemonade 2l Bottle Each £0.20 £0.40 1 Tesco Value Biological Concentrated Liquid Wash 1 Ltr Each £0.66 £0.66 1 Tesco Value Sponge Pan Cleaners 5pk Each £0.14 £0.14 1 Tesco Value Toilet Tissue 12 Roll 2400 Sht Each £1.12 £1.12