right £35 to do 2 weeks shopping....

[babydevil1989]

...HELP!

some unexpected bills are due to come out tomorrow leaving us a bit short of money - i usually spend £80 every fortnight but this week i have just £35.

i have some food in the fridge and cupboards such as -

* a few chicken breasts
* a few pork loins (enough for one meal)
* a small joint of pork
* frozen veg
* sausages (enough for one meal)

* eggs
* spaghetti
* beans
* pasta
* tinned toms
* herbs and spices, stock, gravy, flour ect

so what shall i get?

 

[Wriggley]

not much help hun as the kitchen is m OHs expertise

we buy a sack of potatos from the farm and they they will do for baked potato, mash, roasties and home made chips.

you got a fair amount of meat (well to me as we not massive meat fans)

get come cheap mince and a sauce and have it with pasta or spagetti?

get some more veggies and make a big stew? i think you can make stew nice and cheap and you can fill it which veg so you dont need much meat

 

[babydevil1989]

oh yeah need to get spuds from the farm thanks for reminding me!

meat is an issue in this house lol OH is a huge meat eater and has to have meat for his evening meal - but stew is a good idea could prob use the pork loins cut up for that!

x

 

[Boothh]

Were off on holiday next week so been eating cheaply this week and last! We haven't eaten the healthiest,
We've been having a lot of eggs, (scrambled with toast and beans, omelette or fried with chips)
I'd get a couple of frozen pizzas,
A big pack of mince, you could bulk it with veg to make chilli, spag Bol and a cottage pie maybe, get some wraps and a spice mix for chicken fajitas, if you put loads peppers and onions in you'll only need 1 or 2 chicken breasts cut thinly, and have it with rice or wedges. And get a couple of pasta bakes, you can stick veg in them too. Baked potatoes are cheap too with a tin of tuna or cheese and beans! x

 

[Midnight_Fairy]

Jacket spuds with chili/beans and cheese
chili and rice
beans on toast
pizza and chips
pasta bakes (buy 1kg bag of pasta)

 

[Mummy May]

Yeah we bought a 3kg bag of pasta for less than £3 lol! xx

 

[lauren1991]

Me and my OH always eat out but now money is tight and when its tight we go to Iceland. We spend £40 on a shop and it lay us generally 2 weeks.

We buy:

A couple of their £1 pizzas
Kraft cheesy pasta ( it)
Big bag of sausages - I can make sausage casserole out I this, sausage sandwiches, bangers and mash the list goes on.
Chicken kievs
Garlic bread
Pasta sachets for nights when I can be bothered
Beans
Cheese
Cereals
Eggs

I've also started buying asda smart price gammon joint for like £5, I cut this in half take the fat off and put in a pot along with half a grated turnip/swede, 5 grated carrots, 4 chopped potatoes, and a full leak chopped, 3 veg stock cubes, 2 ham stock cubes some water to cover half of it and leave it to boil then blend, best soup ever especially when on a budget and can be frozen down, also extremely filling.

Hope this helps I know what it's like having unexpected bills eat up all ur money, I lost my job to being pregnant and we only have one wage so need to make ends meet x

 

[ellismum]

Get over the moneysavingexpert and on the Oldstyle Money Saving forum. There's a thread on there about a weeks shopping budget of £7!!! I use this thread when looking for inspiration for cutting the pounds andthe meal plans and shopping lists are truly amazing!

 

[Mummy2B21]

I think thats quite easily doable hun just buy the right things, pasta sauces, pasta, Casserole (can eat over two days so two meals) potatoes, baked beans.

 

[Mummy2B21]

Have you got a link for ^ that hun? I'd be interested tp see how they do that lol.

 

[Mummy May]

Yeah I would be interested to see that too lol! Also agree with the lady that mentioned iceland - you can get some amazing deals in there and its not bad A bag of 16 Richmond sausages for £2 xx

 

[lauren1991]

Yeah I would be interested to see that too lol! Also agree with the lady that mentioned iceland - you can get some amazing deals in there and its not bad A bag of 16 Richmond sausages for £2 xx

That's what we get lol! Out of that bag I can make a casserole, sausage and mash and also have a sausage sandwich one morning and that's feeding 2 of us! X

 

[Siyren]

would love to see that link.

my biggest tip would prob be buying cheap packs of frozen mixed veg. i stick that in pretty much everything to bulk it out x

 

[babydevil1989]

thankyou - the biggest problem i have is that i have IBS so can only eat a few of the jars/pasta sauces ect so most of my food needs to be made from scratch - the same goes for too much pasta i can only eat a few times a week.

il have a look at MSE website thankyou. xx

 

[Siyren]

i have a few recipies hun, no ibs here but i cook from scratch out of preference x

 

[babydevil1989]

sometimes it would be so much easier to be able to eat junk lol!! x

 

[ellismum]

The £7 link is below. Have a smooch round this forum as there are some fab ideas here!

https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.php?t=4084527

 

[Tegans Mama]

I was going to say, go through your freezer and cupboards and work out what you can do with that first. then just get some cheap stuff like mince, pizza, etc

 

[tallybee]

I find most 'value' things are good. You can get masses of stuff for not a lot. My cupboards are always full of value pasta, rice, tins of tomatoes, beans, sweetcorn etc. Value frozen stuff is good and the fresh fruit/veg as well. I always check the reduced to clear bit first

I get the frozen mince, but not the value one as we find it just goes incredibly greasy and shrinks loads when cooked, so we get the ordinary supermarket make, I bulk out chilli/bolognese with lentils or mung beans (bought dried, soaked before cooking) and dried soya mince to make it go loads further

xx

 

[ellismum]

A other value fan here! I really rate the Tesco range, malt loaf for 28p where Soreen is over a £1, You don't need to eat junk either, I don't believe it's cheaper. My favourite is pepper omlette, a bag of frozen peppers is £1 and 15 eggs in Tesco are £1.35 if I recall. Chuck in some value mushrooms and Ham and you've got a healthy nutritious meal for the price of a frozen pizza.