I have £10 to buy the following...

[Esme3]

So I get paid tomorrow, but after a stressful week I have inadvertently let myself get down to only £10. Things that I need to buy today are:

Washing liquid
Toothpaste
Loo roll
Milk
Lunch for myself
Dinner for 2 adults

Doable? I have access to a small tesco, large Morrison's and local butcher/ fishmonger etc. There are no cheap/ value shops nearby for toiletries. Please give me some ideas!

Doable.
First 4 items can be bought for under £5.

I agree with pps who say what you make will depend on what you have in the cupboards already, but even if you had nothing (no dried pasta, rice, no cans of anything, no veg or potatoes) its doable, but might be a bit boring!

Value pasta/spaghetti, tin of tomatoes (maybe cheap pasta sauce if your cash will stretch to it) for dinner. Either a tin of tuna, or a small pack of cheap cheese to go with it.

Lunch: Either 2 tins of value beans or maybe 6 eggs. If you have cash left over buy either bread or cheap potatoes (they don't have to be baking potatoes). That should be OK for lunch. Especially if you have cheese leftover from dinner.

If you still have cash left over from that, add some other cheap things to the meal: carrots, onions, etc (even better if you can get these unpackaged and sold by weight - that way you need only buy what you need for today).

Could make either baked potatoes with cheese and beans for lunch and a spanish omelette for dinner, or could do beans on toast for lunch and a cheap tuna pasta dish for dinner.

Ok I'm really sorry, I wasn't taking the piss, it just made me smile the way the PP who quoted it has worded it. No malice meant, apologies again.

Thanks everyone I'm off to see what I can find

Do you have any loyalty cards with points?

Beans on toast and Tesco brand products should do it.

I didn't think you were being rude OP!

Go to Morrisons:
Toothpaste for 80p
Washing Liquid is 60p
Loo Roll is £1 for 6
Milk is 50p for a pint.

Leaves you £7.10 for food!

Washing liquid £1
Toothpaste £3 for good one
Loo roll- id buy some 60p tissues
Milk- 50p
Lunch for myself -bread 50p chicken £1
Dinner for 2 adults -pasta 50p sauce 40p with left over chicken.

Or tesco do frozen ready meals for 70p each

£10 to last you a day?? Mate, you can make £10 last for several days if you really tried!

Surely you already have bits and pieces in cupboards at home for a start re food. You could buy a couple of bread rolls for 50p and have with baked beans. Cheap loo roll, £1.

Forget about toothpaste, milk, and washing up liquid if you're getting paid tomorrow!

Buy a tin of soup then go to macdonalds for dinner. Forget everything else. Have a macshit and use their loo roll.

Ham I understand that, I had to do this myself years ago.

I needed the washing up liquid to wash some clothes, not just dishes. I've emptied the toothpaste so really did need that too.

It was more the lack of cheaper shops nearby which I had access to, however, I didn't realise how good Morrison's was for things like this!

I have used shampoo for w/up liquid before - its fine its a detergent. Can use bubble bath too for a few days it won't matter.

I know sains and Lidl prices and I think you could do both shops on that if necessary.

Sains
2 pt milk 80p
toothpaste £1 seem to be a few varieties for this
w/up liq - 60p sains own small bottle
loo roll x 4 - 1.85

lunch - soup (40p a can of sains veg soup) and bread roll (50p) or baguette/cheese or ham (just buy what you need at the deli counter rather than the packets.

Dinner - sains spagetti pack 22p, can toms with herbs 50p, onion & Garlic around 50p, mince - 2.50, tom puree 50p. Alternatively could do a veggie or mushrrom ragu which wld be cheaper as mince expensive.

so £5.25 plus dinner (budget is 4.75 so maybe for for mushrooms in ragu at £1 per pack)

Shampoo will wash clothes in basin as well