£150 for the months food shop, possible ?

[Cussons]

Hi.

Currently going through some hard times financially. It's just me and my daughter, she's 6. I've got £150 for food shopping (the month of feb). Do you think it's possible?

I'll eat anything, I like cooking so can easily do that. My daughter is pretty fussy.
In terms of breakfast she'll eat:
Cereal
Toast

For dinners she'll eat:
Chicken
Stir fry
Spag bol
Fish fingers/ nuggets
Lasagne
Salmon
Noodles
Chips
Cucumbers

She will not eat any potatoes, rice, pasta or anything like that.
She will either just have chips, noodles or cucumbers with the other things. Will refuse anything else.

Do you think this is possible ? Also if anyone has any meal ideas that you think she may like please let me know!

London prices? I think you will struggle tbh with that budget, what other options do you have OP, will your child’s father help, or do you have family that will, food bank referral? Good luck OP.

I don't have no help from my child's father. I do have family that I can ask for help but really would be the worst case scenario so just want to try make what I've got lost. If it gets really bad, I will ask for help.

In London the community shops are usually called pantries. If you google community pantry and the name of your borough then they should come up. Even if you don't want to use a foodbank you could call your local Trussell Trust and ask them if they could direct to you the local pantry/community shop.

Yes it’s possible, I would budget £30pw then at least you have £30 left over for anything that runs out in between. Also in the past year i shop so much in the reduced section and freeze meat etc c

There is app called 'Too good to go' you might find that helpful.

I’ve used it’s good to go and tbh I wasn’t impressed. There wasn’t anything I could have made a complete meal out so it could end up costing you more money to buy things to go with it and avoid wasting food. I think you’re better off going shopping in an evening when things are reduced.

Can you make a weekly ‘menu’ where you figure out each day what you’re having and how you can make veg/chickens etc last across a few meals. A big lasagna could last 2/3 days for example. A large pack of fish fingers in Tesco is a few quid so could split over some meals etc

I would pad out the spaghetti Bol with more veg -you could probably feed a 6 year old for more than a week on a small pack of mince made into bolognaise . As a comparison, I can stretch 400g mince to feed 5 or 6 fully grown men , with a Bol sauce if it's padded with tinned tomatoes, celery etc.
You could make salmon pasta flaking up frozen salmon with spaghetti, Adding any veg she will eat ( I add spinach, but you could use peas, or you could do similar with chicken.
It takes a lot of time to change a fussy eater's habits: one trick I read about and then used successfully was to introduce a tiny amount of a food onto the child's plate at least 10 times before asking them to try a little.
My mum always used to pad out every sauce with cooked veg put through a blender.