AIBU to ask if you had £50 for a weekly food shop what would you buy?

[FuckingDiet]

This is not my situation and in no way a begging thread. Between now and the run up to Christmas we see a lot of these types of threads so I thought it would be a good idea to put all our advice in one place. That way if anybody is in need everything is in on place.

I will set a challenge of 3dc aged between 2-10 and 2 adults, your meal plan for the week, shopping list and where you would buy it from with a rough total. Lets see which one of us can come up with the best result.

Wouldn't work for me as disabled, no car, 4 bus round trip to decent supermarket, no decent shops I can walk to and can't carry much anyway! And if I got taxis that would be about £12 off budget straight away.

Aldi
Kg frozen chicken breasts 3.33 x 2
Vegetable Rice 25p a pack x6
Chopped TOMS 29p x 4
Oxo cubes 1.19
Narn bread 49p x 2 packs
Peppers 95p
Penne pasta 30p
Spaghetti pasta 30p
Passata 35p
Chocolate rice cereal 89p
Honey nut cornflakes 85p
Bread 50p loaf x 4
lettuce 35p
Ham trimmings 1.35 x2
Lasagna 2.47 1kg
750 g mince 2.79 x2
Mature cheddar ( biggest pack) 3.69
Tom purree 30p?
Pork fillet 2.29 x 2
Potatoes 1.00?
Frozen veg 1.00
Fisherman pie 79p x6
Sweet potatoes fries 1.49
Pepperoni pizza 95px4
Garlic bread 89p x2
Dishwasher tabs 30 for 1.70 Tesco basic
Waitrose own sensitive Landry powder £3
Total £50.52

Breakfast toast or cereal every day

Lunch ham sandwiches with marg and cucumbers lettuce

1. lasagna with salad

1. Home made chicken curry, blitz green pepper and onion into a paste and fry with 1 tsp tikka powder, add chicken, fry, add 500ml chicken stock serve with rice and narn
2. Spaghetti sauce made from mince, tinned toms, onion oxo with pasta and garlic bread
3. Pizza style chicken - slice chicken breast in half, cover with tomatoe purée, onions, chopped toms then cheese - bake in oven serve with rice
4. Spaghetti again with with spegetti pasta and cheese on top
5. Pork fillets, potatoes and frozen veg, oxo
6. Pizza and garlic bread night

Possibly could get this down or make some meals double up normally so buy more and freeze for another week so in reality add more veg and double up servings which brings costs down

Breakfast - Toast and jam or egg, cereal
Lunch - Weekday - Ham or cheese sandwiches; cucumber and carrot sticks, houmous; frittata with potatoes, peppers and spinach; apple or banana; petit filous frube, biscuit or piece of homemade cake (butter, flour, egg, sugar, jam)
Lunch - Weekend - Pasta, pesto, peas, ham; beans on toast

• Mac and cheese, tomatoes
• Chilli (mince, tinned tomato, kidney beans, onions, peppers, mushrooms, store cupboard chilli powder) and rice
• Potato bake (potatoes, ham, spinach, mushrooms, cream)
• Chicken stew (chicken, potatoes, carrots, onions, stock cube)
• Spaghetti Bolognese (mince, tinned tomatoes, onions, mushrooms, peppers, spaghetti, store cupboard herbs)
• 2 Curries (chicken, spinach, potatoes, boiled eggs, onions, mushrooms, tomatoes, jar sauce) and rice
• Roast chicken, roast potatoes, yorkshires, carrots, peas, gravy

Snacks: Homemade cake; yoghurts; biscuits; apple; banana
Other - coffee

Multigrain cereal - £1.20
Cornflakes - £0.40
White and wholemeal bread x 5 - £2.00
Jam - £0.39
Butter x 2 - £2.00 (on offer)
Eggs x 30 - £4.00
Milk (6 pints) - £1.48
Ham joint - £4.49
Cheese - £3.10
Cucumber - £0.45
6 cooking peppers - £1.15
Carrots (1 kg) - £0.45
Houmous - £1.20
Apples (16) - £2.00 (on offer)
Bananas (6) - £0.79 (on offer)
Petit Filous frube (4) - £1.00 (on offer)
Packet of cookies - £0.40
Packet of chocolate digestives - £0.44
Flour - £0.45
Sugar - £0.70
Pasta (1 kg) - £0.98
Macaroni (1 kg) - £0.98
Frozen peas - £0.80
Pesto - £1.00
Beans x 2 - £0.50
Tomatoes - £1.00
Cream - £0.65
Frozen mince (750g x 2) - £5.00
Tinned tomatoes (x4) - £1.24
Kidney beans - £0.30
Onions (1 kg) - £0.59
Rice (1 kg) - £0.45
Chicken (1.4 kg) - £2.78
Potatoes (2 kg) - £2.00
Stock cubes - £0.40
Mushrooms - £0.79 (on offer)
Spaghetti - £0.40
Frozen spinach - £1.50
Jar curry sauce x 2 - £0.90 (on offer)
Yoghurts (x 8) - £0.80
Coffee - £1.50

Total at Tesco - £51.74

Long-term, it would be cheaper to buy spices for the curries and bigger packs of a lot of things. I would need to switch some things out to buy cleaning products and store cupboard herbs, chilli powder and oil, but would have jam, spinach, onions, butter, flour, sugar and spaghetti left at the end of the week.