This really bothered me, so I've bee doing my sums and thinking about meals you could manage and came up with a better shopping list and meal plan. It leaves you about £4 for nappies/toilet paper (but you could always borrow some toilet roll from a cafe of something... not that I recommend stealing but this was something my student friends did back in the day!). But, If you already have pasta/spaghetti/frozen peas/soy sauce and have enough of them, then you will get an extra couple of pounds to spare.
This will be a long one! It's all from Tesco, so again, you might get cheaper in Aldi and if you do, then you can get another one or two pounds to spare.
Shopping List:
3 x Butternut squash @ £1.50 each = £4.50
Redmere farm brown onion (1kg) = £0.59
2 x 10 pack of stock cubes @ £0.50 = £1
Redmere farm carrots 1kg = £0.47
Tesco Red Split Lentils 500g = £1.15
Tesco Arborio Risotto Rice 1kg = £2.00
Woodside farm cooking bacon 500g = £0.60
2 x Tesco frozen peas (900g) @ £0.80 = £1.60
2 x whole chicken @ £3.25 = £6.50
Redmere farms potatoes 2.5kg = £1.35
2 x 15 eggs @ £1.25 = £2.50
plain flour 1.5kg = £0.55
36 pints of milk = £9
Tesco everyday value gravy granules = £0.20
1kg rice = £0.45
150ml soy sauce = £0.65
1kg pasta = £1
3 x pasta bake/pasta sauce @ £0.75 = £2.25
2 x woodside farms 8 pack sausages @ £0.89 = £1.78
Colman's sausage casserole sachet = £0.80
2 x Boswell Farms 500g mince @ £1.69 = £3.38
500g spaghetti = £0.20
bolognese sauce = £0.75
4 x bread loaf @ £0.55 = £2.20
Jam = £0.75
Tesco butter spread = £1.05
21 bananas @ £0.14 = £2.94
3 x 6 pack tesco fromage frais @ £0.50 = £1.50
Total = £51.71
If you can spare it, the tesco swiss roll is £1 and will do around 14 small portions for a treat but maybe something cheaper in Aldi.
21 breakfasts =
12 x scrambled egg on toast
9 x jam on toast
21 lunches =
9 x butternut squash soup = 3 squash, 3 onion, 3 stock cube, 2400ml of water. Cook, blend. split into 9 adult and 9 child portions (or cook 1 squash at a time).
4 x lentil soup = 450g lentils, 4 pints of stock, 2 onions, 6 carrots, water & seasoning as needed. Split into 4 adult portions and 4 child portions.
4 x pasta bakes = half a jar of pasta bake sauce and 150g of pasta per bake.
1 x Fried rice with peas = Fried rice, 100g frozen peas, leftover chicken if there's any left.
2 x Pasta with cooking bacon = 150g pasta and 50g of cooking bacon per lunch with butter to serve.
1 x Bacon and Pea Risotto = 140g risotto rice, half an onion, 1 stock cube, 100g frozen peas, 50g cooking bacon.
21 dinners =
2 x toad in the hole = 4 sausages per meal (2 each), 200g potatoes, yorkshire puddings (made with 1 egg), 100g peas, gravy granules. Carrot if you want.
6 x Bacon and Pea Risotto (same as lunch recipe).
2 x roast chicken with potatoes, yorkshires (1 egg), 100g peas, gravy
2 x chicken fried rice with peas = leftover roast chicken, 100g peas
1 x chicken pasta in half jar of pasta sauce (leftover chicken)
1 x chicken, potatoes, yorkshires (1 egg), gravy with leftover chicken.
1 x Pasta bake in pasta sauce (half jar)
2 x sausage casserole with potatoes and peas - 4 sausages per meal (2 each), half a sachet of casserole powder, 100g peas per meal.
2 x spaghetti bolognese = half pack mince, half jar sauce per meal.
2 x mince and potatoes with peas and carrots = half pack of mince per meal, 100g peas per meal.
Snacks for your toddler - 1 banana a day, 1 fromage frais a day (for 18 of the days), more toast.
If you've saved enough money in Aldi, maybe a wee slicing cake.
For you, if you want something sweet and have suger in the house then skip the scrambled egg on your breakfast and use the egg white and sugar to make meringues. Or cake if you have the baking stuff in.