To those who are not sure you can feed a family for less than £100 a week

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I posted a few pictures on the other shopping conversation of the food I cooked as people simply refused to belive you can weekly shop for less than £100 and not just eat pasta all week

Just come back from shopping and just wanted to show you my list and weekly plan Monday is not on their because I already have the dinner we are having salmon baby roasted potatoes and squash wedges with green beans

I have 3 kids and a cat no less Sp 5 of us in total this list includes stuff for lunch as well for me and husband

I it can be done if you don’t allow grazing and make a meal plan the

Thanks diggerty I just copied and pasted from your post but that's much better! My plan is to clear the freezer this half term, then go to the market, buy a load of meat and do your recipes!

DiggertyDamn The four year old loves korma, but nothing too spicy. She ate some of her dads chicken tikka from subway and was so proud she was eating spicy lol

No worries. :)

That's what we did. Apart from the cook off stuff the only things we have in our freezer are some peas and minced pork (we roll them so they are sausage shaped becuase they fit and stack in the freezer better that way).

I love korma! So I'm in her camp.

I don't understand what this about op and I don't think you do either

Well this is reeeeally awkward

I've added a few more things now. I'm quite enjoying writing everything down, and now DH and I won't have to keep asking each other how we make stuff.

I pay £80 for a weeks food for 5. It’s not difficult and I have always spent around the same amount. We don’t eat meat which helps. I don’t buy cheap processed shite either, I find vegetables in particular to be cheap. That includes packed lunches for my DS (DD’s are KS1). DP and I get lunch at work though.

Yeah our food is pretty cheap, we can't eat processed because of DSs allergy so that simplifies things massively. We also really like veggie and vegan food.

I've just put all this into tesco app and it came to £78.42...

Breakfasts weekday- porridge and frozen blueberries
Breakfast weekend- bacon and eggs

Lunch- soup and bread x2
Tomato spaghetti
Ham salad sandwiches x2
Cheese on toast
Chicken, quinoa and avocado salad made with left over chicken from tea

Tea- spag bol
Sausage and mash
Pallea
Chicken thigh tray bake
Beef curry
Fake nandos chicken
Roast chicken

Veg to go with each meal- peas, sweetcorn, peppers, carrots and broccoli.

Snacks- 2 big tubs of yoghurt
Apple and banana each per day
Carrots and houmous (2 packs)
Cheese and crackers

Just over 20 quid left for toiletries, a treat etc.

It included bisto, curry powder and herbs etc, but not salt, pepper or cooking oil.

Not the most exciting meal plan but not loads of processed food and a reasonable amount of fruit and veg...

diggerty Inspired by you, I have cooked up a load of mince with grated carrots, onions and celery and frozen it I was too lazy to make the full meals but thought if I threw a container of mince in the slow cooker in the morning with all the other ingredients, it would defrost and cook as it went! If I do that with raw mince I get lumps but pre cooked should be better! 1.5 kg of mince filled 7 big foil containers but they will be big portions with all the lentils etc added so may last a couple of days or leftovers for lunch. Thanks for the idea

Lunch - DD2 - Aldi's halzenut and chocolate spread on white bread, monster munch (from Iceland which is next door to Aldi), apple, Aldi squeezy yoghurt, Aldi fruitshoot, Aldi's version of Jaffa cakes x 3.

That lunch is full of sugar and crap. Is it the usual?

Awesome raisedbyguineapigs I love grating veg in. I often grate courgette into cakes, doesn't add any flavor and you can't taste it but it really adds moisture.

I just made some oat fingers and put on how I do those. They are a great snack for DC or adults, and will satisfy a sweet tooth if you put in a little honey or cocoa powder.

I love courgette cake. I'll look up the oat fingers. I need to do some stuff for packed lunches at the weekend ill be your blog stalker

There are some on here who seem completely oblivious of others' struggles and problems and just want to show their superiority.

1. There have been a lot of pps on here who just don't have a lot to spend on food. This is different to choosing not to spend much on food. The former live from week to week and the cupboards are bare at the end of the week. The later budgets carefully, can stock up on bargains and has a storecupboard to fall back on.
2. You can eat a decent variety of foods on a limited budget. You would struggle to eat as well on a VERY limited budget but that doesn't mean the diet is any poorer nutritionally necessarily.
3. Some children are faddy eaters. If you do not have much money to spend on food, it would take a saint to persevere with buying foods they know will be wasted.
4. And lastly, Namechangewarrier, the pp has already stated she knows this is crap, but she can't afford anything better. If you don't read the full thread, don't be an arse and jump in to judge.

How about feed a family of 7 on £100 a week that breakfast packed lunch for 4 kids and evening meal and snacks for the kids. Not easy but essential. Just food fruit and toiletries no alcohol or cigarettes. It helps that I cook everything and can bake.

We feed a family of 4 foryhe equivalent of £20 a week.

Breakfast is always eggs from our chickens. We have 8 for eggs and 10 for meat.

We have a bee hive, that covers our sugar needs for the year.

We raise rabbits for meat. This is supplemented by venison we hunt. I hope to get a couple goats for milk and meat soon. It will be nice to have milk again!

We grow as much of our own veg as possible, most successful veg is pumpkin, squash and tomatoes. They make up the majority of our diet.

We have to buy dried beans/pulses, corn and nuts.

There is practically no fruit or veg on those receipts?

Lunch - DD2 - Aldi's halzenut and chocolate spread on white bread, monster munch (from Iceland which is next door to Aldi), apple, Aldi squeezy yoghurt, Aldi fruitshoot, Aldi's version of Jaffa cakes x 3.

No disrespect, I know it's hard to find something cheap that the kids will eat. How about the white bread being swapped for wholemeal or at least half and half, if she won't eat brown? The fruitshoot could be swapped for tap water and the jaffa cakes cut out all together as she's already had the chocolate in the sandwich. That would also save a bit of money from not buying the fruit shoots and jaffa cakes.

raisedbyguineapigs Try some of the cheese sticks. If you put them in an airtight container they'll be fine for a few days and perfect for lunches. DH makes some and them we put them in a big tub and take it out with us and the DC help themselves. They sit in the cargo bike and have a little party munching on stuff DH is making some in a bit actually.
There's no reason why you couldn't grate something into the mix. Carrot might be quite nice in them.

Or onion. Cheese and onion is a perfect mix... I'm going to ask DH to put some in todays to try it.

There are some really nasty people on here who keep picking on the same post over and over again the poster has explained several times why her dd has the lunch that she has but people are not reading the thread as usual.

She said she didn't like feeding her crap but money is tight, so some of us were trying to offer alternatives - that's not picking on her, it's offering help.

The two receipts add up to around £50 (had to zoom in) so even if these are for only a few meals then yes you can spend less than £100. Some horrible people on here saying all that food looks vile. The OP tried to do something nice and helpful.

Because my kids would eat all the fruit on your list in one day? There’s nowhere near enough fruit and veg on your list for us