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Please help me plan my weekly food shop, max £110 family of 5.

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GoneSeaFishing · 25/05/2023 13:50

We have a 4 month cash flow issue and worked out I have £110 a week to spend on groceries, including toiletries and cleaning products. Please chuck your cheap filling meal ideas at me, two adults and three kids 12-17 years old, I’m prepared to skip breakfast, lunch and half my dinner portion (could do with losing a stone anyway) but not prepared to ask anyone else to join me. I have £20 in Asda rewards that I am going to use on top of the £110 this week to get basic toilet rolls, dishwasher tablets, laundry powder, all purpose cleaner, shampoo, conditioner, deodorant and bar soap to last the month.

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AltheaVestr1t · 25/05/2023 17:07

Omelettes are my top tip. Very flexible. Whatever veg you can find, with any kind of cheese grated in, topped with cheddar or Parmesan. Ten eggs feeds four comfortably with bread on the side, so a dozen could do five at a stretch, with more veg to bulk it out. Really tasty and quick to cook too.

Turfwars · 25/05/2023 17:30

Porridge for breakfast - very filling, and if you get the regular packet rather than the fancy instant version, it's not that much longer to cook.

We used to have it with half water half milk to make it a little cheaper. Fire on some seeds or wheat germ for extra nutrition.

A big veg soup was another one that filled up us lot - onions, carrot celery, some chopped bacon, barley lentils and chickpeas in a chicken stock and add in whatever herbs or spices you like, served with spuds.

OldEvilOwl · 25/05/2023 17:38

Breakfast - overnight oats. Soak small amount of oats in milk overnight. Add frozen berries or raisins. Cheap and filling
Cheap meals -
Toasties
Baked potatoes
Pasta & sauce
Eggy bread/egg &soldiers/omelette
Toad in the hole (make your own yorkshire batter)
Stew
Soup & sandwich/roll

mathanxiety · 25/05/2023 17:40

Flour
Sugar
Milk
Eggs
Butter
Bicarbonate
Lemon juice
Tuna, sardines
Porridge oats
Mince
Pasta
Rice
Spuds
Tins of chopped tomatoes
Dried basil, oregano
Lentils
Onions, garlic
Frozen broccoli, peas, green beans, berries
Bananas, apples (bake banana cake when the bananas get too ripe - nice for dessert or breakfast)
Parmesan, cheddar
Maybe a chicken - use bones for stock and leftover bits of meat for soup.

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