To ask you how to make £30 last

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I have £30 to last until Wednesday
Im ok for petrol for work
My DD needs £8-10 on Monday
I have £22 to make meals from tomorrow - Tuesday night and one packed lunch Wednesday

Please help. I have porridge, brown rice , eggs, and a little bit of pasta

So what meals do you need to make? And does your daughter really need so much of your weekly budget?

Pasta, beans on toast, scrambled eggs.

It may not be the most exciting menu for the next few days but it is doable.

2l of milk and 6 apples = overnight oats each night
cheap veg (onion,carrots) make egg fried rice
with the eggs and brown rice

Pasta and tomato sauce
Egg fried rice
Dal and rice
Soup and sandwich
Egg and beans on toast
French toast

Have you a Coop near you? DB buys this deal often, it seems very good value

https://www.coop.co.uk/products/deals/freezer-fillers

How much rice and pasta, how many eggs and how many are you cooking for please. Do you need to provide breakfast, lunch and dinner every day?

Do you have a "too good to go" shop near you? My mum often gets lovely bits in those, although it's a bit pot luck what you get it might help?

Buy some lentils and rice, add eggs and if you have curry powder you've got a hearty meal for a couple of evenings

Keep an eye on olio for free food.

Big Bag of potatoes will do jackets and mash

pack of mince, cook half as a cottage pie with some of the mash and the other half a chilli to go with your rice.

tins of beans for the chilli and to go on jackets

omlettes with the eggs and could use potatoes for homemade chips

Porridge oats for breakfast.

bag of pasta, jar of pesto for an easy meal.

any bits of veg to make a soup?

Why does the child need £8-10?!

cheese on toast, porridge, baked potato, beans on toast... bag of apples, a cucumber and a bag of carrots for veggies... box of cheap cereal (own brand cornflakes or some such similar meal), I don;t think it's hard.

anything lurking in your cupboards or freezer Op or is that literally all the food you have in house? And for how many people?

I think you could get the basics for £20. Won’t be very exciting meals, but milk, bread, some more pasta, beans, veg, cheese, potatoes, tinned tuna would feed you for a few days.

How many of you? Just you and DD or more?

What happens on Wednesday?

Do you have anywhere near you that does too good to go bags? There’s also a place near me that sells surplus food from supermarkets for a small donation, I’m not sure where you are but there may be somewhere local that does similar!

What have you got in Yr cupboards such as: flour, curry powder, oil, stock cubes?

Can you get to a street market, Aldington, etc?

Cd yiu get a referral to a food bank?

Join olio. It’s a free app where food waste heroes collect that days best before and use by foods from shops and list it up for free collection to save waste.

Anything from bread rolls to Guinea fowl and pork chops on ours locally. With the abundance of veg and potatoes too.

What shops do you have to chose from? How many people? What do you already have in the fridge/freezer and cupboards?
Any allergies/intolerances to consider?
Do you also need toiletries or pet food?

Do you have time to go to supermarkets and find heavily reduced items? You could probably get loads of food if so!

If it was me, I'd buy a big bag of cheap pasta and have it for most meals, but I quite like eating the same thing repeatedly. Or discounted bread/bagels. I wouldn't bother trying to be healthy for a couple of days on a tight budget.

If there are just 2 of you and you have porridge, brown rice, eggs and pasta, you can afford to eat well and give her £10 on Monday morning. List everything else in your cupboards please: flour, cornflour, salt and pepper, a tin of tuna at the back, everything please.

https://www.facebook.com/share/p/1DsgHgzvwL/

The link is to Feed your Family for £20 she posts a shopping list and meal plan for a family of four that's roughly £22.
She costs it up from multiple shops.

Dd is going out with friends and needs bus and entrance fee

Join olio

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