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

Our weekly shop is only £40 so I think this is very doable.

How old is your DD? Can she do any jobs for a relative / neighbour/ friend for a little pocket money? Even if it was just half it would help.

£22 for food for 4 days plus a packed lunch is very doable.

Cornflakes / cereal breakfast each day with a banana.

Lunch sandwich / beans on toast

Dinner
As the suggestions above. Or bag of frozen chips or make chips, egg , ham
Tomato pasta
Omelette
Veggie bolognese.

Make a big pot of soup for lunch. Cereal/toast for breakfast. A few simple dinners like pasta orbaked potato with beans and you'll manage fine.

You can get smart price pasta really cheap. Get some cheap pasta sauce and some cheese.

Spaghetti hoops. Something like 22p in Asda. Lovely on toast.

Baked potatoes with beans and cheese. Lovely and very filling and fibrous.

Tinned rice pudding for afters. You can get a smartprice tin in asda for about 40p.

I'm surprised at a) OP needs suggestions to budget, and b) people thinking the dd will have to ditch the trip so they can eat.

It's a perfectly reasonable budget to feed two people quite well. Does no one do meal plans or cook from scratch?

No neighbours or family.

Why do people think DD should give up her trip?

Shes got an inset day and
Is planning to go to an event with friends . I work full time so its handy for me too

excatly, the trip is doable and the budget is doable, but it will be survival meals on supermarkets own brands versions

If there is only the 2 of you I would say that's plenty for a few days buy non branded food and get the yellow sticker meat

Our Lidl has £5 veg boxes on sale when the shop opens, with stock that is getting near to the best before date. I have cooked some Miguel Barclay £1 meal recipes (you can find them for free on his Instagram and some of them are on the bbc good food website) and they have been nice

I don't think she should give her trip up, it was just a win:win suggestion.

But yes, it is doable. Do you have any points / rewards on loyalty cards?

Big bag of frozen chips, eggs and baked beans?

Try the TooGood to Go app

Think I woiuld just do pasta and either cheap pasta sauce or Tim of tomatoes and onion and garlic and have same dinners and then toast and sandwiches from a loaf of bread

I’d say she doesn’t need £10 on Monday. she can wait until you’ve got more money.

Why would you waste so much money on takeaway chips when you could make your own wedges in the oven for a fraction of the price?

Because if you give her £10 you only have £20 to feed you both for a week?!

cost of wedges, then cost of gas or electric in cooking them ?

Cant she rearrange lovey

I think people are being pretty harsh on op. £22 is doable but is not straightforward (at least in the part of the UK I live in). Especially without bread/gluten!

if you can accept boring meals for a few days it’s OK with some planning. Like others suggested, supermarket own brands will make the difference here, along with making dinners that can last more than one meal e.g.,
-breakfasts of porridge with milk, honey, tinned fruit
-packed lunch with a sandwich and supermarket own brand fruit/crisps/yogurt/snacks
-dinners of daal and rice, economy chilli type of thing, stir fry etc
-snacks of own brand biscuits and fruit

good luck x

Im just a bit overwhelmed by the requirements of the meals and our diets (i don't eat wheat, dd doesnt eat fruit) trying to be healthy! Shes a teenager with a big appetite

Im looking at olio and too good to go now

Try baked potatoes - you can get a pack of 4 for around 80p in Tesco. I'm gluten free so also avoid wheat and they are my "go to" when I need something cheap and filling.

The coop ius extremely expensive, I would never suggest them to someone on a tight budget

I am looking at community kitchens.

I don't think we need a food bank. I don't feel comfortable using one just because Im in a sticky place at the end of the Christmas month