Help - £20 to survive weekend!

[katiewins22]

Hi - Just had massive car bill - totally unexpected and have paid from current account balance. vowed not to use credit cards again so we Have £27 in cash in the house but will need to put some petrol in as light been flashing since yesterday!! Will just put £7 in and that should do until monday morning when child benefit arrives in bank.

Can anybody give emergency cheap recipes for weekend. Need to get milk, fruit, veg etc - 2 adults and 3 children this weekend - then food on top. Have a bag of pasta and some passata sauce so will prob do that tonight and fry an onion in with it. Have ton of carrots so will make some carrot soup for lunch tomorrow. Just need idea of how to do meals sat evening/sun evening - any simple suggestions welcome.. thanks k......

I don't do my food shopping online but what I do fine useful is to do a virtual shop,log on to your usual supermarket and you can see how much your are spending and cut back. Mince always stretches to feed lots of people, value onions & potatoes hopefully you have stockcubes /gravy and you have a cottage pie. It won't hurt not have a lot of fruit just for the weekend and buy seasonal veg.Is it possible for you to shop later to night when they put reduced bread/rolls out for about 10p.

I don't know how it works across the country but I have already received my child benefit a few days ago.

I WORK FOR A BANK AND CHILD BENEFIT DUE ON A MON AM GOES IN OVERNIGHT FRIDAY NIGHT .

HOPE SO FOR YOU X

Baked potatoes with cheese and beans? Vegetable curry? Vegetable soup with lentils/beans?

Macaroni, leeks (should be cheap this time of year) and a packet of cheap bacon off cuts. Fry Bacon bits in a big Sauce pan, cut up 1 leek per adult amd half per child or what you have. Cook off slowly with a lid on add about 100g per adult/ 50g child of macaroni dry to pan stir in water to cover ( can add an oxo if you have it) slow simmer till macaroni is cooked and most of the water is gone. Its from a ww2 ration recipe book (which are great for cheap healthy meals) so you can do it with as little bacon as you can afford. I know I'm abit later to add this but I hope you get though the weekend ok. Its crap when this happens to us so Good luck. And if all else fails do beans on toast or a big bowl of soup and loaf of bread.

thank you all - a miracle happened -Found £20 in my coat pocket - we are rich!! I still shopped really sensibly this morning though. I actually think we often just buy stuff and very rarely have to count the pennies so yesterday made me look at how we shop and eat etc. I love that recipe byanymeans and will definitely use it. I made a lovely carrot and coriander soup last night (before I found the extra £20). I never tend to check my child benefit in advance but will loook at my online bank just in case - thanks again everybody. K...

Mine goes in after 12pm on a Sunday (tis due on Mondays) never realised until last month! :)