Aiming to feed family of 6 breakfast and dinners for £70

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Ok so I'm really strapped for cash. I'm going to see if I can manage this! I'm not saying it's ideal but it think it's possible.

Disclaimer - its just food. Drinks are tea, squash, milk and coffee

I'm trying to see if I can feed 3 adults and 3 kids for breakfast and dinner for the week ( only me has lunch at home)

Monday
Toast half thick toasty 79p loaf from lidl

Butter 1.99 sains

Lunch two slices of bread.

Butter
Roast ham 89p tesco 125g
Mayo 90p lidl
Cherry Tom's 69p 250g

Dinner

1.25kg chicken thighs £5.99 per kg in Costco £7.49
Rice 48p kg Tesco
Two jars lidl Tikkia 79p

Fruit 6 apples gala tesco 90p

Total 15.71

Would normally have narn bread with curry but just using what I have in

Tuesday
Rest of loaf, ham, butter, toms, mayo from yesterday for lunch and breakfast so additional cost plus more bread 79p

Dinner
2 packs straight to wok noodles lidl 85p each
Pork shoulder steaks 6 pack thinly sliced 4.79 lidl

Bag mixed veg 72p

Apples 90p

Total cost £8.90

A cheap, easy sauce for pasta:

Add a drizzle of olive oil to a pan
Heat oil and add a tin of tomatoes
Add a pinch of sugar, salt and herbs of your choice and a few grinds of black pepper
Heat and squish up the tomatoes in the pan.

Serve with pasta and grated cheese - what else? 😀

* the addition of oil, sugar, salt, pepper and dried herbs is a great way to jazz up a cheap tin of tomatoes.

Spaghetti carbonara (pack of value spaghetti 28p, yolks of 4 eggs approx 95p, 4 slices chopped value bacon 92p, grated cheese 50p, garlic powder 5P, mushrooms 70p, handful frozen peas (40p, optional)- total £3.80, prices Asda)

Dahl (half a pack of lentils 60p, 1 onion 30p, oil and spices 85p ish, 2 stock cubes 20p- total £1.95. Can serve with the roti above, and add tinned tomatoes (45p) or coconut milk (£1) if you want. Could also stir in some cooked chicken/ other meat if you have any around)

Barley risotto (half bag pearl barley 35p, 2 stock cubes 20p, onion 30p, 4 slices chopped bacon 92p, mushrooms 70p, handful peas 40p, some cheese to stir through 50p-£1 (cream cheese or goat’s cheese taste best), garlic powder 5p- total £3.42-£3.92… can omit or substitute bacon/ mushrooms/peas if needed)

morrocan stew (2 tins chickpeas 86p, 2 tins tomatoes 86p, onion 30p, ginger, coriander, cinnamon, garlic powder, paprika approx 50p if you have them or £4 if you don’t, bag of carrots 30p, bag of couscous 60p, spoonful of honey 20p if you have it, £1.80 if you have to buy a jar- total £3.62 or £9.72… can add meat if you have some or have money spare in budget)

Must depend on the school. My primary aged DC struggle to eat their evening meal because they are still full from school lunches🤷

Get tinned tomatoes and curry powder in future to save buying pre made curry, so much cheaper also frozen veg pre packed veg is likewise pricey. Also usually cheaper to buy a joint of meat for main meal x 2 plus sandwiches than pre packed sandwich meat. I grate veg and add lentils I to mince to bulk it up then freeze the extra so it goes further.

I'm bulking out my curries with tinned peaches now which is going down well with the kids. I think all the kids eat well at school but it's a long day so I like to give them a hot meal at night too so I can see they have eaten

Sorry if this has already been answered but chickpea flour i.e. gram flour works best made into a batter rather than for ‘roti’. I’ve never really made dough out of it. For roti use chappati flour - can be found in most Asian supermarkets as well as the world food aisles of mainstream aupermarkets. If not, plain flour or maybe even self raising flour will work better than gram.

Then the teenager can eat the burger without the bun, I do it all the time (homemade burger). I'm a Coeliac, welcome to my world kid! 😄

In fact, guess what's cooking in the kitchen right now, with oven chips and a salad...

Ooh sorry, quoted wrong post, but was just coming back to say what a wise post @midgemadgemodge has made.

I'll shut up and go and enjoy my breadless burger now! 🤣

I never did have the burgers in a bagal! But I did learn a lot from that week. I think it would have been a good combination now.

Omelette. Eggs from Aldi