Just Spent Under £70 On The Food Shop!!

[StopGrowingPlease]

£64.58 in Morrisons and £3.50 at the Food Pantry. The meal plan could be healthier but healthy foods and recipes from scratch unfortunately cost a lot more and we were spending far too much money that we just don’t have 😞

So this week is Rice Crackles for breakfast every day.
Lunches will be 2 days of ham and cheese bagels, a cheese salad sandwich, hot dogs, 2 days of jacket potatoes with tuna/beans/cheese and leftover chilli with nacho’s.
Teas will be burgers and homemade chips, meatballs with mash broccoli and carrots, chicken kyivs with homemade chips and roasted broccoli, fish and homemade chips, pizza, chilli and rice and hot dog pasta bake. So a lot of unhealthy stuff but at least we’ll be having full meals that we can afford 🤷‍♀️

Well done. My last shop was double that - I almost had a heart attack

I spent a lot in tesco this morning trying to stock up for the start of the school holidays tomorrow. Even though I literally shopped the clubcard offers and general reductions.

That’s a lot of chips , perhaps do seasoned wedges or flat chips to break it up a bit.

If you can afford it the bigger supermarkets often do a massive bag of rice that lasts us 2 months.

Even if you buy the 1kg 45p white rice it comes out only 3.4p a serve.

I'd cook fewer meals and have the same thing twice if possible, is this for four people? Things like chilli you can make 8 serves with 500g mince, two tins of beans and lots of cheap veg like onion, carrots, sweet potato/butternut squash, frozen peppers. Dhal or vegetable curries like cauliflower and chickpea curry are also very cheap.

If £70 is for four then that's very good.

Lots of budget recipes here, I'm using some to teach my teen to cook as they are very simple (he usually just helps me where required and would live on pesto pasta if I left him for a week).
https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/collections/1_dinners

We've done PP tip of four meals over 8 days. Things like curry and chilli. One day with rice. Next with flat breads or nachos.

No snacks other than fruit for the kids.

We did sausage and mash with veg and I just had the potatoes and veg as 8 sausages doesn't do 5 people.

I'm losing weight 😂😭

@BadgerFacedCoo It would work in a sausage casserole, just cut up the sausage before serving, can also be served with mash. I use a tin of beans for more protein, you could use red lentils too. You shouldn't be eating dinner with no protein yourself.

That's a wonderful suggestion, thank you.

I'll be honest, I winter well. No chance of my fading away and with 3 children to feed they need the protein more. Lentils have protein in (?) so your suggestion may solve the issue. Thank you.

You could do a toad in the hole - i cut the sausages in half, so 1 to 1 1/2 per person there is extra protein in the batter

I was £123 this week for 2 adults and a cat - to be fair some of that was a months' worth of stuff (cat litter, cat food, toilet roll etc) but still it feels so much more than it used to be... And we're hardly treating ourselves. No biscuits etc.

We spent £142 on Thursday and kept to our shopping list exactly. We’ve got food for approx 3 weeks for 2 adults. However, i was fuming with DH because at the end of the shop he said he needed a wee and I said after that I’d wait with the shopping whilst he picked up Easter eggs for the kids and our mums (5 in total) He spent £22.50!!!

I was very cross with him when I saw the receipt at home. That’s one seventh of the cost of our shop spent on chocolate and after we’d been so careful. I told him he should have just got the £1 ones as the kids are all grown ups anyway. Ah well, at least the food shop was cheap and I’ve learnt an expensive lesson. DH needs supervision at all times when using the joint account for fun purchases 😆 😆

I would also suggest halving the sausages by creating new links and serving with onion gravy.
Also for treats a selection of classic biscuits: custard creams, rich tea and milk digestive.

If you twist them in half do they stay twisted? To you twist and cut or cut when they are cooked?

I'm pinching that meal plan @StopGrowingPlease ! (Great username btw. Feet don't get much bigger than adult 14 do they?)

This website and it's sister FB page are excellent Feed your Family for £20/week

That is only 5 portions of veg all week and no
fruit, u can do so much better

We have fruit too I just didn’t include it as they’re not meals

I'm always out with just my phone but lately I have to carry a card because I'm going over the contactless limit now. 😣

There isn't a limit on tapping with the phone. It's not like contactless

It's £100 I thought.

Is that a week's shop? How many are in your family?