Seriously skint, meal help needed please

[EricNorthmansFangBanger]

So, we're currently in dire straits and any advice on how we can get by would be really appreciated as I'm rubbish at this kind of thing!

I've got about £15 in my purse at the moment, £5 in the bank and no money until 19th September. We're going to try borrow some money off our parents if we can, so I might have around £50 to spend on food to last us from 10th Sept to the 19th Sept. The shops I have close-ish by are Aldi, Lidl, Tesco and Sainsburys. We don't drive so can't really 'shop around'.

The freezer is running low, we have a few tins of beans/spaghetti and around 2 bags of rice in the cupboard, as well as a bag of tageliteli, chopped tomatoes, kidney beans and canelloni beans (sorry about the spelling! ) Oh and two or three tins of soup.

If any of you could be so kind to give me cheap meal ideas to last us 10 days for breakfast/lunch/dinner for 2 adults (one who's pregnant) and 2 children aged 4 & 1, then that would be fantastic. 1 year old will be at nursery from Monday and have the majority of her meals there, 4 year old at school so has school dinners covered. I'm a student and DH is job seeking so we will need meals for us, although we have been skipping around one meal a day to stretch food.

Thank you in advance.

[milk]

How did it go EricNorthmansFangBanger?

[zinaida]

I know it's'a bit late, but this bacon and lentil soup is lovely, easy, and about 50p per person, and would make a main meal if served with rolls.
Serves 6
100g bacon (get cooking bacon it's'incredibly cheap in Sainsburys)
1 leek, 1 carrot, 1 onion
2 sticks celery
200g red lentils, rinsed
1.5 litres water
Tbsp oil

Slice the veg and bacon. Fry the onion for 5 mins, add everything else and bring to a simmer, simmer for about 1 hr or until the lentils and veg have softened.
You can serve this with chopped frankfurters added if you have extra cash, otherwise it's'perfectly nice without.

[LittleAbruzzenBear]

I do a massive '2 day' pasta bake. I soften onion and garlic then sauté veg, I usually use peppers, tomatoes and courgettes. Put this in a large baking dish. Add a large pan of pasta that you have already cooked e.g. fusilli or penne to the dish. Then I make a white sauce, pour it over and sprinkle cheese on top. Bake at 190 for 30-40mins. Sometimes the dish is veggie, sometimes I add tuna or bits of crispy bacon. Anything goes really.