I have a grand total of £17.40 to last for 3 people and 2 dogs until a week on Saturday. I am going shopping today please give me some tips!!

[DustyTv]

I do have bits and bobs in, but need things like milk and bread, I also need wipes.

DH wants meat We do not have enough in the freezer to last us meat wise. DD and I do not eat much meat and TBH would be veggie if it was just us two.

So today I have to go to the market/supermarket/anywhere to get cheap food, enough for 2 adults, 1 gannet of a DD and 2 dogs.

Where do I start??

Wont dog food take up most of it straight off?

Have you got flannels in the house? Use them wet instead of wipes for all face wiping/just wee changes and save the wipes you have for poos!

If you havent got enough for more meat (and you havent) just tell Dh you dont have enugh for more meat and he will hvae to make so with whats in freezer till next Sat.

Get all veggie stuff...
BIG bag of pots is a good start and base lots of meals round that
Rice?
Pasta?

I do have rice and pasta in, but you are right the dog food and DH's meat is gonna take the most of it up. He doesn't do veggie grrrr.

I was thinking of getting a giant bag of complete dog mix/biscuits for the dogs, so they will not go hungry but maybe I can make it go a bit further.

Big bag of potatoes is a good idea, thanks. Just how am I going to get them home on a buggy lol.

I also need some toilet roll, we are okay for it now , but we will need it in the week once we have run out.

WRT the wipe I suppose I could use flannels in the house (I am washing the terry nappies anyway) and wipes for out and about.

That is not to mention the fact that we will need fresh milk and bread in the week.

do you know how to make bread?

TBH I'd say tough to your DH about not doing veggie.
If it comes down to a choice between having meat for him OR having toilet paper for all of you and milk for your DD would he really insist on meat??

i think your dh will need to compromise on his meat request. Do you have tins of tomatos, beans etc in?

well he's going to have to do Veggie, and put up or shut up. My H didn't "do" veggie, but when we were totally skint he put up with it.

Dusty,
I use flannels/cut up terry squares for wipes all the time even when out.

Sp thats one expense less.
Meat? well I buy all my meat in halal butchers, my dp is an ex slaughter man so knows it is just the same and it is cheaper as well. Go and buy £5 of chicken there you get plenty as well.

Toilet roll....go cheap for a few days it all goes down the same place!

Hmmm the dog food......can't help there

If DH wants meat...well halal or tell him he will have to go without this week unless he has some cash stashed lol

If you get big potatoes you can do baked pots and add cheap tin of baked beans for one meal

value eggs are ok for omlettes

rice and roasted chopped veg tossed in oil

pasta and sauce

soup and bread?

could use some of the meat in your freezer to do a big stew/casserole with veg and pots and then freeze half for another day as well..

No I don't know how to make bread I know I should learn, but even then I do not have the bits in for it now and would have to buy it in.

Mystery, I know how to make bread.........

PUT ALL INGREDIENTS IN THE BREADMAKER!!!!!!!!

Pasta or rice - mixed with veg & tomato sauce. Toast with egg & beans, toast with jam & butter. Porridge for breakfast. Don't know about feeding dogs though.

In our house we have a meal called the Budget Meal, My mum came up with it years ago when we were ikkle kids.

Pkt of value sausages 47p in morrisons,
2 tins of beans 18p in morrisons
potatoes (enough for mashing)
and a bit of cheese

cook sausages and cut them up
put in the bottom of a deep pyrex dish
pour the beans over the top
add the mash
grate cheese over the top
put it in the oven until cheese browns.

Take out the oven and serve with lashings of ketchup (optional) lol

It is a cheap and filling meal. we had it as dc but now as adults we make it for our dc (dsis and I).

Get to a cheap supermarket (aldi or lidl) their dog food is quite cheap and MILs spoilt fussy dog likes it.
Get a bag of pasta and some pesto, thats 2 meals already
Do you have flour and butter? you could make pastry and fill with small amount of veg/cheap meat for pies, the pastry bulks it out so it feel slike more.
Big sack of potatoes at a farm shop (if you have one)is onl a couple of quid and you cna have them for every meal then. If you have run out of everything else a jacket potato and beans is very cheap then at the end of the week.

I do have plenty of beans and tinned toms and soups etc in. I suppose DH will just have to do veggie once the meat in the freeze runs out.

The thing is if I was just buying for DD and I all we would need is milk, bread, bananas and loo roll lol.

I already buy value loo roll so no compromises can be made there.

FAQ, how did you get him to do veggie when he had to, my DH pretty much only eats meat, I nag at him to have something green, anything green as it is lol.

I showed him what money we had, I wrote down how much various bits cost, and told him that if we didn't all go veggie then we'd all go hungry.

Even he could see it wasn't rocket science and he put up with it, although he was mightily pleased when the money situation eased and he got his meat back on the menu

Oh, and on the DH side, I totally understand as mine is exactly the same (thanks MIL), he will not eat veggies, but he will eat the 'other' side of the meal, so if I do potatoes with it he will just eat the potatoes, or pasta with cheese.
He is old enough to understand that veg wont kill him so, although I try to make meals he will eat, I wont go out of my way, same as for a child.

Is there no way the dogs would eat left overs? i know that sounds bad but they would be having food especially if you mix some dry feed compliment with it?

I tried that FAQ it is a really good idea if your DH is not a picky fecker. It didn't work 'properly' for me as he didnt eat the veg side, but he didnt compain about the lack of meat either as he understood why. Plus it meant that we always had a serving left for DD's and I the next day so double bonus.

Jack,
my ex hated veg and made it difficult to have a decent meal because of this!
Anyway one day I made a soup chicken n veg and blended it up he ate 3 yes 3 bowls of it as he loved it so much....then i told him it had veg in it, he promptly had to lay down a he had a headache!!!!!!

JackBauer - they're adults, if they choose not to eat the veg side that's just tough. We're not talking about little children here, we're talking about grown adults. If they go hungry because they're going to be that pickky - well it's tough shit really.

FAQ- thats what I meant, I didn't cook meat meals and he just didn't eat teh veg and was hungry. Sorry, mustn't have made that clear, I dont pander if money is tight, he just doesn't eat.

PHEW! lol - I thought you meant you did pander to him as we wouldn't eat the veggie bits

TLE, the sausage and mash sounds lovely, I will do that tomorrow and I have sausages in the freezer

DH will sometimes eat veg, but it has to be accompanied by a meat. So he wouldn't have jacket pots and beans unless he had sausages with it too IYSWIM. But like you say I suppose he is just gonna have to deal with it once all of the meat has been used up.

The dogs already get any left overs we have, and will 'clean up' after DD has fed the floor lol. I think a big bag of value complete dog meal (dry food) will just have to do them. TBH it's that or nothing for them. They do love veg as well so are easier to please than DH

DH also wont eat cheese or eggs, he is odd, but I cant blame him, he is a product of his up bringing, I don't think MIL has ever cooked a meal from scratch in her life. Fresh to my MIL means a microwave ready meal that is NOT frozen