Help me get enough food for a week with £80!!! 2 adults,2 kids,1 baby (diabetic coeliac dh!)

[shoneshine]

Im now under a budget to pay bills and pay off my overdraft, have £100 pw after bills but would love to do my fd shop for less!Finding it harder since wev found dh is a coeliac as have to buy more potatoes, diff biscuits etc for when his sugar levels go low. Also like to have fruit etc for kids and I really must make my own babyfood! Kids are ds 4, dd 2 and baby ds 6m. Grateful to anyone w ideas! Thanks!

ps - I shop w Tesco direct for ease!

Just a little thought - don't know if it's any help. You mention lots of potatoes - I usually shop at Morrisons and they do a HUUUUUGE sack of potatoes for about £3.50 (I think it is) - obviously for all I know Tesco may also do a huge sack like it too and my post is a waste of time

Can diabetics get diabetic biscuits or jam on prescription cos my dad is diabetic.

Sorry it's taken so long to get back on this post - here's the recipe for gluten free scones. They are quite cakey as they are adapted from my mum's recipe which has eggs in it. Substitute the sugar for a diabetic alternative or add cheese/herbs etc to make this a savoury scone.

Ingredients
8oz doves farm flour
2tsp baking powder
3oz butter
3oz ground almonds
2 eggs, beaten
2-3 oz sugar
fruit

Mix the flour and baking powder. Rub in the butter. Add the sugar, ground almonds and fruit. Add egg bit by bit until a dough is formed. You should only need 1.5 eggs, but save the left over to glaze the top.

Refridgerate if necessary - it will make the dough easier to roll out.
On a lightly floured surface, roll out the dough to halfway up the cutter. Cut into rounds, glaze with the leftover beaten egg and bake for 20 mins at 180 C or until a knife comes out clean.

Try Glutafin bread - it's got some kind of wheat with the gluten removed in it (don't understand) and it tastes the best. Otherwise, most breads are ok toasted - which made me obsessed with my breville for a while!!

Also, look up the websites of all of the gluten free bread etc companies - Glutafin, Juvela, Trufree etc- when I was diagnosed you could fill in a form and they would send you samples to try out to see what tasted decent so this could be a help...

Sorry no tips on budgeting - I try really hard but am really rubbish so hoping to pick up some advice myself!!!

You lot are so clever! Went to Asda today, usually get a few bits to last till Thur when I do the big Tesco shop online but I thought I`d get as much as I could with £60 then to save the tesco delivery (had my battered faithful double buggy to load up).
I got 'cheap no asda smart brand' things I never used to look at. The cheapest bread was 47p, not as heap as I thought but I got a huge turkey drumstick for £1.26 which I can roast,a big pack of beef mine and tray of pork steaks cheap too. Got enough meat for 9 days meals and other things too, didnt get any cleaning products or veg but got quite alot of fruit. Will make some more baby food soon to save £ and the soaking porridge tips good, will try the cleaning tips too (when I get round to housework!)

Thankyou for the recipie pecanpie!' goldFAQinsenceandmyrrh' I go to Morrisons to but haven`t seen the sack! Will look next time, the biggest size Tesco deliver is 2.5kg!!! A 25kg sack lasted us almost 2 weeks, not long!

ahh - I just checked my one - it's 12.5kgs (so I suppose not really a sack - just looks like one compared to a measly little plastic pack full) noticed that it was reduced to £3.49 when I bought it - from £5.49 so I guess it would last you a week (and have no idea how much cheaper that works out than 2.5kg packs ) - but it seemed like a bargain to me

oh but I tell you where else to look for potatoes - the market, often get good price for potatoes on the market too.

Its a pain as we dont have a market for ten miles where we can buy fruit and veg here!!! And we dont drive. My mum and dad got us the sack last time from a farm, I may see if any local farms deliver but will check morrisons first, thankyou!!!

oh that's a bumme r- our market is crap (on the whole) but there is a decent fruit and veg stall where I sometimes get my potatoes.

shoneshine - do you have a lidl/aldi/netto near you?

There is a Lidl about ten miles away (morrisons and asda in our town) Im thinking of getting the bus there tomorrow to get the nappies they do and some fruit n veg, my check out the site for offers now, Im probably the only visitor to the site,lol!

Does your pushchair have a big basket? A rucksack might come in handy if you have one aswell.

You've had some good advice! I've had a good look as my DH is coeliac and my ds2 is T1 diabetic - the joys of having something which can be passed on from his dad We get loads on prescription but are vegetarian so that saves quite a bit of money, I expect.

btw, we NEVER buy diabetic foods, they're just expensive laxatives and it's much better to eat healthily. The carbohydrate value of foods is what drives up blood sugars and 'diabetic' foods are full of carbs, even the sweets.

lol, they are laxatives, we bought 'diabetic chocolate' one and poor dh spent alot of time in the toilet after! We dnt buy diabetic food either. What foods do you get on prescription? We havent been given any info from our gp practice!!! Nappyaddict I shop with a mothercare phoenix tandem ,its a bit battered but I can get loads on it! It was creakng the other day. U should have seen me balancing a huge 'graco entertainer' station thing on the hood (baby in front) earlier this week, I spotted it thrown out with the bins so nabbed it for my ds after asking permission of course! It needed a clean but works fine. Everyone in town was staring though, Im loaded up enough without a huge ufo on top of the double pushchair, lol!!!

We get loads of food on prescription, but only for the coeliac side of things. Mainly breads, 'white mix' which I use as flour to do pastry, scones, etc. We also get pasta, pizza bases, biscuits - sweet and savoury, and some hideously annoying crisp breads which are horribly crunchy sounding and drop crumbs everywhere. DH buys a year's prescription'season ticket' so it's a one off cost.