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bagpuss

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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 2:47 pm Post subject: Feeding a family of 4 for ï¿½7.10 a day
Given everyone things the sainsburys thing might be possible how about actually giving us a days or even a weeks worth of meals The ï¿½7.10 doesn't need to include store cupboard ingredients but don't take the piss, oil, salt and pepper and spices might be store cupboard ingredients but anything which represents more than 10% of the total ingredients needs to be included in the costing

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 2:59 pm Post subject:

how about porridge for breakfast
cheese on toast for lunch
chilli and rice for dinner

just crunched that through Sainsburies and my basket came out at ï¿½8.48- But, that included a kilo of rice, a kilo of porridge, a loaf of bread and a pound of cheese and all the other ingredients including several onions and two heads of garlic, I reckon at least half the porridge, rice, onions, garlic and bread and some of the milk will carry forwards to the next day so its probably about on track. Could have got it cheaper by going for cheaper mince too, I went for the lean steak mince. Ideally would add some fruit to that lot.

Its probably more accurate to work out a likely weeks menu then run that through the till though, as so much stuff will be cheaper in slightly larger packs, especially things like mince and cheese- that lean steak mince for example, its on offer at 2 for ï¿½5, so that would sort out the core of two main meals across the week easily.

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bagpuss

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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 3:05 pm Post subject:

sally_in_wales wrote:

Sounds good

Well an adult is meant to have about 75g of uncooked rice in a portion so 1KG gives you about 13 portions of rice so you easily reduce your costs there giving you some cash for apples or bananas

sally_in_wales
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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 3:12 pm Post subject:
Fish in crumb with frozen peas and a jacket spud works out within budget especially if you pick an on offer fish maybe with a couscous salad for lunch boiled eggs and soldiers for breakfast that should come in about right for one day

murdrobe

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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 3:33 pm Post subject:

if im running short on my food budget for a week, i make a big stew. loads of cheap veg, a cheap cut of meat and the liquid is made up of stuff i allready have. does me at least 5 days for under ï¿½5 usually.

my take on it would be things like a roast would carry over into the lunches for sandwiches ect.

mince is the obvious cheap source of protein and very versatile also. ï¿½3.70 for a kilo of mince from my butcher yesterday. that should make 2 family meals at least if done right.

a curry made with the jamie oliver curry paste falls into this price bracket too. i would go onto using left over curry paste to make things like pilaf and curry sauce to go with chips ect for lunch times.

Katieowl

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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 4:11 pm Post subject:

Well added to what Sally' bought' (rice and stuff) if you added a (free range) chicken to roast, and some seasonal veg and spuds. You could do a roast dinner, Rissotto next day with the leftovers, and a chicken stock based soup...so that would be two/three more main meals depending on what you put in the soup (lentils maybe?)

If you bought the chicken and veg in Aldi (ï¿½4.99 for the chicken, and veg of the week at @59p a pop (this week sweet potatoes, french beans, vine tomatoes plus something else we can't remember)...we think for just a bit more than a tenner you could do another three main meals.

You'd have enough rice and lentils to make a dhal too... so maybe four main meals?

Kate

Just checked - aldi had rhubarb, courgettes and easy peel oranges for their other 'super six' deal this week.

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 5:03 pm Post subject:
I know that Nestlï¿½ are not the most popular firm around these quarters, but a 750g box of Shreddies was going for ï¿½2 in Sainsbury's recently. That's breakfast sorted for several days for ï¿½2. A.

jamanda
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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 5:08 pm Post subject:
Only if you like eating cardboard. No, I'm strongly in the porridge camp for breakfast. Dinner - could involve liver, but more probably spiced lentils, padded out with rice if you have very hungry people. Lunch - depends on what you had for dinner last night surely? Leftovers is what I have very often.

Katieowl

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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 5:10 pm Post subject:

TBH the way to go with the budget thingy is to eat what is on offer!!! But Sainsbury are hardly going to be telling everyone to go check out the reduced section are they!

Or the BOGOFS or the Deals...

Dinner here last night for four adults was Taste the Difference scottish undyed kippers off the fish counter reduced to about 50p each and scrambled eggs (our eggs), with bread made in the breadmaker. I've still got three kippers left which are currently being turned into pate.

Kate

wildfoodie

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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 8:55 pm Post subject:

katieowl wrote:

But Sainsbury are hardly going to be telling everyone to go check out the reduced section are they!

Actually they do tell you what the BOGOFs are tho not sure if thats what you mean by reduced section.
BOGOFs are always financed by the producer. I feel uncomfortable supporting a corporate squeeze on the producers.

Katieowl

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Posted: Thu May 19, 11 7:17 am Post subject:
Reduced sections = stuff that is marked down from original price, either because of date or overstocks/discontinued. Kate

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Thu May 19, 11 7:27 am Post subject:

wildfoodie wrote:

There was a speaker at the Feast a couple of years back who had a book exposing this topic. I can't remember his name at the moment, but will come back with a name/link later.
A.

earthyvirgo

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Posted: Thu May 19, 11 8:17 am Post subject:

Katieowl wrote:

Just checked - aldi had rhubarb, courgettes and easy peel oranges for their other 'super six' deal this week.

And I've noticed quite a lot of their fruit and veg is British which is an extra Brownie point in my book. They do seem to be making an effort.

Their 3 pack of peppers for example, had 2 x British peppers and one form Holland, or was it Spain. Can't see Tesco doing that.

I think Aldi is a very different shop to the one it was when it first opened and it's my first supermarket of choice for veg at the moment.

EV

bagpuss

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Posted: Thu May 19, 11 8:28 am Post subject:

earthyvirgo wrote:

Katieowl wrote:

Just checked - aldi had rhubarb, courgettes and easy peel oranges for their other 'super six' deal this week.

To be fair to tescos on that front the multi pack peppers do contain british pepper when in season, I know because I buy and pay attention they are british in the summer, spanish/dutch in the spring/autum and israeli in the winter. I should use another veg when they aren't british but we like peppers

Katieowl

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Posted: Thu May 19, 11 8:43 am Post subject:

Aldi have some great buys.

One of my regular buys in there is Applbys roasted ham joint for ï¿½3.49 (500g) it's a solid piece which we run through the slicer at home. It's my standby quick meal with bread/new pots/jacket spuds/salad/pickles...etc. There's plenty left for sandwiches too.
Thick slices can be cut by hand and diced for Quiche/omelettes.
I know it's not free-range etc. but sometimes ï¿½ï¿½ï¿½ are short and you do what you have to.

Also top of the list for quality is the Lacura Shimmering Day Cream...which is less than ï¿½2! Fantastic quality product, before I discovered this I'd be humming and haaring about whether to try yet another thing that was going to irritate my face (and end up being given to the DD's), or just bit the bullet and buy Clinique. All their makeup I've tried is superb, and the YSL Touche Eclat knock off pen is amazing! (Words you thought you'd never see on downsizer! LOL!)

Kate

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