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My £19.56 week meal plan.

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Not that impressed tbh....I spend about £15-20 a week, a bit less and get a much bigger variety...

I buy in bulk though, basically spend £50 on an online shop and then £10 top up....
And i cook in bulk with a stock pot...15 portions of curry/Korma easy in one cook, freeze that and next day cook 15 portions of spag bol, freeze that, etc. Then have some quick frozen food like pies, chicken kiev etc.

Korma i use patak paste(which is usually 8 portions) but with additional curry powders and spices i easily stretch it to 15 portions and it tastes awesome.

I also buy from ASDA but don't buy their ASDA smart stuff....quite a lot of it is rank...

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Reply 121

Student2806

You could easily do without dessert 7 days a week tbph :o:

I never have it at uni.

Reply 122

Broderss

live off rice, pasta, bread, milk, eggs, and oats. works out pretty cheap and you get all the calories you need. you'll have to take vitamin supplements also to make sure you get all the vitamins and ****. eat lots of eggs and drink lots of milk and you won't need much meat.

Reply 123

Kareir

Original post by insignificant

Spicy Vegetable Bacon Potato soup
Fry off bacon
Boil Potatoes
Put bacon, potatoes, vegetables, some chillis, and stock into a pan and simmer on a low heat for 2 hours.
Blend.

This sounds so good. So making that. Chilies are awesome. Not sure if I could just have soup for lunch, though :frown:

_Kar.

Reply 124

lazy smurf

Original post by TheCurlyHairedDude

Minimum order of £25.00

Sorry but the awesomeness is cut short.

I was just about to say this.

Also OP £20 a week is not really a "budget" in the lacking sense of the word, its pretty good if you ask me. Try £10 which most students live off.

Ive survived a few weeks off less than £2. God bless 10p noodles and cheap fruit!

Reply 125

poshbloke

two words....tesco...meatballs

Reply 126

kebabmonk

bread and butter pudding every day?

Reply 127

badger-man

Tesco spaghetti ftw!
1Kg of the stuff for 94p :biggrin:

Reply 128

Shuvel

Original post by ArcadiaHouse

But it's all ready meals :frown:

Erm no? I usually just buy the nearest bag of stuff I can put in the oven, I've only went as low as ready meals a couple of times, I'd rather just have a plate of oven chips than a ready meal!

Reply 129

laeof

Also, really simply meals can be getting a decent tomato pasta sauce for 80p and eating that for dinner for 4 of the days...

Reply 130

insignificant

I realise that cheaper meals can be made. But what I was trying to do, was create healthy varied meals with lots of nutrients rather than living off unhealthy stuff like frozen meals or whatever. I was also trying to make a point of keeping costs down whilst bei g resourceful. Such as buying a chicken. It allows you to still have a Sunday dinner if that's your thing, but then using the leftovers in the korma, and if you had even more leftover, in the sandwiches for your lunch. I didn't just want to say "ooo look I can live off £5 a week, and then live off frozen stuff or 9p noodles" , I wanted to prove it was easy to live nutritiously, with lots of healthy homemade food.

Reply 131

inksplodge

sounds fab. its a great idea although i don't eat much meat - only chicken. :woo:

Reply 132

Toaster Leavings

How do you make the bread?

My past attempts have been a disaster.

Reply 133

insignificant

Original post by Toaster Leavings

How do you make the bread?

My past attempts have been a disaster.

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/2060/easy-white-bread follow that to a t and you'll be fine :smile:

Reply 134

py0alb

Original post by insignificant

For those who are on a budget, and don't mind eating slightly repetitively , then here is something that you might find interesting

THIS IS NOT INTENDED TO BE MADE EVERY SINGLE WEEK, THERE IS ONLY SO MUCH BREAD AND BUTTER PUDDING YOU CAN TAKE.:

The meals:

Porridge
Oats
Milk
Sugar

Cereal
Cereal
Milk

Spicy Vegetable Bacon Potato soup
Fry off bacon
Boil Potatoes
Put bacon, potatoes, vegetables, some chillis, and stock into a pan and simmer on a low heat for 2 hours.
Blend.

Tuna sweetcorn pasta.
Cook pasta and sweetcorn
Drain pasta and sweetcorn
Mix with tuna and mayo.

Bacon Sandwich
Cook bacon
Make bread

Sunday dinner
Cook chicken
Cook veg
Cook potatoes how you like them
Make gravy

Korma
Use leftover chicken to make 3 korma portions which can be frozen.
In a pan pour Korma cooking sauce, and add leftover chicken and simmer for 30 minutes.
Boil rice and in a frying pan stir in egg mixture to make egg fried rice

Chilli con carne
Fry off mince
mix in canned tomatoes, kidney beans, chillis and simmer so it reduces down for 2 hours. Boil rice.

Bread and Butter pudding
http://allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/317/traditional-bread-and-butter-pudding.aspx

Garlic bread
Make baguette
Slice it, and make garlic butter (garlic mixed wth butter) and spread on slices and toast

Handmade chips
Boil potatoes
Slice them leave skins on
Rub salt on skins
Roast in oven for 20 mins.

Just sharing it incase anyone finds it useful.

edit: Managed to do a quick £9.98 shop although it involves no meat, and isn't all that nutritious and includes making a lot of the stuff yourself but at least you know its freshly homemade.

A typical day:
Breakfast: 2 crumpets
Lunch: Tomato/ricotta ravioli
Dinner: GNOCCHI TOMATO RICOTTA BAKE WITH PEPPERS and GARLIC BREAD
Dessert: Hot cross bun/Jelly/Banana/Apple

0.3
kg

ASDA Bananas
0.66 lbs £0.23

1

ASDA Smart... Jelly
£0.06

1

ASDA Smart... Apples
£0.64

1

ASDA Hot Cross Buns
£0.70

1

ASDA Garlic
£0.30

1

ASDA Smart... SP Peppers
£1.47

1

ASDA Smart... British potatoe
£0.87

4

ASDA Smart... Chopped tomatos
£1.32

2

ASDA Ricotta cheese
£1.96

1

ASDA ASDA flour
£0.50

1

Allinson Yeast
£0.28

1

ASDA Smart... SP Eggs 6pk
£0.85

1

ASDA Asda

That is a ****ing **** ton of food. If you're so poor, how come you can afford the luxury of dessert? I would save the money and get a teeny little bit more variety in my diet than two meals a week personally.