What do you buy to eat?
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Re: What do you buy to eat?Breakfast : Cereal with milk, bread for toast, eggs.
Lunch : Pasta (value brands, just as good), sandwich fillers (tuna, ham, chicken etc), soup, omelette, salad.
Dinner: Buy chicken in bulk and freeze, lots of frozen vegetables, quorn sausages are always good to have or if you want to splash out normal sausages, potatoes for mash and baked potatoes, pasta dishes, fajitas are good but mainly for lots of people, frozen pizzas for lazy days. -
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Re: What do you buy to eat?choose an all rounder cereal which you can have with milk or use for baking recipes: oats, rice crispies, muesli, cornflakes and rice crispies are good ideas. You can make flatjacks or crispy cakes when wanting something more sugary, or add spices and oil for a savory snack (google Indian chaat)
Vegetables, maybe easier frozen but choose a few that are better fresh like broccoli, carrots, and of course salad.
Fruit-tend to go for small bananas, sometimes fruit salads already made up cos cutting up melon/mango in a small dorm is messy. Oranges and kiwis sometimes to. Raisins are good for giving RDA and baking, and topping on porridge/cereal/yogurt
dairy: i'm vegan, so go for alternatives, alpro or supermarkets own soya milk, sometimes alpro milkshakes, sometimes rice dream, alpro yogurts and desserts
grains: Rice and pasta, cheap varieties as already mentioned but I keep in spirals, shells, spaghetti, lasagne sheets, basmati rice and sushi rice, as its also good for pudding or thai/japanese meals. Oh I also have semolina for shortbread, dessert, thickening dinners.
others: some sort of spicey condiment, peanut butter, vegetable oil, soy sauce, lazy kitchen chillis, garlic and ginger, pepper, salt, white wine and rice vinegar, hot sauce, coconut cream/milk, egg replacer, lots of herbs and spices, part baked baguettes, tortilla wraps, hummus, fresh juice -
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Re: What do you buy to eat?well in theory I don't need to spend any money at all as I stock up in lidls at the start of term and spend about £80 on canned/dried/frozen goods which can last me all term.
BUT
I like sweets and shopping so in actuality my diet looks more like this:
Breakfast: Foamy Fruits (27p Asda) Value Coke (16p per litre)
Lunch: anything thats reduced and tasty in Sainsburys or the co-op the night before (circa £1.50)
Tea: a packet of value jaffa cakes (60p) and milk (made from value powdered milk..)
And I wonder why my bottom looks the way it does. -
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Re: What do you buy to eat?Wow.
Unfit fatties/skinnies in here! :P
Chicken, lean beef, lean pork, fresh fish (salmon, tuna), canned tuna, oats, brown rice, wholewheat pasta, couscous, milk (LOTS), cheese, cottage cheese, nonfat yoghurt, butter, fruit in season, broccoli, spinach, tomato, carrots, peppers, garlic, onions, beans, peanut butter, oil, eggs, coffee, honey is my usual shopping list.
£40 will feed a starving african but not an adult healthy male who is active and in good shape. -
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Re: What do you buy to eat?Breakfast will usually be oats of some kind with a spoonful of jam in it.
Lunch - some kind of sandwich, cheese & salad, egg & mayo, quorn.
Dinner varies a lot, sometimes I'm in the cooking mood and sometimes not. Pasta dishes, gravy & roast potatoes & veggies, vegetarian sushi, soup, home made pizza, salads, vegetarian burgers/sausages, rice, stir fry's.
Snacks - Will always have a packet of digestive biscuits around, lots of fruit, yoghurt, selection of tea, hot chocolate, orange juice, cheese & crackers.
I don't eat meat or fish and rarely buy lots of vegetarian substitutes so I can shop on a tight budget fairly easily. Take advantage of offers in supermarkets and shop at a time when lots of items are reduced. -
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Re: What do you buy to eat?Forty pounds is way excessive, I get by on maybe twenty five. And I don't eat crap either. But then I do live right next to a Lidl...
Breakfast is either porridge or two eggs with toast (free range).
Lunch is either eggs or an avocado with some nuts.
Dinner is some kind of vegetable/lentil stew type thing (I bulk cook eight portions in one go and freeze them) with frozen vegetables (obviously defrosted before I eat them) and cheese and nuts.
Snacks are yoghurt (bought in kg tubs), carrots, peanut butter, dark chocolate etc.
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Re: What do you buy to eat?I have no trouble on £20 a week for food. My advice would be to shop around where possible. For example, Sainsbury's sell 1kg of Fairtrade Bananas for £1 whereas Morrisons charge at least twice that. If you're organised enough to make a sandwich for lunch before leaving in the morning you'll save a fortune.
