Tips and tricks for living on just under £20 per week?

Im doing a full time nursing degree, ontop of caring for my grand-mother so i really cant get a job as i have barely enough time to study , The bursary is kind of blown out with accommodation, internet service and because of its proximity to the uni. I can get a job in the summer when im not at uni anymore and in the other holidays when were not there. I know its crazy! I was expecting £10-£15 PER DAY to live on, but i dont

It's perfectly possible to live off that amount as a student after you've paid for accommodation. Maybe you wont getting your sandwiches from Harrods, but it's still a liveable amount.

Alright then smart arse, how could you live of £19.50 a week.
£60 a week on food is hardly lavish.

My friend is doing a nursing degree and her fee's and accomodation are all paid by the NHS plus she gets £500 a month from them. She isnt even from a poor family so its not income related.

He won't be buying sandwiches from anywhere on that.

Hmm let me see.

Morrisons own make pasta 1kg= 42p
Fresh fruit and vegetables with peppers too= £3ish

That alone can make different pasta recipes, and can feed a family of 3 for 2 night. which is 6 meals.

My mams friend owns a oriental shop, where they sell lentils and beans etc, and we get them cheap. You can make soup with just: lentils, a leg of lamb, and fresh vegetables for under a £5 and that can if watered down a bit, do about 6-8 meals. To make the soup last a bit longer, you can buy 2nd bread from morrisons, which is bread that they are going to throw out but is still fresh enough to eat, for 50p and eat this with the soup to make it less.

I believe i have just provided about 14 meals with under £10? which is the uni-equal to 7 days of food.

Morrisons own make rice crispies= about 30p, 2 litre bottle of milk =1.20 and that would be my cereal for the weak.

OH look i only used £10 never mind everyone. Tintin and the Picaros helped me find that i have about £9 to spend on everything else because i can feed myself for a week with just £10. thanks!

Pasta and vegetables, aren't tey exciting. Well that makes six very boring and dull meal. If only i knew your, as you put it, 'mams' friend. 6-8 meals with the lamb and soup, a tad excessive. Bread and soup, how very filling. The food you seem to have mention is very mundane and dry. There is hardly any nice good quality meat, no drinks. By the way no milk lasts a week, its best to have it fresh every morning. Cereals in the morning, every morning. Another thing the food from Morrisions insn't nice, try the local sainsbury's or waitrose, they are far nicer.
You thing that £10 is enough? And what would you spend the £9.50 on? On everything else, what exactly?

That may be so, but i am not a pikey. Ive lived in newcastle all my life and so has the rest of my family. It is possible to live on £20 per week you just have to know how, and have a bit of savvy.

EVen with bursaries and grants you will only have £19 ?

Go to supermarkets late at night and buy some cheap food because prices on some items fall considerably.
Dont waste food
You may need to eat a lot of junk food if you havent got much money, its a lot cheaper than meals out. Not the best advice I admit but its true unfortunately.
Limit yourself to a certain amount of nights out, you dont want to spend all of your money in one night.
Try not to overspend, its tempting but youll regret it the following week when you havent got any money or you have to budget to the point where youre starving.
Dont waste money on unnessessary items like new clothes, if you can help it. If you have clean clothes, wear them, you dont need to buy new ones everytime you go shopping.

Also, try and get a part time job if circumstances permit (course commitments etc.), the extra money will come in handy.

Hope this helps Good luck

This is a bah? moment?

Eh? Don't understand you.

I was just messing though, I'll be in the same boat of living on nothing a week in a few months

Pasta and vegetables, aren't tey exciting. Well that makes six very boring and dull meal. If only i knew your, as you put it, 'mams' friend. 6-8 meals with the lamb and soup, a tad excessive. Bread and soup, how very filling. The food you seem to have mention is very mundane and dry. There is hardly any nice good quality meat, no drinks. By the way no milk lasts a week, its best to have it fresh every morning. Cereals in the morning, every morning. Another thing the food from Morrisions insn't nice, try the local sainsbury's or waitrose, they are far nicer.
You thing that £10 is enough? And what would you spend the £9.50 on? On everything else, what exactly?