Weekly Food Shop Inspo Series

Hi everyone,

Deciding what on meals to make each week cost effectively can be difficult, so I previously made a post with tips and and a weekly food shop list and meal ideas for £25!! Weekly Food Shop Inspo - The Student Room
I thought I would continue the series with another weekly shopping list and more tips!!

There are lots of great recipes on Instagram that I use for inspiration. Some of my favourite accounts are:
@cardiff.mum (does 5 family meals for £25)
@livthepositivefooodie (solo meals/cooking)
@thebatchlady (great batch cooking ideas, especially for the freezer)
@emthenutritionist
@ellena_fit
@alexskitchenbangers

Tip: You do not have to buy all the ingredients in the recipes! They work just fine with less ingredients. Plus, you can swap ingredients so they are items you can use in other meals to cut costs.

Weekly Meals
Monday - Garlic chicken, potatoes and broccoli
Tuesday - Chicken and chorizo pasta
Wednesday- spaghetti bolognaise (freezer)
Thursday – sausage, mash, broccoli and gravy
Friday - full English (sausage, egg, beans, potato waffle, toast)
Saturday - chilli and rice (from freezer)
Sunday – Chorizo loaded Fries

Tip: if you search for these meals on Instagram/TikTok you will find a recipe. BBC good foods website is also great.

Breakfast - Porridge, honey and cinnamon/Greek yogurt, honey and fruit

Lunch – Cheese Sandwich’s/Egg on toast

Meat

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Chicken £3.99

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Sausages £1.79

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Chorizo £1.89

Veg/fruit

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Potatoes £1.65

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Onion 95p

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Pepper 70p

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Garlic cloves 88p

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Broccoli 79p

Dairy

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Double cream £1.25

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Cheese £2.79

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Greek yogurt 95p

Other

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Rice £1.79

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Pasta 41p

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Eggs £1.75

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Beans 27p

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Bread £1.09

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Potato waffles £1.45

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Frozen chips £1.35

Total £25.74 Plus, many of these items you will have left over to use again such as the onions, garlic, cheese etc 

Disclaimers
I have not included any snacks on this shopping list and I have also left the following off the list that I would usually already have such as:

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Spices, seasoning and stock cubes

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Sauces/Gravy

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Frozen fruit

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Butter

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Oats

The items with ‘(freezer)’ would be meals already batched cooked in previous weeks and put in the freezer.
The prices are based off Aldi

I hope this gives you some inspo and feel free to share your tips or shopping list below :smile: