How to live on £10 a week?

bigjonnyauk said:
seems a lot of you have posted meals and stuff but there is not 7x breakfasts 7 x lunches and 7x dinners there

its not easy
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Mine includes 7 bananas, oats = 7 breakfasts.

2 tinns of tuna, mayo, pasta. You can easily half a tin of tuna instead of using a whole on, so thats 4 lunches. 10 eggs included so use 6 and have egg with a 1/2 tin of chopped tomatoes - omlette, fried, boiled

do different things with the beef for dinners - spaghetti bolognese, burgers (use 1 egg)

Granted these portions wont feed a massive fat gimmer, but they will easily feed someone and provide enough protein, meat, frui and fibre. My housemate uses a whole 500gram pack of chicken when he has a meal. Wasteful and greedy IMO. I use 1 chicken breast if I am hungry and half a chicken breast most of the time
 
Yeah that omlette idea wouldn't be bad. The most important thing will be keeping it balanced - you don't want to be stuck on the toilet for 2 hours at a time.
 
Asda noodles 14p packet x 3 meals day x 7 days week = £2.94 per week

Multivitamins + iron, 120 tablets = £1.20 (4 month supply!)

Leaving you the rest for extra toilet paper.
 
"andy" said:
battery hens are banned in the EU as of soon arent they ?
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The Sainsburys value eggs are freedom food eggs, so aren't battery hens.

Why they sell freedom food egs for 90p yet others (which dont seem to have any accredited marks regarding treatment of chickens) sell for £2+ is a mystery to me.
 
This thread reminds me of something I was watching on TV quite a while back, the presenter met someone who wasn't homeless and had a job but only ate stuff they'd find out on the street.

For example, tescos/asda throws away a **** load of sandwhiches,bread although the majority goes into the furnace according to my GF who used to work in sainsburys =/
I remember the presenter finding some chocolates outside thorntons (the kind you'd pay like £30+ for that had gone off that day but were still edible)

I second the Two for tuesdays at dominoes or pizza hut ;)
 
"andy" said:
battery hens are banned in the EU as of soon arent they ?
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Not really. The cages now just have to be "furnished" so they have something to do from this year.
The EU Directive allows enriched or "furnished" cages to be used. Under the directive, enriched cages must be at least 45*cm high and must provide each hen with at least 750*cm² of space; 600*cm² of this must be "usable area" – the other 150*cm² is for a nest-box. The cage must also contain litter, perches and "claw-shortening devices". Some animal welfare organisations, such as Compassion in World Farming, have criticised this move, calling for enriched cages to be prohibited as they believe they provide no significant or worthwhile welfare benefits as compared with conventional battery cages. The use of battery cages is banned in Belgium, Austria, Sweden and the Netherlands.
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If you are willing to cook and be clever with it you could do it. You can make a chicken last 3 meals easy. You can joint it, use the breasts for 1 meal, dark meat for another and body for stock. Cheap bag of carrots & onion can have a great soup. That's half the weeks evening meals, add some pasta, fruit etc.
You need to try and hit the cheap cuts of meat, or offcuts from the butcher can be had for naff all, just cook them very slowly in stews.
 
Giving up meat completely won't do you any harm, what complete tosh. I know people who have been vegetarian all their lives and they are perfectly fine.

There is protein in all sorts of food like bread, nuts, soya, milk, cheese and eggs. None of them are meat. If you want ultimate cheap protein then buy pearl barley, which is under £1/kg and will bulk up any meal.
 
Jonny69 said:
Giving up meat completely won't do you any harm, what complete tosh. I know people who have been vegetarian all their lives and they are perfectly fine.
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Think about the psychological ramifications of a life that is completely devoid of bacon and tell me that it does no harm!
 
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