Food supply for a month £30?

Big bag of porriage for breakfast, use water because milk will probably be over budget.
Get down to Aldi/Lidl and buy lots of tins of vegetables and beans (Kidney beans etc not baked beans...)
Big bag of pasta should do you OK for lunches and/or dinners with the above.
 
MooMoo444 said:
brb moving to birmingham
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A couple of weeks ago in Brindleyplace some people were grilling fresh burgers and giving them away for free, and then a week later some other people were giving away free pints (Red Stripe)!

They had some guy on a horse in a full suit of armour and a tent with people pulling fresh pints, was lovely with the sun out.

Got given strawberries and ice cream another time. Once I was handed some spag bol microwave ready meal, one time I got Mountain Dew on the way to the station.
 
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spoffle said:
If everyone in this thread donated a quid to the OP he'd be set to eat well for the month easily.

I've got a spare £1, anyone else?
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If you play a video of some poor kid with flies on his face like those oxfam adverts, maybe you'll drum up some funds.
 
Raymond Lin said:
A couple of weeks ago in Brindleyplace some people were grilling fresh burgers and giving them away for free, and then a week later some other people were giving away free pints (Red Stripe)!

They had some guy on a horse in a full suit of armour and a tent with people pulling fresh pints, was lovely with the sun out.

Got given strawberries and ice cream another time. Once I was handed some spag bol microwave ready meal, one time I got Mountain Dew on the way to the station.
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That was in April! Unless they did it again? In which case I missed out...gutted!
 
Go and hang around Churches, Mosques, Sikh Temples etc. They must feed the poor and desolate.. Say you're a fallen jazz double bassist. That way you seem creative, susceptible and grateful.

The 'high-risk' strategy would be to hire yourself out as a rent-boy. Get taken back to someone's house. Say that you're going to 'prep yourself'. Go to their kitchen, steal their food, run away. I doubt they'd press charges.
 
jsmoke said:
I saw a guy raking through the bins the other day, maybe rake through one outside a supermarket. Serious answer btw.
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if there's ever a skip on your road monitor it after dark :D
loads of people will come searching though it.

I wouldn't dare lol
 
As said before, big bag of porridge, made with milk, won't be the most tasty thing, but it is a good food, low GI, and will last. Have this for breakfast and for supper. That should stave off any hunger cravings.
Also leaves most of your budget available for the rest of the day, and should prevent snacking.
For lunchtime pasta packets.
For dinner, jacket potatoes stuffed with whatever you have left, cheap tuna, cheap vegetables, cheap cheese.
Best to buy late evening from the rapidly reduced shelves.

This will not be good long term.

Also visit family at mealtimes, arrange it in advance, so they are making with you in mind.
 
Frozen vegetables are ~£1 per bag and 6-7 bags should last you a month. Get some cheap noodles and soy sauce and make a vegetable stir fry. Or brown use pasta. Incidently, sauces are generally cheaper from independent shops - I buy a massive bottle of soy sauce for half the price of a small one at the supermarket.

Tins of tuna are 60p. Look at other canned fish as well (I think Pilchards are cheap). Big bags of porridge oats are very cheap and will last ages. Make it with 50/50 milk water mix to save a few more quid.

Use that as a starting point and spend the remaining £15 on filling in the gaps
 
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