How to live on £10 a week?

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This is my challenge for the next 4 months. It doesn't include bills fortunately but i have to provide myself with food with that budget. How can i do this? What are cheap but decent meals? Thank you.
 
biggest bag of pasta you can find

biggest block of cheese you can find

tesco value cornflakes for breakfast
toast - > bread -> toast (toasted bread sandwich) for lunch
as above for dinner
 
Rice, pasta, noodles (18p a pack from Lidl, they're crap but will keep you alive :p), turkey, whole chickens (butcher them yourself), frozen veg.

Value brown bread/cereals/cheese etc.
 
That's so easy.

Value onions, value pasta, value chopped canned tomatoes.
Value bread + value butter + value jam/lemon curd
Value bread + some cheap meat, value tuna, value mayo.
 
Enjoy your 2-stripe life :p

I'd personally go sod it, find/work for/sell stuff for an extra 150 quid over the 4 months, spend 20 quid a week and have a far more pleasurable existence.
 
if your willing to put the effort in then making your own soup in big batches and then freezing it for use later is stupidly cheap

i'll also go along with the pasta/rice/toast/sammiches/cereals ideas

also, im sure theres a site that gives recipies based on what you have left in the cupboard, which is great for using up leftover food. cant remember what its called though

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wow, those mods are quick. this was in GD 5 minutes ago
 
Can be done very easily to be honest.

As said already;

Value pasta/noodles
Cheap cheese
Cheap cereal

Even very cheap ready meals/pizzas are actually quite good, contrary to what most people will say. 4 ready meals (ie own brand sweet and sour chicken with rice) for £3 is quite hard to beat.
 
tesco value pasta 500g for 18 pence x 4
4 pints milk £1
value cereal £1
value bread x2 = £1
Value pasta sauce 25p x 4 =£1
beans x 3 =£1
Butter = £1
tesco rich roast coffee £1
then £2 to spend on what you please :)

won't be very healthy by the end of it but survivable
 
Porridge for breakfast, with water if you can stand it, or mixed with a little milk. 14p noodles for lunch. Pasta for tea, with value cheese and tomato if you're feeling adventurous. You'll want some protein though so if you can find some cheap nuts then great, it's always worth checking the "Indian Section" too, they often have huge bags of stuff high in protein that's really cheap.
 
Starts of boring, but second week you won't need butter, lemon curd, mayo so can start adding to the collection. Second week I would be looking at adding oil, or if you don't mind you can get a block of value lard for ~20p to fry in.

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Should have enough left for value squash to drink as well.

Can do tuna pasta, beef pasta, mince with mash, cottage pie. With that list.
 
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Edit - fail, I forgot the chopped tomatoes.

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If you want to save money.
Better to spend a bit. More the first couple of weeks. 5kilos pasta and rice bag. Big bottle of oil.
That on its own lowers a lot of cost.
 
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