How to live on £10 a week?

chicken for meals - boil remaining carcass for chicken stock for soups. value stuff. go to supermarkets when there's reduced to clear shiz. browse MSE for any bargains/inspiration.

I could probably do with doing some £20 a week challenge really, would do my finances wonders.

can also get value curry sauce for 9p, and probably other sauces.
 
What's the point of saving money if it's going to compromise your health? cheap refined breads, pastas and cereals are virtually devoid of any nutritional value, yeah, you might save money but you'll probably end up in a very poor physical/mental state.

If you need to save just buy cheap meats, fish and vegetables and go for value label butter, eggs, cheese etc.
 
Get a large Dominos pizza of your choice for £9.99. Keep it in the fridge and eat one slice a day. There are 8 slices on the pizza, so you get to have 2 slices on one of the days.
 
John west tinned mackerel, sardines, kippers e.t.c are very cheap and healthy. I'd add them in.

1kg of lamb mince from a butchers is less than £5 and should do a number of meals.

Become a vegetarian, £10 goes a long way in a grocers, you don't have to eat meat all the time.

I wouldn't live off the refined crap posted, you can eat much healthier if you're prepared to cook from basics.
 
ScoTTyBEEE said:
I wouldn't live off the refined crap posted, you can eat much healthier if you're prepared to cook from basics.
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not for £10 a week you can't, even if you go vegetarian. Refined crap, is well bulk, which is extremely hard to replace at such a tight budget. Once you up the budget a littel I agree with you.


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Yep, that's good advice and much wiser than encouraging him to buy loads of cheap refined carbs as in some of the other posts.
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Again you aren't thinking of the extrem budget a 1kilo tesco value chicken is 2.07 so although possible you aren't going to be able to buy several of them a week and of course you have to allow for a few hundred grams off bones. That although can make a good soup, adds no bulk.

However with these challenges you start of rubbish and slowly build up core ingredients. This lows you to buy more. Decent stuff later on.

If you have a windowsill or garden you can pinch some fresh herbs from somewhere and grow them.
Also spare money buy a big bag of flour and make your own bread, won't save you anything, but will be nicer than value bread.
62p. For 1.5kilo of bread flour would last a week.
64p for 125g yeast which would last 2-3months at 1-1.5kilo of flour a week.
Would be easy in second week as you don't need lard/Marge/mayo.
Second week, something along these lines

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So after two weeks, you have weeks if not months worth of salt, pepper, mayo, yeast. Again it's all about slowly building up and think ahead. Or spend far more in the first week and buy the essentials.

Actually two kilos of onions would last two weeks. Even though you would be using them in ever main meal as a major flavour at the early stages. So that saves you some more. Replace them with a litter of sunflower oil and that's another major store cupboard item purchased that won't need replacing for a long while.

3rd week I would be looking at buying some herbs(if you cnat or wont grow them) and stock cubes.

4th week buying large bag of rice or decent pasta.
 
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If you really wanted to experience poverty like some hippy who think he cares and truly sympathizes, you'd get rid of your net and your computer. Now grow up and live properly.
 
^^ Lol, I had a discussion about this a few years ago about the best thing that anyone can do for the planet is kill themselves, just think about the finite resources that would be saved if every other person had the balls to do it :D

To the OP, go skipping (taking food out of food shop skips, it's free and morally awesome) Xmas on a protest site I used to live on was always uber great, everything you could dream of... free.)
 
It's impossible to live on £10 a week, and isn't that why we go to work, so we can afford to feed ourselves? Having said that, even dole money would cover a higher expenditure on food than £10 a week. A tramp living rough probably eats more than £10 worth of food a week.
 
Root vegetables are dirt cheap and are very versatile. Potatoes and carrots can be souped, roasted, sauteed or boiled.

Get a good load of herbs and spices in before you start your budget as they will come in very handy.
 
God, can't you guys go back to GD, selling comp, does not provide long term income.

The more I think about it, the more I think it's perfectly doable after a month or so, of slowly building it up.

I'm half tempted to do this, as the first 6months of 2012 is going to be hectic and costly. I could probably save 200 a month, doing this.
 
It's impossible to live on £10 a week, and isn't that why we go to work, so we can afford to feed ourselves? Having said that, even dole money would cover a higher expenditure on food than £10 a week. A tramp living rough probably eats more than £10 worth of food a week.
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I lived for 2 years without ever spending a penny on food... That said we had regular skip runs going... man the day icelands power went out was awesome, was in the middle of winter as well, stuff stayed edible for weeks!


Edit: Living on £10 a week is easy, without comprimising your health, at all. You just have to get used to eating the same food most of the time. Oats, beans, lentils, fruit, rice etc etc etc.
 
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shadesofgrey said:
Edit: Living on £10 a week is easy,
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Possible maybe(emphasises the maybe), but certainly wouldn't be easy.

shadesofgrey said:
without comprimising your health, at all. You just have to get used to eating the same food most of the time. Oats, beans, lentils, fruit, rice etc etc etc.
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That presumes a vegan diet is healthy, imo it isn't.
 
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KNiVES said:
If you really wanted to experience poverty like some hippy who think he cares and truly sympathizes, you'd get rid of your net and your computer. Now grow up and live properly.
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No! Not for poverty, because i'm in poverty. I'm a 3rd year BSc student so I can't claim the dole and don't have the time to work, any spare time I get goes straight on my dissertation (not to mention finding a job as a student with flexible hours is near impossible). I recalculated my finances after the xmas period and it seems I've spent way too much so now I have about £10 a week for the next 4 months. I'm not too fussed about having a boring diet, I'm just thankful my student loan covers my rent or I would be kicking myself for being so frivolous this festive season.
 
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