Meals on £30 a week for 2 people?

PiKe · 6 Sep 2013 at 21:23

Is this possible? Am I going to be living off pasta and eating oats for breakfast or is that a big short sighted of me?

craptakular · 6 Sep 2013 at 21:25

£15 per person, per week?

SeraphX · 6 Sep 2013 at 21:26

Best break out the beans on toast, and for that special occasion, the classic tin of spam

( |-| |2 ][ $ · 6 Sep 2013 at 21:26

Easy. So easy I'm going not even going to offer examples.

Just go on Tesco.com and work it out. (remember to shop by the month so you can bulk buy / freeze

Raymond Lin · 6 Sep 2013 at 21:26

£15 each for a week?

You can do that.

Porridge for breakfast, that leaves 2 meals a day for the rest of the week.

Have sandwiches for lunch and you can have a bigger budget for dinner.

One More Solo · 6 Sep 2013 at 21:28

Basically going to be:

Porridge
Value ham on value bread sandwiches
Pasta/Rice with something cheap

Lysander · 6 Sep 2013 at 21:31

Buy a load of baked potatoes and a big jar of Tesco Mayo. Should cost you about £3.50 overall.

Bake one or two potatoes and then add mayo for hot potato salad and cut up. Season. Delicious.

When you have no cash baked potatoes are your friends. They're very cheap, healthy and filling.

bitslice · 6 Sep 2013 at 21:35

Beef casserole tonight, £3.28, it's good for 3-4 meals I guess.
£15/week is no problem

Ey lad, in my day we had a handful of gravel and we were grateful for it.

SeraphX said:
and for that special occasion, the classic tin of spam

Have you seen the price of spam!? They must think it's rump steak or something, not chopped up pigs feet.

Nymins · 6 Sep 2013 at 21:41

deuse · 6 Sep 2013 at 21:41

Weetabix 48 pack from Aldi =£1.55p
15 chicken breasts from Farmfoods =£10
Whole leg of lamb from Farmfoods =£7

with the rest get milk ect

Tom0 · 6 Sep 2013 at 21:42

Tins tins tins tins tins!

areksnumbr1sxylady · 6 Sep 2013 at 21:45

is this even possible?? 0_o I guess I am a spoilt person.... I spend like 15 quid in 1 go to buy some beer/cider and some junk food that would last me 2-3 days at most.

bitslice · 6 Sep 2013 at 21:55

deuse said:
Weetabix 48 pack from Aldi =£1.55p

???
Aldi's Harvest Morn 36 Wheat Bisks are £1.69 :confused:

Whole leg of lamb from Farmfoods =£7

Lamb is really expensive?
Farmfoods last leg offer, 1.5Kg@£7.95 is £5.30/kg

Otherwise, good call on milk, £1 for 4 pints is always a bargain.

arknor · 6 Sep 2013 at 21:56

Lazder said:
is this even possible?? 0_o I guess I am a spoilt person.... I spend like 15 quid in 1 go to buy some beer/cider and some junk food that would last me 2-3 days at most.

it's easy but you end up eating loads rice , potatoes , pasta and very little actual nutritional foods

you can't even call beans on toast cheap now.

bread went up recently to £1.80 I am told :O (don't eat bread personally)
beans haven't been cheap in years! the cheaper makes just have more water and less beans so false economy also they taste like water and tomato sauce mixed together :S

PiKe · 6 Sep 2013 at 22:00

Bread is like 2 for £2 at Tesco at the moment, aren't Branston's Beans meant be pretty good? Heinz bean sauce is basically tomato water now.

bitslice · 6 Sep 2013 at 22:04

arknor said:
it's easy but you end up eating loads rice , potatoes , pasta and very little actual nutritional foods

Yup, Japan, Ireland and Italy are full of starving people

Bread @ £1.80 ? :eek:

Home made artisan bread maybe, or Selfridges 'Essentials' perhaps, the loaf on my breadboard says 32p

arknor · 6 Sep 2013 at 22:04

I never liked branstons

Beans (52%),Tomatoes (36%) ,Water ,Sugar ,Modified Maize Starch ,Salt ,Paprika ,Ground White Pepper ,Flavouring ,Spices

heinz

Beans (51%),Tomatoes (34%) ,Water ,Sugar ,Modified Cornflour ,Spirit Vinegar ,Salt ,Spice Extracts ,Herb Extract

branstons has more beans and tomatoes but I never liked the taste and could instantly tell they added spices, so much so they taste less like tomatoes than anything else imo

Yup, Japan, Ireland and Italy are full of starving people

are you serious?
tyou might want to look what they eat with those potatoes , rice and pasta.
then work out the cost.
then work out the op can not do it for £15 a week

then work out why his nutrition would be utter crap.

you also might want to look up the difference between hunger and nutrition

deuse · 6 Sep 2013 at 22:20

bitslice said:
???
Aldi's Harvest Morn 36 Wheat Bisks are £1.69

Yes and the £1.55p ones are next to them

Lamb is really expensive?
Farmfoods last leg offer, 1.5Kg@£7.95 is £5.30/kg

Otherwise, good call on milk, £1 for 4 pints is always a bargain.

http://www.farmfoods.co.uk/index.php click the right icon to see

(oh yes £8 not £7 still cheap)

I see you're no bargain shopper

also 4 oven fresh steak\steak and kid pies from Morrison's £3.60.Chip\roast potato's a £1 a bag from Ice land

bledd · 6 Sep 2013 at 22:22

Check out Aldi or Lidl for great prices on certain products.

Sliced loaf = £1 or less
4 pints of milk = £1
british chicken = a few quid less than Tesco
Onions = million for about £2

DireEmblem · 6 Sep 2013 at 22:25

Course you can do it.

Heck theres people that recently proved ~£1 a day was enough...

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-22263706

http://agirlcalledjack.com/

Second link is far more worthy of a read, however the first is also credable.

Meals on £30 a week for 2 people?

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