charlottegrace1
Gold Member
Good morning everyone, hope we are bright and breezy today. Well you may remember I said that I had only got £72.00 to feed a family of 5 and a cat on for a week, and that I would post how I got on with the shopping, well here it is.
Asda £ 6.76, Lidl £40.32, Netto £3.60, Farmfoods £ 5.00 and Aldi £11.09
Total spent £66.77.
Now here is what I bought followed by my weeks menus for the use of food. Hope its not a boreing post, I just thought it may help with people like myself struggling in the money department.
Asda:
Pork joint £3.92
2pt skimmed milk 86p
Egg noodles £1.00
Stir fry veg 98p
Total £6.76
Aldi
Cat food £3.88
carrots 79p
5kg potatoes £1.79
tuna chunks in brine x 2 £1.38
garlic sausage .39
polish sliced meats 89p
grapes 49
necterines 49
eggs 99p
Total £11.09
Netto
20 bottles of diet lemonade £3.60
Total £3.60
Farmfoods
12 pints of the one milk £3.00
500g cheese £2.00
Total £5.00
Lidl
Peach and passion fruit yogurt x 2 £3.18
utterley butterly x 4 £2.36
anchor butter £1.00
2 x chickens £5.78
4 x baked beans £1.16
tin french beans 59p
3 x chopped tomatoes £1.08
500g lean mince £2.49
8 chicken thighs £2.49
jar sweet and sour sauce 69p
lasagne sheets 96p
lemon juice 35p
2 x bags onions 68p
white cabbage 49p
celery 65p
family pack of fresh tomatoes £1.48
chorizo salami £1.24
mixed peppers 69p
bananas £1.19
Apples £1.92
4 x red peppers £2.36
2 x cucumbers 68p
2 x spring onions 58p
mushrooms 99p
galia melon 69p
new potatoes 49p
garlic basket 69p
sweet pickle 79p
basmati rice £1.59
pasta 99p
Total £40.32
Freebies from my garden at the moment are lettuce, courgettes and raddish, so a very small saving on the food bill there.
Breakfast for everyone for the weeks is cereal and milk or fruit.
Lunch for o/h is a tuna nicose salad which will last him for 3 days and then he will have a chicken and pasta salad for 2 days to take to work with fruit.
Kids will have garlic sausage/polish meat slices/eggs with salad and onion and potato soup which I made yesturday for the week, and I will be having chicken salad and soup for lunches. Kids will have yogurts or fruit for afters. So that leaves the main meals which are
Vegetable lasagne which we had last night.
Wednesday - chicken noodle stir fry (1 of the roast chicken but will cook both to use other 1 in salads etc)
Thursday - cottage pie with vegetables (mince)
Friday - Jackets with cheese and beans
Saturday - spanish chicken (chicken and rice with peppers etc in it and salad using the chicken thighs)
Sunday - roast pork and vegetables (pork joint)
Will be using the left over money to buy reduced bread from the co-op round the corner from me during the rest of the week.
Hope I haven't waffled on to long with this and hope someone finds it of help.
Next week I have to buy household stuff so the menu will be a lot leaner.
hugs Carolyne xxxx
Asda £ 6.76, Lidl £40.32, Netto £3.60, Farmfoods £ 5.00 and Aldi £11.09
Total spent £66.77.
Now here is what I bought followed by my weeks menus for the use of food. Hope its not a boreing post, I just thought it may help with people like myself struggling in the money department.
Asda:
Pork joint £3.92
2pt skimmed milk 86p
Egg noodles £1.00
Stir fry veg 98p
Total £6.76
Aldi
Cat food £3.88
carrots 79p
5kg potatoes £1.79
tuna chunks in brine x 2 £1.38
garlic sausage .39
polish sliced meats 89p
grapes 49
necterines 49
eggs 99p
Total £11.09
Netto
20 bottles of diet lemonade £3.60
Total £3.60
Farmfoods
12 pints of the one milk £3.00
500g cheese £2.00
Total £5.00
Lidl
Peach and passion fruit yogurt x 2 £3.18
utterley butterly x 4 £2.36
anchor butter £1.00
2 x chickens £5.78
4 x baked beans £1.16
tin french beans 59p
3 x chopped tomatoes £1.08
500g lean mince £2.49
8 chicken thighs £2.49
jar sweet and sour sauce 69p
lasagne sheets 96p
lemon juice 35p
2 x bags onions 68p
white cabbage 49p
celery 65p
family pack of fresh tomatoes £1.48
chorizo salami £1.24
mixed peppers 69p
bananas £1.19
Apples £1.92
4 x red peppers £2.36
2 x cucumbers 68p
2 x spring onions 58p
mushrooms 99p
galia melon 69p
new potatoes 49p
garlic basket 69p
sweet pickle 79p
basmati rice £1.59
pasta 99p
Total £40.32
Freebies from my garden at the moment are lettuce, courgettes and raddish, so a very small saving on the food bill there.
Breakfast for everyone for the weeks is cereal and milk or fruit.
Lunch for o/h is a tuna nicose salad which will last him for 3 days and then he will have a chicken and pasta salad for 2 days to take to work with fruit.
Kids will have garlic sausage/polish meat slices/eggs with salad and onion and potato soup which I made yesturday for the week, and I will be having chicken salad and soup for lunches. Kids will have yogurts or fruit for afters. So that leaves the main meals which are
Vegetable lasagne which we had last night.
Wednesday - chicken noodle stir fry (1 of the roast chicken but will cook both to use other 1 in salads etc)
Thursday - cottage pie with vegetables (mince)
Friday - Jackets with cheese and beans
Saturday - spanish chicken (chicken and rice with peppers etc in it and salad using the chicken thighs)
Sunday - roast pork and vegetables (pork joint)
Will be using the left over money to buy reduced bread from the co-op round the corner from me during the rest of the week.
Hope I haven't waffled on to long with this and hope someone finds it of help.
Next week I have to buy household stuff so the menu will be a lot leaner.
hugs Carolyne xxxx
