This week I only spent £16 mainly because that is all I had left!Anything highlighted in red on my shopping list was already in my store cupboard. My store cupboard is not like Nigella Lawson's and does contain the stuff most of us always have some of!
My menu is
Sunday - Sturdy Broccoli soup - pate on toast
Monday - macaroni cheese & garlic toast
Tuesday - Cats pork pie
Wednesday - chicken and veg soup - pate on toast
Thursday - Lorne sausage, mash and veg
Friday - takeaway because its payday!!! :-D
Shopping list
3 onions - for the soup and the pate
cheese - Farm foods do a huge block of mature cheddar for £4.50 its got 30% extra free at the moment
macaroni (you can use any pasta you have in the cupboard!)
Plain flour
Sherry/Brandy for the pate (only need a tiny amount and I aquired the small bit a friend had left in the bottle from xmas!)
lorne sausage (can buy in farmfoods called square sausage for £1 16 slices and it cooks from frozen)
potatoes
Veg - got lots of bits of bags of frozen veg left in my freezer
Pork - left over from a friends wedding feast and in my freezer! will work with any meat you may have in the freezer or is reduced in the supermarket!
Bread - Farm foods doing 2 hovis loafs for £1.50 white and brown!
Milk - Farm foods doing 2 for £1.50 on 4l of milk
Easy garlic - for the garlic toast
Butter - £2 for 500g Lurpack in Somerfield and Tesco this week ( others are cheaper but I like Lurpack - Lidl do one called Danepak which is just as good and cheaper but my Lidl burnt down last week :-( )
Apples - for boys packed lunch
crisps - for boys packed lunch
Fromage frais tubes - got these for 38p for six in the reduced section in sainsbury's handy cos you can freeze them got enough to last both boys for 4 weeks! always worth checking if it freezes!
Cheerios - 2 for £2 in tesco!
Chocolate mouse - we all need a treat - Value pack in Asda current price cut from 38p to 26p for four and they taste better than the leading brand!
Value noodles - 8p in asda these again are preferred by my boys to the leading brand and they will snack on these when they get in from school till I come home to make dinner!
Chicken - reduced in Aldi chicken legs
Fresh veg - left over from last week 3 carrots 2 parsnips 1 onion
Broccoli - bit expensive 90p lb in tesco could have shopped around but had no petrol :-)
chicken livers - 45p in frozen section of tesco! £1.19 fresh in waitrose and you get double the tesco quantity.
Due to things going off I made the chicken and veg soup yesterday and then put it in tubs in the freezer.
I stripped the meat of the bones after using them to make the stock roughly blended the soup when cooked.
Hardy broccoli soup - boil broccoli with stock added two handfuls of long grain rice. blended and put in the fridge for today.(can add stilton if you have any or are flush also creme fresh or cream but just as nice without!)
Pork pie - make up some stock. melt 25g butter and add plain flour to make a paste add the stock to make the sauce. Cut up the cooked meat put in a dish add the sauce top with mash and bake for 20 mins gas5. Yum
Pate - fry a chopped onion in butter until soft add clove of garlic and chicken livers gently cook for 20 mins add tablespoon of sherry or brandy and then puree.put into a dish and chill for 2 hrs! Can be frozen or will keep for 4days in the fridge. (Add some chopped green pepper corns if you have them or black if you dont)
Garlic toast - if you dont have any garlic bread this is a quick and cheap alternative.
toast the bread - mix a little bit of chopped garlic with some butter - spread on hot toast and serve yum!
Love food
But skint
