Frugal food shopping

This week!

2010-02-06T09:20:00.002-08:00

Well I discovered I was skint again and having to live on £70 till the end of the month... Its a challenge!

This weeks menu is

Chicken stew

macaroni Cheese

Chilli and nachos

Pie and mash

Only had to buy

bread - 2 hovis for £1 in farmfoods

crisps - 10 pack hoolahoops in farmfoods

2 apple juice £1 in farmfoods

2 pesto in Lidl 89p each

1 stew pack £1 - contains 4 carrots 1 swede 1 onion and 1 parsnip

Already had chicken, left over chilli portions, potatoes, pies and pasta in my store cupboard so this weeks shopping total+

£5.78!!

Love food

But skint

Sorry I missed last week!

2010-02-06T09:20:00.001-08:00

Last week I spent £35 in total but no new bargains from the others I had posted!

left over mash

2010-01-24T13:06:00.001-08:00

so you have some mash left over what do you do with it??

Potato Scones (Sottish recipe)

mix it with some plain flour till its a nice dough then take tennis ball pieces and roll out to around 1/4" squares if your clever odd shaped circles if your me then cut into triangles. Lightly fry in veg oil and makes a yummy naughty evening snack or is fab for breckie with a fried egg! You can layer them with cling film and freeze then fry gently from frozen!

I had some left over mustard mash, never tried that before and they were scrummy!! Trying them on the scouts tomorrow night coz they are Scottish and its Burns night! Tomorrow what to do with left over haggis!!

Let me know if you like them!

Love food

but skint

Free food

2010-01-24T12:58:00.000-08:00

Tonights meal was the best not only did I manage to have a friend cook theee most amazing roast dinner they also plated up some for Ford and gave me the left over chicken so I can make coronation chicken for the boys sarnies!! In exchangeI have made them soup by making stock from the chicken carcass and the left over veg. Fair swap! And promised them a dinner in exchange in the week too! Now thats frugal!!

Love food

but skint

This weeks bargain meals

2010-01-24T05:32:00.000-08:00

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

Introduction

2010-01-24T05:27:00.001-08:00

I have decided to share my skill in feeding myself and my two boys a healthy balanced diet with not much money.

I am going to blog (if thats the right term) each time I shop telling you where the bargains are at and what to make with them.

Most of my meals are made from scratch but I do cheat every now and again just to get the balance right!

I hope you enjoy... learn... and most of all save!

Love food

but skint