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sally_in_wales
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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 8:03 am Post subject:

Rob R wrote:

Smoked haddock

delicious, but can you fit it into the budget for the week? Its a fairly expensive breakfast for 4 isnt it?

Rob R

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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 8:04 am Post subject:
No, I was just thinking out loud

Barefoot Andrew
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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 8:12 am Post subject:
Sounds like your stomach thinking out loud to me A.

Penny Outskirts

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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 8:51 am Post subject:
Sounds like a good challenge to me Porridge is lovely with a pinch of salt

Katieowl

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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 8:51 am Post subject:

Hmm well three of the weekday breakfasts are toast with strawberry jam...very nutritious! (the other two appear to be a few slices of banana and a handful of mini shreddeded wheat)

I see they have a roast chicken for Sunday - one of the sad three for a tenner ones

and they don't seem to be suggesting the elastic/rubber chicken thingy to strech it to three meals, so that would be a start. (Maybe someone should comparison shop at Aldi - Aldi have a free range chicken for ï¿½4.99)

Kate

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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 8:58 am Post subject:

Katieowl wrote:

I see they have a roast chicken for Sunday - one of the sad three for a tenner ones

I think the three-for-a-tenner thing refers to three meat items for a tenner, not necessarily three chickens.

However, the chicken is priced at ï¿½4. Given that an RSPCA freedom foods chicken is usually ï¿½5-6 one surmises that the chicken they're pitching isn't to our standards

If so, shame on them.
A.

Jonnyboy

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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 9:06 am Post subject:
breakfast has to be boiled egg with soldiers, or porridge.

kirstyfern

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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 10:47 am Post subject:

Jonnyboy wrote:

breakfast has to be boiled egg with soldiers, or porridge.

Or marmite on toast

kirstyfern

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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 10:49 am Post subject:
I'm sure Iceland could do 7 x 4 = 28 ready meals plus cereal for breakfast and sandwiches for lunch for under ï¿½50... I wouldn't eat it though!

gorbut

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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 1:00 pm Post subject:
I looked at the Sainsburys website and thought that it would only feed a family with small children. Also there seems to be very little fruit and not much dairy. Also no provision for anything to drink other than water. I don't get going without my cup of tea I wouldn't have thought sausages twice was a good thing either and I also wondered what was going to happen to the rest of the chicken.

Katieowl

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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 1:58 pm Post subject:

gorbut wrote:

I looked at the Sainsburys website and thought that it would only feed a family with small children. Also there seems to be very little fruit and not much dairy. Also no provision for anything to drink other than water. I don't get going without my cup of tea

I wouldn't have thought sausages twice was a good thing either and I also wondered what was going to happen to the rest of the chicken.

Those sausages are those vile frozen ones too

tubes of frozen slurry that ooze half a gallon of grease when you cook them. Mind you 20 sausages for ï¿½1.46 kind of is the clue innit?

That Bean hot pot really needs something with it though doesn't it? A jacket spud or something...

I make a 'quick' bean stew sometimes which has carrot, onions, tined tomatoes, celery, a tin of baked beans and tin of kidney beans, perfectly filling on it's own (with a potato or two!) no need for sausage at all, but if I'd picked up a reduced chorizo, or a kabanos for 50p I'd throw that in, it would be a better bet nutritionally too, because of the extra veggies.

Kate

buzzy

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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 2:41 pm Post subject:

kirstyfern wrote:

Jonnyboy wrote:

breakfast has to be boiled egg with soldiers, or porridge.

Or marmite on toast

Not for breakfast - Marmite should not be eaten before midday.

Henry

Katieowl

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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 2:42 pm Post subject:

buzzy wrote:

kirstyfern wrote:

Jonnyboy wrote:

breakfast has to be boiled egg with soldiers, or porridge.

Or marmite on toast

Not for breakfast - Marmite should not be eaten before midday.

Henry

Interesting...because for me Marmite should be BEFORE the sun hits the yard arm? (and never used to make stock!!!)

Kate

oldish chris

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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 2:59 pm Post subject:

Been thinking, its achievable. ï¿½50 a week equates to ï¿½7 per day. From previous posts this covers two adults and two youngsters and it seems just food (and not other essentials such as tea and cabernet-sauvignon). Sub-dividing further: ï¿½1.00 for breakfast, ï¿½2.00 for lunch and ï¿½4.00 for dinner - does that sound reasonable?

The real culinary skill would be to pad out decent meat rather than fall back on "economy" burgers and sausages.

I also think that one or two veggie meals a week could cut costs.

bagpuss

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Posted: Wed May 18, 11 3:06 pm Post subject:

oldish chris wrote:

You could always give a single day a stab here

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