Lazy Weekend
Very little to report over the weekend. Yesterday was a busy day, so it was a cornflakes breakfast, peanut butter and jam sandwich for lunch (a forgotten favourite), and reheated sausage casserole for tea.
Sunday wasn’t much better, with another cornflake/PB&J combo, but on the plus side these meals are entirely filling and cheap.
To my credit I did go shopping again for a couple of bits:
Big bag of oven chips for 41p! I was going to resist buying anything like this, as I do have potatoes in the cupboard so I could make my own, but for this price I could’t resist. The pizza there was £1.64, which I’ll eat in two halves, making it a cheap 82p per ‘meal’ that I’ll get out of that. Everything else is ingredients for a stir fry that I’ll make this week. I’ll get at least two portions out of that on consecutive days, so it’s all good.
Total spent today was £6.13 making the total spend so far £44.14. That gives me less than £31 left for the rest of the month and it’s only the 6th today. I’m not worried yet though, I have loads of ingredients in the cupboard and I envisage that I’ll just be buying the odd ingredient or two to complete recipes from now on.
Tags: lazy weekend, oven chips, sausage casserole, stir fry, tesco
July 6th, 2008 at 11:18 pm
As a student I’d buy a tin of beans, chips and a Tesco Value mini pizza (40p?) for a meal and those pizzas are cheap and tasty
Looks like you’ve gone a little more upmarket than that though.
Enjoy your stir fry later in the week - I can’t get enough of those, they’re tasty.
I hope you can hold up the cost until the end of the month
July 7th, 2008 at 1:54 pm
hello there,
your doing quite well with your journey so far, but £44 already arghh! I’d be crying if that was me. One of my favourite meals for when I have no money is basics pasta (spaghetti is preferred for me) and a tin of chopped tomatoes with some red pesto, although there is no meat its still very filling and if your desperate put some tinned tuna in it.
My cheapo top tips are:
Buy stuff from the cheap section that are about to go out of date then freeze it (you’ll save tons of money and still get really decent stuff)
Never shop at the little versions of the supermarkets, eg tesco metro, express etc.. because they are always more expensive and there is less choice for value goods.
When shopping for bargains go to asda! even if its further away in the long run you’ll get tons more for your money than sainsburys or tesco and there is always LOADS of offers on.
treat yourself to expensive bread (I always buy warbies) then freeze it and have your sandwiches with toast instead, still tastes good and stops you from wasting bread when it either goes stale or green.
hope this helps you with your food journey