Meal Plan and Shopping List for Family of 4

Another great meal plan from Samantha. A great starting point from which you may tweak it as desired and all for under £1 pp per day as of March 2022

By Samantha Howarth

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With the current price rises, I have made a new list just to try and help others…
For some, this list could mean the difference between everyone eating or not, for others it could be a base that they can add to to suit their own family…
I have created this menu to feed around 2 adults and 2 younger children on less than 94p per person per day…
So I can get 7 breakfast, lunches, and dinners, snacks and drinks for…..
£26.52
Prices are from the Aldi website tonight

Breakfast

2 days Corn flakes with milk
2 days Toast with butter/Jam
1-day Crumpets butter/Jam
2 days Scrambled egg on toast

Lunch

2 days Sausage sandwich’s
1 day Cheese toasties
1 day Jacket potato with cheese and beans
1 day Beans on toast
1-day spaghetti hoops on toast
1-day Vegetable soup with bread

Dinner

1 night Sunday lunch-
chicken, Yorkshire puddings, roasts, carrots, broccoli, peas, and gravy
(Chicken leg each, 12 Yorkshire puddings homemade (150ml milk, 3 eggs, 2 large spoons flour) 2 potato’s for roasts, 3 carrots, half broccoli, quarter peas)
1-night chicken stir fry with rice
(Chicken legs 2, full bag stir fry veg, half bag of rice or less as required, stir sauce)
1-night toad in whole with mash, peas, and gravy
(10 sausages, 3 eggs, 150ml milk and two spoons of flour, three potatoes, half bag peas)
1-night pasta salad
(Full bag of pasta, half lettuce, half a cucumber, half tomatoes, onion, pinch grated cheese, Mayo)
1-night vegetable curry and rice
(1 potato, 1 onion, chickpeas, half broccoli, quarter peas, curry sauce, and rice)
1-night bean and sweetcorn quesadilla with homemade wedges
(Kidney beans drains and rinsed, half crushed and then half whole, sweetcorn, cheese, wraps, 2 and any remaining potato’s)
1-night pita pizza and salad
(Pitas, tomato purée, cheese, half lettuce, cucumber, tomatoes, onion)
Drinks:
Tea
Juice
Snacks:
Biscuits
Pears
Banana
Yogurts
Crackers
Cucumber sticks
List:
Chicken legs £1.79
20 Sausages £1.00
2.5kg Potato’s : 89p
Flour: 45p
15 Eggs: £1.18
Lard: 35p
Carrots: 27p
Broccoli: 47p
Gravy 79p
Pasta 29p
Rice 45p
Sweetcorn 41p
Kidney beans 30p
Chick peas 35p
Tomato purée: 27p
Stir fry vegetable pack: 95p
Stir fry Sauce: 39p
Curry sauce 65p
Beans *3 cans 66p
Spaghetti hoops 2 cans: 26p
Mayo: 59p
Peas: 55p
Onions: 50p
Pepper: 42p
Lettuce: 43p
Cucumber *2 86p
Cherry Tomato 48p
Pita: 35p
Bread 2 loves: 72p
Wraps: 65p
Cheese: £1.79
Vegetable soup mix: 79p
Milk 6 pints: £1.60
Butter/spread: 69p
Corn flakes 55p
Jam 28p
Tea bags: 95p
Juice: 79p
Biscuits 22p
Mini pears pack: 49p
Plums 59p
Bananas 69p
12 Yogurts 80p
Crackers 39p
Crumpets 25p
£26.52