Shopping List for a Family of Four

Sometimes we just don’t know where to start, especially on a very restricted budget. This shopping list with meal ideas will hopefully give you a flying start.

Thanks to Samantha Howarth for this contribution

New Menu

I have created this menu to feed around 2 adults and 2 children on less than 98p per person per day…So I can get 7 breakfast, lunches and dinners, snacks and drinks for…..£27.09

Prices are from the Aldi website tonight

Breakfasts

• Corn flakes with milk
• Toast with cheese/marmalade
• Scrambled egg on toast

Lunches

• Cheese salad sandwich
• toasties
• Jacket potato with cheese
• Crackers with cheese

Dinners

• 1 night Sunday lunch- chicken, Yorkshire puddings, roasts, carrots, broccoli and gravy
• 1-night chicken stir fry with rice
• 1-night toad in whole with mash, peas and gravy
• 1-night tuna and sweetcorn, pasta salad
• 1-night vegetable curry and rice
• 1-night bean and sweetcorn quesadilla with homemade wedges
• 1-night pita pizza and salad

Drinks

Tea, Juice, Lemonade

Snacks

Biscuits, Apples, Banana, Yogurt, Crackers

Your Shopping List

• Chicken £2.75
• Sausage £1.29
• Tuna: 59p
• Potato bag: 89p
• Flour: 45p
• 15 Eggs: £1.18
• Lard: 35p
• Carrots: 40p
• Broccoli: 47p
• Gravy 79p
• Pasta 29p
• Rice 45p
• Sweetcorn 37p
• Mixed beans 53p
• Tomato purée: 27p
• Stir fry pack: 95p
• Stir fry Sauce: 35p
• Curry sauce 59p
• Mayo: 55p
• Peas: 55p
• Onions: 50p
• Pepper: 42p
• Lettuce: 43p
• Cucumber 43p
• Cherry Tomato 48p
• Pita: 35p
• Bread 2 loves: 72p
• Wraps: 65p
• Cheese: £1.79
• Milk 6 pints: £1.60
• Butter/spread: 69p
• Corn flakes 55p
• Marmalade: 42p
• Tea bags: 95p
• Juice: 79p
• Biscuits 22p
• Apples 60p
• Banana 59p
• Yogurt 69p
• Crackers 39p

Hope this helps

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