Survival menu for a bad week

By Samantha Howarth

Based on prices in April 2024

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This list is based on Tesco tonight and comes to £15.12 and is designed to feed a family of two adults and two children, three meals a day for 7 days.

So around 54p per person per day

This is a survival list and is designed for those that don’t know how they are going to eat… if you can afford more fantastic, this can be used as base to add to!

I write these lists to try and inspire and help others…

Menu

Breakfast

2 days toast with Jam

(8 slices of bread per day)

1 day scrambled egg on toast

(3 eggs and 8 slices of bread)

4 days porridge with Jam

(Upto 62g each oats per day, Made with a splash of milk and water)

Lunch

1 day of egg sandwiches

(3 eggs, 8 slices of bread)

3 days of vegetable soup with bread

(600g Carrot and 3 quarters Swede, onion, 1 potato, and bread)

3 days chicken flavour vegetable rice

(Mixed vegetables, onion, chicken seasoning, up to three-quarters of a pack of rice)

Dinners:

Day one:

Sausages, vegetable mash, and mixed veg

(10 sausages, 2 potatoes, 200g carrot, quarter of Swede, mixed veg)

Day two:

Spaghetti with quorn Bolognese

(Full pack of pasta, half pack of Quorn mince, carrot, onion, half of jar sauce)

Day three:

Vegetable curry with rice

(Jar curry sauce, 1 potato, onion, mixed with the vegetables, quarter pack of rice)

Day four:

Sausage, eggs and chips with beans

(10 sausages, 4 eggs, 3 potatoes and tin beans)

Day five:

Spaghetti with quorn Bolognese

(Full pack pasta, half pack Quorn mince, carrot, onion, half jar of sauce)

Day six:

Jacket potato with beans

(4 potatoes with tin of beans)

Day Seven

Vegetable stir fry noodles with garlic bread

(Handful Mixed vegetables, onion, 2 packs noodles, and garlic bread)

Shopping list:

2 packs Spaghetti 56p

2kg Potatoes 1.25 (club card price)

1kg Rice 52p

Chicken flavour Noodles 2 packs 70p

1kg Frozen mix veg 99p

Mild Curry sauce jar 45p

Bolognese Pasta sauce 47p

Two tins Beans 28p so 56p

Two loaves of Bread 45p so 90p

Jam 39p

800g Carrots 52p

swede 50p

1kg oats 90p

Long life milk 69p

20 sausages £1.50

Chicken seasoning 30p

Quorn mince £1.50 (club card price)

6 loose onions 72p

Garlic bread: 37p

10 Eggs £1.33

£15.12

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