£11 worth of food for 2 people for 4 days?

IronGiant

Panorama?

IronGiant

I would swap out your tinned veg for frozen:

frozen peas £1.00 for a kilo
frozen sweetcorn £1.00 for 907g

Tesco delight   how about a couple of apples

You can easily pick a few pounds of blackberries for nothing at the moment

campy mccamper

If you dont mind fighting your way through hordes of angry middle aged women, you could try the reduced aisle at the supermarket.

Chadford

BBC Two - Horizon, 2012-2013, Eat, Fast and Live Longer

Piscauk

One word. ASDA. Tins of potatoes (30p), custard (17p), pitta bread (20p), block of cheese for luxury, things of this nature. If you want meat, get turkey. Just cook in slower and slightly longer. Or make kebabs with it, its about £2.50 for 600 odd grams, alot cheaper than other meats.

IronGiant

Thanks Chadford,  the guys in the Fitness forum have been discussing the same thing for a while and I thought they were taking about a Panorama program.

Edit: title of the thread was BBC Panorama, but it was the Horizon program that was linked to

Sorry

malk

LOL,i saw one bloke in Asda,the other day,he was a shelf stacker,trying,to fill the reduced shelf,he was swarmed by loads of old ladies....made me giggle,he was getting right stressed,all asking him about the reductions!!
Sorry,back on topic....

Rice and beans...get a cheap german sausage to flavour when cooking the beans  in a pressure cooker,dont use all of it.
And maybe some mince beef,?.
Or,a big tin of toms,garlic(cheap),mince beef,cheap pasta,cheap veg,=pasta bolognaise,

Or,hit the skips round the back of smaller supermarkets??

SBT

£11 wouldn't feed me for an hour

cornish

it depends on what you already have in your cupboard/fridge......

look at various vegetables for a start. they keep for a week easily. pulses, well they keep for a lot longer and require a little preparation. your best bet is to make things that have a water based sauce with some kind of stock. roasted potatoes in a soup with some carrots and peas will be highly edible. some stock cubes will help with flavour.

£11 is not much to play with for 4 days, assuming you have some useful ingredients in the cupboard already, £11 to to breakfast, lunch and dinner is asking a lot.

don't forget everyone, that to have breakfast cereal it uses a lot of milk, unless you are willing to forgo tea/coffee through the duration. id stick with toast for breakfast with some marmite or jam if already in the cupboard.

do you risk buying a whole chicken and boiling it? save the water as stock, strip the chicken and roast the bones, then reboil in the stock for added flavour, and sparingly use the chicken over the 4 days with whatever vegetables you have bought?

all of this is hypothetical, depending on what is already available. yet in this day and age, cooking is a forgotton tradition, and basic foodstuffs do not exist in a lot of cupboards.

cornish

do you know how much minced beef is??? and for what you get it is bad value on a strict budget! not everyone has a pressure cooker i don't, never had the need. i did have a base of a pressure cooker which was good for making confectionary.

you could make a pasta soup with onions garlic cheap tin tomatoes chopped with perhaps some cheap bacon but don't forget pasta does not taste very nice after it has been cooked in a soup and re heated for the third time.

some of us are probably use to spending £90 week on just food for two, but obviously you need to have some cooking skills to live on £11 for 4 days, it can be done but it isn't much fun.