It is hard to believe it is that time of week again, time seem to be running away with me at the moment! As usual before I went shopping I made a list of everything I had leftover, this included
Fridge/Freezer
- Salmon Fillets
- Peas
- Almond Butter
- Milk
- Bagels
Cupboard
- Lentils
- Beans
- Flour/Sugar/Raisins
- Wheetabix
- Whole Wheat pasta
This week I plan to try a few new recipes, I was hoping to make an orange cranberry loaf but sadly couldn’t find any cranberries, slightly disappointing but it probably saved me £2 by not making it. I should tell you I forgot to unpack 1 bag so a few things are missing from the above picture.
I spent £16.79 = $27.81 US
Here’s what I bought
- 2 pears (organic, farm shop)
- Courgette (organic, farm shop)
- Cheese
- Peaches (farm shop)
- 3 bottles of Ginger Ale
- Cooked chicken (for dinner last night!)
- Chicken mini breasts (healthy living)
- Bag of plums
- Kale
- Potatoes
- Avocado
- Carrots
- Onion Bhaji
- Licorice
- Reeces Pieces (what a rare find & treat!)
- Beetroot Salad
- Baked Beans
- Lime
The Plan For The Week
Breakfasts
- Wheetbix with milk & fruit x 2
- Homemade carrot muffin with fruit x 2
- Baked beans and fruit
- 1/2 bagel with almond butter and fruit x 2
Lunches
- 1/2 bagel with almond butter, fruit, raw carrot sticks
- Pasta and bean salad with balsamic vinegar homemade sauce
- Carrot & lentil soup (homemade) with cheesy biscuits x 2
- Bean Salad, grilled zucchini, pear, cheese slice
- Aztec soup (homemade) with avocado salsa, 1/2 bagel
- Leftover bake
Dinners
- Homemade kale & potato bake with peas
- Aztec soup with lime avocado salsa, potato wedges
- Salmon, onion bhaji, peas, kale, salad
- Vegetable lentil curry, spiced homemade potato wedges, kale, grilled zucchini
- Pasta with cheese & veg, salad
- Chicken strips (homemade), salad, leftover kale & potato bake
- Out for dinner
Snacks
- Homemade nutty cheesy biscuits
- Plums
- Peaches
- Pears
- Carrot Sticks
- Cheese
The food shop also gave me a £4 off my next shop at Tesco voucher! Looks like it is going to be a great food week!
My Aztec soup recipe can be found here, let me know if you want the potato & kale bake recipe or the cheesy biscuits recipe!
If your still coming to Canada and are going to be on the east coast, you have to try Sussex Golden Ginger ale. Its the best!
As always your meal plan is making me hungry.
I would like the cheesey biscuit recipe please!
Your menus always sound so tempting and healthy.
The reason I was looking a bit bizarre in the photo was because I was pulling faces at T to make him laugh, I don’t normally look like that, although the bags are always there!
Lisa x
We want both recipes! hehe.
I always like seeing what other people cook & eat, it’s great for inspiration.
All I have to say is $75 american to feed a family of 4 (and we entertain more often than not). I am constantly asked how we eat on that little amount (and I grin because I know I buy my laundry detergent, tp, etc. with that as well) and say we simply don’t eat a ton of prepacked junk. I love shopping at my local market and am going to miss it this weekend, as I will be camping.
Choosing to live within ones means is not torment, it is instead freeing. Enjoy your meals this week, beans and fruit for breakfast, never crossed my mind, but now it makes sense.
Tree, I am with you on that one. A person would be amazed how much you would save by cooking from scratch than to eat the high caloric, high fat, high sodium convenient food. And whole foods just taste sooo much better!
I think beans for breakfast is an English thing. But yummy non the less.
Potato and kale bake recipe please! Our
garden is full of kale and I’m running out
of ideas!
Barbara, I really like to throw a couple of kale leaves in with a smoothie while it’s blending. You can’t really taste it, but it adds a little extra nutrition. You do have to blend extra well though, because kale tends to be pretty fibrous.
This might be a really silly question, but I’m curious… does anyone know if blending changes the fiber content in food?
Your meals sound yummy! Cheesy biscuit recipe, please.
Thank U for listing your meal plans again. it gives me inspiration to follow suit as I need to eat healthy again.
Pingback: Weekly £20 Shop « Notes From The Frugal Trenches – A Downshifting … | Shop Long Distance
Hi! Thanks for dropping by my blog earlier. Have added you to my blogroll as you’re great inspiration for frugal living. Have given up meat here and trying to live off the veggie patch (…think it needs to be somewhat bigger tho’…) and live as frugally as poss. With 4.1 million tonnes of edible food being wasted by households each year I think your blog and vision is fantastic!
yes, post all your soup recipes, please! they’e going to come in handy this fall/winter!
Your Aztec soup sounds like what we call around here Chicken Tortilla or Chicken Enchilada soup — except we use cilantro. (Isn’t that the same thing as coriander…I think so…)
Yes please, on the nutty cheesy biscuits! And thanks for stopping by my blog…I’ve been hanging around yours, too. Just don’t always say I’ve been here.
FT your food always sounds so yummy and healthy. Do you eat like this all the time? Do you have what some bloggers call a food philosophy? Sorry always so many questions from me!!
I’d love to make those cheesy nutty things!!
Thanks in advance!
thanks for this i l ove to see what other people buy when they’re food shopping (especially if it’s on a budget!)
i would love the recipe for cheesy biscuits please!
Try the courgette cake recipe in this blog entry – it’s delicious! I made some to take into work, everyone wolfed it down (and didn’t guess the secret ingredient!)
http://our-front-plot.blogspot.com/2009/05/courgettes-are-in.html
I’d love the potato+kale recipe too
Oh, I meant to say, do try the bottled lime juice if it’s something you use semi-regularly. Just like the ‘jif lemon’ so beloved on pancake day! In my asda it’s kept in the baking section and costs about 80p a bottle, I think, but lasts forever in the fridge. I use the occasional splash for thai currys / with avocado etc and it saves me having to remember to buy – and then use – fresh limes.
I stopped buying Wheatabix when I saw the price 4,80€ ouch!!!!
I spend somwhere between 60 and 80 euros a week on shopping here in Spain for 2 of us. A friend, with 4 kids who entertains alot spends around 120 a week on food.
Part of the reason why you shopping is so cheap is that you eat very small portions with a bit of fruit. Does help keep the wieght off though.
yes please to both recipes
you were talking about visiting Canada a while ago … is that still on?
Pingback: The £5 Weekly Shop! « Notes From The Frugal Trenches – A Downshifting Journey