If you are going to be taking part in the £7 challenge
next week then now is the time to start planning your meals and
shopping list. With only £7 to spend per person for all your food and
drink for the whole week careful preparation is going to be needed if
you are not going to run out of food half way through, or find that
although you have a whole box of sugar puffs to eat you have no milk
left to eat them with.
Also, you don't want to forget
those items such as cooking oil, coffee/tea, milk, herbs, salt, sugar,
spices...remember the £7 per person is to cover everything that you will
use in your cooking and everything that you will eat and drink.
So
far the cheapest option for oil I have found is £1 for 250ml of olive
oil - but I can't remember if that was from Sainsburys or Morrisons.
In
terms of drinks probably going to go with a reasonable own label
instant (caffeinated) coffee, and then go without tea, and drink water
for the rest of the day.
As I am doing this challenge
with my wife we have £14 to spend between us which does allow for a bit
more variety - in that we can afford both rice and lentils. We can also
afford flour and yeast so will be able to make our own bread. Fresh
fruit and veg is a challenge so will probably have to do with one piece
of fruit a day. Protein will mainly be coming from kidney beans, which
we have found for 16p a tin.
Probably go for an own brand jar of lemon curd, and peanut butter - and go without margarine/butter.
Breakfast
is going to be porridge - so have to get up a bit earlier as it takes a
bit longer to prepare, and a lot longer to wash up afterwards! I think
we've got 1kg of porridge for £1.09 which will do about 25 portions -
and by the end of the week we may have got used to eating it made with
water instead of milk, and without salt, sugar or syrup.
