Saturday 15 October 2011

Let the challenge begin

So, it is time for the £7 challenge to begin. For those of you who don't know what I'm talking about read back for a few posts...but here's our food for the next week.


As I'm doing this challenge with my wife we have £14 to spend, and so far I'm not sure what we've actually spent - so let's work it out now. It is actually cheaper to buy cheap bread than flour, yeast and salt to make your own - although it won't taste anywhere near as good

Curry powder £0.39
1kg rice £0.40
1.5kg porridge oats £1.09
Lemon Curd £0.22
250 ml olive oil £1.00
500g Lentils £0.88
Stock Cubes £0.65
Coffee (Instant and Fairtrade) £1.89
3 onions £0.63
6 carrots £0.30
Garlic £0.30
4 fairtrade bananas £0.40
4pts milk £1.00
2 loaves of bread £1.10
3 tins of kidney beans £0.48
Peanut butter £0.52
1 tin tomato puree £0.25

And the grand total so far is...£11.50. So that leaves us with £2.50 to spend later in the week. But we might need some more milk, and we will need some more fruit, so probably won't be spending it all on a skinny latte!