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Credit crunch meal planner | Cheap family meals

Family dinners for a week for £40

With food prices continuing to rise, you may find that there's a lot less in your shopping basket for the same money than there was a year ago. In fact, mysupermarket.co.uk has found that a basket of basic staple food items including bread, milk, pasta, minced beef, orange juice and eggs has increased by 21% - that's £1,092 a year!

To help you beat the credit crunch, we've put together a week's worth of cheap family recipes that will feed a family of four for just £40. Some websites offer meals for under a fiver, but when you try and buy the ingredients, you realise that you can't just buy single eggs and tablespoons of milk, you have to buy a box of eggs, and a half-pint of milk and suddenly your meal isn't looking so cheap.

But we've done all the sums for you and added together what you'll need for the week without cheating on the quantities you have to buy products in. You really can make dinner for a week for a family of four for £40!

Here are the week's meals:

Monday: Spicy pork chops
Tuesday: Eggs Flamenco
Wednesday: Quick fish pie
Thursday: Fusilli with egg and broccoli
Friday: Chicken Madras curry
Saturday: Goat's cheese and spinach pizza
Sunday: Chicken roast

On the next page is your credit crunch shopping list, with all the ingredients you'll need, to print out and take to the shops with you.

By Anna Penniceard

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Jo, about 8 hours [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

I agree, great idea doing the shopping list and everything, but is there only ever going to be this one week's shopping? I did this over a month ago and i've had to fend for myself since!!!

Melanie, 6 days [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

great stuff! But are you going to carry on giving us weekly menus ?? I'm certainly going to give this one a try. Thank you

Andy, 3 months [Offensive? Unsuitable? Report this comment.]

Recepies are excellent but one meal a day doesn't feed a family for £40.

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