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Credit crunch weekly meal planner
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.
According to June 2009 figures on the mySupermarket website which tracks UK supermarket food prices, a basket of 24 staple grocery items increased by 18% in the 12 months between December 2007 and December 2008.
Although food price rises have been slowing, they're still higher than they have been. To help you beat the credit crunch, we've put together a fortnight'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 you soon realise you can't buy single eggs and tablespoons of milk - and suddenly your meal isn't looking so cheap. Here, we've done the sums for you and added what you'll need for the week without cheating on the quantities you need to buy products in.
Meals for week one:
Sunday: Cheat's chicken puff pies
Monday: Cheese and tomato bake
Tuesday: Smoked pork sausage frittata
Wednesday: Chicken and bacon risotto
Thursday: Hearty macaroni cheese
Friday: Crispy cod nuggets with sweet potato wedges
Saturday: Tuna and potato layer
Meals for week two
Sunday: Chicken roast
Monday: Spicy pork chops
Tuesday: Eggs Flamenco
Wednesday: Quick fish pie
Thursday: Fusilli with egg and broccoli
Friday: Chicken Madras curry
Meals for week three
Sunday: Irish beef lasagne
Monday: Sausage and mushroom crumble
Tuesday: Salsa baked potatoes with chilli
Wednesday: Gary Rhodes' bacon and potato frittata
Thursday: Garlic mushroom pasta bake
Friday: Turkey, leek and mushroom pie
Saturday: Tomato baked chicken
On the next page is your credit crunch shopping list for week one, with all the ingredients you'll need. Just print it out and take to the shops with you.
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Fanci, posted 3 weeks ago
Has anyone recipes for a good diet for a gout sufferer?
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GTK recipes ed, posted 1 month ago
Hi Josie, Have you seen our Brighton Rock Buns? http://www.goodtoknow.co.uk/recipes/276900/Brighton-rock-buns They're similar to rock cakes and you could always replace the currants with raspberries. Let us know if this is the sort of recipe you were looking for :)
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josie, posted 3 months ago
Please can you help me. When I was at school50 odd years ago we made some buns called raspberry buns. I think they are like rock cakes . Have you a recipe for them please.
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Yvette, posted 4 months ago
This is so useful! I'd also like to have lunch ideas for the weekend though and some cheap and not too difficult to make desserts. As a family, we eat porridge with fruit/syrup and toast in the morning which is dirt cheap (and healthy!) so my weekly shop isn't really increased by breakfast. And for lunch, the kids eat at school and my husband and I buy sandwiches, expensive yes but for convenience it's worth it and I'd rather save on my main shop than make lunch each day too - couldnt face that!
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Helen, posted 7 months ago
Some good meal ideas and the recipes are all easy to follow, but will there be more weekly menus?
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Dawn, posted 12 months ago
Good idea and i have tried and tested a few of the recipes but i agree - it's expensive and one meal per day definately doesn't feed my family for £40.
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Dawnie, posted 1 year ago
Some good recipes there, but have to agree with others, what do you feel your family for the other 2 meals?
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donna, posted 1 year ago
i think that £20per head is quite expensive for a week. i run a cafe supplying an alternative to meals on wheels but i make them nicer and bigger portions and i can do this for just over £2.00 per person per meal. this works out at £14.70 per week. and dont forget that you still have to buy for breakfast,lunch and any snacks so be careful you've checked all the extras also.
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Elaine sanders, posted 1 year ago
the recepies sound nice but i cant have spicy food due to health problems
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Foodwitch, posted 1 year ago
This is great. Randomly, I've created something similar called "Credit Munchers: Get your weekly food shop for under £20" with a weekly meal plan, recipes and shopping lists for 1 & 2 people: http://www.foodwitch.com/pages/blog.html I plan to update this each week, but only if enough people are interested ;0)
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janet, posted 1 year ago
yes this is a good idea, but not if you are on a gluten and dairy free diets, then the costs of buying the speicel foods you need it has almost doubled, un less you are one of the lucky one's who get most of the basics from the doctors, if not you are looking at £60 plus for a week
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Jo, posted 1 year ago
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!!!
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Melanie, posted 1 year ago
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
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Andy, posted 2 years ago
Recepies are excellent but one meal a day doesn't feed a family for £40.











