ACT YOUR WAGE!: £7 per person with no storecupboard week 2

£7 budget for week 2 plus 15 p carried over from week 1 = £7.15 to spend 2% increase on last week!

Drinks

teabags carried over from week 1 - 0 p spent

sugar carried over from week 1 - 0 p spent

milk - 1 pint whole milk -49p by buying whole milk I could water this down half and half and end up with 2 pints semi-skimmed for the price of 1

49 p spent £6.66 remaining

breakfast

cornflakes carried over from last week 0p spent

sugar carried over from last week 0p spent

milk - from above 0 p spent

49 p spent £6.66 remaining

lunch

margarine carried over from week 1 - 0p spent

Tescos Everyday value garlic sausage 12 slices - 55p

Bread Tescos own label medium sliced loaf 69p about 22 slices

everyday value baked beans in tomato sauce 420 g i.e 2 servings 26p

gives

2 rounds garlic sausage sarnies

beans on toast

2 slices garlic sausage over

£1.99 spent £5.16 remaining

dinner

3 portions spaghetti carried over from week 1 - 0 p spent

2 slices garlic sausage from above

4 sausages from week 1 - 0 p spent

1/2 head of garlic from week 1 carried over - 0 p spent

Tesco Sieved Tomatoes Passata 500G 29p (3 servings)

tescos everyday gravy garnules 20p

Tesco Everyday Value White Potatoes 2.5Kg Tray 89p - assume 250g per serving (tessco uses this as its serving size for nutritional information) -gives 10 servings

tescos everyday value mushy peas 4p!!!!!!!!x 2

Onions - tescos everyday value onion pack 69p - contains about 12 small onions, better than buying 1 large and having to cut it in half

tescos everyday value vegetable oil - 1 litre (so should last the remainder of the month easy) £1.29

everyday value stock cubes 10p for pack of 10

Tesco Everyday Value 12 White Rolls 35p - use 1 freeze remainder

2 carrots loose 16p

Tesco Everyday Value Cooking Bacon 500G -74p use 50g a time gives 10 servings

3 bananas 36p (just cos we can now!)

pea and garlic sausage soup - for 1-2

chop 1 small onion and brown in 1 tsp oil. Add 1 tin of mushy peas (drained) plus 1/2 stock cube and enough water to cover peas, bring to the boil and simmer

for a few minutes until heated through. Blend until smooth (or mash with a potato masher). Add 1 slice garlic sausage chopped fine. Serve with a bread roll.

bacon hash serves 1

Peel 250 g potatoes and boil until tender and allow to cool. Cut into chunks (alternatively if you have left over mashed potato use this instead) Peel and chop 1 small onion and fry along with 50g bacon (diced). Add potatoes and fry until heated through.

gives

pasta with tomato and garlic (use 1 75 g portion of the spaghetti plus 1/3 passata and 1 crushed clove garlic)

pasta with tomato and garlic sausage (use 1 75 g portion of the spaghetti plus 1/3 passata and 1 slice garlic sausage chopped)

pea and garlic sausage soup with roll (see recipe above)

sausage and mash with carrots and gravy (2 sausages from week 1, 250 g spuds 2 carrots)

sausage and mash with mushy peas and gravy (2 sausages from week 1, 250 g spuds 1/2 a tin of mushy peas)

bacon hash with mushy peas (see recipe below and 1/2 a tin mushy peas)

spent £7.10 remaining 5p

carried over to following week:

10 small onions

9 1/2 stock cubes

gravy granules

7 servings potatoes

2 servings cornflakes

11 bread rolls

38 teabags

oil

9 servings bacon

Day 1