How to Eat for £10 a Week | Emergency Extreme Budget Food Shopping Haul
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- Опубліковано 23 жов 2020
- This is how to eat for £10 a week. I decided to try an emergency extreme budget food shop to see if I could love below £10 a week. Inspired by channels such as @ClickForTaz @MikeJeavons and @FrugalFitMom who have done vidoes like this! This is what I bought plus what my meal plan looks like for the week ahead. All of this food was bought at Morrisons. Links below :)
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I'm baffled by how cheap the prices are, especially for the tinned items. And the free-range eggs were so inexpensive. You can definitely stretch 10 quid a long way there, nicely done. :)
Tinned items are definitely cheap :)
This is actually so clever. Any smart person should take this on board regardless of their finances. £9 for all of this? Thats crazy and your meal plan seems very healthy too!
Thank you! :)
Wow amazing! You put my £20 a week challenge to shame haha. But this is great, it really does show if someone is in bad debt they can knuckle down and do this a few times to help :)
You say that - I’ve not completed the week yet! 😉 in all seriousness, here’s hoping it helps someone 💕
Instead of rice pudding if you could buy 1kg oats- they would prob cost around £ 0.80-1.0... with rotation of bf- bread and oats- and bread and oats would last 2+ weeks
That's a good point! Think I was taken by the rice pudding - as it wasn't on my lit when I went to the shops. Rookie error!
Jack Monroe does a lovely curry with peaches and chickpeas. Sounds odd but it works. She also did a £1 a day week menu so might have some good ideas.
I shall have a look at that - thanks! :)
I would buy a tin of powdered milk ( no difference in coffee or porridge) and a big tin is £2 and would last a few weeks. I would also have bought a few bread and perhaps a bag of pasta ( mixed with onions & peppers and a tin of chicken soup makes a substantial meal )
Some good tips here - I’ve never bought powdered milk but it would stretch a lot further!
Where do you usually get the big tin? I've looked everywhere and only see small ones😫
@@micaelaopoku-mensah7082 Tesco have skimmed and regular! It’s great to have in as emergency or for hot chocolate etc
@@lsfunk01 Ah brilliant! Thank you so much !😊
Thats a good haul 😊. I agree with purchasing a large bag of oats, I think they’re about 75p for a kilo, you certainly get your money’s worth out of that. Also I tend to bulk up with pasta and spaghetti, very cheap. Only a true scrimper would appreciate this but, I buy full fat milk and dilute it by 1/3 with water, I get a bit more out of the pint and don’t really notice any difference in taste.
Also, when I buy spring onions ( reduced of course) I pop the bottom parts in water and they grow back for an extra yield, same with cress.
I have never tried the milk tip - will need to do that next time :)
You did a great job. My type of smart shopper. You know how stretch a dollar. Take care
Thank you! :)
Some great ideas here! Gives you an idea what can sustain one person for a week.
I would add a bag of porridge oats instead of the rice pudding which would go much further.
Buying the larger milk and decanting some to freeze if you think you're not going to use it all.
Would definitely have added a few more carrots and bananas for extra fruit and veg intake.
A larger tin of beans wouldn't have been too much more and would do x2 beans on toast lunches (just make sure you take out of tin to store in fridge for a different day)
Some great ideas - thank you for sharing! :)
Love this idea! Definitely going to try this!
Let me know how you get on! :)
This is one of the best ones I’ve seen, Deffo going to give this a go.
Thank you! :)
The Morrisons Savers packet soups are 25p for 4 sachets. Mix two sachets together to obtain the same consistency as the tin...works out 12.5p a serving, cheaper than the tins of savers veg soup.
That's a great idea! :)
Completely gob smacked at how affordable everything, even if it's not top notch in terms of flavour for those prices and when it's not for long who cares!! :)
I would put one of the tins of vegetable soup into your curry, would make it go further and would add some more veg as well. :)
Also, I would go back to the store with your change and get whatever else you can afford, probably for those prices you could get porridge oats, another milk and a couple more bananas, or definitely some extra carrots.
Really looking forward to seeing the follow up video showing what you made out of that huge haul! All of that would cost so much more in Australia, even with the exchange rate factored in!!
The follow up video is already up, if you want to watch that as well :) definitely turned out to be an interesting week, with the challenges of the limited food. However, the prices were fab!
Best ive seen so far on that budget
Thank you! :)
I usually get Asda instant noodles, tomato cup a soups, eggs, a big box of cereal and the cheapest canned fruit and veg I can get to cook with for the most part, and then my mum and dad also buy in food too for extra meals in the house. Generally, I spend a good £20-£30 on food a week but that will be all my snacks for an evening plus breakfast and my lunches sorted for a week if I prep far enough in advance and cook in bulk for the noodles.
Sound like you've got a good system going :)
I had to keep reminding myself that £10 and $10 are different. In the USA £10 is around $13.33. I think this is why I felt like the food was prices low. When covering the money the chicken was definitely cheaper. By $2-$3 for the same quantity.
It was definitely cheap :)
There's one more thing UK don't pay food taxes which US does.
But anyway this is the best food challenge I've seen too
@@docentosco it depends on where you live in the USA. My state does not charge tax for most “foods”. Anything that is like unto soda, candy, and out to eat food, yes. But the majority of food is not taxed.
Love budgeting. Great content. Keep it up
Thank you ☺️
£1.20 for all those eggs is great. Quick meals from them, that is great.
You could swap you lunch and tea options over just to vary the week.
That's a good point; just to add some variety to the week :) thanks for watching!
You can chop and freeze celery and spring onions they all freeze well for stews and stir fry’s
I need to try this. Great idea.
Let me know how you get on!
I brought myself a chest freezer. Frozen veg even the cheap items are good value. Most veg can be cooked from frozen. I personally defrost peppers and mushrooms on kitchen towel so they are not so wet when you are cooking them. It's amazing some of the offers you can get. In most of the supermarkets or freezer shops ie Iceland and farm food.
I keep meaning to buy more frozen veg ☺️
Loved this 😁
Thank you! :)
Really enjoyed this :) I will try it for myself.
Great!
Well to do this occasionally even if you don`t really need to is a great idea to save money sometimes. I think a big pot of chicken stew or vegetable stew Lidl are so cheap for veg organic too. That can last for three days, its has all the nutrition you need.
Great suggestion ☺️
That's a good haul for the money! Reader, if you are facing a tight week ahead - stock up on Wonky Potatoes, Penne Pasta, Bread and Porridge Oats. Eggs, Rice, Wonky Carrots and Broccoli are excellent choices from this selection! Be well and eat well xx
Great suggestions! :)
Interesting about price of one potato, i saw recently some shops like asda or lidl doing 500g for 39p or less and that's the set price not reduced. Frozen veggies like butternut squash and broccoli/caulflower really helped and I'd make curries. Just wished i had freezer space because I'm dealing with a chest one and no fridge. So I'm pretty sure that for £10 you can get a lot more veggies. Also personally i find aldi/lidl a lot more cheaper than other shops especially morrisons. But i typically in the past used to go to two shops because of price differences or they didn't stock what i needed e.g butter beans.
I probably could get more veggies in here if I thought a bit more about it; I wanted to get a variety of things so it didn't feel too restrictive. I find Morrisons to be on the same pricing level as Aldi/Lidl for most things :) plus it's the closest supermarket for us. I am going to do another one of these in a different supermarket though! See what the comparison is.
Hi Nicola this was interesting and it definitely is eye opening thinking in terms of week to week spend. As a family of 5 I'm used to meal planning it's essential and batch cooking to save money. You could try making tomato sauce that could be used as soup, pasta sauce or pizza topping stretched with more veg and stock from the chicken bones, but that would be using a store cupboard with spices, flour etc.
Some great suggestions - thanks! Didn't know how much to use from my store cupboard? But love the idea of some soup or a pizza.
@@NicolaatTheFrugalCottage good luck Nicola! I'm not familiar with this challenge at all lol so just my own few ideas, lots of other fantastic ideas too mentioned in the comments xo
I'm always interested in your money saving blog & ideas. I'm quite savvy since the late 1980's when we had 15% interest rates on mortgages. About every 6 weeks I have a £20 week shop where I buy essentials like bread, milk, fruit & veg, cook meat, yogurts & cereal, then I use up what's been in the freezer & cupboards for a while, so they don't go out of date. If my veg looks a bit tried, I make soup, leftovers are eaten next day or go in the freezer & I try not to trow anything away. When I cook with my oven I always cook a couple things at the same time, e g Pasta bake & cake, biscuits or scones. I make jam & chutneys from the veg & fruit I have grown or picked & give to my friends at Xmas. Just a few ideas for you & your readers.
Some great ideas there; thank you for sharing :)
Make Mexican eggs poach in tomatoes serve on toast with beans you could get dried beans and make them it’s cheaper all so get oatmeal and yogurt and frozen berries
Some great suggestions! :)
This is why I love our country, food prices especially our supermarkets own brands are pretty damn cheap!! Great video 😊
Absolutely! :)
Fast forward a year from your comment.. what do you think now with the increase ? and it would be interesting to see the same items & cost since the video. My food bill has almost doubled since the crazy price increase on literally everything in a supermarket. Last year I was buying heinz soup for 85p a can , today's price in Morrisons is £1.70 a can
@@jacquelinebishop8465 That is insane! 1.70 for a can of soup? 😱 Aldi soup was pretty good price last time I bought it. They're prices are rising rapidly too. Scary times. All the best. 👍
@@QueenAmethyst55 The problem we have is I've heard many people say its not the supermarkets to blame for the price increase so I'm trying to work out why it isn't
They are doing 1 tin for £.1.70 and if you buy 4 ( multi buy) you get 4 tins for £4 so obviously works out at £1 a tin . So you're saving £2.80 if you buy the multibuy
Why not just keep them as they was at £1 tin ? Not everyone wants to buy 4 at a time
Of course the supermarkets are making massive profits from this
I'm due a shop and I'm going try give Aldi a try 😁
If you've got herbs and spices you could use the veg, chickpeas and toms for a chilli, you have money left for another small milk and some pasta. Chicken and veg pasta bake with the toms and herbs.
Good luck, you'll do fine I'm sure.
Thanks for the tips - they sound yummy! I am going to use salt and pepper from the store cupboard but didn't know if herbs and spice would be pushing it? Loving the idea of the pasta bake :) I do have some change left over so it's a possibility!
@@NicolaatTheFrugalCottage I would say herbs, spices condiments etc are perfectly acceptable as majority of people have them already in the cupboard. If you go too far trying just to stick to what you have bought then you won't be able to have marg/butter on yr toast as you didn't buy any (unless that was the plan) likewise if you have sugar in yr tea. Just my opinion but I see nothing wrong with using herbs and spices.
The no butter was part of the plan - it'll just be toast and jam. I might use some other seasonings then, as I already have them in :)
You done a great job!
Thank you :)
I love creamed rice with peaches!
Ooh yum ☺️
I’d be interested to know how the savers curry sauce tasted Nicola. 😋
Haha, you and me both! Will let you know ☺️
When you show the tea bag pocket I thought myself that heyyyyy she's so me 😂😂😂😂no live without coffins
:)
This is so good and I honestly admire you dedication and diligence 👏. But for me personally, I find a lot of the ‘savers’ options at Morrison’s and other supermarkets like Asda & Tesco, they taste horrid! Honestly, maybe I just need to train my tastebuds, but I can taste the difference, some are a lot more bland. Never forget I bought value priced rice and it literally tasted like cardboard 😭. I don’t know if this is something anyone can relate to, but I find it so difficult. My typical weekly shop is £25. Well done though Nicola. Fab job clearly 💕
Thank you! And yes, some of the value things were better than others.
Some people have no choice. We don't. We have to buy their own brand as it saves a us a lot of money. Good for you if you can buy branded, but lot of us cannot. The value rice is actually pretty good if you flavour it up. I add garlic, honey and soy sauce and it is delicious.
Good stuff. I would suggest the following:
- Don't buy cheapo 'curry sauce' which is mostly sugar and fat. Just buy curry powder in bulk in the 'world foods' section, there's a company called East End which makes good stuff. Buy a 'strong' rather than 'mild' curry powder as it will go further. Just mix in when cooking rice etc.
- Don't bother with supermarket bread, it's mostly chemicals. Make Irish soda bread from flour, or have porridge oats.
- Don't buy fresh milk. You can get a big tin of Nestle full fat powdered milk on Amazon for about £20. Costs less than fresh, doesn't taste much different and lasts much longer as it never goes off.
Some good tips here, thanks for sharing! :)
Excellent tips thank you!
I don't live in the UK but from visits there I know Morrisons is probably the cheapest supermarket. Well done on your grocery shopping. We would have breakfast, lunch and dinner Monday - Friday and breakfast, dinner and tea, on Saturday and Sunday as we always had it when we were working. To me, every main meal is actually dinner. Its a funny old world now! :-D
Thanks and yes - people have different words for everything!
@@nicolafrugalcottage Sorry, I don't understand?
Well done to you for managing to include meat, sweet treats and drinks in your budget.
Thank you! :)
Given that this was a while ago I would be interested if you needed to add some extra ingredients that were not in the budget? For example you don't have any margarine or other spread for your toast. Did you need to "borrow" any oil to cook anything etc, or stock cubes. I find it's all the little extras which individually would only add a few pence per portion which blow the overall budget when you "start from scratch"!
I didn’t have anything extra other than some salt and pepper. So no margarine or oil :)
My fatherinlaw does the same and also gets pretty good deals. He lives alone now for a while. My motherinlaw died in september may she rest in peace, so he doesnt need as much as normal now. He also gets to aldi and lidl a lot once a month now. And he has a lot on stock because he used to cook for 2 more people.
Sounds like he’s got a good system in place :)
Morrisons is the best we don't have that in Belfast anymore :-(
Very good shopping
Oh no! And thank you :)
You can get a huge amount of food for the money. Our groceries are about 3x as much. Maybe even more. For example 15 free range eggs here is 7.99 and canned veg is 1.78 -1.99 store brand. The chicken legs would be 8 to 10 dollars.
Wow, that's expensive! I was pleased with what I managed to get :)
Do you live in another country??? Eggs are cheap. Just buy regular eggs. If you want to buy more expensive foods, what is the point of watching the video?
@@Michelle-pn9xt Do you live in another country? I was stating her prices are vastly different than ours and gave a comparison. That's where you compare and contrast one thing from another. She stated she bought the free range eggs......i compared her price for the eggs to the price HERE......thats why the very first sentence if the comment was ..."you can get a huge amount of food for the money..." That is not stating that I BUY FREE RANGE EGGS!!!!!!!!! GEEEEZZZZZZZ!!!!!!!!
@@littlesquirrel5007 Those foods are cheap in every state in the United States. She has to eat something. Using a budget does not mean buying no foods. There are really no foods cheaper than these foods. You are not being serious, or you are not the person who does the shopping in your home. Goodbye.
@@Michelle-pn9xt I don't understand you. I was stating how good she did with her prices. She replied she was pleased with her items. There are comment after ever loving comment under this video about how cheap her prices were. What don't you GET?!? Of course she has to EAT, what made you think I was implying she didn't. I am baffled by your responses. I was comparing her prices with prices here for similar items and that was ALL. GET OVER IT. Most people in the comment section are paying substantialy more than her as well. Read THEM.
Highly useful video to say the Least.
Thanks! ☺️
Could you possibly do the same meal challenge without buying anything in tins? That would be interesting and very helpful, as a lot of people have allergies to metal and can't eat tinned food.
Ooh I shall have a think about how I would go about that :) I normally use quite a few tins!
I am amazed how much you managed to get for 10 pounds.
It will probably come up to 15+ know with all the prices raising.I 😃
It was such a lot! And 😕 to rising prices.
OMG! 😳 those prices are so low!
I did manage to get quite a lot! :)
Can you do exact same shop today so we can see how much it’s gone up please
Oats and rice!
It sure was an interesting video, thanks! Compared to Finland: here everything canned is expensive, so here your should've bought fresh vegetables instead of canned. But I liked your video a lot ☺👍
Thank you! And that is interesting - fresh is much more here.
You could have made a chicken Curry with egg fried rice and peas
Ooh yes! Great tip ☺️
You can always go buy a little more milk and maybe some PB or bananas.
Great suggestion!
I got a whole bag of groceries for £7 from Aldi, ngl this challenge is actually good for your creativity.
Ooh fab! What did you make?
@@NicolaatTheFrugalCottage Well i am a pasta fan so i made different recipes like Agio con olio with a touch of pepper and lemon and spinach for example. Or different soups and stews and even cake
Good luck Nicola what about French Toast :) instead of scrambled egg on toast. A
Ooh yes! That would add some variety - thanks for that!
Wow! Here in Nigeria, our monthly salary cannot buy us food items that will last for 2 weeks.
You got a lot for $10.00 here in the US couldn't get that much.
Blessing
I would have bought a large bottle of milk which is only around £1 as that small amount wont go far, plus make a rice pudding instead of buying it tinned
Great suggestion! :)
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This is a great video. I think a curry sauce is quite easy to make and a bigger tin of baked beans usually isn’t much more but cheaper per gram. Otherwise very good options and choices with fruit and veg included which isn’t always easy when on an extreme budget as annoyingly junk food is cheaper! Agree with the porridge oats option below and I even do my porridge with water and you just get used to it after a while. 1kg of porridge oats would last at least 20 breakfasts and is very filling. I’d also suggest using discounter stores to those on an extreme budget like Lidl and Aldi as I find these are often cheaper. Olio is also a great app for people to claim surplus food in their area that would otherwise go to landfill and has saved myself and my partner a fortune this month! Also the more people you are buying for the more variety you can get etc so if doing for a family I think it would be better. Biscuits wise I think rich tea and custard creams are both cheaper per gram etc lol but obviously depends on your preferences 😊
I’m going to do another week shopping at a different place as well, I think :) it’ll be interesting to see how it compares!
@@NicolaatTheFrugalCottage it’s great though. It’ll definitely help people who are struggling at the moment and don’t necessarily know how to reduce spending enough.
I hope so! ❤️
Great video but I’m sure you could have found oats portage with the change. 🤷🏻♀️
Maybe next time :)
Thanks really inspired by this!!
Thank you! :)
Be good if they could do one of these for people with food allergies. Much harder because it's much more expensive.
That's definitely true; I think this would be hard to do on £10 a week.
How can she do that? . Everyone does not have the same allergies.
With how high the food prices are now and keep rising in the EU, it's not possible to buy such a quantity.
It can be tricky.
No way could we live off this budget in the Isle of Man. We have no cheap shops lol 😂
How much is a pence and a pound in American money? I know those canned goods where I live would be about a dollar a can and those chicken legs would probably be seven or eight dollars or more.
At the moment, £1 is worth $1.35 :)
@@NicolaatTheFrugalCottage Thank You...You have some cheap groceries where you’re at. I need to move, lol
Add peanut butter and oates
Great suggestion!
Bag of frozen mixed veg. Bag of pasta. Veg oxo cubes. Bag of apples.
Good options!
So I have to go today shopping with a budget of £25.00 for two weeks worth of food, I am 4stone underweight after financial and domestic abuse, stress and pneumonia, I lost my job after 20 years due to the abuse, I can’t go yellow sticker tea timeish as the bus goes once a day in the morning and I live rurally, I am anaphylactic to nuts , so summing up £25, fattening food , no nuts ,to last two weeks, no foodbank available as I had one last week, so not eligible for one , what am I going to do ? Help .
It depends on what you like; you could substitute the peanut butter for lemon curd for the fat content I suppose?
I Wonder if this is still possible..
13.23 USD. Wow, I could never get all that in NYC for 13.23. You did great. Best video. You included lots of veggies and even SNACKs. The other videos people mainly left out snacks. I could live a week on you choices. I would rather have healthier bread, and I always get jam or can fruit with no sugar added. But wow, you did great....for the budget. And you did not spend whole 10 pounds? You could go back for more bananas, etc. Great job..
Thank you! In the follow up video I did show where I went back on Day 3 for some extra things that took me nearly to the £10 :)
@@NicolaatTheFrugalCottage I saw it. Great job!!!!
Just came across this 2 years old weekly challenge video and found it very interesting how you spread your budget. What concerned me was the amount of processed tinned foods you used. I can make a huge pot of nourishing delicious vegetable soup in my slow cooker for little cost and it goes a long way. I understand this was to feed only yourself, but for myself I would prefer a healthier food choice option. Well done on succeeding under your budget though. 🌺
Thank you for watching; tinned options were cheaper at this point. Though I understand that fresh would probably have been better :)
I wonder how much this would all cost now with recent price rises?!?
A good point!
Food is unbelievably cheap in the UK, good grief.
It really is :)
All that food would be at least $25 in the US 😳
Quite a difference then :)
I wish I lived in your country so I could save so much lol. Everything is extremely expensive here! All those items would've costed more than a hundred bucks here!
Really? Wow, that's expensive!
@@NicolaatTheFrugalCottage yeah it really is ☹
Hi Nicola,
Hi Faith - have replied to your email message ❤️
@@NicolaatTheFrugalCottage Thanks Nicola! Clueless why my comment didn't load here but all best wishes for your budget week.
Thank you! :)
Well done.what if you vegetarian
You could add some pulses in there instead of the chicken :)
whyd you shop at morrisons? go aldi or lidl and youll get even more.
Because I think that Morrisons is as cheap as Aldi and/or Lidl. Plus it's the nearest supermarket to us :)
@@NicolaatTheFrugalCottage fair, convenience alone tromps everything.
Dried chickpeas would be a lot cheaper
They probably would!
I was curious how you prepare the food and this is the third video I’ve come across with no actual cooking.
There's a second part where I show all the meals for the week.
You could have bought a large bag of oats
I could have! Good suggestion :)
Like i was looking for some inspiration for a week of not that much cashflow, but man your country gives away food wtf. The equivalent bread here would be 3-3,5 pounds... The milk would be around 3,8 pounds... Soo this kinda does not work
Just use it for inspiration!
Your voice kinda reminds me of Mel C
Not heard that before!
@@nicolafrugalcottage What does that mean?
That is some cheap food 😱😱😱
It can be done!
Not in America. Especially the meat.
It's alright saying feed a family for 10 pounds a week but you aren't, you are only feeding yourself, what are you're husband and children going to eat.
Those are really cheap prices
It was a good price! :)
VALUE TEA? BYE GIRL.
Haha yes, it wasn't the finest drink in the world.
strange way you have done this showing each food one by one like the people watching havent seen food before
It’s to show you what there is! Plenty of videos do it like this :)