Eating plans for a £1 a day

Callistemon21

As I mentioned on another thread, making stock from bones or chicken carcase requires a long simmering using gas or electricity.
I'm not sure how much it would cost to do it in a slow cooker.

Yes, I always make stock from chicken carcasses, but do often wonder how much more it costs in fuel, than buying stock cubes. It’s that much nicer, though.

As I mentioned on another thread, making stock from bones or chicken carcase requires a long simmering using gas or electricity.
I'm not sure how much it would cost to do it in a slow cooker.

No such thing as free dog bones anymore ??
Yes, there are - we get free bones for our (raw fed) Labrador all the time.

Blondiescot Thank you for sharing the link to Jack Munroe’s shocking article. It should be required reading for every MP and decision maker.

Having watched my mother feed our family, we never went hungry, during the years of food rationing shows me how much can come from so little
I still make these recipes (you get used to leg pulling ) and clean plates says it all.

Cow's 'knuckle' of course.

Is that just one serving though, your entire day’s budget?

Tizliz

No such thing as free dog bones anymore ??

There are from our nearest butcher.

Back in the seventies I used to pay a few pence for a knuckle bone from a butcher we lived near in Lochee, Dundee. With onion, carrot, swedish turnip, and lentils the marrow that I boiled out of it made fantastic soup in large quantities. With a hunk of bread I don't believe you can be better fed than that.

It's been shown that the chilled soups you can buy are just as nutritious as making your own, I read somewhere.
99p in Aldi, and often on offer for that kind of price in other shops.

When dh and I were exceedingly skint, for quite some time we virtually lived on thick soups made from local, seasonal veg, and the cheapest cheese available locally (this was not in the U.K.) which was some processed Australian stuff called for some strange reason ‘Penguin’. And bread, of course. Any sort of meat or ‘proper’ cheese was unaffordable.

I still make quite a lot of such soups especially in the winter - often now with lentils/pearl barley etc. added. We still enjoy them.
When particularly hard up my mother had frequently made such soups with whatever she happened to have - hence her name of ‘Dustbin soup’, which is what we still call them.

I wouldn’t like to have to do it, but I’m confident that if I had to, I could feed us both extremely cheaply and reasonably healthily - Smartprice porridge and pasta (I usually buy that anyway), the cheapest UHT milk, lots of relatively cheap seasonal veg, the cheapest bread and cheese, and obviously no more free range eggs, etc.

I’m very thankful that I’m not likely to need to do it, though.

Theoddbird out of interest, other than the occasional egg what other protein do you eat to have such a low budget?

I'm not a vegetarian but do eat tofu - in fact having it for lunch today. 150g of organic tofu will give about 19g of protein, at a cost of £1 - it's from the supermarket so could be cheaper elsewhere.

25Avalon

28 fish fingers for £2 in Iceland should go a long way. Just had to place an order for our clubhouse and was amazed at some of their prices.

The CEO from Iceland said, at one point, that their customer profile was for someone with a family budget of £25 a week for food.

By that MPs criteria £1.00 is very generous indeed!
He doesn't state whether his 30pence is for one meal or a family?
Do you think we should be asking him for some of his recipes?

I think I go a big over the pound a day but not by much. My diet is mainly plant based with the occasional egg. I must try and cost it. I find using frozen sweet corn and mixed peppers work out cheaper...sweet corn especially. I use the frozen mixed peppers in cooked meals.

Joking apart JaneJudge, I remember someone in Game of Thrones catching and eating a pigeon.

I've made the effort to get Loyalty cards for all of my local shops, hopefully some of the offers will be good.

That's the thing.
It is easier and cheaper to go for that type of food, when bellies need filling.

28 fish fingers for £2 in Iceland should go a long way. Just had to place an order for our clubhouse and was amazed at some of their prices.

When my DS was still very young & I was separated from my now Ex, we had very little money, £36 per week, had to pay all usual bills & mortgage. We qualified for school dinners for my DS so he ate every day. I bought breakfasts for him & tea was couple of slices of bread & cheap jam. I bought 6 large eggs & had one a day with a slice of bread for my dinner. No idea how much this would have cost but certainly helped me lose the weight that I needed to. Would not recommend it though. It is amazing what you can manage if you have to. With the increase in my bills I may even try that again ?

There are lots of pigeons on my garden, maybe I should get a gun?

Ratatouille?

JaneJudge

so we have porridge for breakfast
one potato for lunch
and a dust sandwich for tea and a generation of babies developing rickets and certain sections of society suffering from malnutrition. Something to strive for people

Get a cat and train it to catch mice (or, better still, rats) and grill one to go in the sandwich.

so we have porridge for breakfast
one potato for lunch
and a dust sandwich for tea and a generation of babies developing rickets and certain sections of society suffering from malnutrition. Something to strive for people

Baggs

growstuff

Katek

Porridge made with milk? Just no! This Scot makes porridge with water and a pinch of salt, nothing else, and no sweet toppings are added either. If you want to be extremely economical there’s always the porridge drawer. This was found mainly on farms and was a tin lined dresser drawer which was filled with thick porridge. It was then left to cool and slices were cut off by farm labourers to sustain them during the day. A drawer could last for a week. Not something I would fancy!

Porridge made with water doesn't have much nutrition in it - the salt isn't very healthy either.

Oats are a nutritious grain. Obviously adding other nutritious foods is a bonus but oats are nutritious in their own right as far as grains go. Stop downing them, gs!

Salt is so important it used to be currency. Mainly because it was used to preserve food before refridgeration but we need some salt in our diets too. a pinch in one's porridge isn't going to kill you, otherwise there's be no Scots!

So how much protein and fat do oats provide? Both are necessary for a well-balance diet.

Baggs

Do you have the same attitude about potatoes, gs, that used to sustain the Irish peasantry?

What do you mean by "attitude" Baggs? I'm T2 diabetic and keeping my carb intake low is the only way I can control the condition. It's not an "attitude" - it's a survival tactic.

Callistemon21

Salt is so important it used to be currency

The word salary comes from the Latin word salarium = salt which was used as currency.

Salt was used to preserve food. These days, we have fridges, freezers and tins.