Grocery shopping advice?

[Jeaves]

2 packs of pasta , 5 x dolmios , 2 cloves of garlic, 2 onions , jar of sundried tomatoes, cheese.

Bag of potatoes , ham , cheese , capsicum , onion , that jar of sundried tomotoes. Nuke potatoes whole with skin on , gut em out , stuff em full of above , quick nuke to melt the cheese.

get some salad/lettuce/colesaw and add to side of each meal.

[Scouse]

5 x dolmios

Fuck the 5 Dolmios thats about $20 five tins of Watties Tomatoes is a better and cheaper investment would only cost $7.50

[Mom]

I cant find anything in a supermarket to "eat nice" that i can get everything i need for 70 a week.
I don't know how to cook either, use powerades when i go cycling... the kool fruits well.... i had a moment of weakness lol

Mince. BOM (boring old mince). Mince. Oh, tube steak

Schnitzel (absolutely the cheapest meat to feed a family) and it looks like it cost heaps and tastes good too!

I hear you about not knowing how to cook Mark, and it really does make it very, very tough to make ends meet. All very well for us that have the skills to make a cheap meal, if you dont know how to, you dont.

You need some basic "store cupboard" things to cook. Salt, pepper, flour (suggest you buy cornflour) soy sauce, tom sauce, lea and perrins. Then you need basic veg, spuds, carrots, onions, heaven help you, frozen peas. Rice is even better than spuds sometimes, it does not go off if you leave it mouldering in the cupboard.

Before I go too much further, do you have pots? Have you got a microwave? Do you have any cooking vessels at all?

[BMWST?]

the landlord should fix the oven

[R6_kid:Me]

the landlord should fix the oven

Thats what I said, but he came up with some lame-o excuse.

[Choco]

Potatoes are usually pretty cheap if you buy in bulk!
slice em, mash em, puttem inna stew etc.

[fire eyes]

I'll feed anybody for $25 per week and show a handsome profit.

OK. First rule. Buy INGREDIENTS, not prepared food. Fundamental rule, if it comes in a can or packet, pass it by.

Rice is your firend. It's cheap (buy a sack from the Indian stores).
Buy a chicken (raw one). No stove, so joint it out, fry it for Maryland chicken, Oriental chicken, chicken chasseur. . Save the carcase. With $5 worth of split peas lentils and barley , and a few veges , that'll make a huge pot of nutricious chicken soup. Last you a month. Easy as to make . (Add a bacon bone and it's to die for)

Veges are CHEAP. You can get a huge amount for $10. Carrots, cabbage, broccali, onions.

Sausages are good , about the only sensible thing you bought. Bread's cheap if you buy the cheap loaves, but not as cheap as rice.

Invest $10 in spices and herbs. Not only are they good for you (don't stint the garlic!), but they turn ordinary food into a feast.

Look around the butcher (or supermarket , but butcher is better). Find a cheap cut of meat (mutton flaps work well). Cut up and trim. Fry in a little oil until brown. Put it into a casserole pot. Add carrots, potato cut up, lotsa onion, lotsa garlic (no, more garlic, that's not a lot . More , More , LOTSA garlic) . Add worchester sauce , soy sauce, spices and herbs, a sprinkle of brown sugar, a cup of vinegar. Top up with water. Put in the over - bugger you aint got one , OK, make it an Irish stew just simmer it VERY GENTLY AND SLOWLY on the hotplate. Should take about 6 hours to cook. My casserole feeds two of us for 6 meals. Costs about $6 . Dollar a meal. Easy as falling off y' bike.

Wots wornga with peasant food anyway. They eats bloody well does the peasants.

Thanks for posting this Ixion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have written it down lol

It's nice to write an actual recipe down .. Iv been kind of winging it by throwing everything in a pot and hoping for the best! Kids give me some strange looks sometimes.

[Mom]

Thanks for posting this Ixion!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I have written it down lol

It's nice to write an actual recipe down .. Iv been kind of winging it by throwing everything in a pot and hoping for the best! Kids give me some strange looks sometimes.

Right, head to food porn social group, I will post some easy peasy, cheap meals, all of you that want to know how.

[fire eyes]

Right, head to food porn social group, I will post some easy peasy, cheap meals, all of you that want to know how.

Yes Ma'am!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sparky.scott]

Iv been kind of winging it by throwing everything in a pot and hoping for the best!...

Oh? isnt that how were supposed to cook????

[Maha]

What you will need..
Chicken Breasts....(they come in pairs so freeze one)
Sweet Chilli Sauce
Soy Sauce
Honey
Sour creme.....(2x small containers, same size as yoghurt)
Lettuce
Tomato
Cheese
Burrito wraps...(pack of 6, you can eat three)

Step 1...dice 1 chicken breast
Step 2..Sweet Chilli/Soy/Honey (about two table spoons of each)
into a microwave safe jug...on high for 20 seconds.
Step 3...add sauce to chicken and it let sit for an hour.
Step 4...cook chicken (on moderate heat) in a fry pan until it looks golden...about 20-30 mins (meat should white all the way through.
Step 5...while chicken is cooking, dice 1 tomato, grate a handfull of cheese and tear a bit of lettuce.
Step 6....heat buritos in mircowave as per instuctions.
Step 7...when buritos are done, add some chicken/tomato/lettuce/sour creme and cheese..wrap and eat...make three.

You will love it, its easy. You will have enough ingredients left over to do it all again some other time.

[Tink]

Ok I might sit on a bike ... pillion like friggen fantastic...and I WANT ONE OF MY OWN THAT GOES FAST.... but I don't cook!!!

soooooooooooooooo.... mow with vege is great... pasta with cheese (melted is great)...cheap steak slow..kids love... and when I was flatting CHEESE ON TOAST ROCKED... ERM

[Solly]

Fark!!!!........everyone's a Chef Ramsey or Jamie Oliver......I am impressed

[Tink]

I didn't notice any f***en (GR) great recipes... wired chickens... but yr right about the great food ... how about a food thread for men on the "RIDE".. healthy and filling.. that requires a bbq and lots of hungry bikers.

[gatch]

Okay well i have always been a useless shopper...

Oven doesnt work here and well i can't be arsed fixing it...have hotplates...microwave, toaster and a BBQ...

i can stretch this budget to 70 a week... so what have you found works, i pack food in like mad... i just can never seem to buy the components to make proper meals... i find myself spending 70 bucks and still feel im eating peasent food.

anybody got any advice...

here was what i got for my $43.37 today.
2 packs diamond macaroni cheese with sauce blah blah.... 2 big ben pies.... 2 pack of garlic bread.... kool fruits lollies... 6 pack pork alpine sausages. blue top milk 1 litre..... microwave watties beef soups (2) ..... 2 loaf's bread.... 4 powerades....

Any advice appreciated... starting to effect my health.

I can guarantee you I eat alot more than you man and if I do it right 70 buck is loads.. Rice, onions and potatoes are your friends.. buy milk in the 2 or 3l bottles as they are usually cheaper, get your fuckin oven fixed too cause frozen chickens are the goods, those microwave soups are shit value, a pack of 2 min noodles and some chili sauce will make any left overs twice as nice, forget the powerades - DRINK WATER, those powerades equal a kilo of mince, lentils and the like are good for bulking up alot of meals, carrots for snacks...

yaddy yada, if it says "prepare in minutes" on the front or whatever, chances are it costs about 3x as much as you should be paying.

good luck