cheap family recipes
feed a family of 4 for less than £200 a month
Fruit
There is 28p per person, per day, allocated in the given budget for the month for fruit. This isn’t much and you will need to shop carefully if you want to stick with this.
The meal plan is priced at Asda as they have many ingredients that Lidl and Aldi do not. If you can get fruit cheaper there, or in a market, you’ll get more for your money
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Houmous
cheap family recipes feed a family of 4 for less than £200 a monthHoumousOn meal plan 1, there are 9 lunches through the month that use 1 of these houmous sandwiches. On meal plan 2, there are 3 lunches through the month that use 1 of these houmous sandwiches, plus...
Homemade Pizza
cheap family recipesfeed a family of 4 for (just over) £100 a monthHomemade PizzaThis homemade pizza recipe makes 12 individual ones. Eat 4, freeze 8 for laterOr make 3 larger pizzas and divide at the tableAll kinds of bits and pieces from the fridge can be popped...
Homemade Bread
cheap family recipes feed a family of 4 for (just over) £100 a monthHome Made Bread Absolutely delicious, there's nothing quite like bread straight out of the oven! I have made this bread with the 40 minutes rising time and it was delicious, but I found the finished...
Take care of your family and your budget
Before putting together our meal planners we surveyed over 600 people to ask when faced with a tighter budget, which things they would struggle to give up.