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
Why Not Try....?
Tomato Houmous
cheap family recipes feed a family of 4 for less than £200 a monthTomato HoummousTomato hummus is served once in the month on meal plan 2. What do I need to make tomato hummus ▢ 200 g dry weight chick peas cooked as per packet instructions. If you are using tinned...
Tomato & Olive Pudding
cheap family recipes feed a family of 4 for (just over) £100 a monthTomato & Olive PuddingThis is lovely as a pudding, but I usually bake it as a pie Why Not Try....?Before putting together our meal planners we surveyed over...
Tangy Bean Pate
cheap family recipes feed a family of 4 for (just over) £100 a monthTangy Bean PateThis tangy bean pate is made using baked beans. The beans can be changed for a tin of anything else, butter beans, white beans, green lentils, mixed spicy beans, chickpeas etc Make...
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.