cheap family recipes
feed a family of 4 for less than £200 a month
Show me the money!
We’re providing a healthy and very low budget meal planner for an average UK family. It costs less than 90p per person per day. We’ve assumed you’d shop at one UK supermarket, (ASDA) for ease. They were the cheapest shop for the ingredients we picked. Lidl and Aldi are great at what they do, but if I’m looking for something just used as an ingredient, uncooked lentils for instance, they’re often not in those shops
The prices were all calculated in September 2010, and recalculated for this relaunch in November 2019. I am delighted that Option 1 is still pricing up at £107, not at all bad after nearly a decade. Option 2 is on its way back, but there’s a lot of work to be done before that is available. The recipes are all broadly there, but I need to cost check the months groceries, and each recipe too. As a particular recipe is completed, it will be loaded, so you’ll gradually see more recipes on the Search pages.
The Celebration plan is not too far off, lots of recipes are already available from that plan
86p a day may not sound like a huge reduction to your spending, so to motivate you, let’s look at it in a different way.
For the average family of 4 in the UK, these meal plans would save you over £4000 a year!
Just think what you could do with all that cash…
Each person in a whole year is only spending £314 on all their food and drink. And it’s darn tasty.
What are you waiting for?

Why Not Try....?
Lunchtime Pate
cheap family recipesfeed a family of 4 for (just over) £100 a monthLunchtime PateCan't stand liver? There is 200g of beef mince available that should have been frozen in week 2. You could use that to replace the liver. As you won't be spending the £1 to buy the liver,...
Lemon Cordial
cheap family recipesfeed a family of 4 for (just over) £100 a monthLemon Cordial Why Not Try....?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...
Lemon Cheesecake
cheap family recipes feed a family of 4 for less than £200 a monthLemon CheesecakeI love this cheesecake. You could also use an orange or a lime or two, instead of the lemon to make this. What do I need to make Lemon Cheesecake To serve 6 Topping 500 g natural...
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.