Miguel Barclay's bacon and savoy cabbage pasta. Cook some lardons or sliced streaky bacon with garlic in some oil, add chopped up raw cabbage and cook through. Add cooked pasta, black pepper and serve with grated cheese of choice. It doesn't sound like much, but it's blooming delicious, filling and very cheap. Good luck! We're all rooting for you and your food budget!
Cheepo meal: take some minced meat (or veggi version), seasone with the generic tacos seasoning. Throw it in a pot. Dice up some potato and carrots and toss them in there. Add a can of crushed tomato, a stock cube and water. If you happens to find some left over red wine some where have a splash of that (absolutely not necessary, and but if you do it with beef it can be nice) Boil the concoction. Add in some sweet corn as well, and if you have some baby spinach lying around toss that in as well. If there is any other veggies you may think fit and people will eat, you can hide them in there as well. I rather like to add some black beans as well. Any how, dish up the soup / witches brow in bowls, ad a little bit of Greek yoghurt and if you feel fancy crush some taco style crisps on the top. For a five star review ad a bit of green leafs, like coriander. Or if you can make people eat lentils, skip the mince, and do it with that instead. Will become more of a stew in that case. How is the price of sweet potatoes over there? I like to bake one / persons in the oven and then make a curry thing to go with. Shred up a lot of carrots, in to a pot and try them around with masala (or stuff like cumin, garlic, ginger, paprika powder…). If it is to your taste, dice up an apple in to small peace’s and put in. Toss in chickpeas, add a cab of tomato’s and a metric but load of spinach. Boil until warm through. Also nice with a bit of Greek yogurt on top. A bit carb heavy for some but it’s warm with spice and sweetness and perfect for a rainy day.
You can cut minced beef with lentils. Also, cottage cheese blended ( that is the secret) with pasta sauce (tomato based) with pasta, bread (homemade if you like) and salad. cheap filling and high protein (cause men always worry about protein) and if you get 1% not to bad calorie wise (for your husband)
@@50somethingbudgets Totally, my rent is painful as well, I just try to cut corners elsewhere. Good luck with the food budget, that is so hard these days!!
Good luck! ❤ I found that prepping (not cooking just preparing) dinner the night before helps keep the food budget down. So i cook, prep, then clean 8nstrad of prep cook, then clean. The first night is the worst because you prep 2 dinners. After that, it is pretty easy to maintain x
Let the challenge begin! If he’s doing sl world there is a bean and rice taco recipe on the app. Gluten free too. We have them with grated cheese in and potato wedges. The bean mix we add a bit of extra chilli powder to it. Good luck we are all behind you 💪
What a positive challenge! Best of luck. It might represent a small saving, but could you add an extra week on to your hair cur schedule - eg go seven weeks instead of six? It's a matter of days each time but adds up to one or two saved appointments each year (depending on how regular you have them!). On the subject of meals, we tend to do big batches of things like chilli and then we use this for a number of different meals - so chilli and rice, burritos, even a pizza topping as a change to a tomato sauce base. It can work with a tomato sauce too - cook a big batch then it can be used as a pasta sauce, a pizza topping, thinned down as a soup or combined with other veg to make a veg soup, a casserole base etc etc. It takes a little prep but then always means you have something close to a complete meal, which massively cuts down on the convenience foods you need to buy in your weekly shop. It's really helped us crop down our food budget :)
Great plan, I shall look forward to seeing how it goes x 💕💕oh and my daughter doesn’t eat onions either, it’s a nightmare cooking meals isn’t it without them , and they are a good “packer” also 🙈
Interesting challenge, I've not seen anyone do this before. I would maybe consider reducing the personal spends and increase the food budget as I spend £40 a week as a single person so your £60 budget will be really tight. It will be interesting to see the ideas that you come up with to get it that low though
It is going to be very tough and we may end up with some odd combinations at the end of the month. Reducing the spending money or upping the budget is always an option if we can’t make it work for 3 🙂
❤ Really looking forward to your big challenge would be interested in knowing what you eat ect I do yellow label shopping get some really good bargains veg and fish in particular.Lots of luck.
The Cinders ballet concept sounds brilliant 🩰. Ooo that’s a brilliant challenge for you both. I wish you the best of luck with it. It will be amazing to have that big chunk of money at the end 💚💜
Miguel Barclay's bacon and savoy cabbage pasta. Cook some lardons or sliced streaky bacon with garlic in some oil, add chopped up raw cabbage and cook through. Add cooked pasta, black pepper and serve with grated cheese of choice. It doesn't sound like much, but it's blooming delicious, filling and very cheap. Good luck! We're all rooting for you and your food budget!
That sounds delicious. I love cabbage and have some smoky bacon to use up 🙂
Cheepo meal: take some minced meat (or veggi version), seasone with the generic tacos seasoning. Throw it in a pot. Dice up some potato and carrots and toss them in there. Add a can of crushed tomato, a stock cube and water. If you happens to find some left over red wine some where have a splash of that (absolutely not necessary, and but if you do it with beef it can be nice) Boil the concoction. Add in some sweet corn as well, and if you have some baby spinach lying around toss that in as well. If there is any other veggies you may think fit and people will eat, you can hide them in there as well. I rather like to add some black beans as well. Any how, dish up the soup / witches brow in bowls, ad a little bit of Greek yoghurt and if you feel fancy crush some taco style crisps on the top. For a five star review ad a bit of green leafs, like coriander.
Or if you can make people eat lentils, skip the mince, and do it with that instead. Will become more of a stew in that case.
How is the price of sweet potatoes over there?
I like to bake one / persons in the oven and then make a curry thing to go with. Shred up a lot of carrots, in to a pot and try them around with masala (or stuff like cumin, garlic, ginger, paprika powder…). If it is to your taste, dice up an apple in to small peace’s and put in. Toss in chickpeas, add a cab of tomato’s and a metric but load of spinach. Boil until warm through. Also nice with a bit of Greek yogurt on top. A bit carb heavy for some but it’s warm with spice and sweetness and perfect for a rainy day.
The curry on a baked sweet potato sound delicious. Thanks for these ideas 🙂
Love that you are always challenging yourself❤
Great vid 👏xx
Thank you!! 😊
You can cut minced beef with lentils. Also, cottage cheese blended ( that is the secret) with pasta sauce (tomato based) with pasta, bread (homemade if you like) and salad. cheap filling and high protein (cause men always worry about protein) and if you get 1% not to bad calorie wise (for your husband)
Ooo the cottage cheese sounds like a great idea 🙂
Good luck with your challenge xx
Thank you!! 🙂
Great challenge idea, good luck! I already live on a single income but I always try to save around one third of it.
We couldn’t do it on our normal income as we have such a big mortgage ☹️ saving a third is awesome
@@50somethingbudgets Totally, my rent is painful as well, I just try to cut corners elsewhere. Good luck with the food budget, that is so hard these days!!
Good luck! ❤ I found that prepping (not cooking just preparing) dinner the night before helps keep the food budget down. So i cook, prep, then clean 8nstrad of prep cook, then clean. The first night is the worst because you prep 2 dinners. After that, it is pretty easy to maintain x
It is a struggle finding the motivation to cook after work. This is a good idea as it also means i am not giving up half my weekend food prepping 🙂
I wholeheartedly agree! ❤
My food budget is the same as yours this week. Praying for us 😁🌸
Good luck on your February challenge 🤞
Thank you 🙂
Great plan 🙌😊
You got this 👌💗
💗💙💗
Thank you!! 🥰
The Feb challenge sounds amazing! Good luck 🥳
Thank you so much 🙂
Your February sounds so exciting, both for your budget plans and for your social plans. Love the theatre 😍🎭. Xx
It was an amazing show last night, even better as it was free 🤣
Wow, what a challenge! Love the idea. You will all do brilliantly 💕
Thank you 🤗
Let the challenge begin! If he’s doing sl world there is a bean and rice taco recipe on the app. Gluten free too. We have them with grated cheese in and potato wedges. The bean mix we add a bit of extra chilli powder to it. Good luck we are all behind you 💪
Those tacos sound lovely 😋
All the best with your February challenge - great idea to make the most of your bonuses 🙌🥰
Thanks so much! 😊
What a positive challenge! Best of luck. It might represent a small saving, but could you add an extra week on to your hair cur schedule - eg go seven weeks instead of six? It's a matter of days each time but adds up to one or two saved appointments each year (depending on how regular you have them!). On the subject of meals, we tend to do big batches of things like chilli and then we use this for a number of different meals - so chilli and rice, burritos, even a pizza topping as a change to a tomato sauce base. It can work with a tomato sauce too - cook a big batch then it can be used as a pasta sauce, a pizza topping, thinned down as a soup or combined with other veg to make a veg soup, a casserole base etc etc. It takes a little prep but then always means you have something close to a complete meal, which massively cuts down on the convenience foods you need to buy in your weekly shop. It's really helped us crop down our food budget :)
I like the idea of a big batch of tomato based sauce as that is something we could use for lots of meals and my son will eat 🙂
Great plan for February 😊
Thank you 🙂
Great challenges for the month. Good luck with all the no spend days!
Thanks, it’s gonna be tough 😬
Fab plans. And great goals. If it was me I would definitely take it out and have it seperarte to everything to stop me possibly using it ❤
It will be lovey to cash stuff all the real cash at the end 🙂
Wow what a challenge ! Good luck. 🎉❤
Thank you 🙂
Great plan, I shall look forward to seeing how it goes x 💕💕oh and my daughter doesn’t eat onions either, it’s a nightmare cooking meals isn’t it without them , and they are a good “packer” also 🙈
He won’t eat peppers or beans of any kind either which I love but he will eat any meat and is the only person in our house who eats fish 🐟
@@50somethingbudgets🙈 oh dear !!! I dont like fish myself 😂😂 x
Great video. 👍 Newly subscribed
Thank you for subscribing 🙂
That sounds great. I would very much like to see meal plan/ what you eat videos.
Hope to share one at the end of our first week 🙂
Well done challenging yourself. I need to take a leaf out of your book! I’m sure it won’t be long til you get your 2k
Thank you 🙂
Interesting challenge, I've not seen anyone do this before. I would maybe consider reducing the personal spends and increase the food budget as I spend £40 a week as a single person so your £60 budget will be really tight. It will be interesting to see the ideas that you come up with to get it that low though
It is going to be very tough and we may end up with some odd combinations at the end of the month. Reducing the spending money or upping the budget is always an option if we can’t make it work for 3 🙂
Looks like a good plan ❤
Thanks 🙂
I would really enjoy a video regarding recipes/food plan please xx
I will have a go at one at the end of each week I think 🙂
How many family members do you have to feed? Great news about your bonuses, what a fantastic surprise.
2 adults and a teen who eats as much as a third adult 🙂
❤ Really looking forward to your big challenge would be interested in knowing what you eat ect I do yellow label shopping get some really good bargains veg and fish in particular.Lots of luck.
I’m going to do a video at the end of each week with what we ate
Please do share your menu plan for the month
I am going to share a video weekly of our meal plan, what we bought and what we ate🙂
Wow what a challenge. Love the idea. Good luck with it 💜
Thank you! 🤗
The Cinders ballet concept sounds brilliant 🩰. Ooo that’s a brilliant challenge for you both. I wish you the best of luck with it. It will be amazing to have that big chunk of money at the end 💚💜
Thank you. It will be tough but I’m looking forward to stuffing the savings and paying stuff off at the end of the month 🙂