lucylocket61
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You can feed 4 people, for a whole week, for £22? I am interested in how you can do this please.
You can feed 4 people, for a whole week, for £22? I am interested in how you can do this please.Is the £22 for all things or just food? Does anyone have any allergies/ special requirements apart from LcHf? I think I might be able to do this. Why is your budget so low?
On low income whilst unable to work and I was refused ESA. I've never claimed for anything before so haven't a clue whats available. I got some PiP not enough to live off.Is the £22 for all things or just food? Does anyone have any allergies/ special requirements apart from LcHf? I think I might be able to do this. Why is your budget so low?
I like this idea. I will try it out next week. Thankyou.Just to emphasise the need to shop around I went to a discount butcher's shop today and bought four lamb shanks, 1 joint of pork and a tray of twelve pork loin chops and the bill came to just over £15.
This will make eight meals for my family. If I had bought all this in my local Morrisons I think the bill may have come up to double that price. Sadly, this shop runs out of fresh whole chicken and chicken thighs/fillets etc by lunchtime so I couldn't get any.
I do wish I could get my veg from a farm shop on a regular basis but the few around here are quite a distance away.
Thankyou.I’m going to make a meal plan over the weekend. I’ll try to post next week
Yeah I hear you healthy has never been cheap. Can you maybe stock up on what you can eat when it's on special?I’m finding LCHF horrendous on the affordability front, but it’s done miracles for my sugars and general well-being so I don’t want to go back!
I’m allergic to mammal meat, poultry and cow dairy, so my goat butter is £1.90 a block and we all know the price of olive oil and avocados! It’s much more expensive to find enough fat, I’ve found. I can have oily fish, so there’s that, but don’t want to overload on protein. Goat, sheep and buffalo cheeses are also way more expensive than the cow versions.
I’ve got the holy trinity of almond flour, coconut flout and psyllium husk arriving this week, so will be trying some baking. But at £18 for the three, that’ll just be a treat.
I always hoover up salmon and goats cheese when they’re reduced or on offer in my local Lidl! Husband usually passes Asda on his way home from work at just the right time for them to be reducing fish from the fresh counter and grabs what he can there. Sometimes for penniesYeah I hear you healthy has never been cheap. Can you maybe stock up on what you can eat when it's on special?
Only debt is clothing account which I added 2presents to before Xmas.@ickihun, I need you to visit https://www.turn2us.org.uk/Find-Benefits-Grants
To see what benefit your entitled to. I am hoping that anyone who can help you, will reach out because this sounds like madness. Also pls speak to Stepchange regarding the debts. You may wish to see if you can also get a referral to a good bank but with these health conditions, you need help.
They give carbs and c^&*. Kids are under dieticians. I cannot feed them rubbish. Also A food bank is a one off offer of help. Two at most, which I might need when they mess around with benefits... as they do.@ickihun, I need you to visit https://www.turn2us.org.uk/Find-Benefits-Grants
To see what benefit your entitled to. I am hoping that anyone who can help you, will reach out because this sounds like madness. Also pls speak to Stepchange regarding the debts. You may wish to see if you can also get a referral to a good bank but with these health conditions, you need help.
You can go to a food bank three times in six months, and often more now universal credit is creating mayhem with payments.They give carbs and c^&*. Kids are under dieticians. I cannot feed them rubbish. Also A food bank is a one off offer of help. Two at most, which I might need when they mess around with benefits... as they do.
Thank you @lucylocket61You can go to a food bank three times in six months, and often more now universal credit is creating mayhem with payments.
I went to Sainsbury's today and lamb shanks were £4 each so your discount butchers is certainly cheap. It has become a favourite theme for TV chefs to extol the virtue of cheap cuts resulting in them not being cheap any more.Just to emphasise the need to shop around I went to a discount butcher's shop today and bought four lamb shanks, 1 joint of pork and a tray of twelve pork loin chops and the bill came to just over £15.
This will make eight meals for my family. If I had bought all this in my local Morrisons I think the bill may have come up to double that price. Sadly, this shop runs out of fresh whole chicken and chicken thighs/fillets etc by lunchtime so I couldn't get any.
I do wish I could get my veg from a farm shop on a regular basis but the few around here are quite a distance away.
The device for economical cooking is a pressure cooker, but I noticed that my bills dropped when I got a halogen oven - the one sold on the TV shopping channel, it has a hinged top, far more convenient than the lift off one.The hing about cheap cuts is that often they need longer cooking times, and paying the fuel bill can already be a problem. I do get cross when recipes are hailed as economical, only to find I need my oven on for 8 hours, or need to buy a slow cooker or similar. Where is the saving in that?
if i could afford either, i wouldnt be worrying about buying food this month. Cheap food isnt cheap if you have to use the food money to buy cooking appliances, even if they last a long time, you still need the initial outlay.The device for economical cooking is a pressure cooker, but I noticed that my bills dropped when I got a halogen oven - the one sold on the TV shopping channel, it has a hinged top, far more convenient than the lift off one.
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