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This is being economical with food! Not flinging a load of random ingredients together. Give it a try Jack.
Got to double down on this. Had dinner (Mr D made it, so didn't see what was left in the fridge until afterwards) and there's so much chicken left, there's another 4 meals' worth of the recommended portion size of meat. As we've got rice, six rashers of streaky, avocadoes, spring onion and rice, that takes it to 18 meals at an average of 19.57/18= £1.09 per person.
If I cheat and use the other condiments/seasonings and stuff already in the cupboard, all I need to do is get a proper bag of po-ta-toes, (89p for 2.5kg), one of carrots (£1), a cabbage (43p) and maybe a 1kg pork shoulder, £5 in Tesco (can cut it up easily enough), maybe eggs (£1.90 because I'm an Egg Snob) and another GF loaf (£2) and we've got good food for the rest of the week for the grand sum of £30.79 or
Let's see.
Roast pork, spuds, carrots, cabbage.
Breakfast Bacon, avocado, toast if Mr D fancies the bacon, if not it can stay in the fridge and make another two breakfasts with eggs.
Stirfry pork with some gochujang and soy (in cupboard), cabbage, carrot and rice.
Leftover stirfry pork goes into sandwiches.
Egg and wedges.
Jacket spuds - I prefer mayonnaise (already accounted for in original spend). Tomatoes and cucumber keep well, could make a cheapie coleslaw with cabbage, carrot and spring onion.
And I bet there would still be half the pork left, as I'm assuming we have 250g each time/I've cut it into 4, which is in excess of recommended portion sizes. Which takes the average down even more. 30 meals minimum. 30 good meals. £1.02 per person per meal on average - AND it's dairy/gluten free. (I am clearly not even remotely vegan, but I'm pretty sure that the meat and egg spend (£13.40) would get a fuckton of Tofu, chickpeas, black beans, borlotti beans, lentils/other plant protein sources, a greater variety of veg and a good fat like avocado or olive oil to bring up the calories).
(Caveat: because I'm not trying to support the tories or convince old ladies to send me their winter fuel allowances, I'll add in a small tin of tomatoes, a chopped onion and garlic, two courgettes that are actually already in the fridge, some tomato puree, some spices and a handful of black olives from the jar I've had for a fortnight for a Sunday dinner stew to have with added potato/cabbage that won't be the colour of drunken vomit. So technically bringing the price up a bit again if you discount the fact that they've already been bought before payday.)
