[*melrose*]

Dh and i have to pay a huge bill and its going to take us 3 weeks to pay it off! So could you live off $90-100 a week for 3 weeks?? and if so what would you buy?

Recipes please??
Also what meat?
oh forgot to say no children just dh and me!

thanks

This post has been edited by *melrose*: 12/01/2013, 09:32 PM

[la di dah]

We average 70-80 for groceries a week but there's only two of us so I don't know if that's helpful? How many people are we trying to feed? Any diet restrictions?

I have diet restrictions but they're not hitting us in the pocket - I don't eat pork or prawns, boo hoo - but if you are on gluten free or anything like that, it can knock your bills skyward.

[Katie_bella]

Yeah we could, it would probably not be too hard either. Cheap meat (mince/chicken thighs etc), lots of vegies/pulses, cheap carbs (pasta/rice)

Shop at the market rather than at woolies if you can.

[Chaos in stereo]

I have had to do this in poor travelling days when I really had next to nothing.

I just turned into a rice-loving vegan until the debt is paid off. It's not bad - tinned tomatoes, beans and (cheap) vegies cooked into a casserole and served with rice is really cheap!

[MrsLexiK]

Firstly look in your pantry and freezer. Use up any cans and frozen meat. Meal plan for the 21 days and find out how many breakfast and lunches and dinners and my snacks will need.

[gemgirl]

Pasta, rice, white bread toasted sandwiches. But a cheap bag of potatoes and have baked beams on baked potatoes. No meat, basically, lots of carbs.
Lots of canned beans etc

Noodles, water no juice/soft drink

Boiled eggs etc

Anything in he freezer/pantry

Before we bought our current house, we lived tight for three weeks prior to settlement to pay a big deposit and ate very cheap.

This post has been edited by gemgirl: 12/01/2013, 09:37 PM

[Help!Ihaveat...]

I usually live on about $80 a week. Meat I use is chicken breast, mince, sausages etc.
So we will have bangers and mash
Home made chicken schnitzels
Fish and steamed vege
Tuna bake
Spaghetti Bol
Chicken casserole (use chicken soup as base and add heaps of vege)
Cold salad night
Curried eggs and rice
Curried sausages with rice and vege

Tonight we had a chicken breast diced up with green curry sauce with steam fresh vegetables and rice.

[GoodGollyMolly]

Yep I would just make 2 or 3 big meals a week that would do for several meals, eg a veg curry and rice, spag Bol, beef casserole.

Cuts of meat for casseroles are really cheap (gravy beef or chuck steak).

Toast for breakfast.

Sandwiches for lunch (just go the cheap brand bread).

If you have a local fruit and veg market can be a lot cheaper, otherwise there's lots of cheap fruit around at the moment.

I think it would be very do-able!

[Madnesscraves]

Chorizos and butter beans

2-3 chorizos
Butter beans (can)
Diced tomato (can)

Cook chorizo until lightly brown thrown in tomatoes and butter beans, cool for a few minutes serve. Under $10 for this meal

$1 pasta and $2.50 pasta sauce. I just get Coles brand pasta and a nice sauce jar. They're pretty cheap

Roast veggies/steamed veggies. Buy carrots, potatoes, onion and corn/peas (all fresh) in bulk last about a week or more ( depends who you buy it from) in bulk. Cook to taste. Sauce? Erm in hope you have some in the pantry anyway plain is just as nice.

Weetbix $5 box lasts a week between 2 people best value for breakfast than other meals

Get bread for lunches and slap peanut butter on it. Of we could do it in primary school, we can do it in adult hood. I and DH have this for lunch.

[Sunnycat]

We could, but there's only 2 of us and a toddler (not including cat food and litter though) our budget is about $200 per fortnight and then $150 for the cats.