How to Eat for £10 a Week | Emergency Extreme Budget Food Shopping Haul

This is how to eat for £10 a week. I decided to try an emergency extreme budget food shop to see if I could love below £10 a week. Inspired by channels such as @ClickForTaz @MikeJeavons and @FrugalFitMom who have done vidoes like this! This is what I bought plus what my meal plan looks like for the week ahead. All of this food was bought at Morrisons. Links below :)

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[NicolaatTheFrugalCottage]

Any tips or suggestions? Let me know! ☺️

[videogamenutter]

You can chop and freeze celery and spring onions they all freeze well for stews and stir fry’s

[teresitap]

I'm baffled by how cheap the prices are, especially for the tinned items. And the free-range eggs were so inexpensive. You can definitely stretch 10 quid a long way there, nicely done. :)

[JrhymzChannel]

This is actually so clever. Any smart person should take this on board regardless of their finances. £9 for all of this? Thats crazy and your meal plan seems very healthy too!

[pandabossanna]

Wow amazing! You put my £20 a week challenge to shame haha. But this is great, it really does show if someone is in bad debt they can knuckle down and do this a few times to help :)

[lsfunk]

I would buy a tin of powdered milk ( no difference in coffee or porridge) and a big tin is £2 and would last a few weeks. I would also have bought a few bread and perhaps a bag of pasta ( mixed with onions & peppers and a tin of chicken soup makes a substantial meal )

[Irina-ibno]

Instead of rice pudding if you could buy 1kg oats- they would prob cost around £ 0.80-1.0... with rotation of bf- bread and oats- and bread and oats would last 2+ weeks

[helenshomecomforts]

Jack Monroe does a lovely curry with peaches and chickpeas. Sounds odd but it works. She also did a £1 a day week menu so might have some good ideas.

[Julie-ixwv]

Thats a good haul 😊. I agree with purchasing a large bag of oats, I think they’re about 75p for a kilo, you certainly get your money’s worth out of that. Also I tend to bulk up with pasta and spaghetti, very cheap. Only a true scrimper would appreciate this but, I buy full fat milk and dilute it by 1/3 with water, I get a bit more out of the pint and don’t really notice any difference in taste.
Also, when I buy spring onions ( reduced of course) I pop the bottom parts in water and they grow back for an extra yield, same with cress.

[rockchick]

The Morrisons Savers packet soups are 25p for 4 sachets. Mix two sachets together to obtain the same consistency as the tin...works out 12.5p a serving, cheaper than the tins of savers veg soup.

[janetturner]

I brought myself a chest freezer. Frozen veg even the cheap items are good value. Most veg can be cooked from frozen. I personally defrost peppers and mushrooms on kitchen towel so they are not so wet when you are cooking them. It's amazing some of the offers you can get. In most of the supermarkets or freezer shops ie Iceland and farm food.

[sinkintostillness]

Some great ideas here! Gives you an idea what can sustain one person for a week.

I would add a bag of porridge oats instead of the rice pudding which would go much further.

Buying the larger milk and decanting some to freeze if you think you're not going to use it all.

Would definitely have added a few more carrots and bananas for extra fruit and veg intake.

A larger tin of beans wouldn't have been too much more and would do x2 beans on toast lunches (just make sure you take out of tin to store in fridge for a different day)

[TanyasTastefulTable]

You did a great job. My type of smart shopper. You know how stretch a dollar. Take care

[saragoldsmith]

I had to keep reminding myself that £10 and $10 are different. In the USA £10 is around $13.33. I think this is why I felt like the food was prices low. When covering the money the chicken was definitely cheaper. By $2-$3 for the same quantity.

[wilsonator]

I usually get Asda instant noodles, tomato cup a soups, eggs, a big box of cereal and the cheapest canned fruit and veg I can get to cook with for the most part, and then my mum and dad also buy in food too for extra meals in the house. Generally, I spend a good £20-£30 on food a week but that will be all my snacks for an evening plus breakfast and my lunches sorted for a week if I prep far enough in advance and cook in bulk for the noodles.

[seanmwh]

Well to do this occasionally even if you don`t really need to is a great idea to save money sometimes. I think a big pot of chicken stew or vegetable stew Lidl are so cheap for veg organic too. That can last for three days, its has all the nutrition you need.

[kylecalder]

This is one of the best ones I’ve seen, Deffo going to give this a go.

[alwayslearning]

Completely gob smacked at how affordable everything, even if it's not top notch in terms of flavour for those prices and when it's not for long who cares!! :)
I would put one of the tins of vegetable soup into your curry, would make it go further and would add some more veg as well. :)
Also, I would go back to the store with your change and get whatever else you can afford, probably for those prices you could get porridge oats, another milk and a couple more bananas, or definitely some extra carrots.
Really looking forward to seeing the follow up video showing what you made out of that huge haul! All of that would cost so much more in Australia, even with the exchange rate factored in!!

[appleroad]

Interesting about price of one potato, i saw recently some shops like asda or lidl doing 500g for 39p or less and that's the set price not reduced. Frozen veggies like butternut squash and broccoli/caulflower really helped and I'd make curries. Just wished i had freezer space because I'm dealing with a chest one and no fridge. So I'm pretty sure that for £10 you can get a lot more veggies. Also personally i find aldi/lidl a lot more cheaper than other shops especially morrisons. But i typically in the past used to go to two shops because of price differences or they didn't stock what i needed e.g butter beans.

[Pollydoidle]

Can you do exact same shop today so we can see how much it’s gone up please