When you feed a growing family it seems like a food shop ungrateful job.
As soon as you have done a great shop, it seems that you have already fulfilled some requirements.
However, a mum revealed how to feed the family for two weeks on an incredibly low budget.
Megan Kent, from Stock-on-Trent’s remarkable two-week meal plan, allows her to make breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks for herself and her partner and their three-year-old at Aldi for just $ 84.14 (approximately € 95).
She took it Feed your family on a budget Group to share her shopping list and meal plan, helping other families reduce their expenses Birmingham Live.
What’s her secret? In a nut shell, food preparation and planning! Megan creates a two-week plan to include breakfast, dinner from the weekend brunch, dinner and the weekend treat.
Posting online, she explained: “Breakfast is not something I buy in this shop, but what I buy in bulk as a grain will last forever.”
She advises you to use leftovers and think intelligently to move your diet further. For example, a chili cone corn for dinner will allow you to use the leftovers for nachos the next day.
Megan also starts each week with a batch of cooking soup, which includes eating sandwiches or toast and instant noodles at lunch.
The list also mentions a variety of fruits and vegetables and essential items on the shelf, such as tuna, beans, packet rice, noodles and tortilla wraps.
Once every two weeks, the list includes frozen chips, sweet potato fries, a kilo of chicken breasts, shampoo, conditioner, shower gel, bin bags, kitchen rolls and toilet rolls.
That’s not because Megan was able to include snacks and treats like biscuits in her budget, such as yogurt, ice cream, crisps, fruit plus, and friendly and fun drinks.
The only thing I haven’t seen yet is breakfast cereal, which Megan buys in bulk to save more money
Megan’s 2 week diet plan
In other words breakfast is breakfast every day
Monday Lunch: Soup, sandwich, packed lunch
Monday Dinner: Pork strips, cheese wrapped with onion, spinach, cucumber, sweetcorn, cottage cheese and sweet potato fries
Tuesday Lunch: Soup, sandwich, packed lunch
Tuesday Dinner: Chicken, green beans, and broccoli wrapped in corn and bacon.
Wednesday Lunch: Soup and instant noodles
Wednesday Dinner: Beef, onion, garlic, kidney beans, black beans, pasta, rice, grated cheese, chili with crushed tortilla chips
Thursday Lunch: Soup, toast beans
Thursday Dinner: Nachos with leftover chili, tortilla chips and cheese
Friday Lunch: Soup, sandwich, packed lunch
Friday Dinner: Tuna pasta with sweet corn, mayo and garlic bread
Saturday Breakfast: Eggs and Bacon Sandwich
Saturday Lunch: Pork burgers with spinach, onion, cucumber and cheese
Saturday Dinner: Chicken Kievs with Peas and Hasselback Potatoes
Sunday Lunch: Salad pasta with ham and eggs
Sunday Dinner: Chicken Dinner with Roasted Chicken Breasts, Roasted Potatoes, Carrots, Broccoli and Green Beans
Week 2
Monday Lunch: Soup, instant noodles, packed lunch
Monday Dinner: Bake pasta
Tuesday Lunch: Sandwich, packed lunch
Tuesday Dinner: Fried rice with ham, eggs, peas, onions and carrots
Wednesday Lunch: Sandwiches
Wednesday Dinner: Loaded Fries – Potato Wedges with Mac, Cheese and Bacon
Thursday Lunch: Beans in toast
Thursday Dinner: Mix chicken with broccoli, green beans, peas, carrots and noodles
Friday Lunch: Instant noodles, packed lunch
Friday Dinner: Tuna pasta with sweetcorn and mayo
Saturday Brunch: Eggs, bacon and beans on toast
Saturday Dinner: Chicken wrapped with spinach, onion, cucumber, cheese, cottage cheese and wedge
Sunday Lunch: Salad pasta with ham and eggs
Sunday Dinner: Chicken Dinner with Roasted Chicken Breasts, Roasted Potatoes, Carrots, Broccoli and Green Beans
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