5 POUND PREPS

[Mustachio]

12 cans of potatoes - £1.68
10 litres of water - £2.20
2 cans of pineapples - 70p
2 cans of mixed beans - £1.20

Total - £5.78

[bettersafethansorry]

this weeks £5

pound shop: aluminium led torch £1
Tesco: various canned goods £2.87
Market: out of date honey jars 10x 10pea £1 (fools)

Seriously

What total plank thinks honey spoils ??

Going back next week ?


Saving them as sweeteners or are you going to prep mead?

oooo mead...... didn't think of that. I just knew honey lasts longer than any of us will 10 was all he had but i said if he gets anymore i will take them all. (cover story my mrs uses them to make beauty masks for all her family)

any reciepe's for mead?

[bettersafethansorry]

found this .... http://thestir.cafemom.com/food_party/1 ... eid=107147

[Plymtom]

any reciepe's for mead?

http://www.harvington.org.uk/hic/meadrecipes.html

and just for informative purposes

http://www.themcs.org/history/Mead/mead.htm

A Pagan that knows little of Mead.... I think not

[ForgeCorvus]

All I can remember ATM is for a gallon (Imperial) batch
4lbs of honey is dry, 5lbs medium dry and 6lbs medium sweet... Depending on your honey of course (some are runnier then others)

Bettersafe: Are they branded ?

[Mustachio]

Been sorting my food stores out today, and as my Mrs was at a church meeting tonight I thought I'd try some of the canned stuff I've recently found at ASDA for next to nothing.

So I boiled up some Smart Price tinned potatoes (14p) and a can of Irsih Stew (33p) so at 47p for my tea I wasn't expecting much but a meal that would keep my family and I alive. I was shocked and stunned to find out that with a pinch of salt and a dash of brown sauce that not only was this not nasty .... but it was absolutely delicious!

Really pleased & I'll probably eat it through the week to cut the shopping bill down (buying extra and not depleting my stores).

I'm also going to test how much rice I could cook in the left over water from the boiled potatoes at some point, just to save our drinking water!

[Steveo82]

Been sorting my food stores out today, and as my Mrs was at a church meeting tonight I thought I'd try some of the canned stuff I've recently found at ASDA for next to nothing.

So I boiled up some Smart Price tinned potatoes (14p) and a can of Irsih Stew (33p) so at 47p for my tea I wasn't expecting much but a meal that would keep my family and I alive. I was shocked and stunned to find out that with a pinch of salt and a dash of brown sauce that not only was this not nasty .... but it was absolutely delicious!

Really pleased & I'll probably eat it through the week to cut the shopping bill down (buying extra and not depleting my stores).

I'm also going to test how much rice I could cook in the left over water from the boiled potatoes at some point, just to save our drinking water!

I thought the potatos tasted horrid but I never added them to anything. Will try tomorrow

[unsure]

i have in the past fed 4 on .

2 tins potatoes
2 tins of stewed steak but you can use any meat
1 tin of corn
1 tin of garden peas
and a packet of arm issue curry powder ..
threw the lot in a big pan and boiled it up .
we call it one pot cooking and it went down a treat after a hard day with a beer or two .

[Steveo82]

Been back to aldi again tonight. Got the usual suspects as posted before but this time I noticed a 500g vegetable broth mix for 65p. On the back is a basic recipe which serves 8 and sounds lovley .The pack it's self contains pearl barley,yellow split peas, green split peas, marrow fat peas, red split lentils and dehydrated vegetable flakes (potato, carrot, leek, cabbage, swede and celeriac) and best before date of 2015

[lottielox]

The tinned potatoes with meatballs in gravy and tinned peas and carrots. Yummy, it's one of the meals I lived on as a student! Costs about £1 and used to do me two nights!

If I had £5 to spend on food I would buy a mix of the following

Tinned potatoes 15p
Meatballs 40p
Carrots 21p
Peas 42p
Chicken noodles 15p
Water 17p
Beans 24p
Rice pudding 17p
Long life milk 54p
Strawberry whip 17p
Sultanas 84p
Rice 40p
Cereal bars 84p
Pasta 34p

I've built up a supply of food for about 3 months now. Only by adding about £2 worth of extra on to the food shopping every week. I'm not prepping for the end of the world though, just aware that we may not always have the spare money for food! I have three of us to feed, including a ridiculously fussy 5 year old! Thankfully if we had a true emergency she loves noodles, rice, pasta and beans!