What to buy with 20 pounds for a weeks shopping?

I have had a lot of bills and I only have 20 pounds left to do food shopping for myself for the rest of the week. What can I buy?|||£20 in today's money might just get you a packet of hula hoops and a bottle of pop.





Seriously though. Go for potatoes which can be used any number of ways - chipped, fried, mashed, jackets, etc. Pasta should aslo be a staple. Go for the value items such as beans, chopped tomatoes, peas etc, all stuff that can used in various other meals. If it's any consolation, I know where you're coming from.|||A good chicken and veg.A couple of jars of your fav curry.Have a good roast dinner.Next day use some chicken in a curry.Next


day use a bit more.Brown it off and put it in a casserole pot or


large pan with onions,carrots,swede,potatoes throw a tin of


soup(condensed if you can)in and the water from the veg increases the volume.Have some with broccolli,cauliflower or


put cauli in also.Curry next.Use some for stir fry.Sandwiches.


Or make a chicken pasta bake.With the price of those and rice,pasta.You'll have enough left for a bottle or 2.If you don't


like chicken.Ignore this answer.|||You will have to rely a lot on the cheaper food stuffs such as rice, pasta, legumes, bread. Shop around to find cheapest outlets, use discount supermarkets like Lidl. Buy fruit and veg from local fruit markets rather than supermarkets. For things you use a lot of buy in bulk eg a sack of potatoes rather than by the kilo.|||6 pints of milk


bottle cheap falvoured water


A packet of your fav breakfast cereal


2 loaves


cheap marg


6 eggs (2 lunches plus one evening meal)


cheese (3 lunches plus one evening meal)


pkt pasta shapes (to put with mince and also to mix with sweetcorn and spinkle with some cheese)


tin sweetcorn


tin peas


tin baked beans (1 lunch plus one evening meal with a jacket spud)


2 carrots


small pkt mince (2 meals)


small bag potatoes


pack of sausages(2 meals)


Have I missed anything? I think I have worked out your breakfasts etc. Oh but I hope you have tea or coffe.|||go to one of those scoop and weigh shops for any dry goods as you can have a small amount and even but single teabags, they sell all dry goods from cereal to washing powder to pet food. if you go to supermarkey late in the day they have a reduced counter where you can get bargains..happy shopping|||Im a student and i spend £20 a month! Seriously.....£20 for the week is not bad...especially if all you need is food!


Basically you want to work out all the meals you plan to eat. If you are a lazy cook and like to eat ready meals then visit tesco and pick up some of their 5 ready meals for £4 at this site:


http://www.tesco.com/superstore/product/…


That will serve you 5 meals...pretty good!





If you are more of a cooker then puchase a bag of pasta, some rice, a cheap sauce, an onion, a pack of mixed frozen vegies, oil, some sweat and sour sauce, a few tins of value beans, some bread, some value soups, milk, cheap cereal, a few packs of super noodles and some cheese.


These ingrediants will make you:


Fried rice with veg mixed through (enough for probabaly 2/3 nights)


Rice and Sweet and sour sauce with vegies mixes through (enough for 1/2 nights)


Pasta with sauce (again enough for 1/2 nights)


Soup for lunch


Noodles for lunch


Beans on toast for lunch


Cheese on toast for lunch


Cereal or toast for breakie|||tesco value is where you need to be, get all the things suggested so far and you should still have enough for a few ready meals and some soft drinks i think a curry and rice ready meal is 99p and the fizzy about 50p also they have toilet roll and deodorant in their range things like that almost everything really so good luck and hope this was helpful.|||one thing that I made this week that I really enjoyed is potato soup. I boil a few peeled and diced potatoes until tender. Don't drain the water, mash them up add butter and milk. Season well. I even added some diced cooked chicken, green beans and corn. It was delicious!!! I ate it 2 times and still wanted more after it was all gone!!! Very filling, and comforting.|||bread, milk, corn flakes, bananas, mince, onions, beans, pasta|||Bread, milk, potatoes, eggs, cheese, baked beans, sausages, can of corned beef, onions and breakfast cereal





VOILA !! lol|||7 loaves of bread, 7 cans of beans %26amp; a dozen eggs... beans on toast, eggs on toast, beans on eggs, toast on toast... the permutations are endlessssssss|||If you have a Lidl/Aldi have a look you get a lot for your money.


Forget bottled water get it from the tap.|||Bread porridge eggs pasta potatoes beans jam|||Have to agree with Whoknows on that one.I get the 5 meals


for £4.00 and they are quite good,not much variety but ok.|||a bottle of rum and some ciggies