Live below the line '14

This is the Aldi shopping basket for LBTL 14 - Cherry tomatoes 49p
Rich tea biscuits 23p
Greenvale perfect for baking (250g)49p
Soft cheese garlic and herbs 55p
Everyday grated mild cheddar (450g) 1.99
Medium eggs (15) 1.35
Milk (4pints) 95p
Streaky bacon 1.49
Everyday sausages (12) 99p
Frozen mixed veg (1kg) 89p
Everyday strawberry jam 29p
Baking powder 69p
Everyday penne pasta 29p
Everyday oats 75p
Plain flour 45p
Strong white flour (1.5 kg) 75p
Sugar (1kg) 79p
T bags (50) 99p
Total - £14.42
Homegrown - As we have grown our own potatoes, herbs, pots of salad leaves and onions, I will allow 50p for the seed ( although the seed potatoes cost nothing, and we gleaned the onions, which happens in alot of poorer countries and used to happen in the UK too.)
And little pots of salad leaves are very cheap and easy to grow. Buy seeds at the end of the growing season. (the ones I have cost 29p!)They last a few years and they just need a sprinkling.
I'll start a sourdough a few days before, and use this as leavening for bread rolls.
Breakfasts - This should give me 5 x 2 breakfasts with the oats (made with water) and some milk and either jam or sugar to sweeten. (DS won't eat breakfast)
We can have cups of tea total of 10 a day between us!), or water!
Lunches -will be sourdough rolls and pasties ( bacon and onion) made with wartime oat pastry. And vaguely cheese scones.Monday lunch - Cheese scones topped 100g cheese, (1 egg) (175g flour, 25g marg)Tuesday lunch - Leftover gratin filling pasties. (make 6, enough for wednesday) (pastry -175g flour, 50g marg, 50g oats)Wednesday lunch - Ditto on pastiesThursday lunch - Homemade sourdough rolls, cheese topped. (150g cheese) with a thinly sliced cherry tomato on some! (make 1 plain for breadcrumbs)Friday lunch - Ditto on sourdough rolls. Teas - Monday tea -Potato, onion and bacon gratin. (4 slices bacon, 25g marg)Tuesday tea - Toad in the hole, using 1 egg and 8 sausages as my friend will be here for the day and gets fed too! With mash and frozen veg.Wednesday tea - Omelette with bacon, potato and onion. Using 6 eggs and 4 slices bacon. Served with tomatoes and salad leaves. Thursday tea - Scotch eggs, baked rather than fried, using 4 eggs and 4 sausages. With sourdough roll crumbs toasted as breadcrumbs. Served with potato wedges. Friday tea - Creamy pasta with bacon. Half bag of pasta, 4 slices bacon and the soft cheese. Served with tomatoes and salad leaves. When the ovens on on Monday I'll make some jam buns (wartime recipe, 75g marg) . Also a packet of rich tea biscuits:)
There will still be half a pack of pasta left and 2 eggs.
This is a very starchy diet and its scant on veg so I'm glad its just for 5 days.
Until I tried to figure this out I never realised how hard it is to eat on £1 a day. If I hadn't included the whole family my food would have been very repetitive. But I can't cook different meals for different people.
I noticed that I couldn't have much fat or meat. Very like a rationed diet. (Hence searching through my wartime cookery books!)
We could have had baked potatoes with cheese and beans.
But I have been thinking.....