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Make Every Penny Count: Budgeting tips and tricks to keep more money in your pocket, by Ricky and Naomi Willis

How to eat healthily for less than £30 a week

By Ricky Willis | last updated 4th March 2022

The idea of eating healthily can be a costly and difficult one for the average person, but it doesn’t have to be.

Healthy living doesn’t mean breaking your budget – in fact, it’s often cheaper than buying junk food.

With some careful planning and a bit of savvy shopping, you can enjoy plenty of fresh ingredients without blowing your weekly budget.

Wondering how you can pull off the £30 a week stance?

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Shop around, eat seasonally, meal plan, reduce your meat intake.

Also, learn to make your own snacks, drink only water, make your own bread, use cheaper cuts of meat, and eat pulses.

There are several ways to make food healthier and less expensive!

Let’s go through Tesco offers this week for a more convincing outlook:

Your Tesco shopping list:

Bananas – Loose @ 0.14 ea  – 0.70

Potatoes – Finest Jacket potatoes 4 pack – 1.50

Low-fat yoghurt – Danone Actimel 8 x 100g – 2.75

Skimmed milk – Tesco skimmed milk 1 pint – 0.60

Tinned lentil soup – Tesco Lentil & vegetable soup 400g – 0.45

Pure, unsweetened orange juice – Tesco Pure Orange Juice Smooth 4x1L – 3.30

Salmon – Tesco 2 boneless salmon fillets 260g – 3.79

Unsalted peanuts – Tesco unsalted roasted monkey nuts 300g – 1.20

Apples – Gala apples class 1 loose – 0.43

Pears – Conference pears class 1 loose @0.51 ea – 1.02

Plums – Tesco plums 400g – 1.50

Carrot sticks – Tesco Fresh & Easy carrot batons 600g – 1.00

Wholemeal bread – Tesco wholemeal medium bread 800g – 0.59

Wholemeal rolls – Tesco wholemeal batch rolls 6 pack – 0.49

Tomatoes – Tesco salad tomatoes 6 pack – 0.75

Cucumber – Tesco cucumber whole – 0.43

Oatcakes – Stockan’s thick oatcakes 200g – 0.95

Spaghetti bolognese – Tesco spaghetti bolognese 400g – 0.60

Tuna – Tesco tuna chunks in brine 145g – 0.79

Brocolli – Tesco broccoli 375g – 0.49

Chicken – Tesco British whole medium chicken 1.3-1.5kg – 3.35

Total – £26.68


Your week’s meals

Monday

Breakfast: Porridge made with skimmed milk; 1 banana; a glass of pure, unsweetened orange juice.

Lunch: Tinned or homemade lentil soup; wholemeal roll (add unsaturated fat spread).

Supper: Jacket potato with frozen peas and baked salmon.

Snacks: Small handful of unsalted peanuts; low-fat fruit yoghurt.

Tuesday

bolognese in a large bowl on a blue background with cut tomatoes and basil
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Breakfast: Poached egg on 2 slices of wholegrain toast; a glass of pure, unsweetened orange juice.

Lunch: Wholemeal bread sandwich with egg, tomato and cucumber.

Supper: Spaghetti Bolognese and a salad.

Snacks: Carrot sticks; 1 small handful of unsalted peanuts.

Wednesday

yokos coconut yoghurt
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Breakfast: 2 x wholegrain toast with a low-fat spread, honey and banana; a glass of pure, unsweetened orange juice.

Lunch: Lentil soup (tinned or homemade); wholemeal roll with unsaturated fat spread.

Supper: Slice of homemade vegetarian pizza with salad and a jacket potato.

Snacks: Low-fat yoghurt; 2 plums; apple.

Thursday

Breakfast: 2 slices of wholegrain bread (toasted) and a boiled egg; a glass of pure, unsweetened orange juice.

Lunch: Jacket potato and baked beans; salad.

Supper: Home-made chunky vegetable goulash; brown rice; broccoli.

Snacks: 3 oatcakes with low-fat cream cheese; pear.

Friday

Breakfast: Porridge with skimmed milk; 1 banana; a glass of pure, unsweetened orange juice.

Lunch: Homemade carrot and parsnip soup; wholemeal roll with unsaturated fat spread.

Supper: Homemade tuna pasta bake; broccoli.

Snacks: Apple; 1 small handful of unsalted peanuts; pear.

Saturday

PLANT overnight oatmeal
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Breakfast: Muesli, natural yoghurt and a banana; 1 x wholegrain toast.

Lunch: Chicken and vegetable bake; baked apple and custard.

Supper: Chicken, cucumber and tomato wholemeal bread sandwiches

Snacks: 2 plums; a small handful of unsalted peanuts; carrot sticks.

Sunday

Breakfast: Muesli, skimmed milk and a banana; 1 glass of pure, unsweetened orange juice.

Lunch: Cheese and salad sandwich; salad

Supper: Homemade cottage pie served with peas and carrots.

Snacks: 3 oatcakes with low-fat cream cheese; 2 plums.

Conclusion

See how easy it is to make it with a £30 food budget per week?

You can even reduce it further by making your own bread, drinking more water instead of juice, planting your own tomatoes, cucumbers etc.

In this period of inflation, be sure you make every effort to save money whenever you can.

Read more of our articles to find out how else you can make savings.

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Comments

  1. Thara says

    23rd April 2023 at 10:31 pm

    Heya.

    I tend to use my own unique recipes. I always use the Internet in order to find all manner of recipes and make some brief summary notes. I borrow other stuff as much as I can do so. Good luck. You can even find all types of free or cheap cook books at your local library or bookshop these days. Do visit to make use of this cool fact. Pool your resources.

    I also now buy fresh fruit and veg often either from a weekly market in town or at a farm shop located in a garden centre. Alternatively I purchase meat and eggs in addition from other recommended places. I buy things like honey and butter at a farm shop. I often have a new small bottle of new milk or wine from friends or family after asking for their permission that is. I also see if I can buy a few eggs on the cheap. I like to grow cool apples and so on. Sweets I buy at a sweet shop.

    Some people get their milk from a old fashioned milk delivery service. As for ice cream I only buy it at the ice cream shops or from a mobile ice cream van. We eat at home to save us more money.

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  2. Thara says

    24th April 2023 at 5:59 pm

    Heya.
    Thanks. I frequently manage to take a decent look at items at a local farm shop in order to see what I can happen to find to use. I always pay very close attention to my allergies and food safety. I also keep tabs on my food supplies to make things that much easier on me when I go to do my weekly food shopping. I make lots of written lists to refer back to in addition. I find all manner of free, fun and cool recipes online. I use my old family cookbooks. For example tonight’s dinner consists of cooked fish and half of a leftover chocolate cake. Tomorrow I will have a dinner of roast potatoes and baked ham with chopped up lettuce and sweets. On Wednesday I will eat cheese with stewed pears and biscuits. On Thursday evening I will probably have either a stir fry or quiche. Friday’s hot dinner will be soup followed by tomato flan and melted chocolates for dessert.

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