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Of course, I can, I make the Rules Its £7 a week - any "savings" go into my virtual Chicky bank for a special occasion.

(01-08-2022, 08:50 PM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]The Moneyless Chicken is going to spend £1 a day on food - that's the plan - and that's for all meals, snacks and drinks.
So far today, I've "spent" 45p and most of that was on a icecream.

This might be of interest to you veggie?

https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/collections/1...SEG_PNC%5D

Thanks Vinnie Not sure I can "afford" £1 a meal though - I'd have to join your OMAD thingy. !!

EDIT - I looked at some of the recipes and they cost has been updated to March 2022. The ones I looked at were £3+ ...........so definitely out of my price range unless I went to TMAW (Two meals a week).

(02-08-2022, 10:27 AM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]Thanks Vinnie Not sure I can "afford" £1 a meal though - I'd have to join your OMAD thingy. !!

EDIT - I looked at some of the recipes and they cost has been updated to March 2022. The ones I looked at were £3+ ...........so definitely out of my price range unless I went to TMAW (Two meals a week).

The sneakcy whatchamacallits!  Grab peoples attention with a £1.00 a meal headline then update it to two or three times that amount when you click on the recipe! What a swizz!
Still, a few interesting recipes there though for a  'NOT on a pound a day' budget! 

(14-01-2022, 07:54 PM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]The Moneyless Chicken broke into the Egg Bank today and withdrew £14.99 to take up a very special LIDL offer on tuna fish. https://www.lidl.co.uk/p/xxl/nixe-tuna-case/p49194
48 tins of Tuna for £14.99 or 31.2p a tin - about half price.
Tuna is so versatile - in sandwiches, salad, jacket potatoes,fishcakes, pasta, stirfry etc. Those 48 tins will be one meal a week for nearly a year. Not bad for £14.99.

Lidl have this offer again but its gone up by £3 to £16.99 for 48 tins. Still cheap but glad I invested in January.

2023
The Moneyless Chicken is going a step further this year - for January anyway! I'm not going to buy any food this month but live on Freebies and whatever's in the cupboard & freezer. If there's still a lot of stores left I'll rethink it for February.

Does that include consumables too V? Toilet rolls, toothpaste etc? I'd have thought you were already eating freebies most of the time.

They're necessities and rarely offered free - so I can buy those if I run out. Also coffee, sugar, butter and dog food, but I think I have enough of everything.

(02-01-2023, 10:57 AM)Veggie Wrote: [ -> ]They're necessities and rarely offered free - so I can buy those if I run out. Also coffee, sugar, butter and dog food, but  I think I have enough of everything.

Don't think I would fancy 'used' toilet paper anyway!

Apparently, the ultimate economy is using both sides of the toilet paper.