Food challenge : Week 2

This week has been tough.  Firstly we were away in London celebrating the Chinese New Year over the weekend so I neither menu planned for the coming week, nor had time to shop beforehand.
So on monday i had to think on my feet and just go shopping.  I had no real menu in mind, I just had an idea of what meat/fish was left in the freezer and what staples we usually need.

I also had no computer so couldn't do all the fancy meal charts and shopping lists that I did last week.

I ALSO had a special request as Jasmine's friend came home with us after school on tuesday so Spaghetti bolognese had to be on the menu.

And finally Jasmine caught a sickness bug and is, as of the time of writing, still weak and not eating much of anything.  So each day I have just been winging the meals from what I managed to buy on monday and what is already in the freezer/cupboards.

I can't remember everything I bought and I lost the itemised part of the receipt from Lidl, but I know I bought spaghetti, milk, 20 eggs, butter, natural yoghurt, some of their cheapest teabags (uuurrrrggghhh, 'dust' comes to mind - but they were on 27p so I don't mind sticking them straight on the compost!), garlic, cucumber and a large tin of rice pudding.  I spent £6.49

In Sainsburys I bought:
crunchy raisin and oat cereal - £1.55
anya potatoes - reduced to - 50p
basics carrots (1kg) - 50p
broccoli - 48p
Spring greens - 98p
Bananas - £1.19
a couple of mushrooms (only I eat them!) - 26p
Almond flakes - 70p

And the menu so far this week has been:

Monday - stir fried greens, carrots and broccoli in oyster sauce with toasted almond flakes and egg fried rice
Tuesday - Spaghetti bolognese, followed by homebaked choc chip and banana loaf (pics and recipe to follow)
Wednesday - Asian style soup with rice noodles and chicken (pics and recipe to follow)
Tonight* - Tuna and rice for me, nothing for Jasmine (still too sick), scrambled eggs and rice for Ben (he doesn't like tuna) and nothing for Nick (he's out)

*disclaimer: I normally don't cook different things for different people but today is an exception because It's only me and Ben actually eating and I am low on options that he will happily eat and too tired to force him to eat tuna tonight!!!


Friday - I have no idea yet, but it will probably be a potato curry with rice, some onion bhaji's (though I'll have to substitute the gram flour as it is not budget friendly right now) and a cucumber and mint raita

Breakfasts have mainly been the usual cereal/toast/boiled eggs/fruit and yoghurt combos, whilst lunches have been instant noodles/leftover rice fried with veg and egg/sandwiches and fruit.  Basically whatever is in the fridge/cupboard.  Snacks have been fruit/toast/cake that I baked

Hopefully next week I'll have more time to do the proper charts and stuff to make all this more legible.

Total spend so far: £62.61 leaving me a total of £37.39 for two more weeks, including half term (when things will get really tough with two hungry active kids at home at lot to eat, eat, eat!)