Feed Your Family For £50 - Primal Version - A Community Challenge page

[GrokNRoller]

Hello fellow Primals.

In the UK, one of the main supermarkets is running a big promotion to feed your family for £50. Obviously with the cost of food rising, a lot of people are jumping on this.

Feed your family for £50 | Family meals & meal plans | Sainsbury's

The menu contains, as you'd expect, quite a bit of grain filler.

Here's my challenge to the community - who can come up with the best PRIMAL menu for a family of 4 (or a couple if you prefer) for the least money (or marketable round figure like £50, £60, $90 etc) per week.

3 meals per day (no snacks).

Who's up for the challenge?

You can get UK prices on foods here: Compare Supermarket Prices | Online Supermarket Shopping - mySupermarket

Looking forward to seeing what people can come up with - I'm going to have a go myself after work... I'm particular interested in a menu that serves up a good range of nutrients.

[breadsauce]

I'm away for a week starting tomorrow, but I'm up for this when I get back!

In fact, a few weeks ago I started writing down the item and price each time I bought food and am delighted how well fed I and my partner are on so small an amount of money. Lots of offal, and three for £10 wild alaskan salmon from M&S help in this! That and buying a weeks worth of veg from the market. Sadly, my weekly wine bill was higher than the food bill, so wine is now OUT!

[thehallowprince]

Yeah, I'm in this boat right now of needing to spend less... gosh.... I spend around £100 a week on just my husband and I.... and that's not grass fed either...

[belinda]

Ok, Canadian prices (and, due to my budget or lack thereof, not organic or grass-fed, one adult male, one adult female) ... I'll give it a shot

Breakfast = $16.00
36 omega 3 eggs from Cosco - $8.50 (2 eggs each per bkfst x 7 days = 28 eggs)
2 pounds bacon from Costco - $7.50

Lunches = $31.50
lunch 1 - 2 cans tuna - $2
lunch 2 - 2 cans sockeye salmon - $4
lunch 3 - 2 angus beef hamburger patties (from frozen) - $2.50
lunch 4 - 2 servings leftover rotisserie chicken (see supper) - $0
lunch 5 - 4 chicken thighs - $2
lunch 6 - 2 omelettes (2 eggs each leftover from bkfst egg purchase w/leftover supper veggies) - $0
lunch 7 - ham steak (1/2 per person) $3.50
2 tubs mixed greens - $8
1 pkg (5) avocados - $5
1 pkg mini cucumbers - $3
1 orange pepper - $1.50

Suppers = $44.00
Supper 1 - Rotisserie Chicken - $7.50
Supper 2 - beef stew in crockpot - $5.00
Supper 3 - angus beef hamburgers $2.50
Supper 4 - Pork chops - $4.00
Supper 5 - Whatever steak is on sale - $7.00 (I can usually get a decent one for this price and we split it 1/3 me, 2/3 him)
Supper 6 - Spaghetti sauce made with italian sausage and served with spaghetti squash - $4.50
Supper 7 - some kind of fish or shrimp (from frozen) $4
broccoli - $1.50
cauliflower - $2.00
spinach or swiss chard - $2.00
4 sweet potatoes - $3.00
2 white potatoes - $1.00

Extras = $14.75
1/4 bottle olive oil - $1.25
1/4 bottle balsamic vinegar $1
1/2 jar coffee $2
1/2 lb butter $2
bag of frozen berries - $4
can of coconut milk $2
bag of pork rinds $1.50
pkg of creamed coconut $1

I'm over! Total is $106.25 CDN. And this doesn't include the non-primal foods that my DH and daughter like to munch on. I'm working on converting them, but it's a slow process.

[GrokNRoller]

Thanks guys.

Belinda thanks for the detail!

Only just got round to doing mine - tried to keep it simple.

It feeds a primal couple for £100 per week - it does focus on Organic and is fairly representative of what I eat (my wife isn't primal), though I have more variety and veg week to week. Doesn't include 'cupboard' items to keep it under £100.

Breakfasts
3 eggs per day
1 pack bacon shared per week (weekend treat)
Black pudding (British blood sausage) on weekend


Lunches
M Left over chicken
T Salmon and Coconut Milk chowder
W Chicken Breast salad
T Sardines in olive oil salad
F Liver and onions
S Sausages Gluten Free with salad
S Buffalo sausages with salad

Dinners
M Beef mince salad
T Rib eye steak with 3 veg
W Spag Bol with 3 veg
T Pork Joint with 3 veg
F Mussells with 3 veg
S Lamb Slow Cook with 3 veg
S Chicken with 3 veg

Shopping list with Ocado (home delivery)
Blue Dragon Mini Coconut Milk 165ml 69p
Bury 4 Black Pudding Slices 230g £1.08
Frozen Cauliflower Florets essential Waitrose 1kg £1.07
Frozen Organic Broccoli Waitrose 500g £1.79
Baby Avocado essential Waitrose 4 per pack x 2 £3.38
Cucumber essential Waitrose 80p
Curly Kale Waitrose 200g £1.19
Ocado Wild Rocket 70g x 2 £2.00
Onions Waitrose 3 per pack 55p
Organic Cherry Tomatoes Waitrose 250g Offer - Buy 2 for £2 £2.00
Spinach essential Waitrose 400g £1.60
Aberdeen Angus Rib Eye Steak - Thin Cut Waitrose Typical weight: 0.2kg x 2 £10.00
Debbie & Andrew's 97% Pork Harrogate Sausages 400g £2.58
Duchy From Waitrose Organic Free Range Medium Eggs 6 per pack £2.15
Duchy From Waitrose Organic Free Range Medium Eggs 12 per pack x 3 £11.97
Duchy From Waitrose Organic Prime Mince Beef 20% Fat 500g £2.99
Laverstoke Park Farm Smokey Buffalo Sausages 400g £3.99
Ocado Half Leg of Welsh Lamb Typical weight: 1kg £9.49
Organic Chicken Livers Waitrose 400g £2.29
Scottish Cooked Mussels with Garlic Butter Sauce 500g £5.98
Spoiltpig Smoked Dry Cured Streaky Bacon 184g £2.69
The Black Farmer Organic Chicken Breast Fillets Typical weight: 325g £5.24
The Black Farmer Organic Whole Chicken Typical weight: 1.9kg £11.20
Free Range Pork Sage & Onion Stuffed Shoulder Joint £6.68
John West Boneless Sardines in Olive Oil 95g £1.90
John West Reserve Red Salmon Wild 213g
Offer - Save 33%, was £3.38 £4.51

TOTAL £99.81

Looking forward to learning and seeing what others come up with.

I haven't put my list above through fit day or anything and it shows that with high quality protein, primal eating is a lot more expensive (my way) that the feed your family for £50 offer in the UK.