1 girl, 1 shopping trip, 1 week

As you may have guessed from my blog post dry spell (again), my first week on my 'healthy but budget plan' went awry. I made the fatal error of not planning anything and then just trying to make it up as I went along. The result was expensive (emergency shopping trips) and often rather uninspiring (tuna pasta for three days running... need I say more?) So this weekend I decided to set aside the time to plan the following week's meals - I even price checked my ingredients online to avoid any scary checkout moments!

So what am I doing? My task is to cook for myself all week for under £20. The food needs to be healthy and blog-worthy... so no Heinz tomato soup. The £20 budget needs to include everything: breakfast, lunch, dinner and snacks. I'm working as a waitress down in Cornwall so, with erratic shift hours, I make one large 'double' meal for lunch and dinner and pick at it when and where I can.

Day 1:
Feta and orange quinoa

Day 2:
Beetroot and orange salad with griddled feta and mint

Day 3:
Watercress, sardine and beetroot salad
 
Day 4:
Spiced sweet potato soup
 
Day 5:
Pitta stuffed with bombay sweet potatoes
 
Day 6:
Sweet potato and spinach falafels with hummus and pitta bread
 
Day 7:
Beetroot hummus with toasted pitta bread and cucumber sticks 

Breakfast:
Porridge with toasted almonds and chopped banana/tinned apricots

Snacks:
Fruit and yoghurt

The list:

£1.27 ASDA 200g Feta
£0.60 ASDA Smart price Oranges 5pk
£2.18 Great scot 300g Quinoa
£0.00 Mint from the garden
£0.50 ASDA whole Cucumber
£0.29 ASDA 750g Table Salt
£1.25 ASDA 250ml Olive Oil
£1.00 ASDA 85g Watercress
£0.44 ASDA Smartprice 500g cooked Beetroot
£0.47 ASDA 120g Sardines in sunflower oil
£0.85 ASDA loose Sweet potatoes (estimated price for 3 as priced per kg)
£0.25 ASDA loose bulb of Garlic
£0.30 ASDA loose Red onions (estimated price for 3 as priced per kg)
£0.25 ASDA Garlic bulb
£0.70 ASDA 31g pack of fresh Coriander
£0.68 ASDA 92g Whole Cumin
£1.00 ASDA 350g Spinach
£0.95 ASDA 200g Hummus
£0.70 ASDA Wholemeal Pitta Bread 6pk
£1.00 Cravendale filtered semi skimmed 1litre Milk
£0.75 ASDA Smartprice 1kg Oats
£0.80 ASDA loose Bananas (estimated price for 4 as priced per kg)
£0.58 ASDA tin Apricot Halves in syrup
£1.00 ASDA Peaches 4pk
£1.00 ASDA Kiwi fruit 6pk
£0.50 ASDA Chosen by you whole Almonds (un-skinned)
£0.45 ASDA Smartprice low fat natural Yoghurt 500g
£1.00 Sharwoods Mango Chutney 360g
£0.75 ASDA salad Tomatoes 6pk
£0.45 ASDA smartprice Plain Flour 1.5kg

= £19.81