Savvy shopper shares £20 shopping list she claims will feed two people for a WEEK – but not everyone’s convinced
A SAVVY shopper has claimed you can feed two people for less than £20 a week - as she shared her shopping list and meal planner to prove it.
Jade Wright, who admitted she had ‘too much time on her hands’, took on the challenge using Sainsbury’s groceries - with her weekly total coming to £18.89.
Jade shared her seven dinners which included chicken balti, jambalaya, ramen, burritos and vegetable soup - along with the recipes for each one.
And among the seven lunches are a toasted cheese sandwich, egg fried rice, mini jacket potatoes, and noodles with sausages.
Jade also broke down the cost of each meal, with the cheapest lunchtime dish a fried egg on toast, which costs 34p, while the most budget-friendly meal is soup.
The key to keeping costs low is to buy a whole roast chicken, cook it at the beginning of the week and use the meat in multiple dishes.
She said: “So, someone earlier essentially said feeding two people for a week for under £20 couldn’t be done.
“I did it based on Sainsbury’s, purely because it’s my local supermarket.
“Obviously other supermarkets could be cheaper.
“Yes I’m a massive nerd. Yes I spent far too much time doing this.”
But while some people were impressed with her planning, others weren’t convinced she’d portioned out the meals correctly.
One mum asked: “I still to this day sit and wonder how people stretch a roast chicken into 3 or 4 meals for their family.”
This person wrote: “6x2 person meals from one chicken I'm sorry but how is that possible unless you get one mouth of chicken per meal.”
A third said: “I don't understand how the chicken is stretching to 12 servings?”
While someone else joked: “Introducing the new....bottomless chicken, never runs out.”
Others thanked Jade for her meal plan, with one person saying: “Please marry me...!! This is so organised it’s hot.”
Someone else raved: “You need to turn this into a business! Seriously that’s amazing I wouldn’t have the patience to do that.”
And this person added: “It’s posts like these that helps me when I’m struggling! It’s got me through many hard times in the past! Thank you for doing this.”
Meanwhile a mum who was made redundant shares the shopping hack that cut her weekly bill in half.
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