‘Kids portions are 50p’ boasts batch cooking mum with 120 home-cooked dinners in the freezer – here’s how
Includes tips on how to cook meals for just 23p
A BATCH cooking mum-of-two with 120 home-cooked dinners in the freezer has revealed how kids’ portions are just 50p.
Jenna Dupay, 37, is a batch-cooking champion who has shared her expertise in making healthy meals for a family.
She claims kids portions cost as little as 50p and adult portions are just £2.
The Essex hairdresser does her shopping affordably at Aldi or Lidl, then batch cooks up to 20 portions at once.
She stays super organised, writing a detailed shopping list and then stashing her freezer with up to 120 meals at a time.
Jenna told the money-saving community of her incredibly busy household where she not only feeds her two kids but also friends and tradesmen.
She added that she had a busy work schedule and would work until 9pm three times a week.
Jenna said: “Batch cooking is a way to be prepared but have good sized and healthier portions at a good price.
“All the adult dinner meals I make are £2 to £3 a meal, and the kids portions are 50p to £1 a meal. I love cooking also so this makes all the difference.”
She added: “Freezing the food is the only way to make it last for me as I tend to cook 10 to 20 portions at one time.”
Jenna shares her cooking skills on her Instagram account .
Her favourite recipes include those by Joe Wicks, Hairy Bikers and Jamie Oliver.
The mum believes batch cooking saves “so much money” and “there’s no food waste at all” due to it being frozen.
She said each batch will take her between one and three hours to finish depending on what it is she’s making.
Some of her weekly go-to meals include a pasta dish, overnight oats, chilli con carne, sweet potato cottage pie, spaghetti bolognese and chicken curry.
Jenna said all her family meals are “full of veg and goodness.”
It comes as Martin Lewis fans have shared their tips for saving cash amid a cost of living crisis.
And one of them revealed how you can cook family meals for as little as 23p.
How to save on your supermarket shop
THERE are plenty of ways to save on your grocery shop.
You can look out for yellow or red stickers on products, which show when they’ve been reduced.
If the food is fresh, you’ll have to eat it quickly or freeze it for another time.
Making a list should also save you money, as you’ll be less likely to make any rash purchases when you get to the supermarket.
Going own brand can be one easy way to save hundreds of pounds a year on your food bills too.
This means ditching “finest” or “luxury” products and instead going for “own” or value” type of lines.
Plenty of supermarkets run wonky veg and fruit schemes where you can get cheap prices if they’re misshapen or imperfect.
For example, Lidl runs its Waste Not scheme, offering boxes of 5kg of fruit and vegetables for just £1.50.
If you’re on a low income and a parent, you may be able to get up to £442 a year in Healthy Start vouchers to use at the supermarket too.
Plus, many councils offer supermarket vouchers as part of the Household Support Fund.
The money-saving expert has created a huge guide to help people get by as energy bills and other essentials shoot up in price.
The cost of living survival guide, from the , featured a whopping 90 ways to save.
Martin said some of the tips and tricks on cutting back and how to be thrifty came from fans’ suggestions after asking on social media and the .
He said: “The response was overwhelming and uplifting – 1,000s replied. We’ve added both suggestions and testimonials to what we had – and hope to keep building it.
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