Menu

7 breakfasts - all porridge and jam
7 lunches - all cheese sandwiches, 1 apple, 1 banana, 1/2 a raw carrot and 4 or 5 digestives
7 dinners:

2x beans and sausages on toast
2x pasta bake made with onions, courgettes and sweetcorn
2x yellow split pea and coconut dahl with rice
1x soup and bread

5 x rice pudding and 2x custard to follow

The Shopping List

An earlier iteration of the
shopping list on mysupermarket.com

2x bags Sainsburys Basics apples (on offer) 80p
14 bananas (should have been £1.70 but someone bought HUGE ones!) £2.10
2 loaves medium sliced wholemeal bread £1.50
1 courgette 27p
4 pints whole milk (should have been 2L cravendale milk 99p) £1.60
500g Sainsburys Basics grated cheese £1.99
2 tins Sainsburys beans & pork sausages £1.12
1 tin Sainsburys Basics sweetcorn 20p
2 tins Sainsburys Basics vegetable soup 36p
1 Sainsburys Basics tomato pasta sauce 25p
1 Sainsburys Basics 500g pasta shapes 19p
1 Sainsburys Basics strawberry jam 39p
2 tins Sainsburys Basics custard 38p
5 tins Sainsburys Basics rice pudding 95p
2 packs Sainsburys Basics digestive biscuits 76p

Part-Items:

onions (approx quarter of large Sainsburys Basics 40p bag) 10p
1 Sainsburys Basics vegetable stock cube 2p
200g wholegrain brown rice 23p
500g carrots 13p
750g porridge oats 43p
250g yellow split peas 20p
1/2 box creamed coconut 30p
2 cloves garlic 5p?
30g root ginger 14p
270g margerine 46p

= £14.93

The Challenge

A few weeks ago we challenged each other to see how little we could live off for a week, and spent an evening side by side on different computers seeing if we could get a week's food for £15 on mysupermarket.com. This week we're trying to do it.

So can two people can eat for a week for £15 and

1. get enough calories
2. eat nutritious food
3. continue normal routines (e.g. packed lunches for work)
4. only do one shop at one supermarket?

For the purpose of the experiment we are excluding the following:

• tea bags and coffee
• salt, pepper and any spices
• margarine and oil

However we are recording what we use so that we can count it up later.

We are also allowing ourselves to use parts of things and not count the whole cost (e.g. rice), but only where we know we will use the rest of the bag (e.g. would not allow something that might not get used again)