got it down to,

1 x bowl porridge

1 x cheese + pickle sandwich

1 x chicken and bean casserole or jacket potato and filling

leave enough for some fruit and a jar of coffee.

Why?

How much cheesey pasta for a fiver? 5 boxes, that’s how much. Nom nom nom…

But what about lunch and dinner?

Easily done, 2 of us eat on £70 per week without tying hard, with thought I could get that to under £50 easily enough. Batch cooking and Aldi being the keys for us.

Huel = Gruel

I’m tempted by Huel not as a regular thing but as a really cba meal or got in really late from a ride type meal. Anyone tried it?

Surprised no one has mentioned baking your own bread yet – this being STW and all that.

Works out a 70p / loaf using Waitrose organic flour or abut 50p / loaf using Supermarket flour. Tastes better than cheap supermarket bread too.

You can buy a whole loaf for 9-10p. Half in the freezer for toast, other half will keep.

One thing to look out for in supermarkets is when there is an offer for multiple purchases.
When these are reduced for quick sale, the “buy 2, save £1” is often still live so it is quite possible to literally get paid to take food away.

How does it compare to beans on toast, on cost, nutrition and ease of making?

My breakfast sounds a bit like Huel,

Oats 100g
Sunflower seeds
Pumpkin seeds
Linseed
Sesame seeds
Quinoa flakes
Hemp seeds
Cocoa powder
Coffee
Ginger
Kale
Water

All blended up. I usually make 5 to 10 at a time and freeze it. I still haven’t convinced anyone else to try it but I love it.

What newrobdob says. That sounds like a lot of effort to make something I’d rather be punched in the face than consume

Out of interest, how did you come up with the recipe? Did you make up a batch and think ‘you know what this needs? Linseed!’

Or did you just throw all that in a blender and hope for the (Relative term) best?

Veg curry with home made chapatis.
Veg stir fry with noodles.
Veg chilli
Veg with pasta

Porridge for breakie as said made with water not milk…

Well, if you have a day’s worth of Huel it aims to fulfil all of your nutrition needs for the day. The bigger issue for me is that beans on toast aren’t an option unless I make the beans myself. I’m yet to see a tin of baked beans that aren’t really high in salt and I try to keep salt consumption low. This is the issue that I get with most options like that – they’re high in saturated fats and/or salt.

Bread makers run cheap and barely need a rinse – bit of poking to get the bits out of the stirrer thingy.
Love ours – you can make the bread exactly to your taste with less sugar and ingredients that keep well – living rurally its a god send. It’s the one appliance that hasn’t ended up in the ‘ice cream maker cupboard’.