Foodbanks and budget recipes ideas

Worried about feeding yourself or family properly? No matter what the reason is, there is a wide range of local resources to support you from local foodbanks and healthy recipes on a budget. 

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Food banks are community organisations that can help if you can’t afford the food you need. You’ll usually need to get a referral to a food bank before you can use it.

 

Using a food bank - Citizens Advice

 

Healthy Start Scheme Click here 

If you’re more than 10 weeks pregnant or have a child under 4, you may be entitled to get help to buy healthy food and milk.

A digital scheme that offers a prepaid card to those applying for Healthy Start instead of paper vouchers.

This card will be automatically topped up every 4 weeks with your payment.

Recipes on a budget 

There are a range of recipes for feeding your family on a budget:

Netmums forum budget and family friendly recipes click here 

BBC Good Food budget recipes click here 

Surrey Council for tips on reducing food watse and budget recipes click here

 

Great value recipes from the Co-Op- YouTube

 

How to reduce the cost of meals

You can make easy swaps in your recipes to help reduce the cost of a meal making. 

1. Use a whole chicken instead of packets of chicken breast, a whole chicken can be chilled and used in sandwhiches and more than one dinner dish 

2. Buy frozen fruit and veg to use in meals 

3. Using lentils in your mice to bulk the mince out to allow for more than one meal use. 

Somehelpful websites on reducing the cost of meals:

Tesco - Budget Swap Ideas click here 
BBC Good Food - Food Swaps click here 
BBC Good Food - Slow Cooker Meals click here 
Batch Cooking - click here 
Energy Efficient Cooking Tips - click here