A thrifty mother has revealed how she feeds her family for less than £38 per week – and how she bags another free meal.
Heidi Ondrak, who shares money saving tips on TikTok under the name Duchess of Thrift, showed her followers how she gets more bang for her buck.
The mother from Plymouth revealed her meal plan for the week that helps her keep costs down – as she uses leftovers for different meals.
But she has a bit of help with one of the week’s dinners – as she gets free Chinese takeaways for being a delivery driver.
‘We are all trying to tighten our belts a little bit and the cost of food is ridiculous but this is how I feed my family, for the week, for under £38,’ she says in the clip.
Heidi Ondrak, who shares money saving tips on TikTok under the name Duchess of Thrift, showed her followers how she gets bang for her buck
‘There is my ALDI receipt and here is my menu for the week. So we’re gonna have a roast chicken and on Monday I’m gonna pick all the extra bits off the chicken after boiling up the carcass and make a lovely casserole.’
The surplus sausages will then be used the next day, when she adds it to pasta with pesto and broccoli.
On Thursdays, she will On Thursday it will be chilli and rice and Friday, chilli and jacket potatoes.
Heidi goes on to reveal the rest of her £38 shop, starting with ‘dead easy’ breakfast of milk and fruit and fibre cereal and what she makes for lunch.
‘For lunches I’ve got some tuna and I’ve got some turkey,’ she adds. ‘Kids don’t really like lettuce so I’ve got some cucumber, cheese, crisps and bread.’
Showing off the rest of the bargain haul, the camera pans over two packets of sausages, mince, and an extra large chicken.
Heidi also manages to snap up ‘loads and loads of veg’ during the shop, including turnip, leeks, carrots, garlic, red onion, broccoli, cabbage and potatoes.
Finishing off the shop are rice, a packet of stock pots, two jars of pesto, a packet of penne pasta, a tube of tomato puree, two jars of red kidney beans and a carton of passata.
Heidi says this will sort meals for six days, and the rest is made up of easy freezer food – as well as the weekly free Chinese takeaway.
‘Now I have got stuff in the store cupboard as well and in the freezer that I can add to this like bits of vegetables that i will use up,’ she adds. ‘And that is my £38 shop.
‘I’ve got oil, I’ve got margarine, well I’ve got butter, the buttery stuff, I’ve got all of that. But I can feed us for less than 40 quid.’