How to Feed Your Family: Your one-stop guide to creating healthy meals everyone will enjoy

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This list is here to help youmake a decision on what to cook your family for dinner this week. Saturday Veggie stir fry on a bed of rice is one cheap meal that really doesn’t make you feel like you are eating on the cheap even if it’s super inexpensive to make. Expert nutritionist Charlotte Stirling-Reed is here to help. Following on from her bestselling books How to Wean Your Baby and How to Feed Your Toddler, this book brings Charlotte's trademark approach of practical support and nurturing step-by-step guidance to help you manage the juggle of family life. You can start a price book in a notebook, or on a spreadsheet or you can find printables along with other tools to help you manage your food budget better in the Stretch Your Grocery Budget Binder.

Feed your family for under a fiver with these delicious, family-friendly recipes. View gallery Week 1 extras Bean burritos are made with some of the cheapest food you can buy, yet when you put all the ingredients together it doesn’t taste that way.

Budget cooking requires a bit of a system, which isn't as much of a hassle as it sounds, especially when you consider that it makes it easier to stretch those pennies further. Store cupboard essentials One simple way to make sure you never pay more for food than you have to is by using a grocery price book to keep tabs on sale prices. If you are feeding a large family or gathering then spaghetti with meat sauce should definitely be on the menu. I was finding (especially since having Ada and being a working mum to two kids) that feeding my family was getting a little tiresome. I was a bit fed up with creating multiple meals every day, making the same dishes, and having to spend so long creating them. Plus, I was finding myself struggling to think of meal ideas to create in the first place.

There's a lot to think about when you're a parent and we all know how difficult it can be to plan healthy meals that everyone from the littlest member to the largest will enjoy. That's where having a good selection of family cookbooks from the likes of Charlotte Stirling-Reed comes in useful. If you are struggling to fill up your meal plan every week then have a look at our 31 meal ideas below. This gives you a month on breakfast, lunch and dinner ideas that you can use. These are all meals that I use to feed my family of 5 and, when we need to cut our grocery budget, I pull these old favorites out and put them in our meal plan rotation. However, in our house, I don’t typically plan out breakfasts and lunches. We routinely have inexpensive breakfast and lunch options.On weeks’ things are really tight, leave out meat. Eat Vegetarian. Swap all your favourite meals for veggie ones. Tryveggie stir fry, fajitas or a Spaghetti Bolognese all meat free. It still tastes lush, but costs almost half as much to make. Quidco– Is great for getting the family treats at really low prices. Anything goes from takeaways to days out. This is such a easy recipe that is great for the whole family. We like ours spicy but you can easily tone down the spices and mustard if you prefer.