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Credit crunch weekly meal planner

With food prices continuing to rise, you may find that there's a lot less in your shopping basket for the same money than there was a year ago. Can you feed a family of 4 for £40 a week?

With food prices continuing to rise, you may find that there's a lot less in your shopping basket for the same money than there was a year ago. In fact, mysupermarket.co.uk has found that a basket of basic staple food items including bread, milk, pasta, minced beef, orange juice and eggs has increased by 21% - that's £1,092 a year!

To help you beat the credit crunch, we've put together a week's worth of cheap family recipes that will feed a family of four for just £40. Some websites offer meals for under a fiver, but when you try and buy the ingredients, you realise that you can't just buy single eggs and tablespoons of milk, you have to buy a box of eggs, and a half-pint of milk and suddenly your meal isn't looking so cheap.

But we've done all the sums for you and added together what you'll need for the week without cheating on the quantities you have to buy products in. You really can make dinner for a week for a family of four for £40!

To find out how, visit the GoodToKnow weekly meal planner