Feed the Week for Less

FEED THE WEEK FOR LESS — Know What a Meal Costs

What does your usual Tuesday dinner cost, per plate?

Almost nobody knows. You know roughly what the shop came to. You have a vague sense that some meals are dear and others aren't. But ask what a single serving actually costs, and you'd be guessing.

That's the whole problem. You cannot economise on something you have never measured.

So this planner does one thing, properly: it works out the cost of a meal. Per serving. Every time.

And once you can see the number, the decisions make themselves — because it turns out the cheap meals and the good meals are very often the same meals.

WHAT'S INSIDE — 72 hyperlinked pages in four parts

PART ONE · THE MATHS

• Cost Per Serving — the method, properly explained (and the two mistakes everybody makes)
• 4 Costing Worksheets — ingredient, pack size, pack price, amount used, cost used → total → cost per serving
• Unit Price, Not Shelf Price — the most useful habit in a supermarket
• The Weekly Ceiling — set the number before you plan
• Where the Money Actually Goes · The Cheap Protein Table · Cheap Bulk, Cheap Flavour

PART TWO · THE PLAN

• Plan to a Number — number first, menu second. That's the entire discipline.
• 12 costed weekly plans, each with a cost column and a running total. Stop when you hit the ceiling.
• The Repeat Rule — variety is expensive; repetition is cheap. You need fewer meals than you think.
• Stretch a Meal — half the mince, all the lentils. Nobody has ever noticed.
• Week in Review

PART THREE · THE SHOP

• The Price Book (×4) — what things cost, where, per unit. Build it over a few weeks and you'll never be fooled by an offer again.
• 8 costed grocery lists — with a cost column and a running total against your ceiling
• Where I Buy What · Reduced, Not Rubbish (the one rule that makes it a real saving)
• Own Brand: The Honest Test — try the cheap one properly, and write down what actually happened
• Shop Spend Log

PART FOUR · THE KITCHEN

• 14 costed recipe cards — with a cost-used column beside every ingredient and cost-per-serving at the top. Hyperlinked index.
• Cheap Meals We Actually Love — the whole argument on one page
• Waste Is Money — the bulk-buy trap: cheaper per unit is not the same as cheaper
• The Savings Tally

FULLY HYPERLINKED Tap any contents entry to jump. Tap any recipe in the index to open its card. The Arwign wordmark in every footer brings you home.

CURRENCY-NEUTRAL Pounds, dollars, euros, rand, rupees — no currency symbol is hardcoded anywhere in this planner. It works wherever your kitchen is.

WORKS WITH GoodNotes, Notability, Noteshelf, Xodo, Samsung Notes and any PDF annotation app, on iPad and Android tablets. Also lovely printed.

NOT ABOUT EATING WORSE There's no misery in here. No lists of joyless meals. Just the price of things — so that when you spend, you're choosing to.

WHY UNDATED MATTERS Prices change; the method doesn't. Start any week, use it for years, never repurchase.

INSTANT DIGITAL DOWNLOAD

• No physical item will be shipped
• For personal use only

You cannot economise on something you have never measured. Now you can.

— Arwign Planners