| Amount | Ingredient | £ / day | Source | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 525 | g | Baked beans | £0.29 | Aldi |
| 34 | g | Sunflower oil | £0.03 | Asda |
| 40 | g | Olive pomace oil | £0.05 | Asda |
| 1 | pill | Tesco A-Z multivitamins + minerals | £0.03 | Tesco |
| 1.05 | g | Dicalcium phosphate | £0.01 | Blackburn Distributions |
| 0.91 | g | Choline bitartrate | £0.02 | Blackburn Distributions |
| 163.5 | g | Flour | £0.06 | Sainsbury's |
| 16.2 | g | Olympus Health Premium Protein PRO-XL | £0.09 | Olympus Health |
| 0.79 | g | Lo-salt | £0.00 | Sainsbury's |
| 62 | g | Sugar | £0.02 | Aldi |
| 0.15 | g | Salt | £0.00 | Morrisons |
| 0.75 | pill | Magnesium | £0.04 | UK Iherb |
Amounts for: Total Daily Cost: | £0.64 | Add Ingredients to Amazon Cart | ||
Note that this will almost certainly not taste nice. It is designed to provide all nutritional requirements (using the EU's GDA and NRV recommendations) for the minimum possible price. It is not perfect but it may help people eat well on a very restricted budget.
It can, in fact, be made even cheaper, by replacing the olive pomace oil with more sunflower oil, but the omega 6 is already quite high and I am reluctant to increase it further as ideally it would be a lot lower than it is currently.
The magnesium supplement can be a cheaper one, but the magnesium coming from the multivitamin is magnesium oxide, so I felt it necessary to add a chelated version with high bioavailability to make up the difference.
Niacin is the only one of the vitamins and minerals that comes anywhere close to the Upper Tolerable Limit, and even that is a fair way below (UTL is 35mg/day).
You may be able to get certain items (such as the protein) a little cheaper if you buy in bulk. The protein website gives a 15% discount if you buy over £250 of items and contact them, but I felt as this was designed for people on a budget, putting such discounts in would be counter-intuitive.
As previously said though, this won't taste nice and may be difficult to maintain or eat at all. But it will keep you nourished for a very cheap price.
Finally, the oils are listed in grams using a converter instead of millilitres like the bottles come in (5 litre bottles) in order to allow people to use scales for these too instead of approximating volumes.