Cheapest Meals Ever

Are you anywhere near a Lidl as you can save a lot there.

Home made soup in the slow cooker with home made bread is very cheap - I just soak some dried peas then rinse and put them in the slow cooker pot - add potaoes, carrots, onions etc - anything that you have - plus stock cube or home made stock and DH loves it!

Home made yorkshire puddings filled with veg and gravy is another favourite.

Egg and chips.

Home made pizza.

Quiche made with eggs,cheese,onions milk and whatever you have in it.

Cornish pasties made with tin of corned beef,onions, potaoes and any veg you like.

You may already have thought of most of these.

I once made a huge chicken curry in slow cooker using a turkey leg for £1 , onions, curry spices and any veg just knocking around.

Argos have a slow cooker in the sales for £9.99 at the moment. Other than that here is one of my cheap recipes (adjust the quantities for how much you need):

1lb Mince,
1lb potatos,
2 eggs,
3 slices bread made into breadcrumbs,
3 tablespoons sandwich pickle,
1 onion chopped.

Part boil potatos for 8 minutes and slice. Mix the remaining ingredients in a bowl and put in an oven dish. Place the sliced potato on the top and bake in the oven on gas mark 5 for about 1 hour.

Hiya

Most meals can be adjusted to budget. We live well on £30 roughly a week including all cleaning stuff and will not compromise on Nescafe, tetley tea bags, decent wash powder, lenor, nice loo rolls and kitchen rolls-all these bought from Makros when on special. My rough meal plan goes something like this weekly:

Roast Chicken/Lamb, roasties, mash, carrots/peas/cabbage, HM yorkies, stuffing and gravy.
Curry or Pie with left over meat. Served with spuds or rice.
Toad In Hole, Spuds and veg.
Egg & HM Chips with bread and butter.
Shepards Pie & veg.
Lamb Stew & Dumplings.
Fish Pie or Fish, spuds & veg

Breakfasts are normally either cereal, toast, eggs, occasional full english, bacon butty etc. Always have apple/orange juice-get a fruit in there with DD and OH.

Lunches for OH & I are always hot this time of year and because of dietry needs they need to be wholesome, so are things like: jacket spuds with cheese/coleslaw/chilli/curry etc. Beans on toast with cheese. Left overs from day before. If I do a chilli or curry-always make enough for about 4 lots of toppings for jackets and freeze them. DD has school dinners or when at home has same as us really.

We dont really do puddings but always have ice-cream, yogurts, fruit etc in. I think for my £30 we eat well. Im always snacking as Im on a high fat/calorie diet and am often scoffing crisps, biscuits etc

PP
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Our cheapo list is

'sort of' toad in the hole - made with all sorts of odds and ends like a couple of rashers of bacon rolled up, slices of onion, the odd sausage, halves of tomato etc.

farmhouse grill - this is fridge bottom and freezer clear out stuff, like all the ingredients listed above plus the odd piece of meat, like a single pork chop that is only enough for one person but cut into 2 adds a bit of bulk to this grill

spanish omelette -using bits of pepper, bacon, mushroom, onion, potato, cooked peas etc

fried rice - more bits of the same stuff as listed above combined with rice and fried together, when it's done you move it all to one side of the frying pan, add 2 beaten eggs, scramble them till lightly cooked then combine them with the rice and oddments mixture. serve with a dribble of curry sauce.

cauliflower cheese with bacon and mushrooms and a jacket spud

HM pizza

any sort of pasta bake made with leftovers in a cheese sauce, add cooked pasta and top with cheese and breadcrumbs, bake to heat and crisp up