Need 3 meal ideas costing £15 total

lizziebabe wrote: »

There are loads of ideas on the grocery challenge. £15 is quite a lot of money for just 3 meals.
If you got to the supermarkets at certain times then you can get reduced food. I always ask what time they do this, make a note of it, then go back at those times.

I would have roast chicken, with veg on one night, the second night have chicken curry then use the carcass to make soup on the third night.

If you couldn't bear to have chicken for 3 nights in a row, many supermarkets do x3 meat packs for a tenner, then spend the rest on veg, pasta, rice.

The 3 for a tenner deal is always the basis of my low cost meals.

Spend the extra fiver on potatoes, fruit and veg and you have a great healthy diet!

If you got sausages for the ragu as suggested by Building with Lego, you could use the other half of the pack to do toad in the hole. You'd just need 2 eggs, milk and a couple of spoons of flour for the batter, then serve with peas and sweetcorn (and mash is you were really hungry).

lasagne, chicken fajitas, sausage egg & chips - think you should be able to get all that out of £15!

I would buy a chicken and do a chicken dinner with cheap veg, mash n gravy. Use the chicken for lunches too and maybe use it in a pasta bake. I would probably do sausages and mash or chips with veg another night.

To be honest £15 is a lot of money for 3 meals whether cooking from scratch or using ready made sauces etc. Maybe challenge yourself to spend as little as possible and put the rest away in case you are ever short again

I have a food only budget of £60.00 for a month ,admittedly I live alone but I too could easily get 3 meals for your family out of £15.00 and have cash left over.I things are getting tight then always make sure you have eggs,onion,potato's and some cheese in store that will make you one meal of layered cheese and onion and mash potato pie with a bit of grated cheese on top.Egg and chips,second meal and maybe a cheese omelette and sauted spud with a bit of grated onion in the omelette for third meal ingredients should come to probably
Eggs £1.00
a bag of spuds about £1.-1.50,
onion 20p
and a decent chunk of mousetrap cheese about £2.00.

The stronger the cheese the less you need to use as the flavour does its work well.I bought 360gms of strong cheddar today for £1.96.So with a bit of luck you could probably do it for about a fiver and have some left over for pudding.A bag of pudding rice and some milk will make you a big rice pud and a packet of instant custard to go with it should cost you less than £2.00.So £7.00 in all.If you want to pad the meal out a bit make a vat of HM soup with some reduced down veg and a stock cube so veggie soup for starters followed by what ever main course you want and rice pud and custard for dessert All for about half the amount you have to last you.OK not brilliantly healthy but for a couple of days you won't go down with scurvy :):)