Feed a family of four for £20 a week challenge

I did a quick cheap dinner tonight, I had six rosti in the freezer so I thought that I would use them on top of a savoury mince.

Rosti pie

400g Mince
2 carrots
1 large onion
A tin of baked beans rinsed and drained
4 mushrooms quartered
1 tsp herbs
salt and pepper.
a tbsp cornflour to thicken.

Saute onion, then add mushrooms and cook for a few minutes followed by the carrots, put into a casserole dish, then fry the mince, put the veg back in the pan and add 1pint of water or stock, salt, pepper and a tsp herbs and simmer gently for an hour. Make a paste of cornflour, temper it with some of the stock and stir through, cook for a further 15 minutes.
When the sauce is thickened add everything to the casserole dish top with the rosti and put in the oven until the rosti is golden, serve with green veg of choice.

Everyone liked it, so that is another recipe in my book.

Mince (½ a pack aldi economy mince £2.59 = £1.29)
2 carrots 8p (aldi super six 49p 1kg approx 12 carrots)
1 onion aldi 4 for 33p = 8p
4 mushrooms - market 25p
herbs 2p
rosti was in the freezer and I can't remember where I got them or how much I paid Say approx £1 as knowing me I wouldn't have paid much more than that and I used half a pack so 50p
Aldi frozen broccolli/ quarter of a 1kg bag (250g)89p = 22p
Total cost £2.42 or 60p per portion

Lots of things that you can do with these:

bacon and egg pie

bacon pizza

streaky bacon sliced and cooked with pasta and shredded brussels with a cheese sauce or a tomato sauce

Gammon steaks with a maris piper potato baked in its jacket and lettuce plus tomatoes and cucumber as a side

Streaky bacon sliced, fried and mixed into a cheese sauce and made into pasties or puff triangles

Kievs and hm wedges with lettuce

Quiche lorraine

Bacon, mozzarella and tomato slice

Bacon sarnies

Pan haggerty

Egg and bacon

American pancakes with bacon and maple syrup

Cowboy stew

Stir fry bacon with egg noodles, julliened carrots, sliced mushrooms, beansprouts in a hoisin sauce or use the gammon to make sweet and sour dish.

gnocchi with streaky bacon and mozzarella

Lentil and bacon soup

pea and bacon soup

bacon and onion pie using a suet crust.

bacon and egg in bread cases line a muffin tin with slices of bread pre cook some bacon then put a slice of tomato then bacon and an egg on top and bake in the oven

chicken and bacon pie

spaghetti with bacon, peas and mozzarella

bacon and shredded brussels soup

Parsnip soup

Carrot soup

BLT sarnie

Eggy bread with bacon and honey or maple syrup

bacon and pea risotto

bacon lasagne

bacon and sweetcorn soup

Streaky bacon kebabs
Put a piece of mozzarella or even a cheese triangle on a rasher of streaky bacon and roll it up, put on a skewer with mushrooms, pineapple cubes or apple, and cocktail sausages or just cut up some sausages into chunks, grill gently turning frequently.

I will post more ideas later DH has just got home from work x