Your Cheapest Evening Meal.

princess_jane_2

Pre Money Saving I NEVER EVER cooked and lived on microwave meals.

Over the last six months I have been trying my hand at making meals with ingredients, to save cash and because my boyf moved in who is a big, hungry boy not satisifed by ding-ding dinners.

After reading this thread I was extra inspired, and have made my own pasta sauce for spag bol tomm night, and a cheesy-mash-bean-pie, which we are having with pork shops on Sat (reduced from £4 to 64p in Asda's frozen section).

Oh and breakfast tomm is Value porridge oats with dried fruit and some honey, rather than skipping it and munching a sausage sarnie at work.

janb5

Vegetable Chilli

1 chopped onion
1 red chopped peppper - chopped
2 garlic cloves- chopped
1 mild red chilli- chopped or red chilli flakes
1 tbsp olive oil
1 tbsp ground coriander
can of green lentils - drained
can of red kidney beans- drained
can of chopped toms


Fry onion, red pepper garlic and chillli in the oil covered for 15 - 20 mins.

Add coriander lentils beans and toms. Mix well. Leave to simmer for 10 mins.

Can be served with fresh coriander and soured cream.

Nice with fajitas and grated cheese!

Jayar

Just had our cheapest ever evening meal last night.

Leek and potato soup
The stock was made from veg peelings and the leeks and potatoes were half price at Lidl
Cauliflower cheese
Again half price cauli from lidl and their cheese is inexpensive too (too much cauliflower for just the two of us so half is in the freezer for future use)
We reckoned the cost to be max £1.50

newlywed

flis21 wrote:

Hi All,

Well, I am going to be having some fun over the next couple of months as, due to a recent accident, I am off work and only getting SSP. So, have been searching around for really cheap recepies. The cheapest one i have found is this:

Red Lentil Dahl

Serves 4

500g Red Lentils
1tbsp curry paste

Heat some oil in a pan, add the lentils. Fry for 1-2 mins, then stir in curry paste and 1 pint boiling water. Bring mixture to boil, reduce heat and simmer gently. Cover the pan and cook for 15 mins, until lentils are tender and mixture is thick.

Recepie suggestion was to serve with naan bread and coconut cream (although I am going to try it with value low fat natural yogurt to make it cheaper).

Thanks for that. Bought some red lentils the other day and made some of this for lunch - added extra veg too - onion, tin of chopped tomatoes and carrot and potato. Was yum (and I'm not usually a lentil fan!! )

Edit: 100g lentils, one onion, two smallish carrots, one parsnip and one chopped sweet potato, one tin value chopped tomatoes made enough for 3 fairly large lunch portions.

skintstudentbabe

try this for a cheap warming and filling meal: (makes 2 portions)
1 onion (red looks pretty but white works well too)
1-2 carrots
1 pepper (any color works well)
a handful mushrooms
1 courgette
1 tin kidney beans
1 tin tomatoes
1tsp olive oil
1 clove garlic
1 leek
chiili powder
chilli sauce
brown rice

chunkily slice mushrooms and chop pepper courgette leek and carrots into chunks.finely chop onion.crush garlic. soften onion and garlic for a min or 2 in olive oil then add the other veg and cook gently for 3-5 mins. rinse kidney beans and add to pan with tinned tomatoes. add chilli powder and sauce to taste. leave to simmer for 20-30 mins. when cooked serve with boiled rice.
this meal tastes great and is fab in the winter. the leftovers go well with baked potatoes the following day. feel free to adapt the recipe to suit watever u have on hand.

Cazzdevil

OH made "tuna surprise" last night which consisted of:

Pasta - 10p (we buy the HUGE bags from Asda)
Pesto - 25p
Garlic - 2p
Red onion - 6p
Mushrooms - 15p
Green pepper - 20p
Tin value tuna - 29p
Dollop fromage frais - 8p
Scattering of cheese - 10p
Tomato puree - 5p

Total: £1.30 for 2 + enough left over for my lunch!

65p a portion ain't bad.

We had a cheapy garlic bread with it too, although we can make a really tasty garlic bread for about 35p

(copied and pasted directly from the "feed 2 for as little as possible" thread)

Little_Miss_Saver

A baked potato with cheese & Beans or Poached Egg on Toast. (All Value ingredients of course!!!)

Will have a go at some of these recipies though.

LMS xx

twink

for one

boil some long grain rice with half a stock cube and mixed frozen veg, when cooked put it in a sieve and rinse with hot water from the kettle, put back in the pan and add chopped chicken and worcester or tomato sauce or microwave some fish fingers and chop them in or whatever you have, surprisingly tasty and filling

savingsara_2

battybird wrote: »

my family loves bacon and onion suet roll it only costs about 2.50 to feed 5 and that incudes the veg if you grow your own veg them the meal will only set you back about a pound

cheap bacon 1 packet
suet pastry [4oz s/r flour 2oz suet water to mix]
1 onion

roll pastry out make a rectangle then rather like a swiss roll use bacon and chopped onion as filling roll it up wrap it in oiled gease proof paper you need 2 layers of foil over that to make it water tight then boil it for about 1.5 hours
mine like it with mash a greens and gravy

Oooh this took me back! My Grannie used to make this with shortcrust pastry on a tin plate and it was yummy. Wasn't more than probably two rashers of bacon in the whole pie - wartime cooking I would think (she died in 1971). Might have to give this a go sometime, it's set my juices flowing now......

sonee2405

tesco value 16p pasta with tesco value pasta sauce 36p and only used about half of the sauce which fed 3 of us(myself sis and 7 year old niece)also found jamroly poly in the reduced section for 48p so had that aswell with some value custard which was already in the cupboard.Yummy and just £1