Your Cheapest Evening Meal.

newster

One of my cheapy meals is...

Corned beef, mashed in with mashed potato, that's been cooked with onion and garlic. add a dash of worcestershire sauce. Put it all into a casserole, sprinkle the top with bread crumbs, you can also put sliced tomato on the top and or fried bacon bits. Bake in the oven on a no. 7 for about 15 mins, until top is crispy. You can also top with grated cheese.. I usually only use bread crumbs as a topping, and tomatoes if I have them. It is a very cheap meal though. Also another cheap meal along the same theme as the corned beef one is cheese and potato pie. Using cheese in place of corned beef, and topping with grated chees and bread crumbs. I serve these meals with baked beans.

celyn90

One of my cheap favorites is bean burgers. Take a tin of beans (usually use kidney beans, but can also use baked beans). Tip them into a sieve and wash off the liquid/tomato sauce. Put them in a bowl, add spices, herbs or curry powder of your choice, a bit of salt and pepper. Blend or mash until smooth. If the mixture is sloppy add breadcrumbs until you get a stiff paste. Form into patties, oven cook or shallow fry until warm through. You can also add finely chopped onions and veg to them or put a cube of cheese in the middle so it melts when you cook them.

savingsara_2

Well I made the onion and bacon pie on saturday night and it was yummy (best shortcrust I've ever made!). Lovely boiled Desiree potatoes with some salad cream on and peas to accompany it. Bliss!!!!

Cheap as chips!

terrimolo

well, its not especially nutritious, but when i was travelling and had my bank card stolen, and we had to really make do with what we had in our fridge already, me and a friend lived on cooked pasta with a sauce made of tomato sauce, mustard, mayo and garlic sauce (kind of like purree but thinner) with a fried egg. fortunately we had a mango tree in the garden for our vitamin C. i lost a few pounds, but felt totally fine the entire two or three weeks we did that. (with the occaisional meal bought by impressionable young men!!)

eselt

Hi
I think my favourite cheapees are:

Fish pie
1 value boil in the bag fish in parsley sauce (72p))
1/2 Tin of sweetcorn (Value 15p)
Value instant mash (15p)
Sprinkle of cheese on top (20p)

Boil the fish, mix with the sweetcorn, put in a dish, put mash potato on top, sprinkle cheese, pop under the grill to brown.

Potato and chick pea curry, and savoury rice
A few spuds (25p)
Tin of chickpeas (39p)
I onion (10p)
Tin of kidney beans (14p)
Tin of pataks sauce (2 for £1 at the moment)
Tin of chopped tomatos (21p)
Pkt of value savoury rice (21p)

Fry onion in a bit of oil, chuck in chunks of potato, tomatos, chickpeas and kidney beans, simmer gently for about 20-30 minutes (not hard as the potatos fall apart)- add a bit of water if it gets too thick, serve with the rice.

Creamy French onion soup
2 onions (20p)
Tin of beef consomme (60p)
Splash of milk (10p)
Chop up onion, fry in a bit of butter, add consomme and a bit of water, simmer until onions are nice and soft, stir in milk at the end. Add some black pepper.

Banana fritters and honey
1 banana per person (10p each)
1 pkt of value batter (no milk or egg needed so save making batter from scratch) (8p)
Bit of sugar (5p)
Spoonful of honey per fritter (10p)
Make up batter with water, cut bananas in half and dip in batter, chuck in deep fat fryer (160 degrees), cook till golden, drain on paper, sprinkle with sugar adn honey (golden syrup or icecream sauces work just as well)

scouserwench

Meat Balls (Tomatoe Sauce in it) and Cheese Pasta... Prob just under a pound... Added Bacon Bits and Onion Crispys to it and Grated Cheese...Hubby loved it!

Stephen_Leak

It's just for me, but 100g of dried spaghetti, boiled, drained and tossed with some grated Parmesan cheese and seasoned with ground black pepper. Less is more.

10past6

eselt wrote: »

Fish pie
1 value boil in the bag fish in parsley sauce (72p))
1/2 Tin of sweetcorn (Value 15p)
Value instant mash (15p)
Sprinkle of cheese on top (20p)

Boil the fish, mix with the sweetcorn, put in a dish, put mash potato on top, sprinkle cheese, pop under the grill to brown.

Thanks eselt, anything simple, that's me :rotfl:

dorry_2

our cheapest evening meal this week was:

morrisons sausages 50p---only used 5 of them so about 25p

morrisons pearl pots 50p

beans----21p

total for me and dh == 96p:T :money: :money:

*Paris*

One of my cheap autumn/winter meals is

mashed potatoes,
1 pack of bacon
cabbage
cheese

mix the mashed pototoes, cooked bacon and cabbage together and put into an ovenproof dish, add grated cheese on top and cook until golden!

It's really filling and my bf doesn't complain as it has meat!!