Your Cheapest Evening Meal.

CYBERCIDERSAVER

To add a few I didn't see listed.

tinned tomatoes, couple of rashers of bacon and some bread and butter. yum

Egg in a window (use a pastry cutter to make a large hole in bread and fry bread with an egg in the middle) my son loves this.

Or to be a bit posh. Dauphinoise potatoes. Rather than a potato bake sauce jar just slice a load of potatoes thinly (a few millimetres thick), layer in a large shallow oven proof dish fill the gaps with milk, season and spoon a little double cream over the top. cook for 45 minutes. (add cheese then brown off)

I also make a large vat of chilli to jamie oliver's recipe and freeze a load of portions. Although it takes a couple of hours to initially cook it's worth it. (I do a veggie version with quorn mince that is also really low in fat)

http://www.jamieoliver.com/forum/viewtopic.php?id=25249

Use something other than butter for sandwiches. Although cheap they can be boring. I use levis roots' fiery guava sauce. It's spicy but sweet and is great with ham/cheese. Delicious.

hilstep2000

Had a sausage casserole last night. 8 reduced sausages 35p! Tin of butter beans, 17p tin of rattatouille 35p. tin of tomatoes 17p. = £1.04. Enough for four people with HM bread!

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Egg, Chips and Beans is a great and easy meal as a standby for the family.Not often but once now and again won't hurt.I used to like corned beef with egg and chips but haven't had it for years

freebiequennie

i love having egg and chips for dinner as cheap and quick to do

Wickedkitten

Saturday I made a not even massive pot of ragu for less than a fiver (£2.59 for 700g of mince from the butchers, a tube of double concentrate tomato puree for 1.09, 69p for a tin of tomatoes, already had herbs, carrots, stock, and onions and bulked it out with some red lentils from the cupboard) and we ate off that for 5 days.

So, well less than a pound a day.

Skint_Catt

Pasta, half a can of baked beans on top and sprinkle some grated cheese - extremely filling and very cheap!

OrkneyStar

Anymore cheap meals than don't focus on supermarket 'value' ranges (i.e. with meat in that is actually meat :rolleyes:) ?
I know there have been some but any more ?
Surely we can eat cheaply without buying all the bits from supermarkets ?

Bogof_Babe

Sorry not meat, but we had a nice cheap lunch today invented by my husband.

Toasted crumpets topped with a couple of large tomatoes roughly chopped and fried, and a fried (or could do poached) egg each on top.

4 crumpets 29p (can be got cheaper)
2 tomatoes 20p
butter for frying 10p
2 eggs 40p
Total 99p for two, really filling and tasty.

ALIBOBSY

I turned a pack of lean mince into 3 meals for 5 the other day (and my family like to eat alot lol).

Turned one lot into a chilli but with baked beans instead of kidney as the kids don't like kidney beans.

The other became a base for 2 cottage pies.

I padded out the meat with a clearout of veggies from the fridge chopped up small pieces of swede and carrot and a tin of sweetcorn in the cottage pie. Plus a decent handful of lentils in each.

Not sure of prices, tinned toms and tinned beans were pennies each for the chilli. Say 25p each?
The meat was about £2.00

I had carrots and swede leftover in fridge but can only have been a few pence.

used a couple of onions and some garlic as well, plus homemade mash topping (used aldi's 49p tatties sooooo cheap must have only used about 30p worth). Tinned sweetcorn again cheap.

So certainly under a fiver for 3 meals for 5 of us, one for that night one the next and a nice cottage pie stashed in the freezer for an easy tea later on.

ali x

BTW not value meat was just a normal pack from aldi, but any level of mince would do you take your pick. Mince is a brill base to pad out, the less money we have that week the more veg/lentils/sauce is in with the mince.

OrkneyStar

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

Sorry not meat, but we had a nice cheap lunch today invented by my husband.

Toasted crumpets topped with a couple of large tomatoes roughly chopped and fried, and a fried (or could do poached) egg each on top.

4 crumpets 29p (can be got cheaper)
2 tomatoes 20p
butter for frying 10p
2 eggs 40p
Total 99p for two, really filling and tasty.

Great, mmmmm. I did not mean just meat meals, its just that so many recipes seem to feature value stuff, or similar.
I do a similar thing to your meal but with muffins. I bet a bit of cheese would make that even lovlier! (or LO bacon )
Mmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm