Your Cheapest Evening Meal.

wigglebeena

I think split pea soup and HM bread is my cheapest meal, probably not more than 50p a head. And you can basically flavour it with anything you've got it: onions, grated cheese, mashed up pilchards, you name it. But it's perfectly fine by itself with just a grind of pepper.

Bogof_Babe

Reverbe wrote: »

did I already suggest my oniony rice I got form a book in my Uni days? 2 onions (1 onion optional) some lemon juice(Optional)some value rice and some value veg stock

That would be nice with a little bit of curry powder cooked in with the onions, or with the rice for that matter. Or even a curry flavour stock cube.

Reverbe

Bogof_Babe wrote: »

That would be nice with a little bit of curry powder cooked in with the onions, or with the rice for that matter. Or even a curry flavour stock cube.

Yeah it is surprisingly tasty, you just cook the rice in the stock and add 1 onion chopped small or diced. the optional topping is a sliced onion fried in lemon juice. I tend to use red onion to vary and also sling all kinds of stuff in from my herb and spice stash. I make a lot of soups so have quite a few. It is never the same twice but always cheap and always yummy. I have also added some pine nuts toasted or not that were lying around.

Beki

We've got a really budget recipe for dinner tonight - i've already had a sneaky bowl and can confirm it's tastiness

250g pearl barley
couple of stalks of curly kale
couple of cabbage leaves broken off the outside
1/4 of a white cabbage shredded
1 carrot found lingering in the salad drawer
1 onion who'd befriended the carrot
4 garlic cloves
3 value veg stock cubes
LOADS of water

bung everything in a saucepan and simmer for about an hour and a half, and keep a check that it doesn't boil dry. stir every so often. after about an hour and a half the water should more or less be gone, and it'll be ready to serve.

i stuck the leftovers of a steak and kidney stew in with mine when almost cooked, but it was lovely without too

the cost for the whole thing (which must be at LEAST 6 man-sized huuuuge portions) is roughly 60p (that's excluding the leftover steak and kidney stew)

runbytheground

Longtime reader, first time poster - spurred into action by the fear no one would point out the humungous pink elephant in the room, the REAL reason why chickens exist and most indulgent cheapie meal ever...

chicken livers done in an onion gravy

(knob o' butter, lotsa sliced onions, garlic, bit of flour, worcestershire sauce, bit of tomato paste, seasoning, stock cube, hot water).

Served on a big pile of rice, with peas usually. Heaven!

And cause chicken liver is so rich and a little goes a long way, I can easily get about 4 me-sized portions out of 400g (after trimming), 99p from Tesco.

Mmmm, its offally good. (sorry! I know, that was offal. right, i'm stopping now)

KittyBoo_2

Egg and chips.
Egg from my chickens and chips from potatoes I grew last year.
Home made bread and a cuppa sweet tea.
Yummy

griffam

When we have chicken on a Sunday lunch I always boil the chicken and use the stock with all the peelings and any left over or suspect veg to make a yummy soup. We have this with fresh hot bread from the bread maker. Total cost for 5 about 40p for the bread. Scrummy
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mussel shells/ bones rice soup
fried rice with eggs

betterlife

Sarahsaver wrote: »

Piles of pancakes with whatever we can find for toppings, cheese odds and ends, choc spread, honey, good for finishing up small quantities of stuff we otherwise would not find a use for. Value flour, home grown eggs, and milk which is £1.15 for 6 pints around here. Usually do 2 eggs, 2 cups milk, 2 cups flour.

wow where do you get 6pts for £1.15 we use 6 pints a day so wish i could get it that cheap.
as fo meal i`d prob say cream of potato and onion soup.
about 4 largish pots, 2 onions boiled together than mashed with salt and black pepper, mix in small tub of double cream and add milk to get the right consistancy, i like mine thick! serve with crusty bread yum yum, theres always some left aswell for next day.x

Dizzie77

I thought that my recent chicken curry and rice was a bargain - but it's positively expensive compared to some on here....!!

Diced chicken breast - 50p from Morrisons when it was on offer
Tesco value curry sauce - 15p (tastes just like chip shop curry sauce)
packet golden rice - 22p

And that was plenty to feed the two of us!!