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Your Cheapest Evening Meal.

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  • joannasmum
    joannasmum Posts: 1,145 Forumite
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    Toad in the Hole has to be ours I think. For some reason it taste nicer with really cheap sausages. The batters only an egg, bit of flour and milk if I'm short of milk I sometimes do it half and half with water (works best with full cream milk). We hae it with either beans or veg if you want to pad it out further you can always do a jacket spud with it.
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  • kittiwoz
    kittiwoz Posts: 1,321 Forumite
    Think the cheapest meal I can make is rice, dhal, nan bread and yoghurt. I use dried red lentils, split peas or chick peas for the dhal. The nan is 1/2 cup flour, 1/2 tsp baking powder and about a tablespoon of yoghurt to make a dough. I'd guess that costs about 30p a head though it'd be much nicer if I splashed out on a jar of chutney or picle to go with it.

    I think the best value meal I can make is roast chicken with all the trimings. I did a roast chicken with stuffing, yorkshire puds, roast potatoes, mixed winter veg (carrot, celery, onion, leek, turnip and fennel) roasted under the bird to soak up the juices along with a few whole garlic cloves, a quartered lemon and a pint of stock, green beans, bread sauce and gravy for myself and my five housemates for a cost of about £7. The bird would have been better suited to feeding four really, hence going all out with the trimmings, but everyone was fed and it was really delicious.
  • BACKFRMTHEEDGE
    BACKFRMTHEEDGE Posts: 1,294 Forumite
    There some great ideas here. :j
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  • pickle
    pickle Posts: 611 Forumite
    tuna patties
    sausages & mash
    chicken and vege soup (chicken from LIDL)
    Chicken/turkey Paella - onion fried, then chicken and veges and then add 3/4 cup rice and 2 teasp. tumeric, 2 teasp. paprika, stock cubes and salt to taste, cover with water til just covered and cook stirring regularly so bottom doesn't stick.
    turkey schnitzels and chips/mash/salad
    Greek chicken and potatos (2 breast cubed chicken or equiv./4 med. potato cooked with 6 minced garlic cloves, chicken stock cube, 1/4 cup olive oil (optional), 2 juiced lemons, 2 teasp. oregano).
  • Linda32
    Linda32 Posts: 4,385 Forumite
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    This is for two adults

    I do Pasta, two handfulls serves us two fine (whole bag costs 31p - Asda)
    Asda Chunky veg tomato sauce 70p
    Punnet Closed cup mushooms about 80p - enough for one futher meal each
    Sweetcorn - frozen about 80p for the whole bag.

    Fry mushrooms in whatever oil you use.
    Boil pasta as instructions.
    Heat tomatoe sauce.

    When the pasta is ready tip into the heated tom. sauce and keep stiring until hot.
    Stir in sweetcorn.

    Serve on plate with mushrooms on top.
  • Whitefiver
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    I've always been rather partial to egg, beans and chips (HM). Fairly cheap too.

    Regards,

    White.
  • MATH
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    Tuna, Pasta, Sweetcorn,Campbells Condensed Mushroom Soup and a bit of grated cheese. Cheap as chips!!

    I used to make this years ago with an added red pepper and some sauted onion. Thanks for reminding me - I will snaffle a campbells tomorrow. LOL

    Tinned soups make really good sauces for the SC. American's use a lot of tinned soup based SC recipes. I use oxtail a lot as a beef gravy based sauce for sausage casserole or brisket. hhmmm delish.
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  • Sarahsaver
    Sarahsaver Posts: 8,390 Forumite
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    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.
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  • Whitefiver wrote:
    I've always been rather partial to egg, beans and chips (HM). Fairly cheap too.

    Regards,

    White.

    Great meal, is that with or with out Brown sauce ? :beer:
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  • purplemoon
    purplemoon Posts: 674 Forumite
    like a couple of others... dahl, rice, HM bread (paratha mostly)- pickles and yogurt are extras. I'm still surprised how cheap this meal is- and sufficient effort put that you can feed it to guests. A big pizza can be cheap too. Soup with HM bread. I think meals that involve homemade bread/ dough seem to be cheap!
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