Your Cheapest Evening Meal.

Izzy.

Cheapest evening meal has got to be a cheese and vegetable omlette with home made bread. Tasty, filling and nutritious.

Rachie_B

yum the suet rolls sound fab and easy and filling : )
and could be made with any filling i guess ? like a pie / en croute type thing

could they be frozen? and if so before being baked or after?

LookingAhead

I love to make an easy veggie curry for OH & self:

Splash of oil
1 x onion chopped
2 x cloves of garlic (or more to your own taste) finely chopped
1 x potato chopped into medium sized chunks
Couple of big handfuls of mushrooms - roughly chopped
Tin of value chopped tomatoes
Tin of chickpeas drained & rinsed (or dried ones pre-soaked & boiled but that takes ages! But they are cheaper.)
Squeeze of lemon juice (optional)
Coriander (fresh or dried)
Cumin - 1 teaspoon
Curry powder - to your own taste (I use about 1/2 tsp of hot curry powder)
Rice to serve

Fry the chopped onions, mushrooms, potato & garlic for about 5 minutes and stir in the curry powder and cumin. Add the tomatoes and chick peas and stir in. You can add a squeeze of tomato puree if it needs a bit more juice!

Let it simmer for about 20 minutes (till potato is ready), stir in a squeeze of lemon juice if using and a handful of coriander......serve with rice. (I use brown rice)

I am no gourmet chef and anyone who makes curries may look at my post and go like this: :eek: ??? :rotfl:

But I really like and it OH does too. I don't know how much this costs as I have never worked this out but it isn't much especially if you already have the spices/herbs/puree in for other meals anyway.

We always have a big bag of rice in too as it is filling, healthy & cheap/goes with chillis, stir fries, gratin & curries too!

BACKFRMTHEEDGE

Now that's cheap and tasty :money:

squeaky

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fizzel81

again beans on toast, tonight we are having a breast from left over chicken in a pot with a tin of veg soup(asdas own) 2 carrots 3 potatoes and an onion no idea what it tastes like ive only just started using left overs for meals

i_wanna_save_money!

chivers1977 wrote:

well having got an R&R in tescos on a massive bit of beef...tonight it is about 30p for veg for the two of us !!! :rotfl: :rotfl:

Hi everyone its my first post so be nice to me!!

Just wanted to ask what is R&R??

Thanks

Somerled

i_wanna_save_money! wrote:

Hi everyone its my first post so be nice to me!!

Just wanted to ask what is R&R??

Thanks

Retain and refund

greytroot

I'm just going to my mum's, it's always a freebie.

Love her.

birdmadgirl

Anyone tried Pilchard Curry............

Tin of pilchards in tomato sauce (big one for 55p, or small one for one person)
some frozen peas (10p max)
Curry powder
Rice (20p)

A big tin makes enough for 2. You can also use pilchards in thai curry (see an earlier post, sorry i can't remember whosehttp://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/newreply.html?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=1870896#
Embarrassment


If you wanna make it fancy you can add whatever veg is laying around, garlic, chilis etc. The beauty of it is that the sauce is already done for you, so it takes bout 10 mins http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/newreply.html?do=newreply&noquote=1&p=1870896#
Jumping with joy :j
Apparently they serve it in prisons, i heard on radio 4.. dammit i thought it was my recipe!!