Your Cheapest Evening Meal.

birdmadgirl

err sorry seem to have ended up with a random link. was trying to do a smiley face!!

JailhouseBabe

My favourite cheap meal:

1 tin cheap chopped tomatoes (16p)
1 pack supermarket fresh cooked prawns (approx 94p)
1/3 small pot single cream (approx 30p for whole pot)
5-6 'coils' - 1/4 packet - tagliatelli (approx £1 for whole pack)

Put pasta on.
Heat tomatoes in frying pan (I usually mash them at this point and season with salt & pepper) over a high heat to reduce for approx 5 mins.
Add the prawns and heat for a further minute or two.
Add enough cream to turn the sauce a nice pink colour, heat for 1 minute.

Fast and cheap (approx 80p per person). Luckily my daughter loves it too.

cal

I use the carcess from the Sunday lunch to make chicken stew.
Boil up the carcess with water and strip all the meat.
Add Vegetables: Carrots, swede, onions, parsnips and potatoes. Cook fror 20 mins. Add cheap tin of beans, worchester sauce and thicken. The more veg you add the more it feeds. Mum used to make this last for tea for 7 and then for lunch the next day!!!!!

chinastarr

thank you for great ideas.

chinastarr

This week tesco have fresh chickens for £2.99 BOGOF. so roast dinner works out quite reasonable & there is one for the freezer. Hope I've posted this in the right place.

sarahspain

Frankfurter Pasta,

Tagliatelli
couple of frankfurters
mushrooms
chopped onion
double cream

cook onion, mushrooms and frankfurters and add cream, put on top of tagliatelli!

It's yummy but a bit fattening!!

Sainsburys have got a bogof on Hertz frankfurters pack of 10 £1.79 at moment, so go for it!!

scaryfairy

my mum used to make this for dinner and its one of my favourites. I make it now too. Take a tin of salmon (small tin for 2, large one for 4 or more) and mix it with a finely chopped onion, breadcrumbs, fresh parsley and either melted butter or marge to a damp mix and bake it in the oven for about 20-30 mins at about gas 5 until its nice and brown on top. Serve with some potatoes and veg and its absolutely and totally delicious!!!! (plus very filling!!). I got a large tin of salmon recently for 97p so it's probably not the cheapest meal but no way near expensive either. I would recommend it!!!

Rachie_B

yum im gonna try it with tinned tuna ,my kids will like it i think : )

charlie007

sausage hotpot,

59p for 12 skinny sausages,
59p potatoes
12p onions
and then any root veg that are in the house, some gravy powder and a bit of crusty bread.

Fantastic for the cold evenings and oh now manages 9 sausages!! so no left overs

stikkiniki

mashed pots n swede with
braised cabbage/greens & any pickled veg although I love capers, some vinegar, oil, pepper to taste
& whizzed up chick peas (22p in my local tescos) with tahini/hummus onion, pepper, nuts, wild garlic (free at the mo!), add olive oil till consistency is firmish & roll in seeds before grilling or frying.

add a splosh er gravy....lush under £1 per head

or carrot,orange n ginger soup, add a little boulllion........one pot lasts days & works out at about 50p a bowl. garnish with wild garlic.

or nettle soup for free, with lossa herbs from the garden a large onion & boullion, some parsley, crackin! about 20p a bowl if that!

enjoy. x x x x