super cheap meals for gluten & pulses free diet

Little_Vics

Hi guys,

I need to drastically cut down our food bill (2 adults, 3 meals a day currently at £50 a week) but between us we have some dietary problems which I'm finding hard to budget on.

I'm intolerant to gluten and pulses (properly diagonsed by doc, but don't qualify for prescription food as it's an intolerant not an allergy - whatever the difference!). Hubby has an adversion to anything remotely healthy, I love my veg. We have a freezer, so can use that.

Anyone got any advice?

Little Vics xx

Pippad

Similar boat here, although we do qualify for prescriptions, just not free ones lol.

I find that although we can get the pasta and other things like bread that DH is eating pretty much what we were eating before. Such as;

Roast Chicken and extras stretching into Rubber Chicken
Jacket potato and filling
Bangers and Mash (obviously looking at the sausages!)
Curry and rice
Vegetable rice (peas, onions, mushrooms, sweetcorn etc)
Paella
Fish and vegetables

I think it is a case of writing down what meals you like to eat and then looking at how to adapt them if needed. Also my DH is fine eating a few "cheap" meals a week if he gets a treat every other week which he decided would be steak.

HTH

nanokitten

Cottage pie (with or without meat), Veggy stews: bulk out with spuds and use stew pack / value veggies which are great for this sort of thing.

For nice puddings: seasonal fruit (eg nectarines and peaches on offer), apples, pears or tinned peaches, baked with a bit of sugar or honey and a knob of butter, serve with cheap iceceam / yogurt (eg value one).