Help! £40 to feed family for the month

ubamother

firesidemaid wrote: »

a cheap yummy dish my other half makes is pan heggarty/haggarty (he uses the hairy bikers recipe).

thinly slice carrots, onions and potatoes, layer in a large frying pan - onion at the bottom, followed by potatoes, bacon and carrots - finiah with a layer of potatoes. add a litre of hot stock and bring to boil. add grated cheese and put in oven/under grill for 20 mins.

it is soooo yummy and mooreish you won't believe - and it's totally cheap and storecupboard. serve with bread to soak up those juices!

This is a great favourite in our house too - if you have no bacon, corned beef or scraps from a roast work really well too - sometimes we use less stock and have it as a side veg like a geordie pomme boulangere

binnie

donnajt wrote: »

I have been taking more notice of YS/RTC but my local supermarkets are rubbish at savings - until today...i am so excited....breathe donna breathe...

£3.29 RTC 99p x3
Mr T finest Steak ua poivre (serves 2) £4.99 RTC £1.50 x5
Mr T finest rosti (serves 2) £1.99 RTC 60p x2
Organic sweet pots BOGOF £2.29 RTC 69p (BOGOF still worked!) x2
Mr T finest deli 6x slices angus roast beef £2.25 - 45p x4
Finest beef sandwich - £2.80 RTC 80p
Mr T prawns £2.99 RTC £1.08
Finest strawberries £2.99 RTC £1.39 x2

- mummysaver recipes will follow once i have calmed down!

What is this YS and RTC mean please?

furndire

I guess RTC is reduced to clear, but don't know ys

Hardup_Hester

YS is yellow sticker, in some shops the reduces prises are printed on yellow stickers
Hester

quintwins

NannyB wrote: »

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to share with you my way of making shepherds pie cheaply and is a great variation on the usual pie...
Feeds 4.... Sml pack of mince. 1 sml onion chopped. 1 tin of baked beans. 1 sml tin of oxtail soup. potato mashed for topping, add a touch of grated cheese if that's to your liking.......brown mince, strain of fat...add chopped onion...brown couple of mins ...transfer to dish, add baked beans, oxtail soup,black pepper if liked, mix together, cover with mashed potato made creamy with little milk and butter/spread... cook for 40 mins at 180 degress..... delicious... quick and easy

Enjoy
Caroline

i don't really like oxtail soup, but i have to say i finded adding tinned stuff to bulk meals out expensive, you can add porridge oats to cooking mince it absorbs the flavour of the mince so taties the same altho the texture is slightly off, i usually bulk mine out with frozen peas and sweetcorn and a few grated carrots

kezlou

Hi,

Just bumping it up for peeps to read it.

Hope thats okay

kez x

rachbc

NannyB wrote: »

Hi Everyone,

Just wanted to share with you my way of making shepherds pie cheaply and is a great variation on the usual pie...
Feeds 4.... Sml pack of mince. 1 sml onion chopped. 1 tin of baked beans. 1 sml tin of oxtail soup. potato mashed for topping, add a touch of grated cheese if that's to your liking.......brown mince, strain of fat...add chopped onion...brown couple of mins ...transfer to dish, add baked beans, oxtail soup,black pepper if liked, mix together, cover with mashed potato made creamy with little milk and butter/spread... cook for 40 mins at 180 degress..... delicious... quick and easy

Enjoy
Caroline

adding a chopped carrot and a tin of tomatoes would be cheaper and healthier than adding a tin of oxtail soup :cool:

terra_ferma

rachbc wrote: »

adding a chopped carrot and a tin of tomatoes would be cheaper and healthier than adding a tin of oxtail soup :cool:

I agree, I prefer using vegetables and grains rather than tinned stuff.
Homecooked meals can be cheap, filling and healthier, but not when you start adding tinned stuff.

If you reduce meat you must replace it with food rich in proteins, vegetables are good to reduce calories if you want to lose a bit of weight, but not great if someone needs calories, like active young people, or someone doing physical work.
Pulses and grains are good replacements, but not tinned stuff, for for example baked beans have sugar and chemicals.

kezlou

I do agree that fresh food is better for you. Less additives, salt, sugar etc

But i also think, well in my circumstance anyway, that its good to have some tinned food i.e baked beans, tomatoes, kidney beans, chick peas etc. As we all know, fresh food goes off whilst tinned food can last months if not years and a good thing to have when money is in short supply.

I also have a couple of tins of tomato and chicken soup for quick meals, but also in case i have to use the camping stove. Just like last year in the winter.:(

The thread contains lots of home made recipes such as soup, casseroles, bread, tomato sauce for spaghetti bolognese, chilli and the like.
Its a lot to read through but it was very interesting and a great for beginners, whom like myself had no idea how to cook. In addition its inspiring as you think "actually i can do this, we can get through this bad patch."

dom300186

here is a recipe of mine for cheap and quick cheesy pasta bake, no more jar pasta bake xxx
hope it helps someone as i was stuck for dinner tonight so whipped this up and it helps because its mega cheap and you will more than likely have the ingredients already xxx
i have use packet cheese sauce because i had some left to use up, if your prefer make some from scratch.

www.allrecipes.co.uk/recipe/25284/my-cheesy-pasta-bake-taste-like-homepride-cheese-pasta-bake.aspx