help me out with my food bill

zombiecazz

What kind of take away's do you have?
We love Indian, so as a pretend take away I use 2 different Pataks curry pastes, a pack of chicken fillets, 2 tins toms, 2 onions, 1 green pepper, 1 tin chickpeas some rice and some naan bread.
I split the ingredients between 2 casserole dishes so I end up with 2 curries and I cook them the day before in the oven when I'm making the dinner.
So the next day all I have to do is cook the rice in the micro, heat up the curries and grill the naan. Costs less than £7.

earwig

hi lynz a bit of both i think cant think of things to cook chinese and kebba are our favs when it comes to takaway

SusanCarter

Chinese food is fairly easy to cook: you just stirfry some fresh meat and veg, add some sauces (which you can mix yourself) and then serve with rice or noodles.

I don't really care what brand beans I use as I never have them plain. I like to add different things for variety such as marjoram, basil, oregano, worcestor sauce, tomato sauce, tomato puree, ground black pepper etc. That way I could have beans every day of the week and not get sick of them.

tawnyowls

earwig wrote:

i can taste the differance ask my mum she treid more than once i could tell by the colour and smell and the taste if they are not heinz i cant eat them they just dont taste as nice

A lot of people find that. Personally, I can't abide baked beans in any form, but supposedly if you buy cheap ones and then add a squirt of Heinz ketchup, that does the trick.

tawnyowls

Raspberry_Swirl wrote:

the nearest LIDL/ALDI is 30 minutes drive from me
that amount of petrol probably cancels out any savings from shopping there rather than my local tesco/asda which is a 2 minute drive....

Ours is quite a distance as well, so we tend to go only once a month and really stock up non-perishables: dried & tinned food, toiletries and so on.

You do have to take into account the number of times you go. A nearby supermarket might be too tempting - if you're going there a few times a week, then switching to one further away and only going once or twice a month might work out cheaper in the end.