cheap, easy family meals

Beamish

A nice munchy to keep in the fridge which you can also serve with a baked potato is...Tuna/Sweetcorn & Pasta


Cook Pasta and chill it down , add a tin of Tuna and some sweetcoen, add half a diced onion with some garlic and Salt & Pepper and mix altogether.

Cover with cling film and Chill off in the fridge

Babs

Beamish

Another good filling meal is Bubble & Squeak!

Mash together cooked spuds with left over cabbage(or any left over veg) & Salt & Pepper, fry it all together in a a frying pan till brown, serve with a fried/poached egg, the kids (if not veggies) could have it with cold meat


Babs

tiff

How about egg and chips? Mmmmmm

jcr16

what about hm pizza. if u have a bread maker it is even easier imo. and then u can add any toppings u have. it is so filling and to make it go further u could make some wedges or jacket spud. my mum makes her pizza sometime with just tom sauce on base , onion , sliced fresh tomatos and cheese. and she said it is so yummy but so simple. ( my dad doesn't like fussy food )

or make some pancakes fnd dill with whatever u like roll up cover in cheese sauce and bake for 30 min's. and serve with jacket spud. i often fill with mushroom , beansprouts , sliced pepper , chicken . but anything can be added really.

thinking about it , how about jacket spud then scoop out the middle and mix the potato with cheese and cooked mince beef , and add back into the potato skin and cook again. or mix with tuna instead of mince.

Sarahpuggy

Hi,

I have a lovely vegetarian lasagne recipe, and its so easy and yummy!

To make for 6 people, we do the following.

1 Aubergine - approx 80p.
2 Courgettes - 60p
Loads of tomatoes - £1
fresh egg pasta - £1.20
Bechamel sauce -sometimes we cheat and buy it - £1.30
Mozzarella and Parmesan - £2.20
Fresh Basil -60p

Total = £7.70 and it serves 6 so = £1.20 each! We make it for two of us and have it the next day for lunch with a jacket potato.

We layer all the veggies in the bottom, add salt and pepper with some balsamic vinegar and fresh basil, cover each layer with the pasta and bechamel sauce and mozarella, then finish off the top layer with the parmesan so it goes crispy, bake for about 40 mins! mmm yummy!

gratefulforhelp_2

ok, you will need veggies, rice and 7 thai spice which you get in spice section, lasts ages so cheap per meal.
put veggies chopped into 3 cm ish chunks into oven dish, oil on them or fry-light if you are trying to lose weight, and 3 tsp spice mix, make the oven hot, to roast. Add quorn pieces to this if you like.
put rice on to boil. In the last few(4) minutes of rice boiling, put the (clean) eggs, still in their shells in the rice pan so they become just hard boiled.
drain rice, put on plate, with roast spicy veg and quorn on top, shell the eggs and put a quartered egg on top of each plate.
This is adapted from a waitrose recipe. You can use any veggies, but onion, courgette, mushroom, tomato, leek, pepper, carrot all work well, just use what you have and is cheap.

hob

hi guys i have just started to get in to cooking, im and anything but not a domestic godess lol any way just wondering if u had anything to sujest before i go shoping for the week? so i can make my meal plan..... thanks in advance.

Kevie192

Have a look at this thread. There are loads of links on there to excellent recipes.

There are also many many thread on here about the same question you have asked. Try looking through a few pages or doing a search and I'm sure you will find all the info you need.

HTH

Kevin

Penelope_Penguin

hob wrote: »

hi guys i have just started to get in to cooking, im and anything but not a domestic godess lol any way just wondering if u had anything to sujest before i go shoping for the week? so i can make my meal plan..... thanks in advance.

Pasta, eggs, seasonal vegetalbles are cheap and easy There's more in this thread; I'll merge this later to keep ideas together.

VenusFlytrap_2

3KIDSNOMONEY wrote: »

Not being the best cook in the world I can't just throw a meal together. If anybody has any recipes for easy meals, not necessarily cheap but so I won't have to go and buy any ingredients that can only be used for this one meal. Everyday recipes would be great, I have recently done a successful shepherds pie that all my 3 kids will eat. I am no good with recipe books as I need things explaining simply, especially cooking meat as I am always unsure about whether it is cooked or not (I am vegetarian and so don't want to sample it) Thanks

Try this website http://www.cheap-family-recipes.org.uk/index.html

Lots of recipes there for easy meals and many of them are veggie/vegan, there's even a full month's meal plan (in fact two different ones now) with worked out shopping lists and everything, that will feed a family of 4 for £100 a month with no waste - so definitely no buying stuff that can only be used for one meal!

All recipes and methods are very clear and simple to follow, lots of advice for novice cooks too - definitely worth a look!