Meal for two for 50p. Suggestions?

pnq06

My 2 "dishes" for when we're hard up are-

Pasta with sweet chilli sauce (can be jazzed up with more money)

Dried packet noodles (cooked) before adding to soup (I usually have bbq flavor noodles in tomato sauce- but I'm sure its trial and error!)

juliapenguin

This sounds awful but I've just had it for tea and it was delicious:

really well fried onion 8p?
sliced boiled carrots added to onions and fried up a bit 8p
mix with cooked pasta (from huge £1 bag so maybe 8p again) and some grated cheese 25p
+ bargain at 49p!!!!

I used to make it all the time with the addition of bacon and garlic but I'd run out today and it was still delicious. I'm not sure it would be any good if the onion wasn't really brown and tender, though, so it takes about half an hour in total.

Cazzdevil

superstylin wrote: »

i absolutely love pesto and pasta....add some fried onions (or anything else) then add a bit of greek yogurt and it's gooorgeous!

A "quick" lunch for me is this:
Cook pasta with a handful of frozen sweetcorn thrown in too, drain, add a couple of spoons of green pesto, half a tin of tuna and a couple of dollops of natural yogurt. Absolutely delicious and creamy tasting!

Pasta - 5p (we buy the HUGE bags from asda for £1)
Pesto - 20p
Tuna - 15p
Sweetcorn - 5p
Yogurt - 5p

Total - 50p right on the money! Easily enough to serve 2 people too, but I'm greedy.

Primrose

Savoury Maccaroni (best made in a non-stick saucepan)
Fry odds & ends of bacon, mushroom, red pepper, onion in non stick saucepan. Boil maccaroni separately until cooked. Drain & stir into the vegetable mixture and add a handful of strong grated cheddar. Stir until melted.

MrsTinks

Home grown spuds, boiled leftovers, onions and courgette and peas - cooked in a small dollop of butter for flavour 10p (if you dont' grow your own veg it will obviously cost more but I honestly don't know how much it would be!)

Fry the veg till it starts getting a little brown and gets some flavour from the butter, either serve as is or start the whole lot with frying bacon bits first. I get a generous amount from my butchers and it costs very little. I would say for enough to add flavour to this would be less than 20p.

Serve with tomato ketchup or any home made relishes you might have - you can even crack an egg or two in the middle of the pan towards the end and serve the whole lot when they are cooked
This is something we eat quite often in Denmark and it's a very balanced meal really "Brasede Kartofler" - Danish version of bubble and squeak I guess

overlykeensaver

how about chickpea pasta soup? It is taken from Jamie Oliver's Italian cookery book and is delicious.
Chop - an onion, celery (or other veg), clove garlice and cook in some oil with the lid on on a very low heat for about 15 mins. Also add some chopped rosemary too.
Then add two tins chickpeas and about 500ml of stock, cook for another 10 mins then whiz up the mix so about half the chickpeas are smooth.

Then add soup pasta and simmer til cooked. Serve with a drizzle of nice oil ontop and some bread.

Haven't done the costings but I think it will be very cheap and even cheaper if you buy dried chickpeas and soak and cook them in advance.

cdg1111

DH and I love this - value bread, toasted, no butter (0.6p), value beans (15p), value eggs poached (2 each - 40p).

- OK 61p but honestly, heaven on earth when we're tired and hungry.

cdg1111

Also, my husbands family are from Spanish and visiting my f.i.l at the moment.

They make a traditional tortilla like this.

Cut some potatoes into small irregular pieces. Fry them in oil until they are cooked but not brown.(you can add onion too). Separate the whites and yolks of 3 eggs. lightly beat the whites and add them to the cooked potato and leave to set a bit. Then add the yolks lightly beaten and mix into the other ingredients. leave it to cook on a medium heat. To set the top, put a plate over the pan and turn it over.It will now be uncooked side down so slide that back into the pan and cook it until it is set.

It sounds like more of a palaver then it is. Three eggs would do a tortilla about the size of a medium frying pan and it should be mostly potato.

You can either eat this hot with some salad or cut it into wedges and have it cold. This is a picnic staple for Spanish families and I am sure even with onion it comes out at less than 50p for two people.

FZwanab

This is lovely with rice and/or peas or if you are splashing out in vol au vents.

Another twist is leftover chicken, 2 tins of campbells mushroom soup half a jar of mayo, 1tsp lemon juice, 1 dtsp curry powder and cooked broccoli or whatever veg you have with breadcrumbs and cheese on top, bake in oven for 50 mins - 1 hr medium setting. The ingredients sound yeuck together but it is one of the most delicious dinners and I was given it at a dinner party, I usually serve it with baked potatoes as the oven is on anyway.

Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »

Do you use leftover chicken for anything? We use the darker meat (leg/thigh) in what we call chicken muck muck...tastes much nicer than how it sounds though:D

Basically, left over chicken (or any meat/chicken/fish) add a tin of cream of mushroom soup (campbells or value;) ) then we either serve with rice like a chicken supreme or put a pastry top on and have as a pie. I have also frozen this succesfully and added pastry later.

PP
xx

dancemac1

More for health reasons than cost, but works out pretty cheap - we make our own 'homemade pizza'.
We buy some wholemean pitta breads (a packet of 6 normally cost about 30p), some tomato paste/cheap pasta sauce (this can be as cheap as 20p) and add our own toppings - pineapple (can about 50p), mushrooms, ham etc, grated cheese and stick in the oven. The best thing is you can stick just about anything you've got on it and use the leftover breads the next day for pizza pockets/lunch wrap!
Enjoy!