Meal for two for 50p. Suggestions?

Bogof_Babe

A 420gm tin of Sainsburys Meat Free Beans & Sausages is 44p. With four slices toasted bread from a Basics loaf = 50p total. No cash left for butter on the bread, but with the beans juice you don't really need it. The sausages make it into more of a proper meal than plain beans on toast.

Savvy_sewing

Spaghetti Neapolitan, must come in somewhere in this 50p
Basic spaghetti, 16p 500g (last one I bought was anyway), Tin plum tomatoes, 19p, and a pinch of mixed herbs. small piece of onion diced. 3p (based on the 2kg of onions at 78p value Mr T) Crushed garlic.
Boil up spaghetti as per the packet,Fry the onion in a little oil, add the garlic,add and heat up the tin of tomatoes and add a pinch of mixed herbs, simmer for a few minutes.
The sauce can be extended by either a little water or stock. Soya sauce is also good, if you have it in store.
Hope that this is OK. We have it when I cant be bothered to cook or the store cupboard is getting a bit low.

Sarahsaver

to go with pasta or spaghetti:
tin of tomatoes, couple of bits of bacon frazzled as much as poss crumbled in, stock cube, herbs from the garden. Cook the sauce for a LONG time, improves the flavour.
Delicious!

Lots of this is what i would call 'student food' v cheap but can b v tasty if cooked properly, like my student fave of pasta with olive oil, chilli and garlic.

Hawthorn

One meal I used to do which is very cheap and cheerful, but tasty and filling.


Take a couple of decent sized potatoes. Microwave them until soft. Slice in half, and carefully scoop potato into a bowl. Add butter and fried onion, seasonings and a bit of tomato puree and a pinch of herbs. Mash it all together, put back into the skins, top with cheese then bung in the oven until the cheese has melted. Really tasty.

Cakey_2

I have a couple, not sure I can beat yours in price but they are cheap and tasty and easy none the less!

Tuna and shallot pasta:

10oz value pasta cooked
2 shallots chopped
1 can value tuna drained
Worcester sauce or chilli sauce
Ground black pepper
Cheese

Gently fry shallots until softened
Add tuna, stir to heat, add some black pepper and a few splashes of either worcester sauce or chilli sauce.
Stir in cooked pasta and mix until pasta is well coated.
Grate in some cheese and stir, it's even nicer if you leave the cheese and shallots to crips onto the pasta a little.

Leftover roasted root vegetable and bacon pasta bake:

pasta cooked
Half a turnip cut into chunks
Some carrots cut into chunks
Half a red onion cut into big slices
3-4 rashers bacon chopped
1 big clove of garlic finely chopped
cherry toms halved
Mozzarella

Put the turnip, carrots and onion on a baking tray drizzle with a little oil and sprinkle with a little salt, roast until done.

Saute the garlic in butter until softened, add the bacon fry till cooked.

Mix bacon mixture and pasta and roast veg together, tip into a casserole, top with cherry toms and mozzarella, cook in oven until cheese has melted.

annelouise_2

My Particular Favourite Jacket Potato Ever

Large potato precooked in mwave,rub oil on skin
Pop in hot oven till crisp skin
Slice off top ,scoop out potato
Add knob butter,tsp mango chutney,dash curry powder,dash milk
Put back in potatoes,top with strong cheese
Grill until very crisp -Serve

annelouise

Jacqu79

This is a great thread!:T

I have quite simple tastes, so people might find my recipes a bit bland. They're some of my faves though!:o Also the soup may be over the 50p, but you get loads, and you can basically add anything you like.

Cheap Chicken Soup

2 chicken stock cubes
half a packet of dried noodles, a handful of dried spaghetti, or a handful of rice depending on which you have handy
A couple of spring onions roughly chopped
Any other vegetables you fancy (I usually use beansprouts & mushrooms if I have them handy)
Sometimes I add some soy sauce for a wee variation, but this is optional

Just bung it all in a pot, bring to the boil, then simmer for at least half an hour, et voila!

Very filling soup, and you get at least 6 bowls from the pot.

Cheesy Jacket potatoes

2 jacket potatoes
2 cheese triangles
2 spring onions
Cook spuds in microwave for 10 mins
Half, scrape out filling, and mix in the cheese triangles and spring onions(sometimes i add chopped bacon if I have any)
Put filling back in skins, then cook in oven for 20 mins
Serve with salad

Delish!

Cheap pasta Dish

Packet of value pasta
Tin of value tomato soup
some grated cheese for sprinkling

Cook pasta
Heat tomato soup and add to cooked pasta
Sprinkle cheese over top

This serves 4, and is very very cheap and easy and very filling.

esthomizzy

A friend in the office has just given me this recipe which I'm going to try this week.

Wash some baked beans (you can use dried beans (soaked) of the same sort are they haricot?) but this would undoubtedly be more expensive than value baked beans and so not quite so MSE. Meanwhile fry some onion and crushed garlic with some salt and pepper. Fry your beans with the other stuff and squish them just a little and then garnish with chopped coriander (more salt and pepper to taste). My friend says it's delish. I will report back once I've tried it.

BigMummaF

Another thread for me to investigate:j Can't stop now, but I'll be back to have a proper read & gather some inspiration for menus:D

dobs

Wow this thread looks great i think i'll be up til midnight looking for ideas!
Two really cheap simple quick lunch fixes i do are:

Cook dried noodles in a veg stock cube in powder, boil some mixed frozen veg then just mix together, really tasty and if you arent money saving oxo cubes taste best and a bag of birds eye steamfresh veg mixed in is really quick!My boys have this for tea sometimes with a fishfinger wach and love it. You could also just cook up a bowl of rice with mixed veg as well.

Second one is to cook up plain pasta, macaroni, quills or spirals work well and simply drain and add a handful of strong grated cheese to it - v easy but tasty!

Also just remembered in my really poor days i'd just have a bowl of macaroni cooked in a stock cube - sounds boring but i used to love it!