Who regularly eats well for 1 on £10 per week, please share your best ideas?

Geko

I have planted some tomato seeds (Tumbling toms) they don't take up much space, mine are in a hanging basket. You can get seeds from any tomatoes, I prefer the small ones. Save and dry the seeds, plant 2 plants in a basket or tub and you'll save on tomatoes all summer. You can plant chives in the basket too to prevent white fly and you can snip that into your cooking and salads.

I also buy from ASDA and a few friends who live near me split the delivery charge, we can get lots and nobody has to carry it far.
Just a few ideas that might help.

Homeagain

Please could I have this link too JackieO .... thankyou!

rufydoofyM

My favourite cheapy
lightly fry chopped onion add a tin of chopped toms (or trattoria tom and herb pasta sauce from Tesco, 20p in some stores) and season. Add herbs or spices or chilli etc. Let it cook for about 5 mins then add cooked pasta and transfer to a dish top with a little cheese and place under the grill for 5 mins or until crispy on top. Sometimes i add chopped bacon or mushrooms or peppers. Great microwaved the next day or eaten cold.
Mum used to make it for us as kids and it's one of my favourite comfort foods, cheap and cheerful

Hope you like it as much as I do and it helps.:)

jumblejack

There was a great series called economy Gastronomy a year ago. It gad great ideas concerning bedrock meals and tumbledown meals.
Basically you made one main meal (bedrock) and then made a large quantity from it that could be adapted to other meals later in the week (tumbledown).

If you google it or search on YouTube, it will give you a few good ideas.

Even if you are only cooking for one, the meals can be frozen as ready meals.

Gothicfairy

Even cooking for one I would still do a whole chicken as it works out cheaper then portions and also it means at least 4 or 5 meals out of it and if the oven is on, it is on and costing money so might as well make it count.
I also do bread once or twice a week on the same basis of the oven being on, oh and roast garlic and veg at the same time cos roast garlic mixed with butter (can be bought cheap on sell by dates) makes perfect toast coverings..lol
Think I must have been a vampire hunter is a past life as everything tastes better with garlic.

I got some steak and kidney mix today from my local co op (dash key is broken as is the minus for some reason) for 74p and will have that tomorrow as I have stuck it in some water and marmite mix to help liven it up a bit ( plus it is going a bit over at the moment and I am not sure it will keep till tomorrow if I don't do something with it)
So I am going to make a pie topping and have that with my 10p cauliflower cheese (or in this case cheese sauce will be left over yogurt and the ends of some hard cheese that has seen better days)

linz

Don't have a lot to add, but I love this recipe I found for lentil curry. So cheap to make and you don't need a lot, just lentils, onion, chopped tomatoes and spices.

http://allrecipes.com/Recipe/red-lentil-curry/detail.aspx

Gothicfairy

It is kinda like my recipe but I don't use curry powder and toast and grind my own spices.
Lentil curry is a great one to make and does make a damn good soup the next day

ceridwen

GOTHICFAIRY

I'm reading your food-related posts with interest - and admit to being disappointed when I looked hopefully for your MSE home page to see if you have a blog.

Errr...now if you have some free time any time to set up a blog - do please let me know..as I would be interested to have a looksee and pick up more food-related ideas.:)

Gothicfairy

Someone else suggested I do a blog with food and moving full time to a caravan from a 3 bed house etc but I have just never got around to it..I am not even sure how to go about doing one to be honest as all the ones I have seen look really well put together and I just don't have that kind of smarts.

I might well have to look into it though as I do keep a diary but that takes up room (ok only books but space is limited at the best of times)

I can't believe that anyone would be interested really but I might give it a go..Nothing to lose and it would be nice to look back on the whole thing, it might even help other people seeing as how many people are being evicted now.

ceridwen

Try Blogger - its the one I use and if I can manage it....then anyone can...:rotfl::rotfl:

I'm not computer savvy enough to add photos - but, if you take digital photos, then that would be easy enough to work out I imagine.

But - having said that - photos arent actually necessary - they just make it look nicer. So - some peeps do them. Some dont.

Here ya' go@

www.blogger.com