When only takeaway will do?

katylou6180

ooooh may be looking good for kfc then cheers for that....MrsE, good luck with the slimming world, thats something I really should be doing...might get back on the wagon on monday!!

maman

Not much help for today but the Asda chinese/curry counteris really good value if you want a take-away type meal at a fraction of the price. £3.50 for a meal for one: main course, rice, crackers/poppadom and a snack. I find that if OH and I have oven chips with it (nom!nom!) and usually some extra snacks (spring rolls/pakoras) from the stock in my freezer (bought as a party food pack from Iceland) then we can have quite a decent meal by sharing the £3.50 meal. If you have a £3.50 meal each then you're stuffed:D.

Dayes

With fried rice you need to make sure that it's really dry before frying it so after boiling the rice leave it to drain for quite a while before frying. I usually leave mine for an hour at least and I know people who leave it for several. Also a very hot pan helps and stiring gently so the rice isn't crushed.

Hope this helps :-)

newlywed

I buy frozen breaded fish fillets and then either cut up spuds to wedges or chip shape spray with oil (or else buy mccains rustic chips) and bake. Not incredibly old style but cures my chippy craving every time (we live right near a chip shop and this way is healthier and cheaper!!).

For stirfry things - I usually add noodles instead of doing rice, as they're easier to cook. Or else do the stirfry thing and then serve in wraps and skip the rice.

Pink.

Hi katylou,

These threads should give you some ideas:

When only takeaway will do?

Chinese food

Chinese and Indian Takeaway Cheap Alternatives

Chinese curry sauce recipe?

Curry Night

'KFC' style chicken

First Time making Homemade pizza. HELP!

Home Made fish and chips...

Which is the best supermarket takeaway?

I'll add your thread to the first link later to keep the ideas together.

Pink

Triggles

We try to keep it simple and cheap. The stuff below is what we get at Sainsburys.

Curry - sains basics curry sauce (9p per jar), tin of basics pineapple drained (27p?), tin of basics mushrooms (40p), meat (whatever you choose, we usually use boneless skinless chicken strips that are often on sale 2pks for £6 and just use one pk of them). Bung it all in to cook in pan (we use remoska but can do it in covered pan in oven as well I would think). Serve over rice. If we want poppadom style stuff, we buy basics tortilla crisps (40p?) and use those.

Sweet and sour pork - basics diced pork shoulder (£2 pkg), basics sweet and sour sauce (23p per jar), basics tinned pineapple (27p?). We bung it all in the remoska and let it cook, but you could brown the meat and then toss it all to cook in a covered pan in the oven too. You could also cheaply add chopped up green peppers, onions, and anything else you fancy. Serve over rice.

Fishcakes and chips - Farmfoods has a package of fishcakes that are 20 fishcakes for £2 and they are incredibly good! So a pack of them and a bag of frozen chips means a couple quick easy fast-food meals at home!

Not fancy, but certainly works for us!

katylou6180

Thanks for all the ideas people, and thanks pink....I really am rubbish with the indexy thread thingy and can never find anything I want, even though I have followed all the hints and tips to find things!! I was very proud of myself for resisting the lure of the kebab shop or chinese (at the end of my road....about two mins away!) we had a kind of "fry up that was ovened apart from the obvious"" the MSE in me wouldn't let me spend on a takeaway as o/h is the only one working atm, am getting quite strange in my old age(30) being proud of how little I've spent!
We had - Sausages (half of pack 16 @ Mr A atm for £1 = 50p) Hash Browns (BOGOF atm @ Morrisons £1 =50p) 2 x Eggs for me and DS as Hubby wont eat them (Yellow Sticker, half dozen from Mr A 30p =10p) Baked Beans x 1 tin (purchased at Mr A on a previous offer and stockpiled 4 for £1=25p) Mushrooms (Yellow sticker job again, 20p for punnet in Morrisons, used half= 10p) Tomatoes (Mr A 27p a punnet Cherrys...whole punnet used =27p) and 3 Slices Bread (Tesco Value Thick, Yellow sticker from little shop down road whole loaf 12p- called it 5p for arguments sake!!)
Therefore Dinner was £1.77 for the three of us....and takeway would've been about £15, before someone has a rant at me for using a whole bag of hash browns....Hubby loves them....me and DS only ate two each and he had the rest, but he is one of these men with hollow legs that does a manual job....and has the nice genes not to get fat...I weigh heavier than him and I'm not the one that eats rubbish all the time! lol I have reminded him about the "one way ticket to a heart attack" but man-32 thinks he is invincible! Thankyou all for all your help xxxx Edit( I meant to say sausages go 2 2 4(hubby), DS(11) and I had two hash browns, a spoon of beans, couple of mushrooms and toms each....and 1 slice of bread...gannet ate the rest)

spike7451

Check the back of the Chinese menu,my local one does half & half portions for £3-£4 depending on what it is.
Last night I got
Beef Curry & fried rice=£3.50 for me...
Chilli Chicken & boiled rice=£4.00 for the luverly gf...
& a portion of spring rolls,one each for £2.80 so the whole lot for us both was just over a tenner!

But if you want KFC & you have a Chinese supermarket near you,get a packet of these for around a quid,



& a bag of Tesco chicken portions or breasts,make a batter from the mix,coat the chicken & deep fry!

Soooo much nicer than a KFC!!

Claire_Bear

If you go to a Chinese supermarket you can usually get packs of 50 spring rolls for a pound or two and fry them yourself at home. Spring rolls are my absolute favourite Chinese food so it's good to save a lot on those! To go with these I'll make a simple batter out of flour and water, add cooked chicken pieces and fry, serve with cheapy sweet and sour sauce on the top and serve with home-made egg fried rice (always soggy though ). I find that this usually satisfies my takeaway cravings! Although, nothing can ever substitute the carrier bag full of prawn crackers you get from the takeaway. I would buy one of these every day when I'm walking past the Chinese on my way home from work if I didn't think it was cheeky to just buy those and nothing else!

Owain_Moneysaver

Tesco Value Noodles - 9p each (I usually have 2 packs at once) fills the hot-and-salty late night munchies gap for me.

Chuck in a handful of frozen veg and a squirt of reggae reggae sauce if you want something more filling.