Help need ideas to feed 10 of us for 5 days please?

scarletx

We have family coming to stay mon til fri what can i cook for all of us and cheaply please?

Sambucus_Nigra

What does everyone like to eat?

What have you already got in the storecupboard/freezer/fridge?

What's your budget?

scarletx

hi i have beans, spagetti. pasta shells, ferheaters, puff pastry

Sambucus_Nigra

scarletx wrote: »

hi i have beans, spagetti. pasta shells, ferheaters, puff pastry

Ok.

What does everyone like to eat?

What is your budget?

When you say beans - so you mean 1 tin of baked beans, or borlotti? Or 10 tins? Or a bag of dried beans?

Ditto pasta shells.

Ditto spaghetti - tinned spaghetti, one tin or 20 - or do you mean a dried spaghetti?

Is that ALL you have in your whole house to eat?

vada

If you can get your hands on some cheap meat, you can do chili con carne, spag bol, stir fry with veg and noodles. Um...beans on toast? Some kind of pasta bake maybe?

dom300186

id dig out the slow cooker on a couple of nights in my case nearly every night lol

spag bol
stew
curry
jacket spuds and salad
chilli from any left over spag bol and add more to it to make enough
A Biriyani can go far as its mainly rice and goes on forever lol


i think you can even do spuds in a sc??
but it will help you concentrate on other things having it cooking itself while you tend to your guests............id be lost without mine good luck x

bulk all of this with pulses etc breadcrumbs anything to make it go futher.......my trick in a curry is i add bits of potatoe, or make a side of bombay pot from scratch very easy and naan which i cut in half for each person.
The spag bol i add peppers and then left overs turned into chilli i bulk it out with cubed veg like carrots, beans, baked beans.
A stew similar to the chilli but all kinds of veg for my beef or any meat u choose to go futher and make it really hearty by adding a broth mix.

Rikki

How much is it this year for a sack of potatoes?
Once bought you can use them cheaply for may meal accompanyments. Jackets, chips, wedges, mash, roast.

dom300186

im sure in lidl they had them on offer for a large sack because i got one a week ago i think it was about £3, but at our local butchers you can get a huge sack that i can hardly lift for £3.50 you just need to look around some butchers will flog them some dont?