Cheapest meal

purpleivy

robindunne1 wrote: »

I'm starting this thread in the hope that people will come forth with the cheapest meal they can think of. I want suggestions on meals that are cheap and nutritious - so no suggesting that a bag of crisps is a meal. I'll start off with what my wife made for tea yesterday:

Corned Beef Ash:

2 Cans of corned beef £1 (50px2)
2 Cans of beans 26p (13px2)
3 potatotes 20p approx.

Plus a couple of pence for the gas in the cooker and we had a full family meal for less than £1.50.

Anyone else have any suggestions?

WOW! look how prices have gone up since this thread was started!

jenster

was gonna say exacly the same thing even potaoes and eggs were cheep and filling not anymore

but keep the recipes coming

shushca

This thread is just fantastic!!!! I agree though, prices have gone up way too much recently and it's only in the past few weeks I've actually started to pay attention to it

Does anyone have any more rice recipes? My favourite low price and eating on my own meal is rice with some fried onion and mixed frozen veg and gravy

Pink.

shushca wrote: »

Does anyone have any more rice recipes? My favourite low price and eating on my own meal is rice with some fried onion and mixed frozen veg and gravy

Hi shushca,

Welcome to MSE and in particular to the Old Style board :hello:

These earlier threads may give you some ideas for rice recipes:

Anyone got any rice recipes?

Recipes for using left over rice, please

Pink

shushca

Thank you Pink Winged... That'll teach me to get to grips with a site before posting :embarasse

Your assistance is much apprecaited by a newbie!!

ZLS1984

Hi me and my 5 year old girl have just made a really tasty meal. We call it, cheese and ham potatoe bake lol. Sorry if this is on here already but wanted to share this nice dish with you.

You need some spuds depending on how many you need to feed depends on how many you will need. I think I used about 8 ish and that has fed 3, you need to thin slice the potatoes.

You will need 4oz grated cheese, I used Smart Price grated pizza cheese £1.95 for a huge bag.

150ml Double cream and 1 egg

Onion (if to your taste)

Ham, I used cook gammon from Netto £2.69 but you get loads and it is tasty.

Keep the slice potatoe in water until needed, if using the onions you will need to fry lightly to make them soft. Then lightly oil the dish you are using to stop anything sticking. Then layer of potatoe, layer of cheese ham and onion, keep going until you have the following, potatoe, cheese mix, potatoe.

The take the cream and the egg and beat togher, pour this on top and add more cheese. I also put extra ham on the last potatoe layer for extra taste.

It should take about 1 and a half hours but keep checking on it and cover with tin foil if the cheese goes too brown. The potatoes are cooked when a knife goes through them.

thriftlady_2

Mmmm..yum

I do something very similar that I got off a French recipe site -only differences were smoked salmon instead of ham, creme fraiche instead of cream and grated gruyere instead of pizza cheese. Lush.

Why not try it with smoked mackerel instead of ham? or bacon, or leftover turkey....

:T

ZLS1984

I might try it with the creme fraiche as was not too sure with the cream and egg.

I am going to try it with different things although my little girl has said she does not like it. I think in the recipe book it says just normal grated cheese but I used the pizza cheese as it is really mild and my dd loves it.

I found it in an old childrens cook book that I got for my dd.

flissh

Sounds yummy, wonder if it's low cal.;)

Penelope_Penguin

I'll add this to the cheapest meal thread

Penny. x