Cheapest meal

twentypenceoff

not to be recommended for long but i have survived for a few days on -

slice of bread with oxo - veg or meat dissolved in water eaten like soup

value powdered mash potato with bovril oxo cube sprinkled on it - surprisingly filling

pasta with butter and sprinkle of mixed herbs

rice with steamed carrots with oxo cube sprinkled on it

slowcooker put lentils and pearl barley in cover with water add butter and currey powder serve on potato or over rice

donnajt

Cowboy Casserole / Bonfire Bangers
8 Sausages (I used Oak Crown Irish Sausages Mr T) 99p
2x tins Baked Beans (Mr T Value) 2x29p = 58p
2x tins kidney Beans (Mr T Value) 2x14p = 28p
1 large onion (used 2x Mr T Value as they were small) 6p
Chilli Powder (1tsp) 8p
Drop of oil - 10p
Total: 2.09p serves 4
Very generous portions (based on 2 sausages p/head)

Finely chop onion and fry in oil, add chilli powder when soft, place in casserole dish, add sausages to pan and brown, add sausages to casserole dish with beans, cook for 30-40 mins

Made this for the first time tonight and it disappeared off the plates!

stressymum_2

Leftover roast chicken, sheredded or slices of cooked ham
Chicken stock (HM from roast chicken) or Kallo organic
Any salad leaves (from mixed bag), crispy lettuce (shredded) or other green veg (mangetout, beans, broccoli, etc.)
Spring onions, finely sliced
Sesame oil
A cake of dried noodles per person (instant noodles type but egg or rice would do)

Bring stock to boil. Season to taste with salt & pepper or soy or fish sauce. It should taste fresh and peppery. Add chicken and salad leaves/lettuce. Bring to boil. Add noodles and spring onions. Cook for 2 mins and dish out into bowls. Serve immediately or it would all go soggy (and horrid!).

donnajt

MY PERSONAL FAV:

Cheesey Bean Pie
sliced bread (quantity depends on how many you are feeding) (Smartprice medium loaf 38p)
spread
tin baked beans (smartprice 29p)
grated cheese (whatever you can spare maybe couple of ounces ~ mature goes further) approx 100p?

butter slices of bread, line a square, rectangle whatever shape tin you have butter side down with bread
spoon beans on top
place 2nd layer of bread on top of beans, butter side up, making a lid
sprinkle a little cheese on top of beans (optional)
sprinkle remainder or all of cheese on top
cook for approx 20-25 mins until cheese is bubbling and top of pie is golden

delicious

whiteroom184

twentypenceoff wrote: »

not to be recommended for long but i have survived for a few days on -

slice of bread with oxo - veg or meat dissolved in water eaten like soup

value powdered mash potato with bovril oxo cube sprinkled on it - surprisingly filling

pasta with butter and sprinkle of mixed herbs

rice with steamed carrots with oxo cube sprinkled on it

gosh things were tough those few days :eek:

LizzieS_2

ZLS1984 wrote: »

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.

My shopping bill is horrific. I'm tempted by many of the recipes on here, but I know mine will cost slightly more (after allowing for the price increases sine this thread began) as I wouldn't use some of the value items.

Picked this recipe out for the cooking time. The only item making the oven time 1 and 1/2 hours is the potatoes - with the energy price increases, hob cook the potatoes for 5-8 minutes first.

Well I haven't a hope of providing a cheap recipe, looking at other possible savings is the best I can do

Hardup_Hester

Some of the value items are very good, though I have to say I don't use many of them. Also it's amazing what you will eat if you have too. One month I had £80 to last us & not a lot in the store cupboard & them hubby's DS turned up unexpectedly & I had to stretch it to feed 3 of us!
Hester

HappyIdiotTalk

Stephen_Leak wrote: »

I've done myself just 100g of spaghetti, and tossed it with some grated Parmesan cheese and a sprinkle of ground black pepper. Squisito.

Or, fry a finely chopped or crushed clove of garlic in 1 tablespoon of olive oil per person and toss the spaghetti with this. This dish is actually a classic one and is called "Aglio e Olio".

PS. I've just found a restaurant (not in London) menu online, charging £8.50 for "Spaghetti Aglio e Olio"!

I make this, but have it with fried courgette and parmasan cheese, absolutely gorgeous!

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whiteroom184 wrote: »

gosh things were tough those few days :eek:

I remember once living on custard for a week when I first lived on my own as I only had a tin of birds custard powder in the cupboard and some sugar that I 'aquirred' from the local canteen where I worked.It was all in tiny packets and I spend ages undoing the packets to fill up the sugar tin.
Milk was some tins of evaporated that I had found left in the cupboard by a previous tenant. I lived for 6 days on this until I finally got paid.
BTW I still like custard it didn't put me off at all:rotfl::rotfl::rotfl:

emmie1234

oooh we've got a few cheepies that keep us ticking over every now and again... (havn't got costings - but most of the stuff I use is value anyway)

Spicy Veg Pasta

Value Pasta Quills
splash of olive oil
garlic
Chilli Flakes
Mushrooms
Onion
Value cooking bacon
Bit of grated cheese

Cook up the pasta
In a frying pan heat up the olive oil...add the chilli flakes, onion, garlic, then add the bacon till cooked through, then the mushrooms, when its done, stir it through the cooked pasta and serve with a bit of grated cheese on top


Fish Finger Pie serves 4

Box of cheap fish fingers (10)
2 tins of Spaghetti
Potatoes (mashed)
Grated cheese

Grill the fish fingers and then place in the bottom of an oven dish
Cover with the spaghetti
Top with Mash and Grated cheese and bung in the oven til the cheese bubbles and goes golden brown..cheap and REALLY filling


Cheapo Fish Pie (serves 4)

Box of 2 Value Fish in Butter/Parsley Sauce
tin Value sweetcorn
any other veg
Mash
Grated Cheese

Cook the fish in sauce and then open up and pour into an oven dish, chop the fish up into pieces and add drained sweetcorn and any other veg.
Top with Mash and grated cheese


Cauliflower cheese......

Home Made Pizzas

Veg Curry

Corned Beef Hash

Veg soup

Omelettes

will try and think of some more