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Shepards Pie & Veg Serves 4 big portions

1/2 (250g) frozen bag minced lamb-50p
Tin Baked beans-15p
Onion-5p
Spuds-15p
Carrots/Peas-10p
Gravy-5p

Total £1.00 = 25p per person

Peel spuds and boil. Gently fry onion then add meat untill cooked. Add beans and thats your base for the pie. Mash spuds and smooth out on top of base filling. Grate a little cheese if wanted. Put in oven for 20 mins. Cook carrots/peas about 5-8mins before serving shepards pie. I sometimes double up on this and put one in freezer. We only eat 3 portions for the main meal then I'll have the other portion or OH next day.

Lamb Stew 6 Good Portions

500g diced lamb £2.00
Tin of baked beans-15p
Onion-5p
Spuds-15p
Carrots-10p
Swede-15p
Peas-5p
Stock cube-4p

Total £2.69 = 45p per person/serving

Fry onion and add meat. Cook for 3-5mins add to SC. Peel and chop up carrots/pots and swede add to SC. Add beans and stock, then add frozen peas about 30 mins before serving. Takes about 4-5 hrs to slow cook and tastes lovely and is very wholesome. Serve with either bread and butter or mash potatoe. Again double up and freeze if you want too.

Toad In Hole & Onion Gravy 4 Large Servings

8 Pork sausages-80p
2 Eggs-16p
Plain Flour-6p
Milk-5p
Cabbage-15p
Spuds-15p
Onion x 2-10p

Total £1.47 = 37p per serving

Cook sausages in pan. Peel spuds and put on to boil. Make batter with flour, eggs, milk, water salt and pepper. Get oven proof dish and stick in oven with a little oil and wait till very hot-normally on about 220c. Place sausages in dish and pour over batter mix-put back in oven and will start rising after 5-10 mins. This will take about 20 mins to cook, so in mean while chop up cabbage and mash spuds. Lightly fry onions and pour in gravy (I just use watered stuff) and leave to simmer adding more water if too thick etc. About 5 mins before toad in hole is done-stick cabbage on and timing should be perfect for everything.

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patchwork_cat

I make a very similar dish to thriftlady from a Good Housekeeping cookbook it is great, if I wasn't starting a diet tomorrow...

Iguana

Toad in the hole has to be Delia Smith's Toad in the Hole with Sage and Onions.

Yum Yum!

Quackers

Glad wrote:

hubby used to work in a cheese factory that supplied all the main supermarkets and will never let me buy value cheese, he says that at end of each shift they would use all leftovers and scrapings from machinery and make up the value packs from it, if any cheese had gone mouldy they would cut the mould out and throw the rest in with the value stuff too

And they still do!! My hubby works in a cheese factory too and I hate him for telling me his cheesy stories.

I used to LOVE cheese :rolleyes:

thriftlady_2

But I scrape off mould on cheese at home and eat the rest,its fine.Surely all the cheese being processed by the machinery in a big dairy has contact with that machinery,so what's wrong with getting all the bits out and using them?

Sounds like OS waste not want not to me.

JCL

Any more for any more??

Glad

lots of good ideas were posted in this thread

crossleydd42

Try this recent thread and its links:

http://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/showthread.html?p=2441573#post2441573

crossleydd42

[Quote:
Originally Posted by Glad
hubby used to work in a cheese factory that supplied all the main supermarkets and will never let me buy value cheese, he says that at end of each shift they would use all leftovers and scrapings from machinery and make up the value packs from it, if any cheese had gone mouldy they would cut the mould out and throw the rest in with the value stuff too

And they still do!! My hubby works in a cheese factory too and I hate him for telling me his cheesy stories.

I used to LOVE cheese "]

Buying cheap cheese is false economy. Better to buy a strong one - you can use less. And grated cheese always goes further than slices. So there's a double saving!

thriftlady_2

But if you buy a cheap strong cheese you can make it go further for even less;)