£7.00 per week - menu ideas

Soworried

Fish cake and salad
1 pk of kippers 86p (MrT)
1kg of potatoes mashed 33p
onion 8p
1 x beaten egg 9p
breadcrumbs, whizzed up home made bun as per previous recipe 3p
pinch of salt and pepper 1p
half an iceberg lettuce 20p (39p each at Aldi)
half a pack of beetroot 20p (39p at Aldi)
250g of tomatoes 38p (MrT 500g for 76p)
1/2 cucumber 35p (70p each at MrW)
2x hard boiled eggs 18p
2x carrots 12p
mayonaisse 8p
Total meal cost=£2.91 or just under 73p a head.

Soworried

Sausage and bean pie
1pk of sausages cooked and cut in to chunks 48p
2 tins of beans 50p (most places have 4 for £1 offers)
Potatoes made in to mash 33p
60g of cheese 30p
1 pepper 36p
Total meal cost=£1.97 or just under 50p a head

Soworried

Roast chicken dinner
1/2 chicken £1.25 (Aldi or Lidl £2.50 for a full one)
1/2 a celeriac 21p
1/2 cabbage 18p
boiled potatoes 33p
home made batter for yorkshires 15p
Stuffing 8p (half a pk of 15p MrT)
Gravy 13p
Total meal cost=£2.33 or just under 59p a head

Chilli chicken pasta
The rest of the chicken £1.25
Passatta sauce 29p
pinch of chilli flakes 1p
onion 8p
1 x pepper 36p
300g pasta 18p
100g mushrooms 25p
Total cost=£2.42 or just under 61p each.

PennyGrabber

Lush looking recipes on here, gang!!
I'll just add my twopennyworth!

PG's hm pizza.

For the base, I put some (!) bread flour, a splosh of olive oil, a pinch of salt, and a 3rd/half of a sachet of yeast, with some warm water. I use my elec hand whisk with the dough hooks, and add more flour/water as needed. Then, cover and leave for a few hours (or overnight in the fridge).

For the topping, I fear I have been a bit clever!!
The tomato sauce was made from some bendy veg. I bunged it all in a pan with tinned toms and herbs, cooked, whizzed it up, and then froze it in ice cube bags. I know that a medium pizza for us needs four cubes and a squirt of tom puree!
The toppings: value tinned pineapple (freezer the rest to use for another pizza), cocktail sausages (straight from the freezer), ham (chopped and from the freezer), sweetcorn (from the freezer), cooked chicken (freezer, lo from roasts), mozzarella (freezer)...

As you can see, this is mostly made up of stuff from the freezer, which makes it a real convenience meal for us. I get ys ham/chicken/sausages, and freezer all my pizza stuff on the same shelf, so I know exactly where it is when I want a pizza.

Sorry for the long post, just thought it would be useful.

quintwins

pg i've acually just made a big patch of mini pizzas for the kids so i'll pop the amounts here for anyone who isn't used to making pizza so can't do it by eye (mine were proper lazy ones with abit of tom puree and cheese and thats it but they kids will eat them all weekend) this made 39 min pizzas, it would make 2 large or 3 med pizzas

one 7g sachet of yeast
400g flour
350ml warm water
tablespoon of sugar
2 tablespoons of oil
tsp salt

Soworried

Here is another of our weekend treat meals, it feels like we have had a take out.:o

Falafal burger with garlic bread and cheese
4 x home made buns 12p
1 400g can of chickpeas 69p (MrT)*
pinch of garlic granuales, pepper, salt, chilli powder and cumin 3p*
2 tbs of plain flour 1p*
* wizz together in a processor.
Garlic bread with cheese
75g of warm water
125 g of bread flour 5p
Pinch of salt and sugar 1p
Yeast 1.75g 2p
Oil 1p
50g of margarine 9p (MrT 500g for 89p)
Mozarella 22p (44p at MrT and MrS)
2x cloves of garlic 6p (4pk at MrT £1.00)
Total meal cost=£1.31 or just under 33p a head

I think this would go nice with quintwins onion rings

Soworried

Spicy lentil casserole
1 onion 8p
2 cloves of garlic 6p
1kg of potatoes 33p
4 carrots 24p
2 parsnips 22p (MrS 85p a bag)
2 tsp of cumin and chilli powder 2p
1 litre of water and 2x stock cubes 20p
100g of red lentils 10p (MrT 2kg for £1.99 indus brand)
Total meal cost=£1.25 or just under 32p a head.

I will stop posting now as I must be driving you all nuts x

prepareathome

I to am wondering again but this thread has developed into a wonderful one, so full of great ideas - yes I admit i am shamelessly taking the recipes down.
I will sit down later and try and come up with some reasonble bits but I only use sainsbobs and shops like B&m, Cool Trader and 99p shops for my shopping so my prices will have to be checked on my supermarket for maybe cheaper versions in other stores.

I know I do meals for pennies but so used to just grabbing things out the freezer I bought reduced then portioned off for use ( if i see some say frying steak down to £1 for 500g I will put it into 4 portions in freezer and just use one as basis for a meal for hubby and me say with reduced vegetables and potatoes or maybe do it with rice or pasta and some tomato puree ( I just bought from AF 850g tins of it for 99p each so that will do us around 7 meals as I normally use on of the 142g tins ( 25p)in a meal.).

This is why I have not helped much here as I tend to buy a bigger amount as cheap as possible (I never now buy meat, chicken, fish or even lamb unless its been reduced to amount I am willing to pay so some times I come home with quite a bit of meat or chicken etc and uses these - usually spend around £5 tops that is my limit for everything) so am finding it hard to work out costs if I didn't have a store cupboard to start with or everything is reduced price and at full price would beyond the OP and a lot of others including me- must try this.

rosieben

Soworried, don't stop, if you have more please add them, they're really useful recipes :T

Soworried

Thankyou rosiben, I thought you would all be fed up by now
I have been on the sick for 3 months with no sick pay so I have had to learn to cook very cheaply.

This is very nice
Creamy courgette lasagne
1 250g tub of ricotta 67p (3 for 2 at MrT, £1 each)
1 onion 8p
500g courgettes 82p (£1.64 a kilo at Mrt and MrS)
2 cloves of garlic 6p
jar of passatta 29p
1/2 pk lasagne sheets 20p (39p a box at most sm)
40g of cheese 20p
Total cost=£2.32 or 58p a head