£7.00 per week - menu ideas

firesidemaid

quintwins wrote: »

aww we don't have a aldi here, any suggestions on what to make with beetroot? i only ever eat it pickled but it's on my lidl deals this week along with butternut squash so i think i'll make a soup.

i've just made some beetroot chocolate brownies which are scrummy - recipe from the good food website - using value chocolate of course. http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/749700/beetroot-brownies

carrying on the cheap recipes and fav. value food lines......has anyone mentioned value tins of rice pudding 13-17p per tin. i have it cold instead of yoghurt (3 to 4 portions) with either hm fruit compote or value tinned peaches:D.

another great cheap and yummy standby meal is pan heggarty - we follow the hairy bikers recipe. basically thinly slice carrots, onions and potatoes and layer them in a large frying pan (2 or 3 layers with some value bacon rashers or pieces inbetween. add a made-up stock-cube and simmer. then add grated cheese and grill. http://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/panhaggerty_93163

SO SO yummy and tender and you can mop up the juices with value bread!

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Yes I noticed how the value rice pud tins are such good value and also decant them into four small yoghurt pots and keep covered in the fridge for a quick pud after lunch or dinner.Last night I had some with some of the reduced price strawberries that I had bought yesterday from M&S.Cheaper than fresh cream and filled me up after my dinnerI have got a small stash of tinned rice pud as at that price to make one is nicer but means the oven has to be on for ages Great if your cooking something else at the same time.When its really chilly outside I like to cook a rice pud in my slow cooker over night so the kitchens had the chill taken off in the morning and I have a whopping big rice pud to last me a week.I make it with 1.3/4 pints of made up evaporated milk and made up to two pints with fresh milk a few ounces of pudding rice and some brown sugar and a handful of sultatans chucked in and strirred arount .Real 'line your tummy stuff' when its freezing cold outside.Some HM soup a few crackers and a plateful of that will fill you up for very little cash outlay
But the cheapy tins that are around at the moment are great for using as a substitute for yoghurt or cream
In fact you could make your own 'Mueller pots' with some tinned rice and a few flakes of chocolate at a fraction of the 2-3 pounds thats wanted for them

quintwins

I love rice pudding so i have a few tins of it in, along with a few tins of value fruit it makes a nice pudding, my problem is they don't do value pears i love warm rice pudding and tinned pears.

We also buy value tinned custard for the kids.

b&m have nice screw top pots at 6 for £1 and they screw into each other as a stack aswell i get these for the kids, they could have anything in them from strawberries and grapes, to rice pudding and rasins and so much cheaper than fruit bags or those wee pots of custard/yogurt you get.

bupster

I made chicken stock yesterday and threw in some of Sainsbug's country soup mixture (69p for a 100g bag). Know a chicken is beyond the £7 menu deal, but it was incredibly filling and I wondered if a basic fill-you-up soup for an adult could be made with some cheapo stock cubes and a handful of soup mixture. Would work out at pennies a portion and has to be more nutritional than the powdered stuff. What do people think? Expect kids would hate it, mind!

Alwaysthebusybee

I agree that the value rice pud and custard are just as nice as the more expensive ones. I've told my mum time and time again that the rice pud is good enough for my little one but she still buys her the ambrosia ones at 6 for £2 :eek:

I think to do this for one person is extremely hard although I managed it for 2 people - It was very repetitive though If things are extremely tight in our house then we have jacket potatoes, beans on toast and the likes. The more people you have £7 for the easier it becomes in my opinion.

It has been a good read though and some of the recipes I will definately be giving a try!

andygb

I am a bit confused about this thread, because I thought that the OP originally said £7 for two people, not £7 per person. I totally agree that the more people you could get at £7 per head the easier it would be.
Aldi/Lidl or a good local market are always ideal for fruit and veg, but then you would have to shop around for knockdown/woopsied prices on meat and other stuff like milk, eggs and the rest.
I reckon that £7 for a couple would be nigh on impossible.

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Bupster im sure you could make a soup with bits of anything, just play around. My cheapie soup of the min, know others also do their own variation, is with the 4p mushy peas, add a cup of stock, blend and season, its lovely. Hope i don't go off it as ive got tons of peas. I think also chicken could be used if picked up cheaply. I regularly get chicken for £2 reduced and you can get it loads cheaper and you can make loads of meals with it, plus a stock soup, like yours also.

firesidemaid

My Quiche recipe follows-ish the Be-Ro one for Quiche Lorraine:

100g plain flour / 50g fat / dash cold water for the pastry case

NO need to bake blind or anything.

Some grated cheese in the bottom, add the filling/s of your choice, such as fried bacon and/or onion, leek and mushroom, courgettes etc - whatever is in season, cheap, free, lurking in the fridge....

add two beaten eggs to 150ml of milk, mix and season and pour over above. Bit of cheese on top.

bake at 180-200C for 40 mins - yummy and cheap. can freeze also. http://www.be-ro.co.uk/f_insp.htm

Butterfly_Brain

I made 5 jars of onion marmalade today using 2 bags of the onions from the super six :j
I have also got 1kg sliced and frozen and 1kg dehydrated, my poor eyes are bloodshot :rotfl: And next month I will be on the look out for cheap pickling onions, they are too expensive at the moment at £1 a kilo :eek:.
We had a lovely HM celery soup for dinner with a pack of Aldi part baked baguettes 39p for 2 straight from the oven and sliced, it did four good bowls full

This is the sort of super six that I like, because I can preserve it, freeze it or dehydrate it, so it will last a good long while.

Noticed yesterday that Asda have their curry sauce back in at 23p :j and the mushy peas are priced at 4p in our branch.

Upsidedown_Bear

Tesc* are selling mushy peas for 3p instore

http://www.hotukdeals.com/deals/tesco-everyday-value-british-mushy-peas-4p-online-now-3p-instore-1316992