Feed a family of four for £20 a week challenge

patchwork_cat

Have come across this recipe for a scone pizza base, as one of the comments recommends grating in a bit of mature cheese would be lovely. I thought you could use oil instead of butter would be about 3 tbsps. Price for the base would be about 30p . http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/8782/cheese-and-bacon-scone-pizza and http://www.filippoberio.co.uk/olive-oil-health/olive-oil-health-benefits/substituting-oil-for-butter/

SmlSave

I always use a scone base for pizza patchwork cat but my recipe uses no eggs so it must be even cheaper! I will have to tell mum that we're not the only ones who do this

Butterfly_Brain

For a quickie pizza for four of us I buy a 2 pack part baked baguettes for 39p in Aldi, bake them, cut them in half, rub a clove of garlic on the halves, spread with a tomato sauce, either homemade or from a jar, you really don't need a lot, less than a quarter of a jar so use that to make something like a bolognaise, lasagne etc the next day.
Then cut a mozzarella ball into slices and scatter a bit on each baguette, (If you don't have mozzarella use a strong grated cheese) then top with whatever you like I add mushrooms, sliced black olives and ham cut into bits or pepperoni if I have it or sliced pepper etc it is entirely up to you, whatever you have in, or you can afford in your budget.
pop in the oven until the cheese has melted - about 5 minutes and voila you have a quick supper.

Baguettes 39p
Mozzarella ball 43p
Tomato sauce HM costs out at 5p ( I make my own and freeze it in portion sizes) or buy a jar, the sainsbury basics one is lowest in calories and sugar and at 39p a jar is a good buy ¼ of a jar =10p
A jar of black olives I think that they are still 49p a jar, you only need a few. about 10p's worth

Total cost for four big garlic baguettes = 97p for 4 cheese, olive and tomato baguettes
If you add grated cheese approx 3oz /75g, it will cost out at an extra 20p
A couple of thinly sized mushrooms will cost about 20p

Effyb4

My boys love pizza swirls. I use a scone base, spread with tomato paste, add ham and pepper (or whatever you fancy) , then roll it up into a sausage shape. Cut into inch slices and place on a baking tray. Top with a little cheese and bake for 15 to 20 minutes. They are yummy.

patchwork_cat

Smlsave - can I have your recipe, please? I used to make French bread pizzas for the kids with left over French bread when they were little, but it wouldn't be enough to fill them now!

purpleshoes_2

I make leek and tomato soup, first made it when I had a scraggy tomato that needed used up and some YS leeks. Just leek, veg stock cubes and a couple of tomatoes. Made some yesterday with the cherry tomatoes and leek from the super six, turned out fine.

Celery makes me really unwell, I can't bear it.

moneyistooshorttomention

On the celery front, its one of the vegetables you can re-grow apparently from the stub. I've not yet tried that...will get around to it.

Re-growing food from food scraps experiments to date:

Spring onions - very successful. They re-grow pretty fast from just an inch or so of the root end put in a little water.

Beetroot tops - do regrow new leaves. It takes some time though for those leaves to regrow. Jury is out as to whether I think it worthwhile.

Garlic cloves - worthwhile to use those cloves that have become "unusable" due to starting to sprout. Can cut the "greens" off and scatter over things as per chives.

Onion bases - didn't work for me.

Leeks - think its working...

SmlSave

Patchwork cat my mums pizza base recipe is
10oz Sr flour
2oz marg
Into breadcrumbs
Add about 2oz milk, seasoning, mix with a knife till it just comes together and roll/pat out
Bake at 170oC

I often make double, bake and freeze. No need to prebake the base if your toppings aren't to wet

Bobarella

NewShadow wrote: »

Some nice ideas there Vickie.

I can't help wondering though - would it work out better in the long run to buy a big bag of chickpeas and make one's own hummus.

I've seen a fat club recipe that's tinned chickpeas, fat free natural yogurt, and chosen flavour (garlic, roasted pepper/onion), blitzed.

I think vegan would be cheaper with veg oil?

Sorry I apprciate this is an old comment now, but I make home made hummus a lot, and cant imagine why anyone would suggest putting fat free yoghurt in it. It simply isnt needed. A good basic hummus is easily made with chickpeas (best to soak your own overnight and boil them for 2 hours) garlic, lemon, tahini, veg oil, & salt and pepper. That is all thats needed. Yoghurt is just an added calorie, which is odd for a healthy eating programme to recommend??

RAS

I suspect the fat club are using yoghurt as a way to remove the oil in a traditional recipe?