Feed a family of four for £20 a week challenge

Butterfly_Brain

Egg and potato curry tonight and it was a nice change from salad seeing as it is none too warm here at the moment.

Even DD could eat it because she is a vegetarian and we all enjoyed it.

Butterfly_Brain

Heads up that Morisons currently have 16 rasher packs of smoked or unsmoked bacon for £2, what a bargain!
We have had bacon butties for lunch for the last two days. I have six packs happily nesting in my freezer

You can easily do three or four meals for four people from one pack ...........Not bad eh

Cheese and bacon puffs
Which is just puff pastry squares filled with cheese and a slice of bacon and folded into a diamond shape

Bacon and celery bake

Lay celery in an oven proof dish and cover with cheese sauce, grill some bacon and chop it up and sprinkle over the dish followed by a good sprinkling of breadcrumbs from a small cooked garlic bread. Grill until golden and bubbling.
Another way that I do it is I use a tin of tomatoes instead of the cheese sauce

Quiche lorraine

Carbonara

Potato scones with bacon and poached egg

Bacon and tomato bread and butter pudding or try bacon and sweetcorn

Bacon and veg pie

Bacon, sweetcorn, tomato and potato frittatta

Bacon, tomato and broccolli bake

Bacon jam

Rustic bacon and bean soup

Bacon and onion pudding

Bacon pasta three different ways

Bacon and cheese whirls
basically puff pastry covered with bacon and cheese rolled into a sausage or as palmiers sliced and baked until golden and puffed up

Cauliflower cheese and bacon

Egg bacon and beans

Bacon and pea risotto

Bacon and scramled egg quesidillas

Bacon, scrambled egg and tomato filled pitta bread

Bacon, mushroom, tomato, new potato and haloumi kebabs

Wrap bacon around slices of haloumi put onto skewers with mushrooms, tomatoes and cooked new potatoes and grill, turning occassionally so that they cook all the way through
I have done this with Aldi like dairylea triangles and it is lush, add some peppers as well if you have any.

Bacon croquettes

lightly cook bacon and chop it then mix with mashed potato to which a beaten egg and butter has been added. Form into sausage shapes dip in egg and breadcrumbs and fry or bake in the oven until golden

Poached eggs and bacon on a rosti with mustardy mayo

Bacon and Egg pie

Bacon and sweetcorn fritters

Liver and bacon

Potato, onion and bacon pie

Spaghetti with bacon and peas super cheap, super quick super easy

Bacon omelette

Bacon and Egg muffin with tomato relish and burger sauce, lovely

Bacon burgers (need a mincer for this)

Bacon meatballs (need a mincer for this)

Bacon and mushroom stuffed pancakes (mushroom or white sauce)

American pancakes with bacon and maple syrup

Bacon and sweetcorn stuffed pancakes (White sauce)

Bacon pasties with cheese or with veg in a white sauce

Bacon and tomato quiche

Bacon and sweetcorn quiche

Macaroni cheese with bacon

Sweet and sour bacon balls

Bacon and pineapple pizza

Bacon and pea soup

Cream of bacon and celery soup

Scrambled eggs and bacon

BLT

Bacon and mushroom pie

Bacon toad in the hole

Bacon Muffins

Bacon and bean lasagne

Stuffed peppers using rice, bacon and mixed veg, cover with grated cheese and cook in the oven until the peppers are cooked about 20 mins.

Bacon, tomato and cheese toasted sarnies

Bacon and egg in bread baskets

Bacon and apple slice

Sausagemeat and bacon meatloaf

Eggy bread and bacon

Bacon pancakes cook rashers in the oven, make up a pancake batter cover the bacon and cook in a frying pan the same way that you would do normal pancakes

Bacon stuffed cabbage rolls

Cook some long grain rice and add sweetcorn, peppers mushrooms and bacon then add a little chopped chilli or to taste if you want it firey
Take some cabbage leaves, put some of the rice mix into the middle and roll up I usually do two per person.
Put into an oven dish and pour over a tin of chopped tomatoes.
Sprinkle with garlic breadcrumbs and bake or grill until hot and bubbling

Bacon soup and dumplings

12 oz (350 g) Stale white bread
1 1/4 cups Milk
2 oz (50 g) Lean bacon rashers
1 oz (25 g) Butter
1 Onion
1 Garlic clove
1 tbsp Chopped parsley
1/4 tsp Dried marjoram
Salt and pepper
3 Eggs
4 oz (125 g) Self-raising flour
2 pints (1.1 litres) Stock

1. Remove crusts from bread, then soak in milk for 2 hours. Derind and chop bacon. Fry in butter till crisp.

2. Peel and finely chop onion. Peel and crush garlic. Put both into bowl with bread, bacon, parsley and marjoram. Season and add eggs. Mix together well. Sift in flour and stir until absorbed.

3. Heat the stock in a large saucepan. Make the bacon mixture into 1 inch (2.5 cm) balls and roll them in a little flour so they don't fall apart when cooking. Add the dumplings to the stock and simmer for 15 minutes. Serve hot.

Bacon and Potato fry
serves 4
25 g (1 oz) dripping (fat from roasted meat)
4 oz (100 g) bacon scraps, chopped
1 medium onion, chopped
1 lb (450 g) potatoes, peeled and chopped
salt
pepper
250 ml (8 fl oz) stock or vegetable water
chopped parsley to garnish

1. Melt the dripping in a saucepan and add the bacon and onion. Fry until softened but not brown.

2. Add the potatoes and fry, stirring occasionally, until they take up all the fat.

3. Add salt, pepper and the stock or water and mix well.

4. Cover and cook gently until the vegetables are tender.

5. Serve hot, garnished with parsley.

Phew

If you want any recipes just ask xx

Nargleblast

Thanks for the time and effort ButterflyBrain in posting all those bacon suggestions, I will definitely put one or two of your suggestions into the household monthly meal plan!

I sometimes make a tomato, bacon and bean soup, using chopped bacon, tinned tomatoes and tinned haricot (or similar) beans. Lovely, with loads of herbs and garlic chucked in, and very filling.

joedenise

BB - how do you make your bacon burgers? It's got to be more than just minced bacon!

Denise

Butterfly_Brain

I mix minced bacon with mashed up butter beans and an egg

If you wanted to you could just add bacon to mince or sausagemeat to make them.

Butterfly_Brain

Nargle that sounds lovely, could you post your recipe?

Butterfly_Brain

Joints of Gammon are on offer at Aldi from tomorrow for £3.99, I must get a few of them.

We actually have one tonight but I paid £4.99 last week for it.
But it will do a meal tonight with salad and new potatoes, some will be sliced for sandwiches and some will go into a chicken and ham pie tomorrow.

Approx four meals for four people from one joint

joedenise

Thanks for the heads up. Will get a couple of those tomorrow when I go shopping. I always think they're really good value and as you say you can get loads of meals from each joint.

Denise

Nargleblast

Tomato, bacon and bean soup. Makes 3 - 4 servings, can stretch to more with a bit of tweaking of quantities.

Quantities of ingredients - up to you, depending on your taste.

2 medium onions and a clove garlic, chopped.
A little olive oil for frying veg.
Small carrot, finely chopped.
Chopped bacon - cooking bacon pieces are ideal for this. About a tablespoon.
Two tins/cartons chopped tomatoes.
2 stock cubes, any flavour.
Herbs - basil and oregano.
Tin of beans - haricot, cannelini, borlotti, even cheapo baked beans with the sauce rinsed off will do. ( Or add the sauce to the soup)
Water, salt, pepper, sugar to taste.

Fry onion, garlic, bacon bits and carrot in olive oil for a few minutes, stirring.
Add tomatoes, stock cubes, herbs and water (around 300 mls, can add more later if needed).
Cook ten minutes or so, lid on pan. Take off lid, add salt and pepper plus a little sugar to taste (sugar tones down the acidity of the tomatoes). Stir in beans and heat until you get the desired thickness and taste. Adjust seasoning to taste.

This is one of those soups you probably won't make the same way twice, but it will always turn out nice.

Butterfly_Brain

Thanks Nargle I will definitely try that x