The Telegraph's Recipe on a budget

thriftychick

The Telegraph have started a new weekly Recipe on a Budget column.

Lamb, rosemary and cannellini beans with buttered cabbage

This one is £5 for a family and really lovely.

Spiced spring onion fishcakes with lemon yoghurt

This one is a £10 "supper dish" for 6 people.

Pork/Beef casserole with mushrooms

You don't need to buy the paper it is all online!

Popperwell

Thanks for the links...I suppose they are reasonable and not bad if I can reduce the costs further by adapting what I already have in the house and can do smaller portions as my food budget for a day is 75p-£2 per day...helped by buying reduced items, own/value brands...

I mean(though a bit boring)I have been eating for 2 or 3 days(I don't buy ready meals that often)a bowl of pasta, beef/bacon and tomato sauce...it was reduced by at least £1 and had a total of 600 calories.

I could do the casserole(in the slow cooker)but I would use less meat so that would be cheaper in my version. Good to see I can avoid buying a newspaper as if you are really struggling/on a budget you have to cut back wherever you are able.

maman

Popperwell wrote: »

Thanks for the links...I suppose they are reasonable and not bad if I can reduce the costs further by adapting what I already have in the house and can do smaller portions as my food budget for a day is 75p-£2 per day...helped by buying reduced items, own/value brands...

I mean(though a bit boring)I have been eating for 2 or 3 days(I don't buy ready meals that often)a bowl of pasta, beef/bacon and tomato sauce...it was reduced by at least £1 and had a total of 600 calories.

I could do the casserole(in the slow cooker)but I would use less meat so that would be cheaper in my version. Good to see I can avoid buying a newspaper as if you are really struggling/on a budget you have to cut back wherever you are able.

Thanks for the links as I love looking at recipes but like Popperwell would adapt them to suit. For instance, pork/beef cheek may be delicious but I have beef cubes for casserole in my freezer which I chopped up myself from a large joint. The joint of Irish beef was cheaper per kg around Christmas than casserole/shin or even cheek!

Popperwell

Maman,
It's like the latest Hairy Bikers series claiming they can cook gomet food on a budget..how about a straight forward food on a budget series never mind gormet...

One sunday meal they had a massive piece of meat that many could not afford or would last months and for a family of four it was coming in at £20 for the meal. For one meal...

And for another kind of party they went to an Asian supermarket and most items were well priced and lots for your money(no such places near me)but they bought some fancy prawns(3 boxes)and they cost £20:eek:

I can only hope the series improves...at least Nigel Slater tries to use what most of us have in our kitchen and leftovers so he seems more in tune with how many of us live...

thriftychick

I'm all for adapting recipes too. I made the fishcakes but used Tesco fish pie mix which was in the freezer and was part of the 3 for £10 offer instead of pollack.

Popperwell

I thought that you might TC;)but still good of you to post the links and I now have yet another website saved on the pc...I have loads of them:rotfl:

Rowan9

Thanks for posting these :T. I'mm have a look at them and keep an eye out for more.
Popperwell, I wonder if you have seen Shirley Goode's blog, called the goode life (as far as I remember)? I know you sometimes like setting yourself challenges and she does this too from time to time. Her blog has loads of examples of stretching food and makes interesting reading. She was a TV cook, emphasis on thrifty food, but I'm sure you all know about her in here anyway. Sorry not sure of link and am heading out to library (very OS) to return a book and pay fine (not so thrifty but I have caught it in time at 15p I think).
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sairy2010

Here is the link to her blog. If you read back a bit she has loads of good recipes and tips and all thrifty.

http://shirleygoode.blogspot.co.uk/

lindseykim13

Thanks looks nice, although £5 still to expensive for me lol
Will see what reduced lamb i have in the freezer and i expect i have some beans somewhere hmm which store cupboard to hunt in.

tessasmum

I'm afraid even Nigel Slater has surprised me with this month's Sainsbury's magazine. His name is on the front cover advertising an article with supposedly frugal meals inside the magazine, but whilst some of them are reasonable, some are ridiculous!

Rowan9

sairy2010 wrote: »

Here is the link to her blog. If you read back a bit she has loads of good recipes and tips and all thrifty.

http://shirleygoode.blogspot.co.uk/

Thanks sairy