The Feed 2 for As Little As Poss Challenge!

Leopardlady

I am up for this, I am going to head to Lidls to buy some tinned toms then cooking stuff in my freezer and making meals for the next week! Will attempt to work out how much it will all cost.

My favourite at the moment is spg bol:
200g mince (from butcher £1.99 made three portions in freezer)
Tinned toms - 12p
4 Carrots
1 large courgette
2 cloves garlic
10 mushrooms
2 onions
splash of worcestershire sauce
splash of wine
herbs from the garden

This lasts for 3-4 meals for both of us, probably costs about 40p a portion. Not bad and tastes great!

lynzpower

tonights menu is from the freezer with veg, chickpea & chicken balti and vbasmati rice & HM naan.

EagerLearner

Nice and summery and sooooooo quick and fresh - we have had it twice in the last week!

TUNA GUMBO

1 x tin tuna £0.80 or less (store brand)
New potatoes cooked (say 10 for two?) £0.35
Sliced roasted peppers £0.10 (LIDL)
Handful black olives £0.05 (large jar from £1 store)
2 medium vine tomatoes chopped £0.30
Chopped sundried tomatoes £0.05 (LIDL or £1 store)
Mayonnaise dollops £0.10
Chopped half red onion £0.10

I think £1.85 for two people isn't bad!


We tried doing the same thing with chicken but wasn't as nice...

EagerLearner

Hi all - what are you eating this week?

We will have fish and sweet potatoes, spag bol from freezer, roasted chicken with honey mustard glaze and cous cous, tuna gumbo, pasta with sundried tomatoes and roasted peppers...

Will be shopping tomorrow for what we need for this week (only a couple of things and lunch food so should be cheap), then putting together an online Tesco order for the chunky June shop.

redsquirrel80

Never really plan for the week as such, I will try and post up some costed recipes as and when I make them though. Didn't make it to the market for veg due to hangover/ bad weather so I'm still on supermarket prices I'm afraid!

Today I've had lunch - sardines on toast, cost approx 40p - and for an early tea - new potatoes (15p), 1/4 red pepper (20p), few cloves of garlic (5p-ish), some feta cheese (50p), all chopped up, sprinkled with olive oil and spices and roasted until cooked, sprinkled with chopped basil when it came out of the oven. 90p a portion - nice as a side dish with chicken/ steak/ fish as well (just wasn't very hungry tonight!).. if I'd been going to work tomorrow would have made double and had leftovers for lunch.

redsquirrel80

Today's "got lots of odds and ends to use up and can't be bothered going out in the rain to buy anything else" recipe..

Bought some dip in the local Greek deli the other day when I went in for my supply of feta cheese (about same price as supermarket, maybe a little more but sooo much nicer).. anyway, bought this dip, can't remember what it's called but it's basically blended up feta, olive oil, red peppers and chillis. Very nice but sickened myself of it and it needed used up today. So I made a sort of creamy tomatoey pasta...

Cook pasta, in my case Waitrose 19p spaghetti, about 1/6 pack -
3p
In another pan, fry some red onion (3p), yellow pepper (20p), add some tomato puree (erm, dunno, about 5p?), then stir in leftover feta cheese dip thing (50p) and keep stirring over low heat for a couple of minutes until it turns into a creamy sauce, I guess you could also whizz up some feta and oil in a blender and add chilli to taste for the same effect. Added end of bag of rocket which was starting to wilt (10p-ish) and just stirred this in to go soft in the heat of the sauce.

Turned out very nice and less than a pound again!

Boomdocker

Penny-Pincher!! wrote: »

The minced lamb is from Aldi and is £1.95 for 1.5kg.

Is this lamb OK PP? I have seen you refer to this before and might give it a try myself next time I go to Aldi.

the_optimist

Leopardlady wrote: »

My favourite at the moment is spg bol:
200g mince (from butcher £1.99 made three portions in freezer)
Tinned toms - 12p
4 Carrots
1 large courgette
2 cloves garlic
10 mushrooms
2 onions
splash of worcestershire sauce
splash of wine
herbs from the garden

This lasts for 3-4 meals for both of us, probably costs about 40p a portion. Not bad and tastes great!

Lovely recipe, but how do you make it last 3-4 meals??? If I cooked this for me and OH it would be one meal :mad:

Cazzdevil

I made a fish pie last night for OH & myself, it would've easily done 3 portions but greedy us ate the whole thing!

Big salmon steak - £1 (bought a whole salmon from Tesco when they were half price at £12 and got it cut into 12 steaks)
Smoked haddock fillet 75p (reduced to clear)
Tin value tuna 29p
Milk 20p
Cornflour 3p
Butter 5p
Mashed potato 20p
Wee grating of cheese 10p
Peas & sweetcorn 20p

Total: £2.82 - 94p per portion

Slightly more extravagant than I'd usually do to be honest but still works out fairly cheap I suppose! We just had the fish pie with a slice of buttered bread each. Mmmm.

cazrobinson

every week we have certain staples:

a rice dish
a pasta dish
a round of jacket potatoes
a something-on-toast/with bread dish
a chips and something dish (hubby used to be fryer)

and then change toppings

it's always a good start to the weeks menu and then fill-in with more expensive dishes: chicken, white fish, moules mariner etc

always take into account days when you'll be knackered or back home late, then you can do the frozen-food route that night (homemade) and save yourself time AND money!!