What does a portion cost you ?

TravellingAbuela

cazj80 wrote: »

Last night I made a sausage and rice one pot, it cost £1.56 for 4 portions, so 39p per portion

This is the recipe I used:-

http://www.bbcgoodfood.com/recipes/9527/fragrant-pork-and-rice-onepot

That sounds tasty, think I'll make it using the meatballs I picked up reduced in Sainsbury's. I stuck them all in the freezer until I decided what to do with them!

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I usually price meal up as it helps to see what I have paid and how much the food has increased.My main meal in the evening varies in price but I can make it usually for around 50-75p and lunch is obviously a lot cheaper and depending on what it is (sandwich/roll soup and a bit of fruit or maybe a youghurt will be about 50p and breakfast is always the least expensive as I'm not a big breakfast eater so it would be a handful of cornflakes or porridge in the winter with a splash of milk or a couple of slices of toast with a banana so probably about 25p.So per day I suppose around £1.50 which is reasonable and I do make a lot of my own biscuits and cakes and soup which ,especially soup do help to streeetch out a meal
Last night I had a small shepards pie with some mashed potato's on the top The mash was left over from the previous day the minced lamb was a bit left over from my DDs big one that I had made from her left over sunday joint so last nights meal cost very little probably around 30p if you include some veggies from the fridgeTonight I will have a couple of sausages from the freezer cost about 40p(they were reduced in Sainsbobs a month ago and they are the hot spicy chilli ones and I paid 20p each for them) I have a sweet potato left from last week that I will turn into weges also I have some cabbage left in the fridge from last week which I will use up so tonights dinner will cost me about 60p.I have a large pot of natuarl yoghurt in the fridge some of that will go into a bowl and I shall chop up some tinned peaches to mix with it.The tins of peaches I bought a couple of weeks ago reduced to 9p as the tins were battered (I'm not eating the tin only the stuff inside it )they were in natural juice which I prefer so a third of a tin chopped up and mixed in with the yoghurt gives me a pudding for about 10p at the most.So tonights meal including pudding will cost me 70p No different than buying those yoghurts with fruit already mixed in but a darn sight cheaper.A huge pot of value sainsbobs yoghurt costs 45p and lasts for ages ,I also use it in cooking as well as its plain.
The main idea is to look at what you have and see how you can adapt and make it streetch to make another meal of extend your food to several different meals I do buy or cook ready made meals as I can make similar for a fraction of the price.I agree A girl called Jack's blog is great stuff and you would be amazed at how much she can make out of very little.I have made her bubble and sqeeks with left over cabbage and froze them for an accompaniment for other things.I aim to use every scrap of food that I buy and I never bin anything foodwise as after all I bought it to eat,why throw it away You might as well throw money in the bin

rachbc

I do a spinach and sausage risotto like that one pot - half a pack of lidl sausage bought half price 36p, onion 10p, passata 29p, 250g risotto rice bought rtc at aldi 25p, 1/4 bag of frozen spinach 25p. Approx £1.25 for 4
31p per portion inc 2 of your 5 a day each

Steveswift

Nice responses every one, at work at the mo and can't wait to get home tonight and get these meals cooked. I thought that my meals would come out to about £2 a portion which i thought was good, but reading the above i am not so sure now. Any way i will do it tonight and put the figures up.

Cheers

Steve

Steveswift

Test picture, my lovely daughter and one of 4 grandsons

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Steveswift

Ok that works for a link but how do i post a picture directly to this thread ?


Steve

PasturesNew

I can make a meal that serves 4 at a theoretical 40-50p per portion .... I then serve it into a big bowl with a spoon and use half (so now 80p-£1/portion) ... then 10 minutes later I trot back and finish the rest off. Result £1.60-£2 portion)

chunkychocky

Steveswift wrote: »

Test picture, my lovely daughter and one of 4 grandsons

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When you are creating the post, along the top of the post are various icons; one of them is a picture of a yellow box with mountains in it, which when you hover over it reads 'insert image'. Click on it, paste the URL (the bit that starts http) in there and it should display the image.

Steveswift

Steveswift

Just an X showing where picture should be