Low budget food plan... help needed

PasturesNew

sazaccount wrote: »

Hi

Thanks for the suggestions I like the yorkshire pudding idea do u need muffin trays for them or can I just pore it into a tin for a big puddling?

Just use what you've got and gauge how that size/shape works for you .... once you've tried it once and realised if there are issues you can correct what you do the 2nd time.

sazaccount

thanks, I dont own a muffin tin only a medium sized cake/loaf tin, but thinking I could part cook some sausages on the george forman and pour the yorkshire pudding mix on top do you think that would work?

PasturesNew

sazaccount wrote: »

thanks, I dont own a muffin tin only a medium sized cake/loaf tin, but thinking I could part cook some sausages on the george forman and pour the yorkshire pudding mix on top do you think that would work?

I currently use a £1 square tin I bought from the 99p shop - it's about 9" square and half the cheap pack of instant yorkshire mix works in that.... so one pack makes me 2 big yorkies.

I put the sausages in the tin for 5-10 minutes, just to get the basic pinkness off them as I like my sausages well done; many people don't pre-cook sausages at all. Alternatively, you could make a yorkie and cook the sausages entirely separately.

Pack says "whole pack and 1 egg", I tip out half the pack and pick my smallest egg. That works. At 15p/pack and 2 eggs at 10p each to make two big yorkshires that's just 17.5p each time. I've no freezer else I'd keep a bag of frozen yorkshires in the freezer as you can pick those up pretty cheap too. I think Lidl frozen yorkies are about 47-50p for 12 ... so, about 12p/portion of 3.

Frugalsod

sazaccount wrote: »

i'm looking at around £15/20 a week for food, which I know some may find really easy, but I can easy spend £40 a week so bit of a change.

Do it in stages. You might find it easier to drop a few pounds here and there if you take your time. Gradually you will discover some new trick and be able to know off a few more pounds. It does not all come at once. I found that discovering the local stores clearance times is very handy, then you can arrive when they have priced down items. Then with a bit of imagination you can make some meals from them. Only today I got a cauliflower for 35p so that will make a nice cauliflower cheese. Which will last me 4 meals.

RAS

sazaccount wrote: »

Thanks for the suggestions guys,

Yes I forgot to say I do have a fridge I've got a couple of days free from tomorrow so will have a look at my tinned things. I've got a couple of tins of veg. As i don't eat a lot of bread anyway i tend to by the part baked ones.

My new years resolution is to be more organised :rotfl:

OK

So the trick is going to be a menu plan that allows you to NOT eat the same thing for three days running but also keeps you safe from food poisoning.

As long as food is cooked well and decanted into a clean containers, you can keep most things safely in the fridge for 3-4 days. Not rice however.

If you re-cook it properly at some stage you can keep the left overs for another day or two.

The other thing to note is that stuff in slow cookers tends to be very watery because the temperature is too low to evaporate much of the liquid. So reduce the liquid.

So you might have:

Day 1
Mince meat "stew" from the slow cooker with yorkies and veggies from the oven. Cool the other two thirds and put in the fridge.

Day 2
Add a drained tin of kidney beans, some chilli powder and tomato paste to half the remnants. Eat with garlic bread done in the oven? And salad.

Heat the other half the remnants to boiling point in the microwave, stir in some curry paste, cool and refridgerate.

Day 3

Something completely different.

Day 4 Keema curry with rice.