Cheapest recipies.

talulahbeige_2

Egg, chips & beans with a splas of bbq sauce on the side

Jabbythistle

Cheese Dreams

What you need is bread, eggs, a little milk and cheese - you can add other stuff as you see fit.

make a cheese sandwich, break the eggs (1 per sandwich round) into a dish and mix with the milk - add salt and pepper. put the sandwich in and let is soak up the egg and then fry until golden and the cheese melts.

Yum Yum

parsonswife8

Scrambled egg with chives on hot buttered wholemeal toast.

lauren123210

Oooo do you think your cheats risotto could be frozen if you made in bulk?

rachbc

I do similar but being too cheap to buy packet rice I just use ordinary basmati and cook it first - so more of a fried rice - kids love it, hubby and I drown it in sweet chilli sauce!

gizmomum

Darn, when I read the title of this I thought 'hurrah at last I can contribute instead of always asking for help!' but it seems you already know about my recipe for Magic Rice! I used to live on this and as you say never the same twice, although I too used plain rice not packet flavoured rice and add my own spices. Also found that adding a tin of tuna is quite nice as well.
My other fallback was a pack of cheap instant noodles (or supernoodles if I was flush) with either baked beans added (looks odd but tastes nice) or with a can of tuna and some sweetcorn and maybe chopped pepper added.
Hope this is useful :-)

flipperOSN

I love risotto or egg fried rice. Not to mention baked beans and rice like Nicoll - I have that by choice! Other good cheap meals are macaroni cheese, or humble bendy carrot soup. I like it with lentils and a cut up slice of ham which might be a bit decadent though! Actually most soups I make are great value, especially since they use up the last few odd vegetables.

*edit* I've just seen the comment about noodles too. Value noodles tend to be just as good as more expensive ones IMO.

The_Thrilla

A fresh pineapple on its own.

Sunnyday

Just copied this over from a similar thread,

One of my favourite cheap meals is cheats paella, 1 pack of dried savoury rice (the Morrisons value one is 28p and dosen`t contain the hydrogenated stuff that the big named ones do) half an onion and some salami in place of chorizo. I also add some frozen prawns but tinned shrimps are available and will do just as well.

Fry the onion in a little butter, add the rice and water, bring to the boil and add the rest of the ingredients. Simmer until ready and serve with hot toast covered in garlic butter. (garlic granules mixed into room temperature butter and left for the flavour to develop. Lovely filling and very cheap.

The rest of the salami and the other half an onion can be used in omelettes another day or used as pizza topping.

HTH
SD

happybaby

Mine and OH's favourite is, well we call it carbonara, but its not really fry an onion withsome ham, or bacon if I've got it, oh and garlic, stir in cream and some grated cheese, add salt an pepper, serve with pasta. We discovered this one christmas when we realised we hadnt been shopping, had no food and the shops were shut.

Daughters favourite is jacket spud with cheese, and tuna mayo (she specfically asks for not the oven one ie microwave, as she can't wait, she's only just 4 lol)