Cheapest recipies.

JBD

Pan Haggerty. In a frying pan layer thinly sliced potatoes, sliced onions and grated cheese. Season each layer and dot with butter. Put lid on top and fry for approx. 20 mins. It's so good I'm actually eating it now.

sparklewing

I make a lot of veggie curries/stews (not because they are cheap I just love them). I don't have a real recipe but it goes something like this (this makes a big batch so I can freeze lots):

(night before soak some chickpeas/beans/split peas/whatever)
fry off a little onion & garlic
Add whatever veg I have lying around the house (peas/potato/carrots/mushrooms/frozen spinach anything really)
Add a couple of tins of tomatoes (just cheapy ones)
Add a combination of cumin, coriander, ginger, chilli powder, garam masala, curry powder, tarragon, thyme depending if I'm making curry, chilli or just a stew
Add beans/chickpeas/split peas/lentils (dried) or a combination of them
Add a bit of stock if needed (usually only if there are potatoes/lentils)

Simmer until cooked. Works out really cheap if you are just using up veg that's starting to go soft. I tend to use mainly root veg in stews and other veg in curry/chilli.

Mayflower10cat

I have lots of student recipes (well, maybe not a recipe as such!!!) more a way of filling 6 hungry and very poor students for not a lot of cash.... Our most basic one of all was, boil half a pack of spaghetti as you whack into another pan a crushed clove of garlic, some oil/marg/butter, and some cheapo fatty bacon cut into little bits, fry hard... By the time the bacon is almost cooked (about 4 minutes), stick in a tin of tomatoes, heat through, add whatever seasoning you have, test the pasta, if it's al dente, drain, stick back in the pan with some black pepper, pour over the tomato/bacon mix, stir through and if you have any spare cheese, grate it and stir and serve. Costs about £2 (or a lot less!) Will feed up to six, but does depend on hunger/drunkeness...!!!

Shazzadouglas

Corned beef and mashed potatoes are my absolute fave and a tin of tuna mixed with some chopped onion and chopped up boiled egg....mix it all together and add a touch of black pepper....can be a wee bit dry but i just love it

flipperOSN

Another favourite is Pasta Arrabiata - fry off onion, lots of garlic, a finely chopped carrot. Then add small tin of toms, a few herbs and lots of chilli and cook together for a little while. All poured onto pasta with a bit of cheese and black pepper. Does leave you a bit garlic breathy - great to keep the vampires away :rotfl:

babyshoes

About a third of a pack of cooking bacon, as many onions as I can chop before the fumes get to me, a bit of garlic and whatever random veg I have in the fridge - fry bacon first, then add onions. Add garlic and other veg when onions are cooked, stir for a few mins then add as many tins of cheapy tomatoes you can get away with. Add herbs/seasoning to taste along with other seasonings like soy sauce, ketchup, tomato puree etc. Simmer for an hour or so until it is well cooked. Serve on pasta with any old cheese on top.

I like this recipe because I can s-t-r-e-t-c-h it out with lots of tomato and bendy veg. One big batch recently did supper for both of us and about 5 or 6 lunches for OH. We don't do small portions either!

ab7

Creamy tomato pasta or cheapy tomato bake

For 6
Get campbels condensed soup cream of tomato x 2

Bag of pasta

Cheese

Cook pasta in large pan
Throw in cans of tomato soup and mix throughly
Add just less than 1 quarter of water to pasta (i.e. put quarter water into can and swish about to get all the stuff left on can) Dont use anymore than that or its mush
Place on plate
Chuck on cheese
Munch
Get kids to wash up

h£inz soup/passata/tinned toms will not have the same effect, and the two tins are for 6 peeps so if serving less then 1 can would do it.

When its posh or I've been reading Nigella I cook the pasta with a spoonful of my lazy garlic in the water to give added effect and garnish with basil :rotfl:

p.s. no-one tell the kids - they've been eating this for over 10years and still dont know how easy it is..........:D

TREVORCOLMAN

Chip buttie.

I was in a local town the other day and saw an advert board outside a cafe - one of the items was beans on toast for £3.99!

What a mark up!

Kadeeae

I have two and can't decide which is 'best'

Risotto with just about anything needing using up in the fridge and/or mashed taters Really they aren't a meal in their own right, but I can live with that :rotfl:

Mashed to within an inch of their lives (almost 'whipped' I'd say) with lashings of butter and pepper, no gravy needed. GAWD I'm hungry now!

Funky_Mum

Before I was veggie I used to like boiled rice mixed into a can of lentil and bacon soup. makes loads and tastes really nice.