Cheapest recipies.

GreyQueen

This recipe has gone around all my friends ( I wasn't the originator) and is easy, cheep-cheep and uses storecupboard items. The quantities below are for 2 people but just double or triple, it's a very obliging recipe.

2 hardboiled eggs per person, shelled and cut lengthwide.
Spoonful of cooking oil
1 large onion, finely chopped/1-2 cloves garlic (crushed, optional)
2 tabsps Madras curry paste, Medium or Hot, depending on what you like.
3 tbsp red lentils
tip of tbsp flour (any kind) to thicken
1 pint stock from either veg or chicken stock-cube.

Fry onion (and garlic) until soft in a heavy bottomed pan. If cooking the 2-person recipe this will fit in a frying pan but if doubling, will need a saucepan.

Add curry paste, lentils and flour and cook for 1 min, stirring constantly.

Add stock, stir, turn down and simmer, stirring occasionally until curry is thick. Prob will take 20-30 minutes. It will catch on the bottom of the pan if you don't stir it.

Serve with rice, or naan bread or baked spuds.

Great little winter warmer, will clear your sinuses if you have a cold. If you store some in the fridge for tomorrow beware as it gets fiercer overnight.

BigMummaF

Don't forget the infamous red lentils to help stretch the mince further, but still keeping the levels of protein. I put them on t a fairly swift simmer until the boil, skim off the scum & then let them bubble away while I chop the veg & dry fry the mince. They seem to disappear into the depths of the gravy or sauce better this way.
Another place to look would be the Bulking Out Meals thread..it's on Old Style somewhere

tinkerbell81

Hi, Im looking for some inspiration for cheap meal ideas for me and my other half as we are spending way too much on food shopping each week.

There are only two of us.

Any ideas would be great

Thanks

lizziebabe

Hi - why don't you join the monthly Grocery challenge?

There are lots of meal ideas and info about cheap deals in the supermarkets.

Not sure how to add link but I'm sure that someone who knows will be along soon.

Good Luck

zarazara

get a casserole dish,contents of a tin of baked beans in the bottom and crumble in an oxo cube, add layer of sliced oniond then a layer of sliced potatoes. do another layer of onions then finish with a top layer of potatoes. add half a cup of water. bake at 180 degrees C for 50 mins. you can top with grated cheese 5 mins before serving and put back in oven to melt cheese.
also anything with home made pastry . cheese and oinion pie, wooton pie,sausage and stuffing pie.

MrsE_2

tinkerbell81 wrote: »

Hi, Im looking for some inspiration for cheap meal ideas for me and my other half as we are spending way too much on food shopping each week.

There are only two of us.

Any ideas would be great

Thanks

Egg, bacon, chips & beans:drool:

Jacket potato with cheese & beans (cheese underneath the beans;)) & a side salad.

I adore those two quick & easy meals.

zarazara

HM lentil soup.

p-pincher

Ham egg and chips
Jacket potatoes
Omlettes
Anything on toast
Cheese and potato pie and beans-basically cheesy mash top with extra cheese melted ubder grill, if your feeling flush add sausages

kitschy

There were some brilliant threads on this topic, well, lots of them, but the one I remember was this one: https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/1007423=

Also, look at the sticky indexed recipe threads, especially this one https://forums.moneysavingexpert.com/discussion/346783, where Clu and RosieBen (I think, sorry if I've forgotten someone) collect all the recipes from across the board and put them in one place where we can find it. It saves having those "I've seen a recipe for that somewhere, now where was it?" moments!

Pink.

Hi tinkerbell81,

These threads have lots of recipes and cheap meal ideas that may help:

Cheapest recipes???

Meal for two for 50p. Suggestions?

The Cheapest Healthy Meal Ever!

Feed 6 for £1.62

Cheapest meal

Your Cheapest Evening Meal.

cheap, easy family meals

I'll add this thread to the first link later to keep the suggestions/recipes together.

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