Cheapest recipies.

vanoonoo

we love pitta bread pizza when I can cope with cheese (dairy intolerant sadly) currently cheapy pitta's (6) 20p in tesc0 and pasata (500mls) 29p in a!di or a tin or two of toms (likely to be about £5.00 a tin at the moment lol) plus whatever other toppings you fancy, cheese, ham, smoked sausage, onions, peppers, mushies, sweetcorn etc and you can feed anywhere between 6 snacks or 2 large main meals for under £1.00 if you're careful with what you've used

hilstep2000

I make corned beef casserole.
Chill a can of corned beef till hard. Sice it up. Slice up some old potatoes, an onion and a handful of frozen peas (or other veg if you don't like peas). Layer them in a dish, corned beef, onions and veg, potatoes. Finish with potatoes. Pour over a beef stock cube. season to taste.
Put in oven for about 40 minutes, serve with bread and butter .
This was a recipe my mum used, and my family loves!

andygb

I reckon that the secret to all of this is having a well filled "stock" cupboard. For extreme saving meals, you need ingredients which simply work out at pennies, whether you are opening jars or packets. Stock up on spices from your local Indian shop - Chilli powder, paprika powder (I always used smoked), turmeric powder, cumin powder, coriander powder, paprika powder, garam masala, tandoori masala. You can then add things like cinnamon sticks, cardomom pods.
The initial outlay may be £10 - £15, but they will last for ages, and make any food taste good.
In one of our "International" shops, we have found really good, concentrated tomato paste in large tins for 99p - a huge saving over tubes.
If you have a big family, then bulk buy onions and potatoes, and with the onions, you can prepare and chop/slice them and freeze them for later.
Keep all vegetables in dark, cool places and take them out of plastic bags (or they will rot!).
Take up home breadmaking (by hand, not machine), and you will be making average sized, fantastic tasting bread for about 30p per loaf - bargain! You can then go on to pizza dough, ciabattas, flat breads - everything.
Lentils and beans can fill out meals, and mean that you can cut down on expensive meat, so you can buy them in bulk either dry (uncooked) or in tins.

vanoonoo

I like to make my own egg fried rice too which you could turn into a meal by adding leftover scraps of stuff

for one or two portions I mix up two eggs and lightly scramble in a frying pan or wok, you do need to use a fair amount of oil to get it slippery enough, and then I add cooled/leftover rice and soy sauce (I cant have other soy products but I am fine with fermented soy apparently!) then you could add peas, ham, prawns, cold cooked, chicken, sausage, peppers, onions, basically whatever you have already cooked and leftover to pad it out. could be served on it's own or as side to something like grilled fish or chicken

Fruball

Pasta with garlic fried in a good knob of butter and a bit of the pasta water to loosen. Stupidly cheap!

I add mushrooms if I have them for garlic mushroom pasta

jemb

Our cheap go to food is macaronni cheese. Butter on offer is £1 a tub, 1/4 of one of those £25p, enough plain flour to thicken it is pennies and then about half a pint of milk. Half a pint of milk maybe a pint? I go on thickness 50p ish? Couple of cubes of cheese from fridge are £50p? And a bag of cheap pasta is about 45p? half a bag is about 23p then?
All together 1.50 ish? But that guestimations. We always have these items in for other things too!

andygb

vanoonoo wrote: »

I like to make my own egg fried rice too which you could turn into a meal by adding leftover scraps of stuff

for one or two portions I mix up two eggs and lightly scramble in a frying pan or wok, you do need to use a fair amount of oil to get it slippery enough, and then I add cooled/leftover rice and soy sauce (I cant have other soy products but I am fine with fermented soy apparently!) then you could add peas, ham, prawns, cold cooked, chicken, sausage, peppers, onions, basically whatever you have already cooked and leftover to pad it out. could be served on it's own or as side to something like grilled fish or chicken

I love the idea of that, using left over rice, and possibly left over meat (roast chicken shredded would be great). I haven't had egg fried rice for decades, but see that with a bit of ingenuity, it is a great, cheap dish.
I would have to spice it up a bit - chilli sauce, five spice powder, definitely peas as you mentioned, and I reckon it could end up like Singapore Chow Mein but with rice instead of noodles - great!:)

bitemebankers

Home made pizza is my #1 suggestion. If you get the ingredients from Lidl, it's so cheap it's hard to calculate. Roughly, for two pizzas:

300g strong flour - 10p
Salt, yeast, olive oil, about 10p
Mozzarella ball - 45p
1/4 tube tomato puree - about 10p

So, well under £1 for two plain pizzas. For another £1 you could buy a small stick of salami and slice that up for toppings.

BAGGY

I know i keep banging on about it but Heuvos Rancheros can be as cheep as you want it to be and it doesn't feel like IYKWIM.
Fry onion and any other BBF veg cut up small. Can put basic bacon, left over meat or ham here too. Add herbs S&P and smoked paprika is nice. Tin value baked beans / chick peas plus tin chopeed or plum toms.(our indian sm does 4 for a pound). When bubbling add one egg per person, turn low, and cover with foil so the eggs poach in the tomato liquid. We have with pitta or bread or rice or pasta or carbs that need using up or nothing. Ive even cubed new pots into it.

bitemebankers

*Loving* this thread, by the way.