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  • SailorSam
    SailorSam Posts: 22,754 Forumite
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    Someone else posted this on another thread earlier, lots of good cheap recipies on here as easy as making a sandwich.

    http://www.cheap-family-recipes.org.uk/costings.html?opt=rcost
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  • Siskin wrote: »
    Soup
    Greek Salad
    Caesar Salad
    Prawn Cocktail
    Wraps
    Toasties
    Quiche
    boiled egg with soldiers!
    scotch egg
    pork pie
    smoked mackerel pate with toast
    hot cross buns
    welsh cakes
    salad with:black beans, corn, tortilla strips, feta cheese, dried cranberries, nut pieces, shelled sunflowers, cheddar cheese, croutons, parmesan, diced tomatoes, cucumbers, avocado, ham chunks, chicken or turkey strips, bacon bits, hard boiled egg slices
    Cottage cheese & fruit
    Cottage cheese & tomatoes
    pitta
    egg, ham & avocado wrap
    pannini
    pizza
    pancakes
    cheese on toast,
    scrambled egg,
    poached egg,
    Bacon butties
    beans on toast (have you come across those Five Beans tins?)
    Toasted tea-cake,
    crumpets
    potato cakes
    Omelettes
    things on Ryvita,
    left overs from previous night,
    cheese and biscuits and an apple or pear
    pate
    brushetta
    Avocado & prawns
    Nachos with grated and melted cheese,
    dips with crudities
    Pasta salad
    Rice with mixed veg also add bits of ham/bacon etc.
    Couscous again cooked in stock etc with veg.
    Smoked salmon with cream cheese on blini or bagel
    Smoked mackerel salad.
    Sardines/canned pilchards on toast
    Noodles with veg or stirfry
    Mixed bean salad.
    Homemade coleslaw with salad.
    Bachelors cup a soup

    Nothing that meets my criteria yet, though.
  • teddysmum
    teddysmum Posts: 9,521 Forumite
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    If you are near to Staffordshire :Staffordshire oatcakes with fillings such as / or combinations of bacon, cheese , tomato, baked beans, sausage. (For those who haven't tried them, they are not dry biscuits, but more like savoury pancakes made on a griddle from oatmeal.)
  • Siskin
    Siskin Posts: 29 Forumite
    jack_pott wrote: »
    Nothing that meets my criteria yet, though.

    I heard something on Radio 4 today about money saving in supermarkets.

    Evening shopping apparently can offer a lot of bargains!
  • Bogof_Babe
    Bogof_Babe Posts: 10,803 Forumite
    jack_pott wrote: »
    I'd welcome an alternative to sandwiches for a change too, but there aren't enough calories in the alternatives above.

    Target: About 1000kcals for 75pence, low in salt, fat and sugar, as quick to prepare as sandwiches, and doesn't use non perishables unless they can be bought in the quantities required.

    I think that's a tall order, or I would be eating something else already.
    jack_pott wrote: »
    Nothing that meets my criteria yet, though.

    I'd say your problem is that most calories are in fat and sugar, so you can't have it both ways.

    :idea: How about microwaved (for speed and fuel economy) jacket spuds, with low fat grated cheese?
    :D I haven't bogged off yet, and I ain't no babe :D

  • Siskin
    Siskin Posts: 29 Forumite
    Bogof_Babe wrote: »
    I'd say your problem is that most calories are in fat and sugar, so you can't have it both ways.

    :idea: How about microwaved (for speed and fuel economy) jacket spuds, with low fat grated cheese?

    Microwaved Jacket potato with baked beans?
  • Bogof_Babe wrote: »
    I'd say your problem is that most calories are in fat and sugar, so you can't have it both ways.

    You can have it both ways, bread is mostly complex carbs and protein, and being as it's cheap you can get plenty of calories for not very much. I don't think many of the suggestions come anywhere near 1000kcal for 75p, let alone take only a few minutes to make.

    Beans and potato would be ok as long as it's only occasional, but they're a bit high in sugar for a regular habit.
  • scotsbob
    scotsbob Posts: 4,632 Forumite
    You can't beat a deep fried mars bar in toasted brown bread. Filling and nutritious.
    It has to be brown bread because white bread isn't all that good for you.
  • alanq
    alanq Posts: 4,216 Forumite
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    I'm confused. The task is to identify alternatives to sandwiches but "bacon butties" and "toasties" are listed as possible options. To me a "bacon butty" is another name for a bacon sandwich and a "toasty" a filling inside a toast sandwich. Are there alternative definitions that I am unaware of?
  • flea72
    flea72 Posts: 5,392 Forumite
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    alanq wrote: »
    I'm confused. The task is to identify alternatives to sandwiches but "bacon butties" and "toasties" are listed as possible options. To me a "bacon butty" is another name for a bacon sandwich and a "toasty" a filling inside a toast sandwich. Are there alternative definitions that I am unaware of?

    Because its a totally different taste. Much like yorkshire puddings and pancakes. Same ingredients, but totally different eating experience, due to the way they are cooked
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