Cheapest dinners for 1?

System

AnnieO1234 wrote: »

Are you looking for standalone meals or overall cost if you kept back leftovers etc?

Xx

Either

Like If I can make a cottage pie for £2 and get 4 servings, perfect

dlusman

http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-15752918

Horace

I bought a load of meat from the whoopsie shelf of Mr M's last week - I had a large butterflied pork fillet for £1.99 instead of £7.99, I have cut this into 3 portions which are now in the freezer.

Sometimes I make fridge forage soup out of any veg I find in the fridge that is going a bit over - it freezes well and doesn't cost much.

half a pound of stewing steak will make a stew that makes 4 portions for me, I eat it as stew and then freeze a portion and the remaining portions get left in the slowcooker and I add more veg and if the sauce is too thick add water to thin it down and then I have the remainder as soup and will freeze a portion of that.

pickledonionspaceraider

Bag of value pasta and a tub of bisto cheese sauce. for both costs around £1.50 (if you get your bisto cheese sauce for £1 from B and M - is much dearer in the larger supermarkets) but you can get five meals of cheesy pasta from this, easy

SailorSam

Do you like fish ? You can get tins of Sardines for about 34p in Asda and do them with pasta
A bag of mixed frozen veg for 80p then a couple of cheap onions and tinned tomatoes will be the base of loads of soup.
Last time i got Tesco own tinned potatoes they were cheaper than buying fresh
Heron have chicken thighs at the moment, 4 portions for £1.50. Heron is a good place to get fish or pies, in their own bags.

JIL

berbastrike wrote: »

Either

Like If I can make a cottage pie for £2 and get 4 servings, perfect

you can and you could also make a chilli and serve with rice, baked potato or just bread, or mix some with pasta a little bit of cheese on top and you are well away.

i read a blog by Frugal queen and she eats very healthy meals with low spend.
or look at a girl called jack, again cheap meals.

System

Thanks for the ideas, very helpful, I prefer to eat fresh and avoid things like tinned potatoes, but like the idea of the sardines with pasta.

MrsAtobe

Spaghetti with Marmite/Bovril/Vegemite, which ever you prefer.
http://www.nigella.com/recipes/view/SPAGHETTI-WITH-MARMITE-5306

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I spent a whole day surfing for recipes at the weekend. I don't know why, I've done it countless times before and it's always the same:

'Meals for one' that are full of perishables that you can't buy in the right quantities.
'Healthy' meals with twice the recommended amount of salt in.
'Budget' meals that cost between four and fifteen times what I'm currently spending.

Ladyluck1

A plain jacket potato with some value cottage cheese and chilli powder for me