The Garden Fence - help and support in tough times

mardatha

Gotta a challenge for you all - (ie HELLLLP!)- Could anybody try and suggest for us one meal a day, for 2 adults, that will cost me around £10 in total per week - give or take a couple of ££s...?
We have porridge for breakfast and HM soup at dinner time, I just need the main meal at teatime. No pasta, no rice, no chili, no curry. I need to get the food bill down, things are getting very disorganised here

elona

Mardatha

Egg and chips, potato and cheese pie, home made flan or pie with odds and ends, baked potato with a little cheese or rubber chicken.

If you can get a cheap ham hock that would make soup and also ham and chips, some meat for a quiche and if you chop some and mix it with baked beans and top with mash then add a tiny bit of cheese and brown under grill it is easy and tasty.

Doveling

Have a look at the thread Butterfly Brain does. Some brilliant ideas. Think it's called feed your family for £7.00 a week but the prices have altered because it was started some time ago. HTH:D

nursemaggie

Oh dear Mar you are eliminating what we eat. Eggs are very cheap at the moment. There are lots of things you can do with them. Would not recommend them every day.

A good look round all the recipes on the site would give you a good start.

mardatha

TY ELona . Ivy I can't make quiche, I wish I could. Will go and look for that thread Doveling. Ta ladies

elona

Mardatha

I use ready made pastry (blush) and just chuck things together and it is always eatable.

You could do a crustless quiche - just chopped onions, tomato, odds of veg - whatever you have (even leftovers) - fry in pan the add beaten eggs and let it set and brown for a few mins under grill.

mardatha

I did that and it tasted very eggy, not nice. Its so hard that I get really fed up. He is diabetic and cant take sugar, I can't take fat or too much gluten, it's just the pits! I did the ham hock thing last week though, that was nice

Floss

Mardatha how about corned beef hash? Lovely with pickles or chutney, no fat, no sugar. And any leftover can be made into corned beef pie

Other thoughts:
Fish pie (frozen fish) in white sauce with mashed potato top;
Cottage pie;
Minced beef plate pie - lovely hot with spuds & cold with salad;
Leek & bacon/ham pie;)
Rubber chicken mash-top pie.

I know you said not too much gluten - could you leave the pastry off your portion if its too much?

mardatha

I'm ok if I don't take much... I need to buy frozen pastry and something to roll it out with and try the pies and Elona's quiche. I'm hungry lol.

greenbee

You can buy ready-rolled pastry Mar - might as well save the cost of a rolling pin until you're sure you will use it.

And anyway, you don't need a rolling pin. An empty (or even full) wine/whisky bottle will do perfectly well.