Recipes for really bad times?

SailorSam

candlelight_2013 wrote: »

If you make a meat loaf using mince, sausage meat, some S/O stuffing and a squirt of tomato ketchup this makes a tasty and cheap meal. You can always buy cheap sausages and split the skins to remove the meat.

Served with mashed potato and peas/cabbage it makes a good meal, we had this on Friday

Candlelightx

The best cheap sausage are from Heron.
'Country Park Foods' either Lincolnshire or Cumberland, they're both nice and only 85p

FrugalWorker

Why don't you post up what food you do have in the house and I bet people can help you to meal plan around that.

It would help if we know roughly what the family will/won't eat.

Lance_De_Boils

candlelight_2013 wrote: »

If you make a meat loaf using mince, sausage meat, some S/O stuffing and a squirt of tomato ketchup this makes a tasty and cheap meal. You can always buy cheap sausages and split the skins to remove the meat.

Served with mashed potato and peas/cabbage it makes a good meal, we had this on Friday

Candlelightx

My family are all in agreement that the best bit of a roast chicken dinner is the stuffing. We often have a roast chickenless dinner with stuffing as the star of the show.

Tink_04

Make a list of everyone you have in 1st as you will be surprised with what you can make.

Then do a plan for how many days/meals & people you need to feed between now & pay day.

Then see what you have and add in the meals you need & a shopping list to go with it - you should manage with the amount you have if you plan well - good luck x

Tink_04

Sorry that should read *everything

pollys

Mum used to make onion and potato pie. We loved it and thought of it as a treat. Basically a pie, made with short crust pastry and filled with potato and onions which have been boiled until soft. Lovely with a big dollop of butter and mushy peas.

Polly

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Hi CAMnOLLIESMUM not as dire as it sounds pet, you can do lots on £37.50 a week if it's only for food. Will the family eat vegetarian food? the cheapest acceptable dish I know of is homemade tomato sauce (from tinned tomatoes) and pasta with a dusting of grated cheddar, the sauce is literally 1/2 a good sized onion fried in oil (any), a tin of tomatoes added, chopped up if they're whole ones. Add a teaspoon of sugar, 1/2 a teaspoon of salt and some pepper, a crushed garlic clove, some dried basil and oregano (or one of these) and a tablespoon of tomato puree and heat through gently for about 20 minutes then blitz with a stick blender/food processor. Then the magic bit add in a tablespoon of tomato ketchup and that will feed a family of 4 easily as the blitzed sauce goes much further coating pasta than chunky ones do. You can also make a cracking good pizza with the sauce as a base on a scone pizza base which is 8 oz S/R flour, 2 oz margarine, 1/2 teaspoon salt,5 fl oz milk...rub the margarine into the flour, add the seasoning and then mix in enough milk to make a scone dough, then roll it out to a 10inch circle on a baking tray use some of the tomato sauce spread on top and any toppings you have or like finishing with some grated cheese, it will cook in 20/30 minutes in a fan oven 180 deg. This again serves 4 easily and is really nice and easy.

If you can let me know what kind of things they like I'll have a look through my recipe books and see what I can come up with for you, Lyn xxx.

camNolliesMUMMY

wow, such a lot of replies!!!


I have been through the freezer and tidied it up a bit.


kids have plenty of nuggets in their but I only tend to let them have this and a pizza twice a week. everything else tends to get cooked from scratch.


I have a big bag of boneless chicken thighs in. I have also emptied the last of the 25kg sack of spuds I bought at the beginning of December which cost us £4 we have 8 decent sized potatoes for jackets. I have chopped the smaller ones into chips and coated in oil in a freezer bag and another bag of cubed potatoes for quick roast potatoes in the week.


sad looking parsnips and carrots have been chopped and bagged in the freezer.


I have been and stocked up at farmfoods on peas, casserole mix and mixed veg for £2. grabbed milk, cheese, bread, squash etc whilst I was n there.


I've come back home and we've just finished our sunday chicken dinner. I've got just under half the chicken left, so I like the idea of the rubber chicken. I have some Filo pastry in the freezer that's ready to roll could I make a pie using that? and then I do like the idea that one of you suggested to make like an egg fried rice dish with bits of chicken.


I also ran into coop, I grabbed some diced lamb for £1!!! I am thinking of either making a casserole or a lamb Rhogan Josh? Does anyone have a recipe for the Rhogan Josh? we like a tomato based one.


Ds 2 is out of nappies in the day but at night has one on, we are okas we have 30 left.


The dog has biscuits in so she will be ok.


Its just stretching things and thinking of alternatives I hadn't thought of before that maybe even cheaper than what I am doing?
Cleaning products wise, we will be ok as I run a little part time cleaning business and have stock in.


When the end of January comes I will take a deep breath and remember everything I have learnt.


The first thing I will be buying again in January is the 25kg sack of spuds for £4. they were a bargain with only a few that had gone rotten.


It doesn't seem as daunting now I have been through the freezer and cupboards but I need to be creative and try and stretch what I can and use a little less meat.


Thank you everyone for your replies and links I am going through them.

camNolliesMUMMY

i Don't have any sausages in, but dh is not keen.
I have
12 eggs left
2 onions
10-12 bonesless chicken thighs
5 drumsticks
3 pieces of lamb on the bone for stewing
1 pack of diced lamb
8 Potatoes for baking
2 loafs of bread ive put one in the freezer
3 tins of bean
2 tins of chopped toms
half a tube of tom puree
frozen peas
frozen casserole mix
filo pastry
chicken nuggets of 40?
milk two bottles
loads of condiments
lots of herbs and spices
rice
pasta
lasagne sheets
homemade frozen chips and grozen cubed potatoes
1 tin of corned beef
only self raising flour no plain



ds2 is 3 and he doesn't eat mash, roast potatoes etc only in chip form!!! rattles me.


ds1 hates onions but i tell him to pick them out.
dh can be picky he goes off things all of a sudden he's like ds2 sometimes lol he moaned about the boneless chicken thighs as he prefers breast, however i went to makro last month and it was cheaper than buying the breast and thought it would be ideal and he wouldn't moan. but ive told him we have to do what we can to get through this tough time until his money is given back to him.

camNolliesMUMMY

ps we have a tub of quality street and celebrations that was bought for us along with biscuits a bottle of brandy and a bottle of Malibu.


Hopefully that might make thigs a little easier as we wont feel like we are missing out on treats.


we have also been bought some nice bath and shower stuff for xmas, so we don't have to worry about toiletries for a bit except for tooth paste.