What are the cheapest meals you can make?

Well_Preserved

Also thrifty recipes on websites such as 'Love Food Hate Waste' and 'Christians Against Poverty' - might be worth a look for ideas?

choccy999

Thanks for the website tips. Will bookmark them and take a look.

Leftover tuna fishcakes tonight for tea - combined tuna with cooked frozen mash, cooked frozen onions and added some dried parsley, salt and pepper. Formed into patties and chilled for 10 mins, then fried in a bit of oil. Really nice and had them with some cooked frozen broccoli.

Towser

Did anybody see this yeaterday?

Danielle manages to feed her family of five and her dog for just £38 a week
Large gammon joint - £4.25
Medium British Cheddar - £1.49
Fresh semi-skimmed milk - £0.95
Breaded chicken steaks - £1.59
Breaded chicken steaks - £1.59
Chicken breast 300g - £1.79
Beef mince 500g - £2.29
Baby potatoes - £0.79
White potatoes - £1.19
Ready rolled pastry - £0.89
Butcher's select pork - £1.29
Butcher's select pork - £1.29
Greek style yogurt 500 - £0.69
Greek style salad cheese - £0.75
Mushrooms - chestnut - £0.55
Garlic baguette - £0.34
Garlic baguette - £0.34
Passata - £0.35
Ready-to-serve custard - £0.49
Specially selected grapes - £0.99
Pork fillet (0.566kg x GBP 6.49/kg) - £3.67
Squeezy mayonnaise - £0.75
Chopped tomatoes - £0.25
Chopped tomatoes - £0.25
Pork baked rolls - £0.39
Baked beans - £0.23
Baked beans - £0.23
Double cream 300ml - £0.75
Cucumber - £0.39
Asparagus - £0.55
Iceberg lettuce - £0.42
White seedless grapes - £1.45
Soft medium white load - £0.45
Fresh egg waffles - £0.75
Digestive biscuits - £0.31
30 pack meaty crisps - £2.49
Choc-chip cookies - £0.59
SUB TOTAL: £38.47
All ingredients were bought from Aldi


Monday: Cod in parsley sauce with new potatoes and green beans.
Tuesday: Homemade chicken nuggets, jacket potatoes and salad (I still have breadcrumbs from the schnitzel).
Wednesday: Lasagne, garlic bread
Thursday: Make your own burgers with wedges
Friday: Chicken roast dinner
Saturday: Chicken salad with homemade croutons (using leftover chicken)
Sunday: Koftas, mint yoghurt and savoury rice
Total spend: £38 (including dog food)

Ingredients:
Pack of beef mince (£1.89)
Tinned tomatoes (29p)
Passata (36p)
Beef stock-cube (store cupboard)
Oregano (store cupboard)
Lasagne sheets (29p)
Crème fraîche for the white top (60p)
Cheese to sprinkle on top (store cupboard)
Total spend in Asda and Tesco: £3.43


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Soozy_B

kazmeister wrote: »

The other bits I fried off with some onion then added veg stock and thickened it with a bit of instant mash. It was delicious and made enough for DH and I with cheap part baked baguettes.

Genius to use instant mash to thicken soups - I've not thought of that before.

andygb

Towser wrote: »

Did anybody see this yeaterday?

Danielle manages to feed her family of five and her dog for just £38 a week
Large gammon joint - £4.25
Medium British Cheddar - £1.49
Fresh semi-skimmed milk - £0.95
Breaded chicken steaks - £1.59
Breaded chicken steaks - £1.59
Chicken breast 300g - £1.79
Beef mince 500g - £2.29
Baby potatoes - £0.79
White potatoes - £1.19
Ready rolled pastry - £0.89
Butcher's select pork - £1.29
Butcher's select pork - £1.29
Greek style yogurt 500 - £0.69
Greek style salad cheese - £0.75
Mushrooms - chestnut - £0.55
Garlic baguette - £0.34
Garlic baguette - £0.34
Passata - £0.35
Ready-to-serve custard - £0.49
Specially selected grapes - £0.99
Pork fillet (0.566kg x GBP 6.49/kg) - £3.67
Squeezy mayonnaise - £0.75
Chopped tomatoes - £0.25
Chopped tomatoes - £0.25
Pork baked rolls - £0.39
Baked beans - £0.23
Baked beans - £0.23
Double cream 300ml - £0.75
Cucumber - £0.39
Asparagus - £0.55
Iceberg lettuce - £0.42
White seedless grapes - £1.45
Soft medium white load - £0.45
Fresh egg waffles - £0.75
Digestive biscuits - £0.31
30 pack meaty crisps - £2.49
Choc-chip cookies - £0.59
SUB TOTAL: £38.47
All ingredients were bought from Aldi


Monday: Cod in parsley sauce with new potatoes and green beans.
Tuesday: Homemade chicken nuggets, jacket potatoes and salad (I still have breadcrumbs from the schnitzel).
Wednesday: Lasagne, garlic bread
Thursday: Make your own burgers with wedges
Friday: Chicken roast dinner
Saturday: Chicken salad with homemade croutons (using leftover chicken)
Sunday: Koftas, mint yoghurt and savoury rice
Total spend: £38 (including dog food)

Ingredients:
Pack of beef mince (£1.89)
Tinned tomatoes (29p)
Passata (36p)
Beef stock-cube (store cupboard)
Oregano (store cupboard)
Lasagne sheets (29p)
Crème fraîche for the white top (60p)
Cheese to sprinkle on top (store cupboard)
Total spend in Asda and Tesco: £3.43


Read more: http://www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/food/article-4127308/Thrifty-mother-feeds-family-just-38-week.html#ixzz4W86tWcmQ
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That doesn't seem to add up.
I x 2 litres of milk between 5 people for a week, and no other drinks mentioned?
500g of mince will do 1 meal at a stretch for 5 people yet she has HM burgers and lasagne. I suppose the pork fillet could be for the Koftas.
I don't know how she is going to get a chicken roast dinner for 5 people out of those ingredients.
I cannot see any cod or green beans for Monday, so I suppose she caught the cod and scrumped the green beans form the local farmer.
We are pretty frugal, but we adopt a different approach, buying certain staple items - potatoes, onions, chillis, pappers, herbs, spices, carrots etc - in bulk (4kg onions £1.49) or at knockdown prices (usually 75% off after 6PM in our local supermarket). We also bake bread which is very cost effective, and we cook in bulk (slow cooker mainly) so that we get six to eight portions of a meal.

MallyGirl

not sure what the dog ate either!
Mine get through 3 or 4 lbs of raw meat between them each day

PasturesNew

Towser wrote: »

Did anybody see this yeaterday?

Danielle manages to feed her family of five and her dog for just £38 a week

Yes - I also saw where she took the family out for a pizza and visited an ice-cream parlour ... which in my book is "food costs" and should've been added in.

Food isn't what you buy in the supermarket ... it's also the peripheral items you buy, snack on, eat out, etc.

I suspect somebody micro-analysing everything she's bought/posts in Facebook could make a big list ... but, life's too short for that for me/most.

But ... while £38 is easily achievable, I think it's not actually how she lives.

andygb wrote: »

That doesn't seem to add up.

The list of meals only has one meal/day. There must be more food consumed than one meal/day, whether you call it breakfast and tea, or you just scoff all day ... there's more food in a day than the one meal/day listed.

prosaver

what about breakfast and lunch?
and chicken salad must be cucumber and lettuce.
sunday lunch sound rubbish too..
Sunday: Koftas, mint yoghurt and savoury rice.
Well i suppose if you want a quick divorce and your kids to leave home its a good idea ..maybe start a new thread off..

andygb

MallyGirl wrote: »

not sure what the dog ate either!
Mine get through 3 or 4 lbs of raw meat between them each day

Maybe the dog provided the meat for the Koftas?

prosaver

andygb wrote: »

Maybe the dog provided the meat for the Koftas?

Like the family s saying weres the dog gone?, when their having their tea.:D