Your cheapest meal of the week

Mistral001

I bought "cooking bacon" from Tescos for about 60p. That can give five portions. With own brand baked beans, a very small onion and some half price potatoes. I reckon that is 12p + 6p + 4p + 12p = 34p.

[Deleted User]

I had an omelette from two eggs from a y/s pack which cost 30 as there were only 4 eggs in the box so 2 eggs = 15p and I chucked in three chunky diced mushroom stalks (I estimate about 5p) from a box of y/s mushroom that were also 30p
The mushrooms were basic box, but had been obviously not been sold as they were really big ones and there were only 6 in the box ,so I still have six very large chunky misshapen mushrooms and three chunky stalks left to make into a vat of soup tomorrow morning.The mushrooms will make about 5 portions for next week's lunches at 5p per portion which I will have with some crackers so for a total of 60p I will have had a mushroom omelette plus the basis for five lunches next week add the cost of the crackers at 60p per packet £1.20 for 6 meals 20p per meal Its surprising how much can be made from so little .Ok its lunches but its still reasonable and nothing is wasted

joedenise

What recipe do you use for the mushroom soup? I've only made it a couple of times as it just doesn't look nice, although it tastes ok. It just looks a kind of muddy looking!

Denise

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joedenise wrote: »

What recipe do you use for the mushroom soup? I've only made it a couple of times as it just doesn't look nice, although it tastes ok. It just looks a kind of muddy looking!

Denise

lol. hm mushroom soup always looks muddy/rustic!! manufactured soup is designed to look good by adding not so good ingreients!

melanzana

We had truffles with oak smoked salmon and Beluga caviar.

Was the cheapest meal I've had in years. :rotfl:

melanzana

I hope you all realised I was joking in my previous post, and that beans on toast with worcestershire sauce and grated cheese on top was the best this week. So simple, filling and CHEAP!

VfM4meplse

melanzana wrote: »

I hope you all realised I was joking in my previous post, and that beans on toast with worcestershire sauce and grated cheese on top was the best this week. So simple, filling and CHEAP!

I always thought of beans as peasant food but now they are actually not that inexpensive!

She says as she works her way through a YS 10p bag of salad with the tiniest sprinkle of cheese.

Fire_Fox

VfM4meplse wrote: »

I always thought of beans as peasant food but now they are actually not that inexpensive!

To me beans and lentils = delicious Middle Eastern/ Mediterranean/ South Asian peasant dishes. Pulses are still very reasonably priced if you shop at Asian or Arabic grocers or in the World Foods aisle at a large supermarket.

VfM4meplse

Fire_Fox wrote: »

To me beans and lentils = delicious Middle Eastern/ Mediterranean/ South Asian peasant dishes. Pulses are still very reasonably priced if you shop at Asian or Arabic grocers or in the World Foods aisle at a large supermarket.

Agreed - its the stuff sold in tins covered in tomato syrup I was referring to!

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joedenise wrote: »

What recipe do you use for the mushroom soup? I've only made it a couple of times as it just doesn't look nice, although it tastes ok. It just looks a kind of muddy looking!

Denise

Mushroom soup tastes delicious but looks very grey and muddy looking but is so tasty that I really don't mind at all. I like to sprinkle some paprika over a bowl to zizz it up a bit and I also crumble up a cream cracker or two in it as well