Show Jamie How To Cook On A Budget Champagne Contest

joannasmum

I putting this in because its J's favourite at the moment.

Spagetti with Meatballs in creamy tomato sauce

1 quantity of HM Tomato sauce (recipe below) 69p
6 sausages (I've priced up Tescos finest on 3 pack for a £5) £1.66
1/4 pk of Cream cheese £0.16
1/2 pk of Spagetti £0.20
Total £2.72

HM Tomato sauce.

Contains 1 tins of value chopped toms 21p
1 carrots 12p
1 Onion 15p
Garlic clove
Olive Oil to soften veg ,1 squirt of tom puree, Sugar to taste aprox 20p for the lot
Italian dried herbs (I use swartz prob most expensive but we like the combination) 22p
Soften veg then add toms, puree, sugar and herbs simmer until it thickens then either blitz up or leave chunky depending on fussy childrens preferences.
I tend to make this in large batches ie 4-6 tins of toms and freeze it can be used as a base for soups, pasta, chilli and on pizzas. I also tend to add other veg that are lurking in the fridge.

To make the dish

Skin sausages and roll into meatballs.
Dry fry in a non stick pan until cooked.
At the same time put the spagetti on to boil.
Heat the tom sauce in a pan and add the meatballs to it.
When the spagetti is cooked stir in the cream cheese to the tomato sauce
Place the spagetti in a bowl and spoon the sauce and meatballs over the top.

For dessert I would serve
HM Swiss roll with Blackberry jam in it with frozen autumn fruits and HM yogurt over the top (or possibly ice-cream ). I'm to tired to price that up now but I'm sure the whole lot wouldn't come in over a £5

nickym

Ok, here's my entry & also my 1st ever MSE post! :hello:

3 course meal for 4 people for a fiver:

Duck & orange pate with toast
Tuna & sweetcorn pasta bake in mushroom or chicken sauce served with garlic bread.
Bread & butter pudding

Starter:
Duck & orange pate (98p for 170g)
toast (40p)

Main course:
2 tins of Asda smart price tuna (58p, 29p per tin)
1 tin of Asda sp sweetcorn (17p)
1 tin of Campbells mushroom or chicken condensed soup (42p)
250g of Asda sp pasta shapes (10p, bag of 500g costs 19p)
200ml of milk (20p)
50g grated cheese (50p)
2 sp garlic baguettes (72p, 36p each)

Cook the pasta as directed on pack, meanwhile add the soup, milk, tuna & sweetcorn to a pan & warm through.
Once the pasta is cooked add it to the tuna & sweetcorn mixture, stir well then place in an oven proof dish, top with the grated cheese & place under a hot grill for 6 mins or until cheese has melted, serve with the garlic bread.

Pudding:
6 thin slices of bread from sp white loaf (12p, whole loaf 37p)
50g stork maragrine (10p, 500g pack 50p)
1 pint milk (25p)
2 eggs (22p)
40g sugar (9p)
50g currants or sultanas (5p, 43p for 500g pack)

Butter the bread & cut into squares. Place into a 2 pint (1.1 litre) oven proof dish. sprinkle over the dried fruit & sugar. mix the eggs & milk then pour over the other ingredients.
Leave to stand for 20 mins so the bread absorbs the liquid then bake for 45 mins gas mark 3 ( 170c, 325f) until the topping is crisp.

Total is £4.90 :T

kunekune

delete - posted multiple times.

kunekune

Here's mine. Some of the price are guesses, but even at sainsburys prices I think it can be done.

Course 1: spicy carrot soup
Course 2: cornbread, chilli, rice
Course 3: hot cross bun bread & butter pudding

I think this needs (using sainsburys prices, mostly not value range so could get cheaper):

onion - 11p
1 bag carrots (on bogof) - 60p
smidgeon oil - 1p?
chilli - ???
honey - 5p?

kidney beans - 20p
1/2 pepper (expensive at the moment) - 35p
1 onion - 11p
carrots - see above
tinned tomatoes - 29p
squidge of tomato paste - 3p
beef stock - 3p
250g mince - 1.23
rice - 25p

(here it gets to be guess work)

1 1/2 cups SR flour - 9p
1 cup polenta - 15p
1/4 cup cornflour - 2p
1 tsp baking powder - 1p
1/4 cup caster flour - 2p
90g butter - 40p
1 pint milk (part of this is for pudding) - 60p
3 eggs (1 for bread, 2 for pudding) - 60p

and then pudding -

1/2 pack hot cross buns - 50p
rest of milk
2 eggs
1/4 jar marmalade - 10p

TOTAL - 4.70

HariboJunkie

Ok I'm in.

Bruschetta

HM Crusty bread Cost for 4 very thick slices approx 20p

1 tin value plum tomatoes 19p

1 clove garlic (35p per bulb) so approx 5p

8 basil leaves (From garden but plant is 99p in Tesco)

8 leaves around 10p

Toast the sliced bread lightly on one side. Rub the other side with a crushed garlic clove and some olive oil. Toast lightly under grill. Add crushed and sieved plum tomatoes and basil leaves and serve.

Total cost. 54p

Spaghetti Carbonara

1 pack Value spaghetti 23p
One third pack of value mushrooms 50p
Tesco value smoked bacon 80p
Half carton Elmlea double cream 24p
2 medium free range eggs 43p
Splash white wine
Garlic 10p

Cook Pasta
Fry bacon, mushrooms and garlic, add wine and simmer. Add cream and drained pasta and mix well. Add 2 beaten eggs and stir well over a low heat.

Total cost. £2.30

Banoffee Meringues

3 egg whites 65p
175g caster sugar (7.7p per 100g) approx 15p
Other half of Elmlea double cream used in Carbonara whipped.
2 bananas 28p
Tin condensed milk 99p

Make meringues. Recipe here.
Boil unopened tin of milk for approx 3 hours until it becomes toffee sauce.
Spread toffee sauce on cooked meringues.
Add chopped bananas and top with whipped cream.

Total cost £2.07

Overall cost for 3 courses for 4 people £4.91

Dammit. paulie's girl has done bruschetta too so I'll think of another starter and edit this later. Edit again, Paulie's girl says to leave it in so I will.

pretz_2

ok im having trouble as i dont quite understand does the recipe have to be all brought ingrediants or can you include store cupboard food which most will have

freyasmum

I have just noticed this thread and done my best. It's late though so I may be back tomorrow to edit If we were allowed to use store cupboard ingredients, then I could have so many more puddings.

Mine comes in at £5.28, but that is using the full pack price. There will be some ingredients left over for use another day.

Split Pea and Ham Soup, Spaghetti Carbonara and Ice Cream with Peaches

Smoked, Streaky Bacon 12 slices/1.36
Split Yellow Peas, 39p/500g
Stock Cubes 19p/10
1 onion 15p
UHT double cream 73p/250ml
Eggs 73p/6
Spaghetti 23p/500g
Garlic 35p/head
Tinned Peaches 16p
Uht milk 44/ltr
Caster Sugar 55p/500g
£5.28


Split Pea and Ham Soup
250g split peas
2 stock cubes
4 slices bacon
900mls water
1. Fry bacon.
2. Put the split peas into a pot with the stock and bacon. Cook till peas are soft. Taste, and season if needed.

Spaghetti Carbonara
1 onion, chopped
1-2 cloves garlic
8 slices bacon, chopped
150ml/5fl oz double cream
4 eggs
400g spaghetti
1. Soften the onions in a pan for two minutes.
2. Add the garlic and bacon and fry for another 3-4 minutes.
3. Add the cream to the pan and then the eggs.
4. Cook the spaghetti according to the packet instructions and drain.
5. Add the spaghetti to the pan with the sauce and stir through to coat the pasta.

Ice Cream with Peaches
100mls double cream (left over from carbonara)
100mls milk
40g sugar
1. Combine all ingredients well in a freezer safe container and freeze, stirring every few hours until frozen. Or combine all ingredients in ice cream machine until smooth and frozen.
2. When frozen and smooth, serve with tinned peaches.

moo2moo

Mexican Enchiladas

Turkey Mince (£1.38 Sainsburys)
Baked Beans (£0.20p Sainsburys)
Onions
Garlic
Mushrooms
Pepper
Herbs and spices from the store cupboard
Tortilla Wraps (2x8 packs for £1.38 Tesco BOGOF - a pack for next time)
Home made cheese sauce

Fry onions and garlic add turkey mince and mushroom, peppers add seasoning to spice up (chilli powder etc.). Add baked beans and tinned tomatoes spice to desired taste.

Either:

(a) place sauce on wrap, add grated cheese, fold in half and fry or
(b) place sauce in wrap, roll up, place in oven dish, repeat until oven dish full and cover in homemade cheese sauce prior to cooking for 40 mins

Lunch the following day - use left over mince mix (of which theres lots) as jacket potato filling.

For dessert

Bread and Butter pudding with Orange and Cointreau

Stale bread, buttered.
Couple of handfuls of mixed dried fruit,

Line bowl with buttered bread and layer alternating between bread and mixed dried fruit

Pour over mix of egg, milk, grated rind of an orange, cinamon and nutmeg with a liberal splash of Cointreau

Bake in oven.

Angelina-M

This recipe is for people who want to really cook from scratch by baking their own bread base but this can easily be substituted for shop bought pizza bases and french sticks for the garlic bread. Remember guys, Delia says cheating is ok


My main meal cost used to be the weekend when we sit down together to watch a film and order a take away. I started doing pizza nights and these go down a storm because I slice up all the ingredients and let everyone 'design' their own pizza. Its a cheap idea for an older childs party too as the kids could be awarded a little prize for the best design.

Menu

Pizza with garlic bread and homemade colslaw with a strawberry and chocolate pudding for afters.

Pizza base
Pizza bread dough
450g Strong white flour
1 small tsp dried yeast
20ml Olive oil
Pinch of salt and sugar
170ml water (potato water is great as it gives a fluffy base)

I make up the dough and leave it for an hour or two to rise.
Roll out the dough to fit the pan size. Smear a teeny bit of olive oil onto the base and then spoon on the tomato sauce, spreading with a knife.

Cook on a medium hot oven for about twenty mins, depending how thick the pizza is.

Pasta sauce
1 tin of tomatoes blitzed smooth with a blender
1 squirt of tomato sauce
Pinch of mixed herbs
Pinch of sugar

Whizz the tin of tomatoes to get out any lumps, then add the other ingredients and simmer until it reduces down to a thick-ish paste.

Toppings
Tin of sweetcorn
1 large onion
Few sliced mushrooms
1 Pepper sliced
1 bag mozzarella cheese

Its really fun to let people/children add their own toppings and the kids usually enjoy this bit as much as watching the film!

Garlic bread
550g Strong white bread flour
340ml water.
2 tsp milk powder.
2tsp honey.
1 tsp Salt.
1 and half tsp fastbake yeast or fresh if you can get it
20ml Extra Virgin Olive Oil
Big dollop of butter
Couple of cloves of garlic
Herbs to sprinkle on top

Bang everything in the breadmaker except the last three ingredients. Select dough setting. When finished, shape into long rolls and leave to rise, pop in a hot oven for about twenty mins. When cooled, cut open and add the bottom three ingredients and pop back in the oven for about ten mins wrapped in tin foil.

Homemade colslaw
Half a white cabbage shredded
Couple of carrots shredded
Value mayonnaise/salad cream

Shred the cabbage and carrots together and mix in the salad cream or mayonnaise. You can of course make your own mayonnaise but this is a quick way.

Pudding
One packet jelly
1 tin evaporated milk
1 cadburys flake

Tear the squares of jelly and add a little bit of water, just enough to let the jelly melt. Then add the tin of evaporated milk and whizz round to make it bubbly. Pop into wine glasses (the kids love that as they think its posh!) when set, crumble a bit of flake on the top.

If I remember correctly, the total price for everything including pudding came in at under a pound a head. Approx £3.80 for four people. Of course this will be different if you buy the pizza bases and french sticks for the garlic bread.

Here's my sons pizza that he made himself (he is very proud!) - complete with a nice dish of homemade colslaw!

Bogof_Babe

Vegetarian meal

Carrot & lentil soup, Beanfeast spag bol, trifle

Carrot & lentil soup:
2 large carrots 15p
2 medium potatoes 15p
1/4 bag red lentils 17p
1 small onion 8p
splash soy sauce 5p
stock cube 5p
Total: 65p
Crusty bread to serve (half long french stick, sliced) 25p
Butter or spread 10p (if you have a butter curler it goes further )

Peel & rougly chop all veg. Make up stock to about 1.5 pints. Put all ingredients into saucepan and simmer until veg is cooked. Blitz in liquidizer or with blender.

Beanfeast spag bol:
Packet Beanfeast or similar 73p (Asda own brand is 58p but not tried it yet)
1 tin chopped tomatoes 23p
1 small onion 8p
splash soy sauce 5p
packet spaghetti (2/3rds avg pack will serve 4) 35p
Teaspoon value chopped mixed herbs 5p
Total: £1.49
Serve with rest of french stick 25p
Butter or spread 10p

Make up Beanfeast as per instrucs. Add tomatoes, chopped onion and soy sauce. Simmer until Beanfeast cooked and onion softened - about 25 mins.


Trifle: (all prices guessed)
Value jelly 30p
Value swiss roll 30p
Value custard 21p (I know this one)
Value tinned fruit 35p
Small tub whipping cream 60p
Total: £1.76

Slice swiss roll and arrange in serving bowl or individual dishes. Drain fruit, reserving juice. Place fruit in serving bowl/s. Add jelly to juice and make up to 1 pint (assuming instrucs on jelly say 1 pt) with boiling water. Pour over swiss roll & fruit. Allow to cool and set. Add custard, top with whipped cream. Decorate with a couple of pieces of fruit reserved from tin if desired.

Total for four servings: £4.60

I don't know if Beanfeast is cheating, but it tastes much better than soya mince.

3rd edit . Could make crusty bread & butter or spread into garlic bread to go with spag bol - add 10p for garlic cloves or garlic granules and 5p for mixed herbs. Mix garlic, herbs & butter, spread onto sliced french stick, arrange back into loaf and cook in tinfoil for 15 mins in oven. New grand total: £4.75.