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queenpig

Value brands used as and when, prices taken from part used jars ect and whats in store cuboard......

Prawn cocktail starter.

Good scoop of mayo 20p
Glug of ketchup 5p
Half head of lettuce 25p
cucumber 20p
tomato 20p
Prawns 80p
£1.70

mix mayo and ketchup together, add prawns serve on top of lettuce and cucumber, and a wedge of tomato on top.

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Main meal.

Spanish beef rice.
Mince £1.00
Tomato condensed soup 45p
Value rice 30p
onion 10p
half-ish cup of water
dash of pepper and garlic powder 10p-ish
fry mince and onion then drain, add soup water, and rice cook till rice is soft.
£1.95

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Sweet. Pear Jelly.

Gelatine 11p
Tinned pears 25p
Apple juice 10p
Sugar 5p

51p

I think and hope that is right.

Little_Miss_Saver

I'm loving this thread and there are some fab ideas, struggled abit with the 3 courses as I only normally cook a main meal for 2 people!!

Anyway, here's my "menu" and this will feed 4 people.

Starter:- Tomato & Basil Soup and HM Bread Rolls. Total £0.61p

2 x tins of value tomato soup = £0.36p
Teaspoon Dried Basil = £0.05p?
HM Bread Rolls = £0.20p approx

Heat soup in saucepan and add dried basil, serve with warm bread rolls.

Main Course:- Spanish Chicken. Total £2.90p

Value Chicken Breasts (Diced)= £2.00
Value Long Grain Rice = £0.11p
Onion = £0.10p
Red Pepper = £0.43p
Stock Cube = £0.08p
Handful of Peas (value) = £0.10p
Teaspoon of Tumeric = £0.05p
2 x Tablespoons of oil - £0.03p

Put stock cube and tumeric into 1.5 pint jug of boiling water and leave to infuse. In meantime fry chicken in oil in large frying pan until sealed, add onion and pepper and fry until soft. Add stock and rice to frying pan and simmer until rice is tender. Add peas to pan a couple of minutes before serving. Add extra water if needed.

Pudding:- Bananas & Custard. Total £0.61p

4 x Bananas = £0.50p
1 sachet of value custard powder = £0.11p


Total Cost:- £4.12 based on tescos prices.

LMS xx

Bob12

Below is a recipe for an awesome soup, ideal as a starter or quick lunch. It's done from scratch in 10 mins. Tastes expensive, but costs pennies.

Mexican Chickpea & Lemon Soup

1 large onion, peeled & chopped (10p)
3 cloves garlic, peeled & chopped (10p)
1 tbsp olive oil (5p)
400g can chickpeas, drained (33p (3for£1))
1.5 pints chicken or veg stock from cubes (oxo or Kallo) (15p)
3 tbsp chopped fresh mint (30p)
grated rind and juice of 1 lemon (23p)

salt & pepper (???p)

to serve
French stick or any crusty bread (55p for french stick)

Serves 4

1. Fry onion and garlic in oil until lightly browned.
2. Add chickpeas, cook for further 1 minute. Add stock, bring to boil and cook for five minutes.
3. Puree the mixture in food processor or with a hand blender. Stir in the mint, lemon rind and juice and season to taste. Serve with a garnish of fresh mint leaves and sliced french stick. Enjoy.

Total Cost: £1.81 approx. with bread

I love this soup, hope you do too. More recipes to follow when I find more time.

weezl74

Here's my offering, apart from the bread, It's in the order you'd do the cooking, not the eating order!


Home made banoffeetana ice cream

Cook 1 kg bananas in 5 tbsps water, a little sugar or honey and 2 tsp ginger (you could use cinnamon, also yummy)
Soak 500g sultanas in just boiled water until plumped up.
Allow both to cool down
Whip the cream to soft peaks
Combine the sultanas, drained, in with the banana puree and stir
Gently fold the fruit into the cream, taking care not to knock the air out of it. You can add a couple of tablespoons of the cream to the fruit first and stir it in, which will help with the folding in to the main batch of cream.
Pour into a large Tupperware and freeze.
Makes 12 servings, each one containing 2 of your 5 a day, and will do as pudding for 3 meals for a family of 4. 70p for 4 of you.

Faggotty-meatloaf in sweet spicy tomato sauce

(these are not really faggots, as they don’t have any heart!, but they were too mushy to make into balls once so I baked them in a loaf tin, with yummy consequences!);)
Fry the mince and liver until the liver is browned and the mince cooked through, drain off excess fat.
Put the meat into a food mixer, and pulse whilst adding breadcrumbs egg, garlic and hydrated onions and pulse until mixed. Add dried or fresh herbs.
Don’t throw away the onion water! Use it as a base for soup (below), or a gravy, or to soak dried pulses in…
Spoon the mix into 3 greased loaf tins. Bake at the same time as the wedges.
In a saucepan put 2 cans chopped toms, 2 dessertspoons honey, 1 dessertspoon vinegar and 1 tsp chilli until its been bubbling for 5 mins. Carve the loaf into 12 slices, and serve 3 slices each with the sauce poured over, then freeze the other 2 loaves for more evening meals!
£1.52 for 4 people

Home made wedges

Cut 2 potatoes per person in to eighths long ways, so each one looks like an orange segment(!)
Put in a food bag with 2 dessertspoons of olive oil and some ground black pepper. Shake and scrunge the wedges around in the mix (n.b- hands outside the bag, it’s there to keep you clean!)
Put on a baking tray and cook on GM 5 for 45 mins
57p for 4 people

Bean and pesto soup

Cook 1 bag frozen broad beans and 1 medium peeled and diced potato in the onion stock until beans and potato are tender.
Blitz well in liquidiser, add ¼ jar of pesto.
Salt and pepper to taste.
4 portions including melba toasts is 57p

melba toasts

Toast 4 slices of home made wholemeal bread
Slice each piece of toast in half to make 2 very thin toasts, with an untoasted and a toasted side.
Place on a grill tray, untoasted side up, until toasted. Cut diagonally and serve.
Making my 3 course meal grand total= £3.87 I costed it from Sainsburys cos of Jamie, but I wouldn't normally do it from there, I reckon 15% cheaper at Asda!:cool:
It contains 6 of your portions of fruit and veg for the day, so even if you don’t know that everyone ate healthily at breakfast and lunch, you know they’ve had all their fruit and veg, plus one for luck, by bedtime.:j

Just in case anyone’s a stickler and also wants the bread recipe:

Weezl’s fool proof wholemeal bread (adapted from Grant loaf)

1.5 kg bag of wholemeal plain flour- 55p
fresh yeast for free from the bakers!:T
3 tsp salt - .013p (got 500g of salt from lidl for 13p!)
about 2 1/4 pts warm water, add gradually til you get a not too slippy dough.

Mix by hand. No need to knead.(!):D

put into 4 greased or lined loaf tins.

Leave in a warm place to rise for 40 ish mins til dough peeks above the top of the tin.

Bake for 25 mins on gas mark 6, or until browned on top and sounds hollow when tapped with a knuckle.

14p a loaf! 77 cals per slice, if you cut 15 slices per loaf.

Enjoy...

Phew,

Tired now.:o

Weezl x

englishmac

All ingredients ASDA brand products unless stated otherwise - SP indicates Smart Price

Starter: Ham and vegetable soup

£

Chicken stock saved from a previous chicken meal

0.00

1tsp dried mixed herbs

0.02

1 garlic clove

0.04

100g SP frozen sweetcorn

0.07

100g frozen petit pois

0.17

50g SP cornflour

0.06

3 pints water

0.00

Deli counter ham off cut, bought from reduced section, no more than

0.90

50g SP meat gravy granules

0.10

Subtotal

1.36

Add stock and water to a saucepan with frozen sweetcorn and petit pois. Bring to boil. In the meantime, dice the ham. Reduce heat to simmer. Add ham and dried mixed herbs. Crush garlic clove and add to pan. Simmer for 20 mins. Add gravy granules, stirring constantly until they dissolve. Simmer for further 20 mins. Check vegetables; when soft, add 2-3 tbsp water to cornflour. Add to saucepan, stirring all the time. Continue to simmer until soup is desired thickness. Serves 4.



Main course: Garlic Prawn Pasta

£

200g SP Prawns

1.18

1tsp dried mixed herbs

0.02

1 garlic clove

0.04

100g SP frozen sweetcorn

0.07

100g frozen petit pois

0.17

400g Fusili pasta

0.40

1 vegetable Oxo cube

0.06

2tbsp olive oil

0.12

14g SP spreadable butter

0.04

Subtotal

2.09

Cook pasta in a saucepan of water with vegetable Oxo cube, sweetcorn and petit pois. Reduce heat when water starts to boil and simmer until pasta and vegetables are soft. Drain and reserve. Add butter and olive oil to a large frying pan and heat until butter has melted. Add prawns (check all shell is removed before adding to pan). Crush garlic clove and add to frying pan with dried mixed herbs. Fry for a couple of minutes then add pasta and vegetables. Toss ingredients until pasta and vegetables are coated in pan juices. Serves 4.



Dessert: Caramel Apple Rice

£

135g SP Golden Syrup

0.15

140g SP apple sauce

0.25

1apple, diced

0.26

100g easy cook rice

0.09

100g SP raisins

0.08

28g SP spreadable butter

0.07

0.5 pints semi-skimmed milk

0.16

0.75 pints water

0.00

5g ground nutmeg

0.12

Subtotal

1.18

Add dry rice and raisins to microwavable container with milk and water. Microwave on high for 12-15 mins, until rice is soft and has taken up liquid without drying out. When rice is cooked, mix ground nutmeg in with rice and set to one side. Add butter and golden syrup to a large frying pan. Heat until butter is just melting. Add diced apple to frying pan and fry until slightly softened. Add apple sauce and rice mixture to pan. Fry until rice mixture is heated through and is coated with syrup/apple mix. Serves 4.

3 course meal total £4.63

Scorpio_Brighton

Cassoulet: this is a cheat's quick and very simple version of the classic French dish. It's hard to spoil it with even the cheapest ingredients, but the Toulouse sausages are essential. A tasty meal.

Put a large metal casserole on the hob.

Halve six Toulouse sausages and brown them in olive oil.

Chop a large onion quite small, add to the sausages, and fry gently until the onion is soft. If you like garlic, add two or three cloves finely chopped. If you don't like garlic, you might not like Toulouse sausages.

Wash and add a 400g tin of red kidney beans.

Add a 400g tin of chopped tomatoes. I use the Sainsbury's 390g cartons, preferably the 'with basil and oregano' variety, but 'with olives' is good.

Add a 400g tin of baked beans. I like the Sainsbury's reduced salt and sugar ones, not for health but for the flavour.

Finally, chop one or two fresh red or green peppers and add.

It doesn't seem to need any extra seasoning, probably it gets enough salt from the various tins.

You can put the casserole in the oven, but a gentle simmer on the hob is more economical as long as your casserole isn't the sticking kind. Stir occasionally, and give it about 40 minutes for the flavours to blend.

Toulouse Sausages £2?
Onion 20p?
Garlic 10p?
Red kidney beans 15p (Sainsbury's Basics).
Chopped tomatoes 47p A tin could be cheaper, but less flavour.
Baked beans 27p? Supermarket brand.
Peppers 80p?

Total £3.99, leaving a margin for potatoes, slight under-estimating and good olive oil. Prepare to be complimented on your cooking skills!

For a luxury version, a large glass of Sainsbury's Gran Tempranillo wine (60p at 5 glasses to a £2.99 bottle) is good, and using both the 'with olives' and 'with basil and oregano' tomatoes avoids having to choose.

Sorry my recommendations all seem to be Sainsbury's, but reluctantly, it has to be admitted that they offer a pretty good range of economy with quality.

georgoroth

The two best ways to eat for virtually no money is to:

1: Have a good stock of essential ingredients ready at the start of the month, which will cost a lot to begin with but works out cheaper eventually.

2: Cook everything yourself from the absolute basic ingredients, improving your cooking ability and the quality of your meals. And it is always cheaper.

The cheapest food groups for me are beans and pulses, potatoes, pasta and rice for carbs, offal for protein and frozen veg for vitamins. Pancakes are also excellent for a filling cheap meal.

So, the Number 1 budget meal of all time:

George's Indian style haricot beans: 61p

This is the cheapest meal I have ever made, and it is absolutely delicious! as well as being really good for you and suitable for vegetarians. As you can see, you need to have a good spice collection to start with but this works out in the long run as the cheapest and best way of flavouring food.

Feeds two to eight, it depends on how many beans you put in.

Half an onion: 4p
spot of vegetable oil: 2p
handful of dried haricot beans: 10p
small cube of fresh ginger: 5p
2 garlic cloves: 10p
pint of hot water or stock (costs nothing if you make it yourself)
1 chopped tomato: 10p?
1tbsp of coriander seeds: 5p
1tsp cumin seeds: 5p
2tsp paprika powder: 5p
1tsp turmeric: 5p

The night before: Follow the instructions on the packet of beans which will tell you to soak the beans overnight, making them swell up massively.

1: Roast the coriander seeds over a hot dry frying pan for about a minute, and the cumin seeds for about 30 seconds. Allow to cool, then use a pestle and mortar to smash up your seeds. Have all of your ingridients ready in seperate bowls for convinience. liquidise your onion and begin to fry gently with the oil.
2: Smash up your garlic and ginger with a little salt and oil, or just wiz in the blender to make a paste. Add to the onion and prepare for a smell sensation! stir for about a minute. Now add your coriander powder and fry for a minute. If it is too dry, add a splash of hot water. Then add the rest of your spices. Fry for about 30 seconds and add the tomato, giving you a concentrated paste.
3: Add as much water as you want, but remember you can always reduce later to get your preferred thickness. Leave for about 5 minutes to bubble. Now add the beans, and simmer for about 40 minutes with the lid off. For some extra vitamins, add some peas and corn to the curry at the last few minutes of cooking.

Serve with rice, tortillas, pasta, pancakes, or bread. And Enjoy!

George

Blondehotshot

Healthy food from scratch for a fiver -

Original Bulgarian Traditional Dish of Bulgar Wheat and Meat Balls

1 finely chopped onion
1 finely chopped tomato
2 tea mugs of bulgar wheat
4tb sp sunflower oil
2 1/2 tea mugs water
1 or 2 tb sp. paprika
a little bit of salt (2 or 3gr)
The onion+ sunflower oil in a saucepain on moderate hob fire - nearly 10min.
then add, previously washed in a sieve, bulgar wheat to the pan with the onions in sunflower oil, then add the paprika and mix. Add the finely chopped tomato, mix together for 1min.
Add the water and bring to the boil, boil for 20min nd simmer for further 10min.
According to your wishes (but not necessary) you may add thyme, basil or parsley.
Switch off the hob and lieve on the lid of the saucepan while preparing the meatballs.

400g mince meat
1 finely chopped onion
2 - 3gr thyme
5gr black pepper
Not essential but it is a part of the original recipe - Fine dried crumbles of 2 slices of bread firstly soaked in water then drained from it, the final product is formed in dryish crumbles.
Could add 5gr. dried parsley if you like but not essential!
Mix all of the above with the beef mince then make the meat in meat balls, fry in sunflower oil in a pan 7 min each side or until brown.

Half a cucumber chopped in cubes for salad, mix the cucumber with tiny bit of salt, 1 tb sp sunflower or olive oil, 1-2 tea sp balsamic vinegar.
All of this put in four plates and serve!

In addition you can cut in cubes feta cheese to accomplish the meal as feta goes perfectly with the meat and cucumber, beasides it is rich in calcium!

ENJOY!
Total: £4.61
The 39p left I count for the herbs and oil.



QuantityProductPriceDelete1Sainsbury's Feta, French 200g £6.95/kg
£1.391Sainsbury's Cucumber, Portions £0.34/ea
£0.341Sainsbury's Bulgar Wheat, Cracked 500g £1.56/kg
£0.781Sainsbury's Beef Mince, Basics 400g £2.00/kg
£0.802Sainsbury's Onions Loose £0.72/kg
£0.221Sainsbury's Sunflower Oil 1ltr £0.11/100ml
£1.08

Total: £4.61

Blondehotshot

Did you want to know the secret of which famous Bulgarian Salad recipe is NOT boring but also healthy!
Read!



Quantity
ProductPriceDelete1Sainsbury's Flat Leaf Parsley 25g £0.28/10g
£0.691Sainsbury's Red Onions (loose) £0.89/kg
£0.091Sainsbury's Onions Loose £0.72/kg
£0.111Sainsbury's Tomatoes (loose) £1.49/kg
£0.111Sainsbury's Cucumber, Portions £0.34/ea
£0.341Kallo Stock Cubes, Organic Vegetable x6 66g £1.03/100g
£0.681Sainsbury's Easy Cook Rice 500g £0.94/kg
£0.471Sainsbury's Fresh Poussin 450g £5.53/kg
Buy 2 for £4.00


Boil the poussin in a saucepan for 45-50min with 5gr salt. (bring to the boil for 10min then reduce the fire a little bit!) Make sure you have plenty of water to boil it in!

Do not forget salt is a very important part of our diets, we do not require huge quantitites but only a little bit, the iodium or iodine found in the sea salt maintaines a good levels of salts and helps the endocrine system. Please note the salt from crisps is not healthy, in all my recipe's I only use and refer to the SEASALT!:)

During this time chopp finely 1 white onion then simmer in sunflower oil. Wash and drain in a sieve 2 tea mugs of rice then add them to the pan with the onion and sunflower oil - mix and simmer for nearly 10 min, add 1gr of salt and leave aside from the hob, until you have ready boiled the poussin so you are able to get 4 tea mugs of the poussin stock, to add to the saucepan with the rice and to boil the rice for approx 10min with the stock.
According to your wish you can add tyme and / or black pepper.
When you have drained the poussin from the stock, make it in pieces then put it in an oven pyrex add to it the watery rice mixture from the saucepan (here if yo wish you can add a little bit finely diced pasley for flavour) and put it in oven on 170degreeds for 30-45min according to the dryness/wetness or browness/pikness you would like to eat it!
In 30-45min in a conventional oven it is cooked allright, if you oven is not conventional then please conider cooking the meal for further 10 to 15min or until it is slightly brownish on the top!

The FAMOUS Bulgarian Shopska Salad - the only one English society finds "NOT BORING AT ALL!":
1tomato
1red onion
1cucumber
finely dices parsley
a litte bit gently GRATED feta cheese
chopp the tomato, cut in cubes the cucumber, finely diced red onion, add 3tb sp sunflower or olive oil then - wash and rince your hands properly! -and mix with YOUR HANDS the salad mixture with a tiny (1pinch!) bit of salt. On the top of this tastiness add the grated feta cheese!

At this time you would like to have a look on the rice in the oven - look and judge if the rice is cooked ok! It has to stay in the oven for at least 30-45min altogether sometimes more.

Besides this reipe is cookable with a WHOLE chicken instead, do not think that breats are good enough to 'produce' stock! White meat is good but is better to be cooked in different ways not for a stock!:)

For the salad you can chopped add red peppers conserve from a jar (you can find it in Sainsbury's!) makes a marvelous Shopska salad but it costs around £2-3 and our aim here is to advice on cheap & tasty recipes!
Work with your minds & hands!

A.Jones

georgoroth wrote: »

Half an onion: 4p

2 garlic cloves: 10p

You seem to be able to buy an onion for just 8p, yet get charged 40-50p for a garlic bulb?