Can you beat 65p veg curry and rice?

KittyKate

I don't agree that OS and MSE isn't about nutrition. It's about getting the most for your money and it's hardly likely to be top quality ingredients in smartprice tinned food. I could live off 4 x 6p noodles a day, but I don't, my teeth would fall out!

Anyway, veg curry....
3 carrots - 10p
potato - 5p
handful peas - 2p
onion - 5p
2 tomatoes, quartered, 10p
curry paste (squeeze) 5p (from Asian Supermarket)
water
splash milk 1p?


= 38p (serves 2)

plus rice..20p for 2? = 58p for 2 and FAR more nutritious than tinned !!!!!

Edit: based on market prices & Asian supermarket. Might be a few pennies more at big supermarket?

purpleivy

chuckles1066 wrote: »

I don't see that anywhere in the site's charter?

You're either into moneysaving or you're not?

I don't want to appear argumentative, it's not in my nature, but surely MSE is making the best of the resources you have. For some people they will have not alternative but to feed their families on the absolute cheapest food available. For some, that will mean paring their food budget to a minimum, whilst still adhering to basic healthy eating principles,for example 5-a-day.

studentphil

The only reason I use tinned curry is that it is the easist thing to put in a box and warm up for lunch.

phizzimum

if you regularly cook indian food and have the spices in your cupboard you can knock up a meal for next to nothing. an onion, a tin of tomatoes, some lentils and you're done. I used to make a curry with boiled egg (I'd forgotten about that one)

if you're making your own from scratch you can also ring the changes too - pilau rice, or sag aloo, biryani depending on your mood and what's lurking in the fridge

weezl74

phizzimum could you be persuaded to divulge your biryani recipe?

gowanyouknowyouwantto:D

Weezl x

phizzimum

I've never been asked for a recipe before so I'm more than happy to share - only trouble is it's OH's recipe not mine! so I've just consulted him and here goes...

he's got some biryani curry powder that a friend gave us - we've put it in a jar so not sure what the exact ingredients are - it's pretty hot so plenty of chilli I would say, also it's sweet smelling - OH thinks it contains coriander, cardamon and garam masala.

to make the biryani he fries onions, meat, potatoes for about 10 mins. then adds the spices and yoghurt for about another 5 mins

add couple of glasses of water, cover the pan and simmer until meat is tender.

cook the rice your rice for half the usual time, then drain and spread the rice over the meat mixture (but dont mix them up), cover the pan and simmer until rice is fully cooked.

then mix it all up before you serve it.

hope that helps - sorry I can't be more specific about the spices

edited to say - OH says the spice mix contains giant black cardamons

weezl74

sounds lush! I'll be givin it a go. Thanks phizzimum.

Weezl x

netally

In my poorest student days, i'd feed me and my housemates on 6p curry sauce, chickpeas (£1 for 3 tins, so 33p a time) and rice which we brought in sacks from the local asian market. So it's perfectly feasible to feed a group for under a pound. Not the lovliest curry in the world, kind of sweet but nice. I have a big collection of spices now, so find that buying lentils, tinned toms and potatoes make much tastier meals for a few pennies more.

MrsE_2

Can I suggest you change the title to......

Can you (b)eat 65p veg curry and rice?

MrsE_2

KittyKate wrote: »

I don't agree that OS and MSE isn't about nutrition. It's about getting the most for your money and it's hardly likely to be top quality ingredients in smartprice tinned food. I could live off 4 x 6p noodles a day, but I don't, my teeth would fall out!

Anyway, veg curry....
3 carrots - 10p
potato - 5p
handful peas - 2p
onion - 5p
2 tomatoes, quartered, 10p
curry paste (squeeze) 5p (from Asian Supermarket)
water
splash milk 1p?


= 38p (serves 2)

plus rice..20p for 2? = 58p for 2 and FAR more nutritious than tinned !!!!!

Edit: based on market prices & Asian supermarket. Might be a few pennies more at big supermarket?

Now that I would have no problem eating, but a tinned curry urgh