Meal ideas under £1

timbo86

Ok following on from the veg curry for 65p idea what meals can we come up with for under £1.

One of my favourites has to be good old fashioned bubble and squeak espically on a monday any left over veg from Sunday gets mixed up and fried and is gorgeous with a fried egg.

How about other people, whats yours

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princesstippytoes

Are you looking for ideas for meals for one person or a family?

CLARABEL

pasta, pasta, pasta:beer:

with pesto,
or grated cheese
with tinned tomatoes
or whatever veg you have stirred in ( grated courgette is lovely with a bit of chilli).

or a can of tuna if on offer... still less than a quid for a family!

timbo86

Per person idea's i meant sorry for the confusion

queenpig

Tin of tuna, tin of tomatoes (or 2) (chopped) packet of dried spaghetti.

Cook spaghetti, heat tuna in the tomatos (simmer for about 5-10 minutes)

Serve tuna on the spaghetti.

Tuna bolganise (sp). 79p buying all you need from asda.

lotto-dreamer

Great idea for a thread Looking forward to some more ideas - here's mine

Chinese Pork Stir Fry

Diced pork (or one pork chop/piece of chicken/beef) - sliced thinly e.g. approx £1.75 for 330g)
1 x packet stir fry veg (approx 91p)
1 x packet Blue Dragon chow mein sauce (approx 38p)

Serve with rice!

total cost for 4 is approx £3.50 (includes rice)

quick, cheap and not too much washing up

princesstippytoes

timbo86 wrote: »

Per person idea's i meant sorry for the confusion

Oh that's easy then. Beans on toast are cheap and good for you. Cheese omelette, devilled mushrooms with rice or toast, tuna and pasta bake, spaghetti bolognese, corned beef hash, potato pie, scrambled eggs, homemade burger and oven chips, hotdogs, mushroom risotto, homemade chicken pie, pasty, cottage pie, fried rice, pork caserole. One portion of all of these can be made for less than one £.

PasturesNew

1) Cheese & Potato Pie (with or without onions). Boil half a pound of potatoes, mash them, grate cheese in (quarter of pound), bung in an ovenproof dish, sprinkle some cheese over the top. Cook for about 20 minutes in a pre-heated oven. Cost about 50p.

2) Spanish Omelette: deep omelette made by slicing par-boiled potato slices, onions, other bits you fancy and frying them a bit, before whisking a couple of eggs on top. Can also chuck in a few mixed herbs or cheese if you want. Make one frying pan full - eat half then and put the other half in the fridge to get cold, it's great cold. Total cost probably 50p, so that's 25p just for half.

3) Savoury bread & butter pudding. Follow the basic bread and butter pudding recipe but add in savoury items such as cheese and/or meat leftovers.

e.g. Cheese & Ham Bread & Butter Pudding: Line a shallow ovenproof dish with 3-4 slices of buttered bread. Cover with cheese and ham. Place another 3-4 slices of buttered bread on top. Heat half a pint of milk and 1/4 of an onion in a pan. Add salt and pepper to taste. Pour the hot milk over 2 beaten eggs. Mix together. Pour milk/egg mix over the bread. Bung in a pre-heated oven at 180deg C for 25 mins. Sprinkle cheese over the top and cook for a further 10 minutes or until golden brown. Cost is probably well under £1.

Skint_Catt

8p noodles with a handful of frozen veg thrown in.

PasturesNew

I bought a couple of tins of tuna in hot chilli sauce from Aldi some time back. That was really hot and scrummy. Probably about 40p for the tin from memory. I mixed those with a bag of cheap noodles. That was gorgeous. So that'd be 50p.

westferret

pasta with dairylea and ham (add a few veg as well if you want)