Meal ideas under £1

DebtFree2012

Great ideas, will be writing the recipes out later on tonight! Thanks all.

PRINCESSX87

Hi all,

I'm not sure if this one has been said but,

Sausage pasta bake.

I used asda's:-

56p reduced fresh sausages 8 pack
28p Asda's pasta sauce
9p pasta

93p for a meal. This could easy feed 4 & i use up any veg.

Hope this helps! :money:

anrutpea

My partner was complaining about getting sick of eating the same boring sandwiches for lunch at work. I was watching a cookery programme where they made a really cheap and simple tomato and goats cheese tart so made it last night and just got a text off my bloke to say the tart was delicious.

Obvously you can use any cheese you like but I paid attention to the recipe because my fella picked up 2 bits of goats cheese reduced to 29p each and I didn't know what to do with them.

Recipe is:

Herons/Farmfoods double pack of puff pastry 2 x 500g 99p (freeze 1 pack to make another and use 1) 50p each
1 red onion 10p
tomato puree/passata 25p
goats cheese 29p

1) grease a baking tray
2) roll out your pastry to fir the baking tray
3) spread tom puree/passata thinly over the top of the pastry. Don't spead right to the edges, leave about a 1 inch rim around the outside for a crust.
4) top with sliced red onion and lumps of goats cheese
5) season with salt, pepper and dried herbs if you have any kicking about.

Put in the oven gas mark 6 for 20 minutes.

The puff pastry will rise around the edges to make and nice crust.

Ok so it's £1.14 but really tasty and lasted me and my bloke for 2 lunches.

And you have another puff pastry in the freezer so when you want another one all you have to do is defrost it for a few hours.

So low maintenance and really tasty

PaleoSmallSpender

Hallo!
A couple of days ago, reading this made me realise that meals for under £1 aren't that common and that few meals under £1 don't include grains, beans or white potatoes. Being Paleo and a skint student, I've started a blog, inspired by this thread, where I'll be uploading healthy, filling recipes without any "bulking" items that are £1 or less a portion. And you can always add "bulk" on the side to make it go further, if you really want.
Shameless plug: onepoundmeals.blog.com
Hope it's useful!

Teg-Rem

trying to empty out our freezer at the mo and am nearly there. last night was a bit of a nothing much in night, had 3 sausages, 3/4 of an onion. a tomato, tin of b aked beans, some mousetrap end bits and loads of potatoes. Soo, I part fried the sausages and laid them in the base of a dish, fried the onion and put that and the beans on top, then put loads of mash on top of that, and the tomato and grated cheese and baked in the oven till brown. found 1/2 a head of broccolli as a side aswell. It was delicious and filled 3 hungry adult bellies, needless to say I will be doing it again sometime. a potato mpie with whatever bits there are in to go under it seems to be the way to go this winter.

pinkypig

Great ides on here :T
Here's my effort

Pasta bake

Sauce - lightly fry a large onion. Add a hand full of frozen peppers and some chopped garlic (59p HB lasts ages) and a good pinch of Savers mixed herbs and some black pepper. Stir in a tin of value toms and simmer for a couple of mins.

Blitz the sauce with a stick blender or liquidizer.
I then divide in to two small portions (freeze and use to top two large HM pizzas) and one larger portion. Like to try and make everything go a bit further!:rotfl:

Cook bag of savers pasta shapes , drain and stir in larger portion of sauce and 1/2 pint of stock. Pour over about 1/2 pint basic white sauce and sprinkle with a bit of cheese, black pepper and a savers mixed herbs. Bake for around 20 mins on 190 degrees until top is nice and crispy. Feeds greedy family of four!:j

westcoastscot

Need to trim my grocery budget drastically so this thread caught my eye - shall have a good read through - was a little disappointed to see the first entry at the top of this page though - can you really get 8 - 10 chicken drumsticks for a £1?? Does sound lovely though

WCS

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westcoastscot wrote: »

Need to trim my grocery budget drastically so this thread caught my eye - shall have a good read through - was a little disappointed to see the first entry at the top of this page though - can you really get 8 - 10 chicken drumsticks for a £1?? Does sound lovely though

WCS

£1.00 per adult portion

FrugalFranny

One I use a lot is 'toad in the hole':

Ingredients

Serves: 4 (freeze left overs or eat it all at once like my OH does :eek: )

1 oz butter
5/6 pork sausages
4oz flour
pinch of salt
1 egg
300ml milk

1. To make the batter,sift the flour and salt into a bowl.

2. Beat the egg in and gradually add enough milk to form a stiff batter.Set aside for 10 mins.Then add the remaining milk,stirring constantly to get out any lumps (I like to add a pinch of pepper)

3. Melt the butter and pour into an ovenproof dish and add the sausages.
Put them into the oven at 200c/gas mark 6 for 10 mins,or until evenly browned.

4. Pour over the batter and then bake for 30 mins or until the batter is golden brown and has risen.

Don't forget the gravy!

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You can eat it as is (5 a day?...pah! lol), or cut into quarters and serve with some veg/mash. freezing/fridging the extra portions.

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Using basic/smart price brand everything except the sausages from A*da (I get mine from ice*and 20 thick pork sausages for about £1/£2ish) and what ever butter/buttery marg is on offer that week.

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After the initial 'outlay' for the ingredients you can make this dish as many times as you have sausages, 4 times with the ones I get. you'll also have a lot of spare eggs and flour, so just get more sausages, cook up some scrambled eggs, make some pancakes...etc

westcoastscot

thanks for clarifying joolzred! My fault - I read the first post which said meal ideas for a £1 and made assumption on that basis :-)