Meal ideas under £1

Pitlanepiglet

Cheesy pasta and tuna....homemade cheese sauce with a tin of pasta mixed in, pasta partially cooked in hot water, mix together, grate more cheese on top, bung in oven for 20 minutes - loverly and cheap! Could add veg if you've got some to hand....I was going to put onions and peas in tonight but forgot!

super41

Tuna savoury pancakes

Make up batch of pancakes using a couple of eggs. Roll them up with tuna and place in an oven-proof dish. Make a white sauce, season and pour over. Grate cheese over and bake in a hot oven till cheese has melted.

We had this tonight and the kids love it.

Not sure on exact costings but I would think the whole lot would come in at under £2 for a family of four.

mark55man

Skint_Catt wrote: »

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

That's my boy's favorite. he would eat it every meal if he could.

handful of peas, sweetcorn to stop him getting scurvy whilst I'm whistling to the bank

he also likes a quarter of a pack of Mr T's smoked salmon trimmings which adds another 30p

pigpen

per person in my house is DEAD easy.. that would mean I had £10 to feed everyone.. I can do it with £2.50!!! (or less)

4lb spuds (42p)
mixed frozen veg (50p)
20 sausages (£1.30)
10 birds eye fish fingers (25p)

That will feed everyone!.. junk food but they are fed!!

We also get value pizza (64p) and top them.. mushrooms, cheese, ham, pineapple, whatever we have in basically!! .. 2 of those insteasd of the sausage and fish fingers fill people up.

vodkawitch1

Soups! whatever is cheap, mushrooms, etc.

foreign_correspondent

for a quid each you can make some lovely meals....

Shepherds pie / cottage pie - brown choped onions, minced beef or lamb, finely chopped carrots and celery, then add gravy and let it simmer - top with mash and brown under the grill - lovely! serve with veggies
Spag bol and garlic bread
Fish pie (flaked fish - any sorts, smoked or plain -and peas in a cheese or parsley sauce topped with mash)
Home made pizzas with lots of lovely toppings and a good green salad
Stew (buy shin beef for cheap tasty meat that is best really slow cooked) with onions, root veg, stock and thicken the gravy. Add tomato paste, herbs or some wine or beer for variety.
Chilli - veg or meat chilli with potato wedges, sour cream or guacamole and tortillas
Fajitas - chicken and veggies stir fried with tomato and mexican spices, wrapped in tortilla wraps with salad, salsa cheese and sour cream,

Jacket spuds (buttered!) with green salad and home made coleslaw and cheese

With a lot of these you could have a class of wine or a beer with it, and still spend less than £1 per head!

good luck

shazziere

slightly off topic but....the 8p noodles have disappeared from my tesco.i'm gutted.Has anyone else noticed this?

mummy2jack

shazziere wrote: »

slightly off topic but....the 8p noodles have disappeared from my tesco.i'm gutted.Has anyone else noticed this?

I too have noticed that in our local Tescos

Stephen_Leak

I did myself 2 servings of the mushroom curry (recipe in the 65p veg' curry thread mentioned above) over the weekend for 62p for 250g of mushrooms and 34p for the pot of yoghurt. Strictly speaking, you need to factor in all the other things like onions, garlic, oil, chilli powder & spices, and the rice you serve it with, but that shouldn't double the overall cost.

There were still loads of SP noodles in ASDA: not the Great Noodle Famine of 2008 quite yet!

Diane_239

Tin of corn beef,mix in chopped onion top with cottage cheese and bake for 15 mins gas 4.serve with salad