Meal ideas under £1

Stephen_Leak

Diane_239 wrote: »

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

Or mix the cottage cheese with a beaten egg.

tubbee2

tuna cheesebake - 1 tin tuna, 1 small tin sweetcorn, about half a pint of homemade cheese sauce mix, stir it all together, add about 2oz grated cheese and a crushed packet of whatever flavour crisps you've got left over, sprinkled over top. Cook in hot oven for about 20 minutes, serve with rice or jacket potatoes. (Takes about 10 minutes to make and costs about £2.00 with rice and serves 4)

falady

princesstippytoes wrote: »

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 £.

Hi princesstippytoes,

what are devilled mushrooms please?

Thanks,

Ali x

Undersized_Rascal

pigpen wrote: »

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.

Sausages/fish fingers/ value pizza's.....very poor source of protein, can anyone suggest stuff that is a bit healthier
i.e. no dairylea or packet sauces?

bertiebots

I just made a huge pan of spicy lentil and veg soup. Cost about £2-3 and there was enough for about 8 people. I usually serve this with hm bread at about 25p per loaf.
Basically I chopped up a few onions (10p?value asda)
about 8 carrots (20p?)
about 3 leeks (80p?)
2 large spuds diced (10p?)
4 stick of celery (40p?)
Fry this all together in a little oil for about 5 mins
add whatever spices you like(1-2 tsp asda medium curry powder is pretty good)
pour over stock (made with value veg stock cubes 5p?) enough stock to cover all the veg and a bit over.
Add tin of toms (19p)
I then added about 2 large cups of red lentils (20p?very cheap!!)
simmered for about 20 to 30 mins.Just before it was ready I threw in some fresh chopped tomatos that needed using (30p?)
When cooked use a stick blender to wizz it up!! but dont overdo it ..its nice to keep some chunks!
as you can tell I cant work out the exact cost because I just use whatever I have in before my next shop. But my whole weeks worth of fruit & veg costs less than £10 so its very cheap (local market).... Plus I never follow recipes as I always have something differant left in my fridge!!You could make this with whatever veg you like .

Undersized_Rascal

bertiebots wrote: »

I just made a huge pan of spicy lentil and veg soup. Cost about £2-3 and there was enough for about 8 people. I usually serve this with hm bread at about 25p per loaf.
Basically I chopped up a few onions (10p?value asda)
about 8 carrots (20p?)
about 3 leeks (80p?)
2 large spuds diced (10p?)
4 stick of celery (40p?)
Fry this all together in a little oil for about 5 mins
add whatever spices you like(1-2 tsp asda medium curry powder is pretty good)
pour over stock (made with value veg stock cubes 5p?) enough stock to cover all the veg and a bit over.
Add tin of toms (19p)
I then added about 2 large cups of red lentils (20p?very cheap!!)
simmered for about 20 to 30 mins.Just before it was ready I threw in some fresh chopped tomatos that needed using (30p?)
When cooked use a stick blender to wizz it up!! but dont overdo it ..its nice to keep some chunks!
as you can tell I cant work out the exact cost because I just use whatever I have in before my next shop. But my whole weeks worth of fruit & veg costs less than £10 so its very cheap (local market).... Plus I never follow recipes as I always have something differant left in my fridge!!You could make this with whatever veg you like .

Sounds good......i like the bits too

JEFFWT

shazziere wrote: »

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

No - don't usually go to Tesco - but was in ASDA at the weekend and got some 8p noodles (curry or chicken flavour) for the first time.
Not sure if they're similar to the Tesco ones but me & OH tried the curry ones and really enjoyed them (haven't tried the chicken ones yet)

HTH,

Jeff

Austin_Allegro

Skint_Catt wrote: »

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

I do this but use homegrown bean sprouts instead. Add some economy mushrooms and it works out at about 10p a portion.

Bargain_Rzl

I think cooked-from-scratch nutritious meals for under £1 per person are extremely plentiful and easy... if you have a freezer with space in it.

IMHO the sort of person who's likely to think about things in terms of cost per single portion is often going to be a student (ahhh the days of Baby Bellings and a freezer stuffed with other people's junk!) or somebody living in a bedsit or basic studio flat without necessarily any mod cons.

But if you can freeze stuff, the possibilities are endless - thank heavens for batch cooking and reduced-to-clear fresh meat! I usually don't even think about how much my cooking works out at per portion, but I'd guess it's very rare that it comes to above £1. In fact I suspect most of the time it's a lot less.

lotto-dreamer

This is very quick and delicious (but again it serves 4 so is economical if you're cooking for 4 people)

1 x 'own brand' tub garlic and herb soft cheese (Tesco is 65p)
1 x 250g pack bacon -chopped up into bits (value unsmoked bacon .80p)
1 tin chopped tomatoes (21p)
Mushrooms 250g -sliced into chunks (.79)

Pasta Twists or any pasta - cheaper the better

Fry all ingredients except pasta - stirring in garlic and herb cheese last. Pour sauce over cooked pasta.

Approx £3.00 and serves 4.