Got £1 and hungry

ladymacbeth_uk

I love the pasta suggestions...
For a quick snack - tin of soup (can get as cheap as 19p in Asda) and a couple of potatoes (20/30p?). Boil potatoes and put chunks into soup or mash potatoes and add to soup - uuummmmm!

Also Greggs the sandwich shop sell all sarnies at £1 between 3 & 4pm each day!! Could pick up your lunch for the next day (wouldn't worry too much about the use by date if you are eating it the next day especially if you play it safe with something like cheese salad)

Strepsy

Bogof_Babe wrote:

I enjoyed the £1.62 to feed 6 thread, but a lot of the suggestions assumed you were using a bit of something you had bought for more per pack than the amount used - if that makes sense ???.

I've been thinking about having just one measly quid in your pocket, and how far you could make it go, assuming you have no extra ingredients to bulk it out.

My best plan is 19p for a loaf of Economy bread, 67p for a tub of Sainsbury cheese spread, and 11p for a tin of economy baked beans. Total 97p.

I reckon in desperate straits you could live on this for two days (or two people for one day, of course) - plain toast (2 slices per person) with a scrape of cheese spread for breakfast; cream cheese sandwiches for lunch (doesn't need any butter or butter substitute) and half a tin of beans on toast for supper. Naturally all washed down with good old fashioned tap water!

Over to you....

You could get one of those little miniature jam pots from Morrisons instead of the cream cheese. I don't know how much they are but it would leave enough for a piece of fruit, maybe 2, or a pint of milk.

EagerLearner

My suggestion would be:

Dinner for one person (£0.61p)

Chicken Curry Noodles - £0.08p at Sainsburys (Value range)
Sweetcorn - £0.19 at Sainsburys (only half a tin needed per person = £0.08)
1 x carrot sliced into small sticks - £0.10
3 x Mushrooms sliced - £0.15
1 x Onion - £0.10
1 x clove garlic - £0.10

Boil carrots - when ready drain. Rinse saucepan and cook the noodles in it to save on washing up. Noodles only take 2 mins.

When noodles ready, fry onion in another pan and add clove of garlic. Add sweetcorn, mushroom and carrot sticks.

Then add the noodles & pop on a plate...

CoD_2

i'd buy economy pasta, 33p, tinned tomatoes but not the chopped ones are they're 2p more so 13p, some really cheap cheese.... and umm oodles of water

katglasgow

When we are really skint this is one of our favourites:
Stiry Fry a pack of Asda Smart price Stiry Fry Veg - 50/60p (contains beansprouts, noodles, peppers and onions)
When veg is almost ready tip in 2 packets of Asda SMart Price Noodles with Curry Flavour sachets - 8p each. Add some boiling water (half a mug?) and sprinle over curry sachets. Mix well, add lid and leave to cook (5 mins).
For a smart price meal it tastes fab!
If I have scraps of meat in freezer from prvious roast dinners I might add some of them but its perfectly nice as a veggie meal and makes 2 generous portions.
Cost c.75p

VickyM_2

I cant remember the exact details, but when I went out with a veggie about 100 years ago, when he was skint (frequently) he'd make lentil dahl. Basically chop and fry one onion, add whatever curry powder you have and fry for a sec. then tip in red lentils, cover with water and leave to cook until lentils are soft and water absorbed. Serve with brown rice. If he was feeling really flush he'd add a tin of pineapple to the dahl... I can't imagine all that would cost more than a pound!

Mirtos

250gr lentils (30p per 500gr from market)1onion, chopped. 10p?1 tomato chopped. 10p?1 clove garlic (out of a bulb for 15p)1 finely chopped chilli 10p.pinch of salt either pinched from a cafe or bought for 25p or less from market tap water. Boil together until lentils soft. and veg all squishy and dissolved. Eat. lovely.

Quackers

How & why does an almost 2 year old thread appear from nowhere

:rotfl:

Oh, I love lentil dhal.

Its just called 'lentils' in our house.

Penny-Pincher!!

Our local chippy does a wicked kids sausage and chips for £1:D

Strepsy

Quackers wrote:

How & why does an almost 2 year old thread appear from nowhere

:rotfl:

Oh, I love lentil dhal.

Its just called 'lentils' in our house.

Oh yes, I never noticed that!

I'm going to try it though. Can't see hubby and kids doing it but I will.