Feed 6 for £1.62

That sounds excellent - and vegetarian too .

Shall we have a challenge to try to beat the cost? Give us something to do over the weekend .

I'm afraid I'm well and truly a carnivore....... vegi things do very little for me........but this sounds good. Thankyou Glad.......though I might just add some meat!

Thanks again

Pink

OK let me try:

500g strong flour (£0.30)
1 sachet fast acting yeast (£0.10)
2 Tbs.veg. oil, pinch salt, pinch oregano, 2 cloves garlic (£0.10p at the most)
1 tin economy tomatoes (£0.15p)
200g cheapest cooking cheese, or edam (£0.60)

Mix flour with fast acting yeast, add salt after mixing, then add oil and enough water to make a soft but not sticky dough.

Knead until smooth, on a floured board, for at least 5 minutes. Put into a floured pan and cover with a cloth dampened in hot water and squeezed. Let grow until doubled in size, in a warm and draugth-proof area of the kitchen.

Meanwhile make sauce: chop the tomatoes from the tin, add a bit of salt and chopped garlic and oregano.

Grate the cheese.

Oil a baking tray (Make sure you use metal because the bottom of pizza needs strong heat to become well crusty).

When dough has had time to grow, give it another few kneads then roll thin (1/2 cm or so) and put on oiled baking tray. Cover with sauce then spread the grated cheese all over it.

Voila, pizza for 6 with £1.25!

When you know how much pizza costs, it makes you think before buying a £6.99 pizza in a restaurant doesn't it?

Incidentally, with the remaining £0.37 a carnivore could buy enough danish salami (cheap but nice-tasting) to have a salami pizza, or a few anchovies, or a bit of cheap ham...

Or you could make a coleslaw salad (1/4 cabbage, 1 onion, 1 carrot, 1 tbsp oil 1 Tbsp vinegar) with the remaining money.

Or an apple compote with a bit of custard for pudding...

I could go on.....

Caterina

Hi 160

I make it a bit of a sport to cook something out of nothing!

When I work (with professional first time mums usually) they are usually used to having a stuffed full fridge and cupboard. Then they have a baby and the shopping/planning goes out of the window (as it does hehehe)!

Then I arrive and they need food as mostly they are breastfeeding and it make them starving all the time, and I say, 'shall I cook you some breakfast/lunch/snack/dinner, whatever' and they say: there is nothing in the cupboard.

But usually there are cupboard things that they don't normally use because in their previous life as bankers/accountants/lawyers they always had fillet steak and ready-cut veg in the fridge, see?

So I make them pasta bakes, pancakes with jam, potato cheese pies and stuff like that, and they LOVE it!

ALL my references from clients mention my cooking, even the ones that I accompany to give birth (I use cooking to distract them before they go to have the baby - or to gently induce birth if it is nearly happening hehehe).

It is just a matter of being creative with what you have got in the cupboard - I love seeing their faces when I make them a 3 course dinner out of a supposed 'nothing'!!!

Have you ever heard of the fairy tale 'Stone Soup'?

Caterina