I often make soups that last a few days:
Fish and leek soup
Cup red lentils, soaked overnight
cup pearl barley
one or two pieces of white fish (frozen cheap stuff)
one medium leek, chopped
couple of veggie stock cubes
Salt, pepper, some curry powder if you're feeling adventurous
Boil. it all up for an hour or so and then add some cheap veg gravy powder if it needs a better texture.
Delicious!
Tomorrow I'm going to try my own recipe
butternut squash and blackeye bean soup with mushrooms (recipe undecided, but I may add some potatoes to the mix and of cousre whatever seasoning takes my fancy as I've never made it before)
For lunch I often like to have cold
home-made peas pudding (dried yellow split peas are quite cheap)
on 4-grain ryvita (which isn't so cheap)
with some tomato ketchup on top of each slice. It's flpping yummy and the cheapness of the peas pudding and ketchup makes up for the fact that 4-grain ryvita has gone up in price quite a lot. You can put it on what you like though, I suppose, I just find it very scrummy like that.
Roasted veg and economy brand frozen fish portion in batter is one I did this week a couple of times. If you have a big saucepan, prepare a big batch of veg (whatever you like/can afford) like this:
Parsnips
Potatoes
Carrots
Celery
Onions
One large mild pepper
Peel and cut all veg into chunks, parboil, drain and toss in oil (I've used mustard oil from my local Sri Lankan-run convenience store, although it says on the bottle "for external use only" but that's just EU regs, it's edible).
Lay out what you want on a small roasting tray and pop a cheap piece of frozen "what fish" (goodness knows what's in it, but it contains protein and tastes ok) and roast in the oven together mark 7 or 8 (~220 C I think) for 20-30 minutes.
I guess it might have been the extra zing from the mustard oil (labelled "for external use only" may be why it wasn't very expensive - 89p for a smallish bottle), but it was totally delicious. I'm afraid I did put some kethup on it as well. I've loved ketchup since a child and although I don't put it on everything, it brightens up most of the meals that the veg gravy granules don't!