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Cheap tasty meals to beat the credit crunch?
Has anyone got any recipes for cheap tasty meals?
Thanks ETA not pasta meals please!! I am fed up of them
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1 tin beans (supermarket own brand)
1 loaf white bread (cheapest possible) Heat beans. Toast bread. Pour beans over bread. Serve. For that touch of old-world 1990's-style luxury, spread marge on toast before pouring beans. For true lottery-winner decadence, pour a good gloopy dollop of supermarket own-brand brown sauce into beans while heating. |
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Last night I made cheese and potato bake served with sausages and peas.
That was cheap. So is - Cauliflower cheese with smoked bacon Corned beef hash Mince is versatile - shepherds/ cottage pie, chili, homemade beefburgers. |
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Top 10 Meals on a Budget
http://listverse.com/miscellaneous/t...s-on-a-budget/ |
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ASDA SmartPrice 8p noodles always go down a treat!
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ASDA SmartPrice 8p noodles always go down a treat!
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Potato Bake
3 or 4 potatoes per person, 3 rashers of streaky bacon per person. Slice potato thinly, cut bacon into 1 inch strips, begin with a layer of potato in a cassorole dish, then bacon, potato, bacon and finish with a layer of potato. Drizzle 2 tablespoons water over, cook in a hot over 200c Gas mark 5? (not too sure of the gas) for an hour and a half, serve with baked beans or peas - lovely, and about £1 .50 to feed a family of four. |
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I get those for my brother when he's round cos he loves them except he eats 2 packs.....a whole 16p
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i'm a massive fan of homemade soup! it usually cheap an can fill you up good and proper!!
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A great big pan of root vegetable stew. Costs knack all and just improves with flavour over two days. Have with some good bread and you can't go wrong.
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If ever I am trying to save cash I always go down the soup / beans or cheese on toast / jacket spud / one pot route!
I make sure I buy the "cheaper" veg and by that I don't mean discounted, I mean in season / local. I buy own brand staples (rice / pasta / tins) and I make things that will keep. So to make a chilli or spag bol may cost £5 but I can portion it into 4 or 5 dinners, freeze and hey presto that's £1 each for a nice, healthy, home-cooked meal. |
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Baked beans with bacon, cheese and crushed crisps on the top - put it in the oven until the cheese bubbles. Lovely comfort food!
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I love stews. I buy a cheap cut of meat from the supermarket (reduced on offer if at all poss) and cook it slowly till its melt in the mouth.
I then have a basic roast type dinner with the meat and mash / chips ... whatever. I will then use the leftovers with veggies and gravy to make a delish stew. |
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I love stews. I buy a cheap cut of meat from the supermarket (reduced on offer if at all poss) and cook it slowly till its melt in the mouth.
Mrs G looked like Joan Hickson (Miss Marple), sweet face, but mad as a box of frogs at times. Her money saving idea was to ask the local butcher for dog bones. No dog but fabulous soup - allegedly ![]() Edit: not that I'm suggesting you buy dog bones Porcupine!
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Hamsters on toast.
Just a couple of quid each from your local pet shop. If you don't eat them their mothers will !
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Tin of chicken curry and boil in the bag Basmatti rice, approx £1.30.
Got some Tesco ones, 45% chicken as well.
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Bombay potatoes or should that be Mumbai potatoes?
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In my student days we (communal buying is cheaper if you have flatmates) would buy a big 20 kilo bag of spuds and a tray of eggs-baked spud, real chips & eggs, omlettes, frittata etc. Porridge and noodles made up a large part of our diet too. i reckon the only protein I ate (unless I went home to be fed) for most of those years was eggs and the odd chicken leg- they are usually inexpensive too.
Come to think of it I'm sure there were a few weevils in the cheapo white bread we used to eat too-weevil protein, yum,yum
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God I'm dreading going to Uni now, eating on a budget sounds gross. Beans? Pulses scare me
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On the subject of beans
Celebrity chefs' recipes with baked beans to beat the credit crunch |
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Potato Bake
3 or 4 potatoes per person, 3 rashers of streaky bacon per person. Slice potato thinly, cut bacon into 1 inch strips, begin with a layer of potato in a cassorole dish, then bacon, potato, bacon and finish with a layer of potato. Drizzle 2 tablespoons water over, cook in a hot over 200c Gas mark 5? (not too sure of the gas) for an hour and a half, serve with baked beans or peas - lovely, and about £1 .50 to feed a family of four. |
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Hamsters on toast.
Just a couple of quid each from your local pet shop. If you don't eat them their mothers will ! ![]() |
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Rats are free!
And if you listen to Heather Mills/ McCartney you get a by-product - rat's milk. Only for the brave mind ![]() http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/ukne...her-Mills.html |
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I find gerbils have a more delicate flavour.
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God I'm dreading going to Uni now, eating on a budget sounds gross. Beans? Pulses scare me
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