| favorite cheap meals? 15:31 - Jan 8 with 13245 views | giant_stow |
run out of money again and off to Lidl soon - no Sainsburys delivery this week - oh no! So any ideas for tasty cheap meals?
All i have in my locker is:
Tuna Pasta bake
Spicy bean /sausage stew
Ham and cheese pancakes.
Oh and the cheat's trash food of those mini Goodfella's pizzas
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| favorite cheap meals? on 16:22 - Jan 8 with 1474 views | tonybied |
Download yourself the Too good to go app. You can get food going out of date from supermarkets and left over food from restaurants for cheap prices. It just usually requires a trip to the shop or restaurant just before closing time. If you manage to get restaurant food at least you don't need to pay for the energy required to cook too, if you really are struggling. [Post edited 8 Jan 2024 16:23]
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| favorite cheap meals? on 16:31 - Jan 8 with 1436 views | Chondzoresk |
Get a couple of potatoes, cut into wedges. Cover lightly in oil, smother with salt and pepper. Air fry or bake until crispy. Great snack. |  | | |
| favorite cheap meals? on 16:42 - Jan 8 with 1402 views | Churchman |
| favorite cheap meals? on 16:27 - Jan 8 by NthQldITFC |
You haven't told your house who you support then? 
Jacket potato with tuna/mayo and some broccoli.
Scrambled egg on toast / Garlic tomatoes on toast.
Home made veggie soup - just whizz up whatever's to hand with a blender, making sure you've got a spud or two and an onion in there. With toast! [Post edited 8 Jan 2024 16:29]
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Not forgetting baked beans on toast. If you are bored with the standard beanage you can always zip em up a bit with chilli powder and black pepper.
Baked bean soup is good too. 1 tin of BBs, 1 tin of tinned tomatoes, some 4oz celery chopped, onion chopped, teaspoon mixed herbs, teaspoon chilli powder, clove of garlic, pint of stock, pepper. Bung on the stove to simmer 30 mins, job done. Enjoy with bread (preferably fresh and not that whole grain rubbish with trill in it) and real butter. Not that rancid spreadable oilslick in a tub.
Enough for three lunchtimes minimum - you’ll thank me for it. [Post edited 8 Jan 2024 16:42]
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| favorite cheap meals? on 16:42 - Jan 8 with 1399 views | Buhrer |
Lentils, pulses, rice and peas... make massive curries
Soup.. Leek, potato, onions, stock and seasoning, cream to taste. Or roast a butternut squash. |  | | |
| favorite cheap meals? on 16:43 - Jan 8 with 1385 views | factual_blue |
Charlie Bingham's Swish Pie. |  |
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| favorite cheap meals? on 16:43 - Jan 8 with 1382 views | CBBlue |
Ham, egg, chips and beans
Beans on toast with grated cheese
Like others have said batch cook curry, casserole, chili (bulking all out with lentils) and it'll feed you all for a couple of day or freeze the rest. When we don't have enough leftovers for a full family meal my go-to is serve with a jacket potato or make into cornish pasties.
When I was a very poor student I lived on marmite on toast...I don't necessarily recommend this though. |  |
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| favorite cheap meals? on 16:46 - Jan 8 with 1343 views | giant_stow |
| favorite cheap meals? on 16:22 - Jan 8 by tonybied |
Download yourself the Too good to go app. You can get food going out of date from supermarkets and left over food from restaurants for cheap prices. It just usually requires a trip to the shop or restaurant just before closing time. If you manage to get restaurant food at least you don't need to pay for the energy required to cook too, if you really are struggling. [Post edited 8 Jan 2024 16:23]
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Thank you mr - the energy isn't on pay as you go meter luckily so they don't know we've run out yet, but appreciate the tip (for a couple of week's time maybe!) | |
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| favorite cheap meals? on 16:48 - Jan 8 with 1336 views | giant_stow |
| favorite cheap meals? on 16:43 - Jan 8 by CBBlue |
Ham, egg, chips and beans
Beans on toast with grated cheese
Like others have said batch cook curry, casserole, chili (bulking all out with lentils) and it'll feed you all for a couple of day or freeze the rest. When we don't have enough leftovers for a full family meal my go-to is serve with a jacket potato or make into cornish pasties.
When I was a very poor student I lived on marmite on toast...I don't necessarily recommend this though. |
I had a mate who had a rough spell unemployed after Uni - he cooked up batches of boiled potatoes and onions to eat for days on end. Now a fairly senior civil service manager. | |
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| favorite cheap meals? on 16:49 - Jan 8 with 1331 views | Churchman |
| favorite cheap meals? on 16:43 - Jan 8 by CBBlue |
Ham, egg, chips and beans
Beans on toast with grated cheese
Like others have said batch cook curry, casserole, chili (bulking all out with lentils) and it'll feed you all for a couple of day or freeze the rest. When we don't have enough leftovers for a full family meal my go-to is serve with a jacket potato or make into cornish pasties.
When I was a very poor student I lived on marmite on toast...I don't necessarily recommend this though. |
Mushrooms on toast (ok with a bit of garlic), tomatoes on toast, cheese on toast, sardines on toast, sardine and tomato paste (dirt cheap) on toast. Just about anything on toast works. | | | |
| favorite cheap meals? on 16:50 - Jan 8 with 1317 views | giant_stow |
| favorite cheap meals? on 16:49 - Jan 8 by Churchman |
Mushrooms on toast (ok with a bit of garlic), tomatoes on toast, cheese on toast, sardines on toast, sardine and tomato paste (dirt cheap) on toast. Just about anything on toast works. |
Like the sound of Sardines/mushrooms on toast.
Cheers all - genuinely appreciated. Off to the shops. | |
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| favorite cheap meals? on 16:59 - Jan 8 with 1286 views | factual_blue |
| favorite cheap meals? on 16:48 - Jan 8 by giant_stow |
I had a mate who had a rough spell unemployed after Uni - he cooked up batches of boiled potatoes and onions to eat for days on end. Now a fairly senior civil service manager. |
Our economic history lecturer told us the navvies built the canals in the 18th/19th century fuelled by a diet of entirely potatoes - about 10lbs per navvy per day. | |
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| favorite cheap meals? on 17:04 - Jan 8 with 1258 views | Buhrer |
| favorite cheap meals? on 16:50 - Jan 8 by giant_stow |
Like the sound of Sardines/mushrooms on toast.
Cheers all - genuinely appreciated. Off to the shops. |
Perhaps a tuna melt then? Toasted bread with a tuna mayo mix on top with included onion/gherkins/chilli's, with grated cheese to melt on top. | | | |
| favorite cheap meals? on 17:05 - Jan 8 with 1251 views | J2BLUE |
| favorite cheap meals? on 16:59 - Jan 8 by factual_blue |
Our economic history lecturer told us the navvies built the canals in the 18th/19th century fuelled by a diet of entirely potatoes - about 10lbs per navvy per day. |
People have survived on pretty much nothing but potatoes for ages. One man ate nothing else (apart from spices and ketchup) for a year. |  | | |
| favorite cheap meals? on 17:06 - Jan 8 with 1250 views | factual_blue |
| favorite cheap meals? on 15:42 - Jan 8 by giant_stow |
Cheers both. What cut of meet for the Beef / Ale pie please? (sorry if this is a stupid question. |
If you go to a proper butcher, get featherblade or skirt.
And for a decent roast, seek out the highly under-rated aitchbone. | |
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| favorite cheap meals? on 17:06 - Jan 8 with 1250 views | Coastalblue |
Grab a recipe for a red lentil dahl, easy to cook, cheap and filling and again you can batch cook, and it's extremely tasty too. |  |
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| favorite cheap meals? on 17:09 - Jan 8 with 1230 views | NthQldITFC |
| favorite cheap meals? on 17:06 - Jan 8 by Coastalblue |
Grab a recipe for a red lentil dahl, easy to cook, cheap and filling and again you can batch cook, and it's extremely tasty too. |
Parp! |  |
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| favorite cheap meals? on 17:10 - Jan 8 with 1213 views | Herbivore |
Dhal is the budget conscious cook's friend. Lentils are dirt cheap and go a long way, good source of protein and fibre as well. |  |
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| favorite cheap meals? on 17:15 - Jan 8 with 1182 views | giant_stow |
| favorite cheap meals? on 17:04 - Jan 8 by Buhrer |
Perhaps a tuna melt then? Toasted bread with a tuna mayo mix on top with included onion/gherkins/chilli's, with grated cheese to melt on top. |
Sounds delicious! | |
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| favorite cheap meals? on 17:15 - Jan 8 with 1181 views | factual_blue |
| favorite cheap meals? on 16:09 - Jan 8 by giant_stow |
Funnily enough, a restaurant is the main one - maybe I ought to turn up there with the family wearing rags demanding food? |
Stand your ragamuffin kids outside with begging bowls and signs saying 'we have to beg because this restaurant owes our daddy a shed load of money'.
They'll pay up, and the kids will get a couple of nights with Social Services, so win-win for you.
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| favorite cheap meals? on 17:23 - Jan 8 with 1157 views | Buhrer |
| favorite cheap meals? on 17:15 - Jan 8 by giant_stow |
Sounds delicious! |
It is, became one of my go tos after reading this. https://www.theguardian.com/fo
Its the mix of cheese, tuna and vinegar of the gherkins. I sometimes use pickled onions. I recommend using tuna in olive oil, but appreciate that's not cheap. | | | |
| favorite cheap meals? on 17:41 - Jan 8 with 1125 views | hoppy |
| favorite cheap meals? on 17:06 - Jan 8 by factual_blue |
If you go to a proper butcher, get featherblade or skirt.
And for a decent roast, seek out the highly under-rated aitchbone. |
Added bonus is, if he's going for skirt... his sister might feed him whilst he's round there...
*see also: roast. [Post edited 8 Jan 2024 17:41]
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| favorite cheap meals? on 17:42 - Jan 8 with 1116 views | emergencylime |
| favorite cheap meals? on 15:54 - Jan 8 by BiGDonnie |
Dust. |
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| favorite cheap meals? on 17:45 - Jan 8 with 1103 views | bluearmy4838 |
| favorite cheap meals? on 17:42 - Jan 8 by emergencylime |
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High in fat, low in fat? |  | | |
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