How much will your main meal cost today (per serving).

[Petitmum]

I'm curious, do you cost out your meals and balance out low / higher cost meals through the week. Reading threads on here I am always shocked by the variation in spending on food, a cheap meal for some is an expensive meal for others.
We are a family of 4 with two teens, all home at the moment so our food bill covers all meals ........I cook from scratch and waste very little. Currently shop in Morrisons and Lidl and on average we spend £80 per week including toiletries and wine (no pets). This time of year we eat a lot of stews/curries / soups / pasta dishes / homemade pizza and roast dinners.
I have just made a huge pot of chicken chilli and decided to cost it out per serving. There must be at least 8 generous portions there which will work out @ £1.05 per serving (plus about 20p each for rice).

(1 kg chicken thigh fillets, onions, frozen peppers, red kidney beans, tinned tomatoes, garlic, chilli and spices = £8.40)

Not sure about tonight specifically but we budget £3 per adult for an evening meal. Some come in less than that, some a bit more.

About £3 per head - home made kedgeree. But we had takeaway yesterday which was £10 per head.

Tonight was salmon, mashed potatoes, green beans and carrots. Melon and blueberries as well. Water to drink. Children had salmon/home made fish cakes due to preferences. So for an adult about £2. Try to have fish twice a week.

Last night's dinner was a bit special to treat myself so probably around £8. I had rose veal escalope, I made a Marsala sauce, potatoes dauphinois, and asparagus. It was bloody lovely.

The night before was around £4 stir fried rice and veg with hoi sin sauce and garlic, ginger and chilli salmon.

Today we are having veg soup with warm crusty bread for lunch and homemade pizza with homemade coleslaw for dinner.

30p per serving for the soup and 20p for the bread.
£1.25 per serving for the pizza and 25p per serving for the coleslaw.

Pizza, garlic bread and salad. About £2.50 each.

We are having a small chicken plus veg - hard to cost exactly because the veg will come out of the big bags in the freezer. The leftovers will do tomorrow's meal as well (there are just 2 of us). I'd guess about £2.00 counting it as 4 meals altogether, most of that on the chicken..

I'm making a bolognese today.

Ingredients come to about £6.50 so divided into 4 it's around £1.60 per person.

I'm having roast veg instead of the pasta so mine may be a little different but close enough price.

Homemade meatballs and pasta, about £5 in total for four decent portions, £1.25 each

Prob about six quid a head.

Five adults one child.

Lamb, roast potatoes, mash, red cabbage, sprouts with bacon, pigs in blankets, parsnips, peas, carrot and swede, broccoli, Cauliflower, sausage at
Stuffing.

I'm doing a chicken pasta thing. This will serve 2 of us. So 2 chicken breasts, 2 quid. A few mushrooms, 50p. 2 portions of tagliatelle, probably about 10p. Some double cream, parmesan, pepper and a slug of white wine to make the sauce. Under £3 per head I'd say.

Roast chicken, roast potatoes, Savoy cabbage, tender stem broccoli, honey carrots and gravy.
£13.20 in total so £2.60ish a head for four adults and a child. Plus enough chicken leftover to go into tomorrow’s soup for lunch.

Roast pork, roast potatoes, stuffing balls, Yorkshire pudding, carrots, peas, broccoli, green beans, sweetcorn, mushroom and onion gravy. £1.50 per portion.

£1.30 each today (frozen nut roast, roast potatoes, frozen peas, Bisto gravy)

£2.15 today.

Roast chicken (free range)
Frozen McCain roast potatoes
Broccoli, cabbage, carrots and peas.
Bisto gravy

Tonight: shop-bought quiche, £2.00 (between 4), jacket potato with butter and cheese, maybe 35p each, baked beans (2 tins). So about £1.05. Tomorrow will be pork fillet, veg and peppercorn sauce, so about £1.50 each.

DH cooked a roast so probably a lot! However I'm veggie so generally my meals are cheap.

Lentil bolognaise - less than £1/head.
Ice cream and chocolate chip cookies for pudding - probably about 50p/head.

I made homemade chips, frozen fishfingers and peas. Can't have cost more than about 50p each.

£7 ish I think, a steak from the butchers split between 4, plus vegetables etc I got in waitrose.

Lentil bolognese here too with tagliatelle. About 50p each.

Guessing about £5 in total for 4 of us, 2 adults and 2 DC.

We had pizza and garlic bread. Homemade pizza bases that were made last week and frozen, half a jar of passata, grated cheese, pepperoni pack and veg (peppers, onions and sweetcorn). Garlic spread for the garlic bread. We shop in Lidl and a weekly shop is usually around £70, inc wine, toiletries and cleaning products.

Roast turkey, stuffing, roast potatoes, swede, carrots, parsnips and gravy here today. Turkey was from the farmers market and vegetables from my veg box, so more expensive than if I'd bought them in the supermarket I'd imagine. Total cost was around £12.50, so £2.50 per head for the 5 of us (2 adults abd 3 teenagers). There is some turkey left for sandwiches tomorrow.

Tomorrow is lamb, vegetable and chickpea curry with rice and naan bread. Total cost is around £7.50 for the 5 of us, so around £1.50 per head.

We made burgers for lunch. A 500g pack of mincemeat was £2.60 plus a pack of six brioche buns were £2.20. I can’t price the gherkins and ketchup etc as we already had it in plus cheese and onions and spices. It fed six so 80p per serving. That was the main meal.

Probably about £2.50 /head for today's Roast Chicken meal, for 4 adults.
Free range chicken £7, potatoes, carrots, swede, cauliflower cheese, gravy (no greens as the boys cooked!). Enough chicken left for a risotto or similar in week.
Usually spend about £70/week for 3 and cat, very little meat, FF eggs are delivered every fortnight - thats a tenner for 4 dozen, and doggo = hers is about £11/week.