How much is your evening meal costing tonight, per person?

[JuneOsborne]

We're having filled pasta.

Pasta £2.50
Spinach £1
Pesto£1
Peas 50p
Tomatoes 50p
Garlic bread £1
Handful of grated cheese, 50p

£7 ÷ 4 = £1.75 pp. There may be a portion leftover for a lunch for one of the kids....

You?

Free.

Baby gets dinner provided by nursery.
I've been at a free piss up with work.

His father (who left us 2 months ago so doesn't count) has fed, bathed and put baby to bed (for once).

I'm almost home and will straight to bed. DS will wake around 6.45 and we'll all be well rested.

All from Aldi:
Sausage £1.99
Potatoes for mash 59p
Bit of butter 5p
Branston beans 42p
Doughnuts 27p (yellow sticker in Asda)
Or
Cookie. 12p (yellow sticker in Asda)

Total £3.44 to feed 1 adult & 2 teens.

Quite impressed with myself tonight, I have succumbed to take aways for convenience lately and had forgotten how cheap cooking your own food can be.

Beef mince £2.50
Sweetcorn £0.33
Mexican flavouring £0.75
Torilla £.99

For five so about a pound each. Nobody is very hungry at the hungry

I made slices of pork with garlic and onions plus mashed potatoes and broccoli/white cabbage.
Meat €4.00
Veg €3.50
Milk, butter, salt, stock cube etc. €1.00
Fruit €2.00
2 glasses of Wine €1.00
Half a bar of Ritter Sport dark chocolate €1.00.
€12.50/3 = just over €4 per person.
Not counting fuel costs.

My weekly shop is €150 for everything, so €7 per person per day.
During lockdown I went as low as €5 for three meals a day but that was time consuming because I was buying in bulk, cooking dried beans, portioning whole chickens etc.

Moment

Split pea and vegetable soup (homemade)
Half a bag of split peas = 25p
Two carrots = 10p (40p a bag)
One red onion =31p (85p for three)
Small piece of butter= 30p at the most
Bread (Tiger sliced loaf) = 85p for the loaf - we used half, say 42p
Total = £1.38
Four helpings with 2 slices of bread = 34.5p

Fishcakes - £5
Mash - 80p
Peas - 20p

So £6 for 3 of us = £2 each.

Ingredients box curry tonight so quite expensive.
£4.37 per portion.

I've paused for a couple of weeks as we're a bit skint so will get a good discount voucher shortly to start up again. 😄

Takeaway
Indian lamb chops
Vegetable curry
Chicken tikka
2 x Nan breads

£0

(But only because the lamb was raw inside. I complained and got the offer of a free takeaway next time I order).

Two salmon fillets 2.50
One chicken thigh (marinated, from butcher) 1.75
One cup of basmati rice ~50p?
String beans from farmers' market - I actually have no idea - £2?
About £6-7 for the three of us?
Oh, and wine

Good question!

We had tandoori chicken, two packets of organic thighs, about £7 each, so £14
Tub of yoghurt, fresh ginger, garlic, spices, £2 = £16

Mushroom pilau, Mushrooms £1, rice 50p, onion and spices 50p = £2

Bombay potatoes (double carbs ahoy!) Potatoes £1, onion, garlic, spices 50p = £1.50

Raita yoghurt £1.80, 1/3 cucumber 25p, 1/2 onion 10p, large tomato 50p, fresh corriander 50p, mint from garden = £3.05

Gujerati carrot salad, a couple of carrots, mustard seeds, lemon juice = £.75

Coriander chutney, rest of the bunch of Coriander, various other bits £1.20

Poppadoms, mango chutney, maybe £.50

So £25 for four but DH and I will have leftovers for lunch tomorrow.

Approx £4.16 per portion.

Meatloaf and mash - so:

Pork and beef: €3.33 (used the second half of a meatloaf mix I made with 2 of the '3 for €10' offers in Tesco)
Breadcrumbs - maybe 10p? 2 slices from a white sliced loaf
1 carrot, 1 onion, 1 stick of celery - 20p total?
1 pack streaky bacon - €1
1tbs each of ketchup, maple syrup, mustard, apple cider vinegar (40c?)
Plus 1/3 pack of €2.49 potatoes (83c), butter and cheese (say, 50c?)

Works out around €3.18 per person, though there was about a third left over

Frozen haddock - £5
Cous cous - 50p
Tin vegetarian chili - £1
Cucumber - 25p
Tomatoes - 20p
Olives - 50p
Salad pepper - 30p

£7.75 / 4 = £1.94pp

Thanks @Oceanrudeness it was delish, chicken nicer than the lamb which surprised me.

Freekah and halloumi bowl

200g Freekah - £1.62
Rose Harissa paste - £4.30 a jar, maybe about £1 worth
Honey - £0.30
2 lemons - £0.60
1 lime - £0.30
Kale - £1.00
Cherry tomatoes £0.75
Carrots - £0.10
Halloumi- £2.30
Avocado £0.75
Spring onions £0.75

=£9.47

Other items I haven’t costed include, good few glugs of olive oil, fresh mint and dill, salt & pepper, sprinkling of sesame and poppy seeds.

We’ll have that between two and I’ll save some leftover for a smaller lunch portion.

Chicken in some sort of marinade: £3
Prepared mixed veg: £2
Chips: £1.50
Total £6.50 for 2 people £3.25. More than most spend but it's the only meal of the day for my daughter.
Tomorrow it's hit and run chicken: organic chicken £3
Mediterranean roasted veg (prepared): £3
Total: £6 so again £3.

Portion of minced beef £1.75
Red Lentil 20p
Kidney beans 40p
Passata 45p
Onion 10p
Peppers 40p
Spices & stock from catering sized containers 20p
Rice 80p
Double cream 70p
Lemon 20p
Nachos 45p
£5.65 = 94p each

We are having home made chilli con carne with rice, nachos and soured cream. Big portions for 6 people at 94p each.

So tonight it's halloumi wraps.

2x blocks halloumi £3.20
1x pack of wraps. £1
Half a cucumber 40p
4 tomatoes. 40p
Bag of salad £1
2x carrots 20p
Pickles 50p
Potatoes to make wedges. 70p

£1.85 each. Not including the sauces!

We're having pasta and lentil soup, ciabatta rolls from the fantastic baker, big wedge of ripe brie, green salad.

Pancetta = £3
3 carrots = £0.45
2 onions = £0.50
3 sticks of celery = £0.30
Garlic = £0.20
3 tins of Mutti pulped tomatoes = £3
Honemade chicken stock, I buy wings and necks to roast along with any carcasses in the freezer so it works out at about £1 a litre = £1
Half a pack of puy lentils = £1.50
1/3 pack of soup.pasta = £0.40
Thyme and bay from the garden.

Ciabatta = £3.20
Brie = £5
Green salad = £2.50
Homemade vinaigrette = £0.30

£21.35, three of us will have it for lunch tomorrow too, so 7 portions = £3.05 per portion.

Genuinely have no idea! I buy food shopping online for the week and dh does a butchers run on a Friday!
Tonight we are having gammon egg and chips with a salad of all the bits that need using up:
Gammon £18
Random assortment of herbs/oil/seasoning £3
Potatoes probably a third of a bag? So £1.20 ish?
Oil to fry chips £2
Eggs - free (have our own chickens)
Salad stuff - lettuce, tomatoes, avocado, cucumber, spring onions, lemons honey mustard etc for dressing - about £6 all in.
So possibly £30 and 4 of us will eat so £7.50 a head?
I’m not good at knowing prices of things as I tend to just click on what I need so a lot of the costs are guessing other than the gammon as it had a price sticker on it when dh unwrapped it. I also don’t cook much so I have no idea what other things get used

Everyone is back late today so:

Ready made steak pie £6
Jacket potatoes £1.20
Carrots 45p
Sweet corn 35p

£8 so £2 each for large portions

Tonight is sausage, potatoes and baked beans. We are a family of 4 (2 adults, 2 small children).

Sausages - £1.39 for 6
(Nice ones, reduced in Lidl)

Potatoes - £0.39
(1/2 bag of new potatoes roasted with a spray of oil, salt and pepper)

Tesco's own Baked Beans - £0.25
(1 x 400g can)

Total cost £2.03 for all 4 of us (51p / portion)

Wagamama pad Thai kit. Probably about £2 as I wouldn't have paid more.

2 onions. 2 peppers. Garlic. Half pack saver peanuts salt washed off. £1 max.

For the two of us. So £1.50 each max.

Last night was the cheap pasta salad- tonight is swimming times 2 at different times plus guides so often get a large pizza and chips from the chip shop that in conveniently places on the way home. Tonight I got the co op meal deal for £5 so having alpha bites, fish cakes, mixed veg and chicken chargrills (froze the ice lollies and the chicken burgers) so approx £3 for what we are eating. We will eat home made food all weekend to make up for the midweek rushes

Veg chilli and tortillas for 2. Enough to have with jacket potatoes tomorrow. Might be a pound for each serving? We're not including wine, right?