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?

We had a red lentil and vegetable cottage pie and cauliflower cheese.

It’s all cooked from stuff from bigger bags eg - a few handfuls from a big bag of lentils, half a sweed, two sticks off a celery, 2 big carrots from a bigger bag etc, bit of flour milk butter etc to make the cheese sauce etc.

I’ve probably over estimated but I’ve rounded it up to costing £8 total, did the 3 of us tonight and will do dinner tomorrow plus two small portions of the pie have gone in the freezer for dinners for DD on the days she’s not having the same as us.

So about £1 per portion

2.25pp. King prawn korma, roast cauliflower and an oven baked rice. The prawns and spices were quite a lot

About 75p. Just tomato pasta sauce and spaghetti for us - a quick turnaround was needed.
DD has a wheat intolerance so her pasta bumps up the average a bit...

M&S Fish cakes
Peas
Potato salad
Tomato and cucumber
Yogurt
= £3.75 each approx

A fortune because I bought burger King

Me and dh are having one pot chicken fajita pasta. Works out about £2pp

Its a bit spicy for the kids so i made them a mild chicken and veg curry with rice which would have been less than £1 per portion

Steak pie and mash
Mash £2
Beef £10
Puff pastry £1.50
Carrots £1
£14.50/6 £2.25 ish

How do people even know this?

Leftovers from a joint of ham, leftover cauliflower cheese, potatoes. About £1.30 each. Not including electricity, spices, condiments, etc.

About $1
Cheese toasties with tomato soup

£3.50 - Tesco Finest Cheesy Mac times two (one each).

Burger chips peas snd salad.
Burgers £2.50
Fries 60p
Salad 60p
Peas 30p
Rolls £1
For 4 so £5.20/4 £1.30 each.

Tomorrow is jacket potato night so super cheap!

@Hoppinggreen

How do people even know this?

Is that a genuine question?

About 1.50 for quorn arrabiata .

Massive chilli bean meatballs made tonight. 48 meatballs... to give a few meals away to other families and should do us (5 people two portions.)

Meatballs £7
Peppers £1.50
Onions 60p
Tinned tomato £1.50
Black beans £2
Rice £1

I'd say about £15, will serve 18 in total (8 are kids)
84p each 😊

£1 even. Darn my crappy eyesight!

Me - crumpets, beans and cheese
DCs - pasta with melted cheese & ham, and cucumber & pepper sticks
DH is working away.

Cheap and quick one for us, approx £2 all in I would say.

**How do people even know this?

I can add and divide!

Cheese toasties with wedges and salad

Cheese £2 ish
Bread 60p
Butter 10p (?)
1/2 cucumber 25p
Cherry tomatoes 25p
1/2 red pepper 25p
2 jacket potatoes 20p (Aldi specialbuy 4 for 39p last week)

£3.55 / 6 = 59p

Banana and custard

3 x19p bananas
£1 custard

28p ish each

Discount sausages, breaded garlic mushrooms, cheese toasties. Probably works out roughly £1 per person.

@Hoppinggreen

How do people even know this?

The price labels on the bag or the receipt are usually a give away.

But that said I’ve no idea what bread or milk or other staples cost so perhaps your question wasn’t so daft after all.

Chicken curry:

Chicken £1.70 (Aldi yellow sticker)
1/2 pot natural yogurt 35p
1 spoon curry powder 20p
Squirt lemon juice 5p
Stock cube 5p
Tin tomatoes 30p
1/3 bag rice 15p
Pittas 20p (Tesco yellow label)

Total cost: £3.20
Per person (2 adults, 3 DC) 64p

We're having sausages, home made Yorkshire puds, carrots and broccoli with Bisto gravy. The eggs for the Yorkies are from a friend's hens so the nicest expense is the sausages. Whilst I don't know the exact cost as I don't do the shopping, it's not very much tonight.

We are having a chicken curry which I made at the weekend and froze, so I can't remember exactly what was in it, but this is an approximation:
Chicken thighs £4.30
Coconut milk 85p
Peppers x 2 £1
Onions x 2 60p
Spices ?
Stock pot 50p
Possibly some other ingredient I've forgotten
= approx £2 a serving
Plus mini naan each, poppadoms, mango chutney, raita so probably about £3 a serving altogether.
The children may well just eat naan, poppadoms and carrot sticks but DH will polish off whatever they don't finish so it will balance out.

Cheapo tonight

Jacket potato: £1 for 4
Tin of beans: .60p
Cheese: .50?
Salad: 50p

£2.60 / 5

Roughly 52p each. Plus power for oven.

Looking at that we should eat them every night! 😂

Yesterday was chicken tacos, so a bit more