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?

Really cheap here tonight… celeriac soup made from
Celeriac - from dad’s garden = free
Leeks - dad’s garden = free
4 small potatoes knocking around in fridge
One onion - bottom of fridge.
Garlic clove -
Couple of stock cubes.
Tiger baguette - reduced in Tesco’s to 13p

Probably less than a pound for the whole thing, but will do two dinners and two lunches… and maybe a bowl fit the freezer!

Pasta - £1
Tin of tuna - £1
Tin of sweetcorn - 50p
Squeeze of Mayo - 20p
Donuts - free (left over from work event)
Total £2.70 / 3 = 90p each.

The best not about this bargain meal is that it’s my kids’ favourite so they think they’re getting a treat

@Biscoffee

Biryani.

The equivalent of

25 pounds for fresh tuna. About 3kgs.
About 15 pounds for the sauce all made from the fridge and store cupboard ingredients.
10 pounds for the basmati rice. About 10 cups
Saffron about 4 pounds
Chopped salad about 10 pounds

Total 64 pounds for approx 12 servings for today including one child and one not very big eater. There’s also some left that will be eaten tomorrow by my son when he comes off night shift.

Christ where the hell do you buy your ingredients? This is a joke right ?

I am so simple when I cook so I never spend this amount unless I buy fresh fish.

I won't have dinner tonight as I had a big lunch. But yesterday I had tomato pasta.
Fresh tagliatelli from waitrose = £1.60, 1/3 bag needed
1/4 of a jar of sauce £1
a handful of peas £0.20

=98p per person hahaha I am awful.

We’re having a Hello Fresh meal - box was 50% off on an offer, so £30 for 5 meals = £6 per meal, each for 3 people so = £2 each.

I love this thread.

Beef and ale hot pot.

Stewing steak £5
Tin tomatoes 35p
Bottle of ale £2.50
Carrots, parsnip, onion, celery 50p?
Potatoes 80p

£2.29 pp serves 4. That's quite high really, it's the ale. Although it had been knocking around the house for months!

Interesting thread Op!

Lazy roast tonight so…
Chicken roast (2 for £7, freeze one so £3.50)
Frozen spuds £2 finest ones
Bag of veg £1.50
Frozen Yorkshire’s £1 for 8
So £2 a head. Could do it cheaper but minimum effort involved!

We’re having a very basic vegan lentil bolognese tonight. We’re on a budget this week so all of our meals have been simple.

Half a packet of spaghetti 15p
1 tin lentils 45p
1 tin chopped tomatoes 33p
Half a punnet of mushrooms 44p
One large onion 3p
Herbs/squeeze of tomato purée/soy sauce (approx 6p)
Half a snacking packet of cheese 45p
One garlic baguette 33p

Total £2.23 split between 2 £1.12 each
Might chuck a carrot in and if I do probably add about 4p

Chicken breasts - £7.70
Chorizo - £1.12
Courgette - 21p
2 tins tomatoes - £1.12
Onion - 8p
Mushrooms - 85p
Rice - £1.40
Garlic and veg oil - almost nothing

Serves 5 of us so approx £2.50 each.

Ours was a chicken pie.

Chicken = £3.75
2oz Flour: 10p (?)
3oz Butter: 30p (??)
1/2 pint Milk: 50p (???)
Ready-made puff pastry: £1.50
Yelllow sticker new potatoes: 75p
Peas: 50p?

£7.40 for 4 people: £1.85 each

Egg, splash milk, two slices of reduced bread plus two slices reduced bacon.

20p for the egg, 8p for the bread, 21p for the bacon...plus dash of oil and gas costs...reckon well under 60p.

Spaghetti carbonara with broccoli.

Pasta: 70p
Broccoli £1.00
Cream: 50p
Bacon £1.00
Eggs: 34p
Cheese: 50p

£1.01p per person.

Realistically the vegetables from allotment are not free but will be cheaper than buying from a supermarket.

My supper - sausages £2
Potatoes - 25p from a bigger bag + butter 15p
Frozen peas - 10pm
That's for 2 so about £1.25 per portion.
Haven't included cooking costs either.

@Hoppinggreen

How do people even know this?

Because they can add up?!

Sweet potato curry

Sweet potato 50p
Spinach £1.20
Half tin Chick peas 40p
Green chilli 10p
Coconut 30p
Brown rice 60p
Garlic, curry powder, ground almonds 20p

Serves 3 = £1 each

@bigbeautwoman

No it’s not a joke.

The fish was fresh out of the sea this morning. It worked out at 4 pounds a pound. Very reasonable.

£1.30

Quorn pieces with leek & peas in a white sauce topped with mash and baked in the oven until golden.

We are on Gousto boxes at the moment so £2.98 per person for tea every night this week.

We do normally get a leftover portion for me for lunch the next day so actually works out slightly cheaper.

We go through phases with Gousto boxes we will normally get them for 4-5 weeks then stop for a few months. My partner likes them as if he is on cooking duty it means he doesn't have to think about how or what to cook.

We are having belly pork slices, wedges, green beans and tomatoes.

Pork: £3.50
Wedges: £1 a bag
Frozen green beans: approx half of a bag £.75
6x tomatoes roasted: £0.80

£7.00 ish/4 £1.75 each

Interesting, don’t think I’ve ever worked it out before!

Sorry £1.10 each!

Leek, carrot and barley soup with miso
Soda bread
All home made and about 54p for a bowl of soup and bread. (Made enough soup for 4 days and a huge loaf of bread)

About £1.02 per person.

Made a curry. Keema. Meat approx £7. And with tomato. Onion. Garlic. Ginger.
Approx. Another £1.00.
This make enough curry for me and my 2 kids for 3.5 nights. Freeze the extra in small portions.

So around £2.66 for 3 per night curry.

With chappati, using about 40p flour, we buy a sack full at a time.
So around £3.06 per night for 3 people.

Then water/ milk for drink

@Hoppinggreen

How do people even know this?

I just popped onto the Asda grocery site and checked prices for things I’ve just used, I know the weights I used so I calculated the cost based on today’s prices.

Quite expensive tonight, 2 x Marks and Sparks salmon fillets in soy garlic and chilli, so that’s 5.50 each, my husband had a pack of micro rice with his, so about a pound, and I had a salad with avocado, so about the same price. So about 6.50 each.

chicken 3.50
Yorkshire pud 1.55
sweetcorn 25
broccoli 90
Gravy 30
Carrots 30
Onion 30
£1.85