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?

Chicken breast (DH) £2.50
Tofu (me) £1
Rice 24p
Onion 10p
Carrot 5p
Pepper 40p
Cabbage 20p
Baby corns 70p
Homemade ginger garlic paste 25p

£1.97 for the veggie meal and £3.47 for the meat one. Interesting!

Mixed bean chilli, rice and homemade flatbreads, made 6 portions and cost £3.60 so 60p each meal.

1.85 a portion for 4 people

Last night we went to the IVY for dad's birthday £192/4 so £ 47 pp

Tonight
Packet of pasta £1
1/2 Jar of pesto £38p
Head of broccoli 50p
Pepper 30p
Onion 10p
Garlic 15p
Splash of cream 20p
Some parmesan 50p

So £ 3.23 for 3 £1.27.5 each.

pack Porky White Sausages £3
Sweet potatoes £1.12
Corn on the cob 95p
Something else - bit of salad or a sauce, and spices, oil for roasting the sweet potatoes- allow an extra £1
£6.07 between 3, so about £2 each.

Beans on toast, with an egg on top.

Loaf of bread is 79p, we used 5 slices, so call it 25p.
A tin of beans 32p
6 eggs, £1.80

So let's say £2.37 or 79p pp.

This is a rare occurance but we had

Baby potatoes €2
Steak €8
Spinach €1
Cherry tomatoes 50cent
Ballymaloe mayo (few teaspoons) 50 cent

@traumatisednoodle

Last night we went to the IVY for dad's birthday £192/4 so £ 47 pp

Tonight
Packet of pasta £1
1/2 Jar of pesto £38p
Head of broccoli 50p
Pepper 30p
Onion 10p
Garlic 15p
Splash of cream 20p
Some parmesan 50p

So £ 3.23 for 3 £1.27.5 each.

What was the relevance of going to the Ivy last night? I’m sure the question is what are you having for dinner tonight?

Not much!

Bag of pasta £1
Passata 60p
Mushrooms 60p
Frozen peppers £1
Chorizo £2.50

About 40p. One slice of toast and tinned spaghetti hoops.
Trying to eat things that don't involve using the oven.

Hmmmm have had to get my calculator out.

1 bottle of red wine from Sainsbury’s for £5. It was on offer but is actually ok. I quite like a merlot.

Divided by 1 so £5. May or may not be left overs.

@Pyewackect

No idea. I'm not cooking it.

Same but I suspect not a huge sum, as it is chilli with rice.

Fish pie;
Salmon 2.50
Pots about 1.00
Smoked haddock about 1.50
Prawns about 3.50
Crème fraiche and chives- about 1.50

To feed 4.
Yum!

@Orangejuicemarathoner

cheese and beans on toast and a cup of tea. Approx 50p. Might have a fried egg on top, which would double to price

Same

And it's all gone in our greedy tummies already

£1.75 each because on introductory offer from gusto

pasta 2.50
tin of toms .80
onion, courgette, carrots, herbs/spices 1.50
grana cheese 5.00
custard for pudding 2.50

= 12.3/5 = 2.46 pp
I'm sure the teens will have some toasties later

Your filled pasta is only costing 2.50 for a family of 4 with possibly a portion left over? 🤣 my ds 13 eats a whole pack to himself!

@bigbeautwoman

What was the relevance of going to the Ivy last night? I’m sure the question is what are you having for dinner tonight?

You need to try and keep up.

It’s obvious the poster was showing how meals can go from one extreme to the other price wise.

Midweek roast here with leftovers from Sunday. Probably about £3.50 ish Per portion - quite expensive as we had locally reared lamb.

It balances out - yesterday we had vegetable and pearl barley casserole. That works out around 60p per portion.

We are having a hot ready roasted chicken from Tesco which cost £5.10 for two of us. HOWEVER .... in best MN fashion, tomorrow we will have chicken salad and chicken sandwiches for lunch, then I will make a big pot of chicken broth for the freezer!

Just me tonight
French onion soup (tin) £1.00
Bread (homemade) pence
Gruyere cheese chunk £75p (Ish)
Large glass wine £1.50

Maybe a fruit desert later £1.50

£3.25-£4.75 (approx)

We're having vegetarian cottage pie, made with lentils, mushrooms, carrot and frozen peas. At a guess, about 50p a portion, maybe even less.

I made a roast
Turkey joint £5
Pigs in bankers £3
Carrots and parsnips £1
Massive bag of frozen roast potatoes £3
Gravy 5p ?
So £12.05
£3.01 per head for a family of 4 adults.
It was yummy!

It's DH's request tonight and it's a rainy day so we're having Tater Tot casserole, which is not a usual food at all in our house- we usually cook from scratch! We're in the US Midwest and this is popular comfort food. Amounts converted from dollars.

Ground turkey- £1.60
Cream of mushroom soup- £0.40
Tater tots- £1.21
Cheese- £0.50
Milk- £0.25
Brocolli- £2.19
=£6.06 for 4 servings, £1.52 per serving