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?

Kids and DH
Sausages £3
Mash £1
Broccolli £1
Sweetcorn 50p
Onion 20p
Gravy ?30p ish

Me
Weird grilled cheese potato bake
Mash £1
Cheese £1.50 (it was a lot)
The remains of the sweetcorn and broccoli and onion
A green pepper 30p

So £8.50 between 6 = £1.41 per person but I have a portion left for lunch tomorrow and there’s another portion of sausages left too. So £1.06 per portion and I fed the guinea pigs on the broccoli stalk and the pepper stem.

Pasta- £2.50
Lentil sauce- puy lentils, onion, garlic, celery, carrot, tomato, wine and herbs- £2.00
Parmesan- 1.50

£1.50/head for 4

£2/head

DD

Fish cakes and salad. Used left over mash, a tin of tuna and some chopped onion. No idea how much it cost but not expensive.

Interesting, I'll have a go

Meatballs £2
Passata 40p
Onion 18p
Pepper 30p
Few mushrooms idk 10p??
Red wine stock pot 32p
Sacla ndjua pesto tablespoon so maybe 50p?
Spaghetti 15p ish
Various spices I'll estimate 20p?

Total £4.15 / probs tea tonight and one leftover portion tomorrow £1.38

British food as a proportion of income is incredibly cheap, it’s the lowest in Europe and one of the lowest in the world. In relative terms food today as a proportion of our income compared to our parents has halved. Housing and leisure has doubled though!

I have absolutely no clue - I am amazed by this thread. It's also making me hungry

Fajitas
£2 fajitas kit
60p red pepper
50p mushrooms
£2 halloumi
60p sour cream
£5.70 / 2 = £2.85 each

@flippertyop

I have absolutely no clue - I am amazed by this thread. It's also making me hungry

What did you have for dinner? Maybe we can work it out for you!

What a great question but so hard for me to calculate as I bulk buy and cook a lot from scratch so am only using a bit of something at a time

Tonight I baked a fresh bread, flour, yeast, salt, sugar, butter, water

The kids had home made sausages - I have a sausage maker so we make a lot of sausages in advance and freeze them. They had it with the bread, corn, cucumber and gravy I made

DH & I had grilled chicken breast plus a green salad and the bread. I bulk bought the breasts from the butcher so hard to say how much it cost as I can’t remember how many portions I divided them into

They then had yogurt with jam. I made both myself. Again it will be eaten over time so hard to say.

We then had melon and pineapple.

It was very cheap.
Cheese and beans on toast all round.
I have covid and no energy to cook and little interest in eating so its what the others cobbled together.

Egg sandwiches

Setting up egg production now in the thousands, as I've bought more than one henhouse but down to one hen laying one egg a day, so negligible. Plus a sandwich loaf.

Noodles, broccoli, carrots and fried egg. I make it about 60p per person.

Everyone except me had chicken fajitas

Fajjta kit £2.50
Chicken £3.75
Rice £1 (microwave sachet)
Spinach half a bag so maybe 50p?
Yogurt a whole tub is £1 so maybe 50p
Peppers £1 maybe?

I had a veggie cottage pie which was reduced to £1.50 plus some frozen broad beans and edamame maybe 40p worth

So altogether that's around £11?

6 of us so just under £2 each?

@nosquirells

A proper biryani is as far removed from what you’d get in a jar as it’s possible to be and shouldn’t be used as a guide to what a made from scratch one would cost. It takes a lot of preparation and everything in it is it is fresh. The yogurt that goes in the sauce cost approx 5 pounds for the tub. Then there are the lemons, garlic, fresh ginger, chili, various fresh spices, fresh mint, coriander and lots s of fresh tomato and tomato paste if your doing a Zanzibari style one.

The salad consisted of onions, 6 mixed peppers at about 6 pounds, a large cucumber, carrots, tomato’s, olive oil and lime juice.

The rice? A very nice Extra long grain Basmati costs a lot more than than the regular basmati.

It all adds up and at just over 5 pounds per person I’m happy with it.

Chicken mini fillets £3.29
New potatoes / half a bag 42p
Baby born / half a bag 60p
Mangetout / half a bag 50p
Head of broccoli 50p
Maggi bake in the bag sachet 50p

£6 altogether, so £2 per person. Two adults and the kids share the third portion.

I didn't think about the fact I'd get loads of meal ideas too! Loving the sound of the Cajun stew and Carribbean rice.

And to the pp that asked about the filled pasta for £2.50 feeding a family of four....it's actually what made me start the thread. They were 2 for £2.50 from Morrisons and had a great big sign on the front that said it. So I added up everything I'd got out to make the meal with and was quite surprised to see it cost more that I thought.

So it was 2 packets of filled pasta, plus some garlic bread and I fill it out with the veg. The kids have eaten a quarter of a bag of spinach tonight and as veggies, that makes me very happy! There wasn't any left over.

Pasta x 2 bags 96p
Mince £3.33
Soup pot £34p
Stock cube 25p
Mushrooms 80p
Mixed veg 40p
Sweet corn 37p
Tin beans 30p
Cheese £1

Total £7.75
Fed 2 adults and 2 children plus 3 toddler

[quote Biscoffee]@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.[/quote]
This sounds wonderful! Do you live abroad?

I’m being bloody lazy today - fish, chips and salad.
Fish 2 x Salmon fillets £3.50 (has anyone else salmon has gone up?) 1x haddock £3
Chips half a bag £1
Salad leaves £1
Cucumber 43p
Tomatoes half a punnet 75p
Salad onions half 20p
Pepper 40p
Lemon 40p
/ 4 £2.77 each

Which is why I’m not lazy very often as it’s too bloody expensive

Goodness know how everyone works this out! Anyway, we’re having (I’m starting the rest after the rice cooker beeps)

Steamed rice
Grilled salmon with a little butter and shoyu
Miso soup with spring onions and daikon
Bok Choi with garlic and sesame oil

If anyone can tell me how much it costs I’ll deduct it from the budget!

When the children have gone to bed we’ll probably have a nice coffe and biscuit, but if we crack open the biscuits when they’re around they’ll wolf the lot.

A proper biryani is as far removed from what you’d get in a jar as it’s possible to be and shouldn’t be used as a guide to what a made from scratch one would cost

I wasn’t using it as a guide @Biscoffee - I’m well aware of how a proper biryani is made but it still sounds very expensive.

I guess wherever you are in the world your food costs are higher than average UK food costs? Because I think I’d struggle to find yoghurt @ £5 a tub and the vegetables you’ve listed for the salad £6 for 6 peppers is much more expensive as typical here, even if I was buying big ones from the organic grocer.

Leftover pasta with tomato sauce, mushrooms and ham, put into an ovenproof dish after being defrosted (so counting as 0p), with a handful of grated mozzarella on top (about 9p worth out of the bag), and drinking water as I have to drive later.

Dd had a wrap (25p) with chicken (half the pack so 1.50), guacamole (about 60p worth) and a squeeze of peri peri Mayo (40p?).

DH is eating out at a family event so zero for him but £45 in petrol and £60 for card insert....

5.30 ish to feed 6 people and also my lunch tomorrow.

Very cheesy macaroni cheese.

Not counting the milk as it's from our own house cows.

Ooh, interesting. Less than I thought actually!
Quiche 2.75
Sweet potato bites 2.95
Broccoli 50p
Green beans 20p

£6.40 total / £1.60pp

@Weedsorwishes

Thank you. Yes, I live abroad and in our younger days we’d go out fishing and catch them ourselves. Some of them weighed about 40kgs and more. We’d take them home, chop them up and share them with family as well as the neighbors.

The biggest one we ever caught though weighed about 80 kilos and had to be taken to hospital to have the hook removed from its foot - My husband has never gone shoeless on the boat since.

Nowadays when I fish I mostly get Hammour weighing about 5 kgs.