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?

Creamy Cajun Hotdog Stew £3.00 mostly on fresh ready to eat hotdogs £2.50 and 1/3 tub of soured cream, otherwise just spices, Tabasco, tomato and garlic purées and some frozen mixed peppers and chopped frozen onion.

Margarita pizza was on offer 75pence 2/3rds eaten, rest for tomorrow so 50pence

£3.50 for 4 people so 87.5p per person

If I do the hot dog stew with cheap hot dogs I can take £2 off that and sometimes needs must!

For two people: "naice" sausages from the butcher (3 each) £3.50, cabbage from the fridge and potatoes from the fridge.

We had home made chilliand it was delicious

Beef.mince 1.49
Kidney beans 55p
Onion - about 10p
Garlic - ?5p
Red pepper 45p
Rice Approx 25p
Spices - 50p (guess)

Around 48p each I make it.
Didn't realise it was so much of a bargain!

Chicken 2.75
2 onions 55p
can of chickpea 40p
can of chopped tomatoes 45p
carrots 50p?
frozen peppers 25p
Butter/ oil/ spices ?? let's say 50p
Total £5.4 , 4 portions = £1.35

Served with rice (20p) and cabbage (50p?) so 70p (£0.35pp). Total: 1 portion today £1.7

Fajitas:
Tortilla wraps - 2.22
Chicken breast - 2.58
Halloumi - 1.40
peppers x 3 - 1.00
onion - 10p
hummus - 50p
sour cream - 20p
salsa - 30p
grated cheese - 50p
rocket - 20p

Total 9.00 for 4 people / 2.25 pp

I hate calculating, I never do this.

Tonight I made teriyaki salmon with rice.
Used 3 salmon, leak, carrot, red pepper, ginger, garlic, sesame oil, dashi soup powder, Japanese vinegar, mirin, soy sauce, s&p, rice flour, corn flour, and rice.

Salmon was £12. 50 for 6, so it's about £6. 25 for salmon, plus vegs and rice and other ingredients, so maybe about £8/£9 in total? so about £3 a person?

Yesterday’s dinner would have been way more expensive up front - 6 huge free range organic chicken thighs in a homemade curry with yoghurt and ground almonds, plus a vat of dal tadka, which we had with rice and naan and a cucumber and tomato salad. But the two main elements made 5 meals each so it’ll still work out cheap overall.

Just finished eating the fish burgers and they properly hit the spot!😋😋

If it's made from something you bought 5 months ago, didn't get round to using, and bunged in the freezer before it went off, now defrosted because you are all out of cooking mojo, does that count as free? Asking for a friend...

Too much. We had McDonalds though at DS2's request because it's his birthday. Last night was much cheaper (homemade lentil and bacon soup) probably around £1 pp if that.

Southern fried Chicken 10pc £3, cooked 6 so £1.80
Coleslaw, yellow sticker, 40p
Rolls £1.40
Curly fries, possibly £1 worth?
Cheese slices, possibly 50p worth
Not the healthiest but quick on a busy evening

£6.10, 4 people, £1.53 each

Mince 3.50
Onions and garlic 50p
Tinned toms x2 70p
Pasta 1.50
Cheese 1.00
Salad bag 1.00

8.20 total for 4 large portions of meatballs and pasta. Salad on side. 2.05 each.

Sorry not 5 meals each. 5 meals. Still it’ll work out hardly anything per person.

mince 125g - 62p
onions 160g - 8p
mushrooms 100g - 22p
celery - from garden - free
tomatoes - from garden - free
potatoes 400g - 37p
butter 40g? - 25p
carrots 160g - from garden - free
peas 160g - 40p

salt, pepper, thyme, slug of red wine - no idea, few pence?
gas - two rings for 20 minutes, small oven for 50 - again, no idea

total approx £2, divided between 2 people - £1 each, plus orange juice 8p

Midweek roast from some left over beef from Sunday(although only DH had it)
4 of us as DC 1 not here
Beef- leftover slices from £6 joint, maybe £1
Boiled potatoes-25p
Peas-25p
Broccoli-25p
Frozen Yorkshire- 20p
Veggie sausages -1.50
Packet stuffing-£1.00
Bistro gravy/some leftover homemade veggie gravy for me- 25p=£4.70, so £1.17 each

Meatballs and spaghetti

Meatballs £1.85
Spaghetti £0.24 (only used half a 42p packet)
Sundries (seasoning, garlic, tomato's etc which I'll round up to be extravagant) £1.50

Total 3.59 divided by 4 equals £.90 (rounded up)

Easy tea tonight as DH has gone out and I can't be arsed to make the kids eat nice stuff
Oven fries 1/2 pack so 50p
Fish fingers / veggie fingers(me) £1.50
Sweetcorn 39p
Broccoli 20p
Ketchup 4p
£2.63/3 so nearly 88p each
It wasn't gourmet but it did the job and was dead quick

You asked on the right night

French onion soup
1kg onions 49p
Herbs from the garden
Stock from Sunday’s roast
Garlic clove, a few pence.
Splash of wine, 50p maybe
Baguettes, the par baked ones 42p
Cheese 200g £1

£2.41, five portions, 48p each, but I do accept I had “free” stock and herbs.

Ohhhh @PiesNotGuys I was just thinking about French onion soup earlier today! Might make it next week...

Chicken £4
Pepper 50p
Broccoli 50p
Onion 20p
Rice 27p
Splash of Nando's sauce approx 75p

£6.22 / 4 = £1.55 each

A lovely homemade stir fry that my extremely fussy DP made once and enjoyed so we tend to eat it a lot!

Chicken breast x2 £5
Wholemeal Pitta 25p half a pack used
Halloumi £1 half pack used
Nandos sauce £1 half a jar used

Mixed salad already (just say £1)

(For 2 people. So approx £4.13pp)

Free range chicken thighs £4.30
Portobello mushrooms £1
Mozzarella £0.75
Leeks £0.50
Broccoli £1.25
Olive oil — pennies as we have it

Three people, £2.60 each

I’m eating a bowl of rice krispies reading this thread. I’ve been out all day (was treated to lunch, had a burger) and needed something quick.

We had a pasta bake - chicken, a head of broccoli, a good shake of frozen peas, carton of single cream, a splash of white wine, a teaspoon of tapenade, and a clove of garlic. Plus pasta cooked in a stock cube. Maybe £1 per person, but in reality the only things that were bought were the broccoli and the cream, the rest was in the freezer/cupboards.

Well it was £8 with of ingredients - I cooked enough for 4 people, so £2 each. Two people didn't turn up, so atm it's £4 each.

One of those people just waltz in with a McDonalds give me strength DS2 might eat some later...I really don't want to have it for lunch tomorrow as it's definitely not my favourite.