Meals for 4, for under a fiver

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Most meals in this house are under £5

Sticky belly pork and smoked garlic with jacket sweet potatoes and spring greens
Broccoli and sesame soup with wontons
Curried squash with caramelised red onions and coriander rice
Spaghetti carbonara with a green salad
Toad in the hole with roasted vegetables and gravy
Sweetcorn fritters with red chilli chutney and crudités
French onion soup with stale bread croutons and melted cheese
Individual bacon and mushroom pies with white sauce and steamed vegetables
Baked Camembert bread with assorted dippers (to use up everything in the fridge)
Flatbread with chicken carnitas, fresh salsa and soured cream
Homemade pizzas

I've made a hearty vegetable soup and bread all under £5 .

Spaghetti bolognaise
Sausage mash and pies
Fish fingers chips and peas

Almost everything we have for tea in this house is under a fiver for a family of 4 (1 x teen and 1 preteen who is always hungry)

This week i have planned/already eaten:

Baked potatoes, tuna and salad
Cheese and onion pie
Spag bol
Black bean fajitas
Chorizo pasta
Shepherds pie
Steak, chips and veg (this is over a fiver)

We are trying to eat less meat so anything with mince in gets bulked out with lentils. I make 1kg of mince do 4 meals for the 4 of us using this method (so 16 portions)

I’d like ideas, I find the price of the weekly shop is going up all the time. Mince is good…spaghetti bol, chilli, cottage pie. Things like fish fingers or sausages are ok, but processed and I try to avoid them for more than one meal a week if I can. Maybe I should have put the word healthy in the title. Homemade soup is good. Jacket pots, omelette. Just feel we have the same thing over and over

Many pasta dishes, e.g. puttanesca (one jar anchovies, one tin toms, garlic, oil, packet spaghetti).

Many rice dishes, e.g. risotto.

I have a lot of porridge for breakfast.

whats expensive is convenience meals, e.g. sachets of flavoured porridge rather than a massive bag of porridge, or say ready prepped soup versus home made, or indeed any ready meals.

Meat too, obvs. Fruit and veg are obvs expensive too, but they are imperative for your good health. So I eat them, but I’ve given up other things. Or have the other things in moderation (crisps, chocks, etc. or that’s the idea ;-)

@Dacadactyl the cheese and onion pie sounds nice! Any specific recipe?

Check out cardiff.mum on Instagram, she does a series of 5 meals for £25 from Aldi and some of them look delicious

Most pasta is under eg I made seafood pasta, sounds expensive but no - 1/2 packet pasta 40p, 1/2 packet frozen mixed seafood £1.50, 1/4 packet fresh parsley 15p, 3 garlic cloves 10p 1 courgette chopped 60p 1 red pepper sliced 50p, 1 red onion sliced finely 15p, olive oil 10p, tbsp sour cream (optional) 10p, zest and juice of a lemon 30p, dried oregano 5p, dried chilli flakes optional (or fresh if have) 10p

Serve with garlic flat bread £1

All prices are Lidl (thankfully my nearest shop)

egg fried rice. all sorts of leftover bits and pieces can be added to it.

Taming Twins on Instagram does weekly meal plans for 4 people for about £25

Bean chilli
Dahl

They all sound amazing @HorribleHerstory! Where could I find those recipes, please?

Roasted vegetables (peppers, carrots, broccoli and red onions), and chickpeas served with mustard mash.
Moussaka with rice. (that would have been more than £5 but there are three portions left over to do lunches in the week).

www.asda.com/good-living/recipe/kale-bacon-pearl-barley-risotto
This is gorgeous, and with Asda value range prices still only about 60p a serving.

@Rubiesue i use this recipe www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/cheeseandonionpie_89625 I dont make my own pastry though because i find the ready rolled ones easier and cheaper.

Chicken thighs, mashed potatoes, broccoli, carrots, sweetcorn, gravy. Less than £5 for six of us.

Chicken/veg pie, mash and peas. Never costs me more than a fiver.

Chicken casserole
Chicken thighs
Lots of carrots,onions and peppers if you have any to use up.
Packet of casserole mix I used Aldi
Water
Stock cube
Serve with rice and cheap Aldi naan just for added filling for older teens.
Could have with mash or any form of potatoes.

Home made falafel with pita and salad with yoghurt dressing
Pasta arabiata
Shakshuka
Tuna and sweet corn fish cakes with veg
Tuna pasta bake
Honey and mustard sausage pasta