How much does your dinner cost?

[Theblackdogagain]

Just thought I would start a thread where people try and cost out their dinner in case other people need ideas.
I'm doing veggie chilli con carne, for one adult and 2 teenage boys
Bag of soya mince about £2.50
Tin of Tom's, get in bulk from costco so about 50p
tin of kidney beans asda essentials about 35p
Mushrooms aldi essentials about £1
Onions asda essentials about 80p
Packet chilli mix 50p
End of rice tub no idea
Packet microwave rice 80p

I guess this shows I shop everywhere :-)

I made lentil and bacon soup last night (it's more like a stew) and we had the leftovers tonight.

Half a pack of streaky bacon £1 (I used the other half on Monday)
150g potatoes 20p
1 onion 30p
1 leek 60p
Carrots 20p
150g red lentils 40p
Stock pot cubes 90p
Part baked bread £1
Sage out the garden.

That's the total cost so today would be half that.

Should add there's only me and DH hence why it does us twice

Nearly all these meals are so cheap.

For Fri I have a chicken pie from supermarket (big one to feed 4) for £4.
Frozen chips - 75p
Broccoli - half bag frozen 60p

This is my ‘no effort - shove in often after opening packets and freezer meal)

That’s £5.35 or about £1.40 each.

£7.50 for the 3 of us (2 adults and I teen).
Averaged over the week.

We had a Jamaican version of a Cornish patty with avocado and coleslaw.

Meals can be cheap when you cook from scratch or batch cook and have some basic ingredients in the cupboard, and aren’t worried about the extra cost of having the oven on.

3 posh sausages = £1.25. Mash, broccoli, carrots and onion gravy probably less than another £. Add in some butter, milk and salt. Let's say £2.50.

Beef kofte style in wraps with salad and fried onions.
1kg of beef mince £5 asda (I usually get the cheap stuff but it's been out of stock online for ages)
2 eggs 40p
Spices and herbs 20p
Mushed up and rolled into fat sausage shapes and airfried for 15 mins.
Served in wraps £1.20 (used 10, 6 leftover so cost bit included for those ones)
1 red pepper, half a lettuce, half a cucumber and some onions £1.20
Around £8 for 5 of us.

£5.59 for 5 of us - Aldi cottage pie and half a bag of frozen mix veg. There’s a portion left for my lunch tomorrow so less than a £1 per portion.

Spaghetti bolognese

Spaghetti - £0.15
Sauce- £0.90
250g mince - £1.90
Cheese - £0.50
Carrot, Onion, garlic - £0.50

2 adults, 2 kids. £4.
Would have done a garlic baguette too (£0.32) but forgot.

Cauliflower cheese tonight for two:
Cauliflower £1
Milk 30p
Flour 10p
Cheddar cheese 40p
Breadcrumbs 5p

£1.85

Oh I forgot butter. 20p

84p for a piece of hake
5p frozen peas
30p of frozen mussels
3p fennel seeds
8p stock cube
20p risotto rice

27p for a hot cross bun

.....so £1.77

This is really interesting thank you. Great to see the range on the normal Wed night. Really jealous about the meal out, sounds amazing.

Ooo which restaurant please

Home cooked is cheaper than fast food. But you need the skills,the space,the time and the fuel to be able to do it.

We’ve had chicken patties, wedges and peas
chicken mince £2.50
broccoli 53p
handful of cheese 50p
egg 18p
breadcrumbs (I use the end crusts), garlic purée, half an onion (used the other half in sandwiches)
wedges £1.30
frozen peas 30p

So £5.31, but round up to £5.50 for the bread/onion/garlic.
4 of us for tea today and 3 patties left over for my lunch tomorrow. We could have stretched the wedges for 5 too if we had wanted to. So £1.10 a portion.

Tonight - served 4
Roast potatoes - 5 large Maris Piper spuds - I got about 18 potatoes out of them - approx £1 plus about 5 tablespoons of Rapeseed oil - 20p.
Frozen chicken, leek and ham hock pies from Aldi - £1.98 for four
Frozen peas - 4 good handfuls - 50p
Carrots - 3 large - 30p
Runner beans - free from our garden
Gravy - leftover frozen from a previous roast chicken dinner.
The pies/spuds were done in the Halogen oven.
All in, £4 for four dinners.

Following on from a thread earlier - 'which is better Gousto or HelloFresh'' a lovely mumsnetter provided a link to Gousto recipes on line. I did creamy pork tagliatelle for around £5 for two. Had most of the ingredients in the store cupboard. Bought pork and double cream, 8 mushrooms. Really tasty and will have enough for lunch tomorrow as that pasta is always a winner when I'm starving - a little goes a long way..

I made a simple quick Pad See Ew but it's hard to know the costs because I buy my sauces in huge bottles.
Oyster sauce
Dark soy
Soy
Black vinegar
Sugar
Only use a couple spoons of each so they will last for ages. Probably £1 all together.

Fresh rice noodles - £2.20
Rump steaks - £6ish
Bok choy - 65p
1 onion and a few garlic cloves 60p
2 eggs - free from the allotments
2 Thai chili's I grew myself.
Lime wedges, salt, pepper...

I think this is a really good and possibly helpful thread for some @Theblackdogagain 👌

Very cheap one for us tonight and not very different to the bubble and squeak above! Okonomiyaki and roasted baby potatoes to use a bag full of shopping from the farm shop. Tractor associations made our three year old very happy, as did digging up the potatoes with his hands 😍

Under £1 for two adults and kids. Tomorrow is baby jackets and homemade baked beans

Lamb curry for 3 (2 adults and a primary age child)

diced lamb from Abel and Cole 300g for £8.50
1 onion - 65p
spices - hard to say used quite a lot say £1
oil - 20p (?)
2 mini naan bread - £1
rice - 30p
prunes - 50p
400g can chickpeas - 60p

So about 4.20 a head, I think that’s more than I normally spend actually as we don’t eat meat every day. Interesting to try to track it actually.

£126.79 we ate out

Very cheap tonight. I got a pack of burgers reduced to 33p in Sainsburys, we had those in buns £1, about half a bag of lettuce (20p), but if butter and ketchup, cheese slices 55p, potato ball things from Asda 72p for the bag(have some left over though) and some frozen peas (about 20p worth out of the bag). So £3 for all 5 of us, 60p each.