Whats are you cooking today for tea / dinner / supper and how much will the meal cost?

[MysteriousShopper]

I bought some reduced-price cauliflower and broccoli florets this morning so I've made a bake with it by adding pasta and cheese sauce. Might have it with some slices of the gammon joint leftover from yesterday.

Pasta bake £1.25 per serving
plus approx 50p per serving of gammon.

Salmon fillet and green salad with grapes for pudding. Expensive as the salmon was £8+ but the lettuce was only 15p and the grapes were reduced too.

Chicken and chorizo - with rice. Plus salad from garden. Plus leftovers. £15 ish. We are so trying to be careful.

Frozen chicken balls £3
2 packs packet rice 90p
Green beans from garden..free
Sweet chili sauce from a bottle ... Guessing maybe 30p
Total £4.10 for 4 people

So about £3 per person.

This sounds simple and delicious, I might have that for lunch tomorrow if I go pick up the ingredients.

By leaving out the cost of the steak, wedges and wine you've conveniently not included a huge part of the cost 😂 Presumably you didn't shop lift these ingredients, even if you didn't buy them today/this week? It's still money spent. Adding those onto your 'estimate' would work out closer to £11 per adult based on the cheapest steak and wine...

We've had tofu goreng (nasi goreng with the chicken subbed for tofu). It worked out at approximately £2pp. Tomorrow's baked gnocchi will be closer to £2.50.
Generally our dinners come in between £1.50 to £5pp - I often work out the portion price when cooking out of curiosity since our food bill started rocketing.

Sausages with red and yellow pepper and red onion, with a tomato sauce (Passata, stock cube) with couscous.

Works out about £1 a portion.

Bought a constructed big kebab:
Chicken, chips, salad £10

Always top up with our own salad whatever is on hand:
Yellow pepper, a tomato, some cucumber and an avocado today

Feeds three of us, although one is quite little!

I did a roast chicken, roast baby potatoes, frozen veg and Yorkshire pudding. About 6euro all in and fed 4 of us so 1.50 per portion.

Ocado shopping week, so M and S chicken and leek pie, (£5.50) tenderstem broccoli (£2.10) and some Tesco sliced crispy potatoes (£1.75 × 2). PLUS homemade-ish veggie pie version made with jus roll pastry, that's not chicken, mushrooms and veggie gravy. (£6.00 total, but 2 in freezer for next time, so £2.00 this time)
So an expensive meal (£13.10 between 4) but my word it was delicious.

Whole wheat spaghetti, homemade tomato sauce with lots of herbs and spices, tinned fish and some frozen spinach, very cheap to make and tastes good but would be nice to have fresh pasta.

@ssd I used this recipe, but reduced the beef to 700g and added a tin of peeled plum tomatoes, which I mashed roughly with a fork an hour before it was done. I needed a little more liquid too. It was tasty.
https://www.foodforfitness.co.uk/recipes/slow-cooker-pulled-beef-ragu/

I made a smoked cauliflower dahl, it cost about £21 to feed two adults, a child and a toddler. Food is a bit more expensive here than the UK.

I had fish chips and mushy peas for tea, but I'm currently marinating chicken legs ready to make a chicken curry for meals for the next few days.
Chicken legs
Mushrooms
A bag of onions and
Coconut milk cost £5.93 from Aldi. The curry powder, chilli powder, garlic granules, paprika and chicken stock I already had in the cupboard as I do a bag of rice. No idea what it will turn out like. I've only ever made curry using chicken breast filets or skinless and boneless chicken thighs. Never chicken legs with the bones in.

Make that £33 for 4!

My eyes were too big for my belly and I didn’t even manage half my munchy box but thankfully teen DS arrived home and was delighted to finish it off.

@Decafflatteplease The sausage pasta sounds a lot of effort but tasty. Did you cook the sausages first then slice?

Woah, what? £21 for cauliflower, lentils and rice basically, is that right? Is that the USA?

chicken stirfry
not very much,
about a third of a packet of stirfry so 75p
two bits of diced chicken, couple of mushrooms couple of brocolli florets, noodles.
very economical

Mediterranean veg - pepper 55p, onion 50p, half a courgette 28p, tomatoes (reduced in greengrocer’s) 20p, tossed in rapeseed oil infused with herbs from the cupboard.
Baked potato (half each) - 60p
Coleslaw - portion of white cabbage 20p, half a carrot 5p, half an onion 25p plus mayo from the fridge.
2 burgers £2.63
Apart from tomatoes, all bought in M & S. Total £5.26 so £2.63 each. Cannot cost oil and mayo.

No, Sweden

Spaghetti bolognese for two adults all ingredients already in the house, but breakdown, mince £1 as from larger frozen packet, Sauce £1.20 from aldi, Spaghetti part packet 50p , cheese grated from block 90p so around £3.60

Lamb steaks in rosemary, baby new potatoes, salad and sourdough baguette. No idea how much as it was bought with the weekly shop. Delicious though!

No, Sweden

I'm surprised. I thought food was only a little bit more expensive there than here. Wow!

£2.13 per portion for pork and apple burgers, new potatoes, roasted red onion, carrots and parsnips and steamed broccoli.