Affordable food?

[Mallarkey]

I'm looking for healthy CHEAP recipes for a family of four!!
During the week we usually have for main meals spag bol, turkey leg, lamb shank, egg ham and chips, pasta, cauliflower cheese. I do make quite a lot of home made soup and have found that shopping at the local market for fruit and veg loads cheaper than supermarkets but need some more recipes to add to my repertoire!

take a look on here
bbc.co.ukfood
there are some great recipes on there.

one pot chicken is both quick and cheap.

baking potatoes cut into quarters, chicken, whatever veg (lightly covered in oil) into the pot and cooked in less than an hour.

leaving chicken for sandwiches.

lasagne's cheap

curry

shepherd's/cottage pie

toad in the hole

What about a sausage casserole with mash. Buy cheap sausages, the casserole mix (you can get one out of asda that you add a tin of beans to) makes it go further. Sorry not very healthy, but very tasty!

Lentil curry
Fry garlic onions and ginger,add 250g grams red lentils and good curry paste. Then add a tin of tomatoes and/or coconut milk.
Season (adding a t/spoon of sugar) and simmer for 25 mins,adding more liquid if necessary.
Cheap and delicious.

Tuna,pasta & sweetcorn, or tuna salad with a nice bread followed by your soup.
rice with meat/veg (stir fry type thing)use soya sauce to make it tasty
baked potatoes topped with baked beans & cheese

Just add your soup to the above and have 2 courses if someone needs a bigger dinner.

Check out your supermarket and see what's reduced for that nights dinner as well.

don't forget to fill your freezer with the buy one get one free deals. I do that with prawns and chicken and salmon. If I see it with other meat I do it then as well.

You can buy a nice jerk seasoning (Walkerswood) from the supermarket and you can make Jerk chicken.

chop an onion
open a tin of tomatoes
add 1 dessertspoon of jerk seasoning
mix together

you can put that on any meat or fish.

rice and peas
tin of kidney beans (which we call peas)
rice
coconut cream

wash rice, add kidney beans, cover with water. When boiling add coconut cream and stir. Leave alone until cooked. Serve with whatever you "jerked". lovely, cheap and really filling.

Me too student But can be bit repetitive menues. Bought a 3 carrer bags of fruit and veg for £6 on the market melons 39p!! I'm becoming a bargin queen!