I need about 5/6 really really cheap meal ideas please

[nutcracker]

I am tremendosly broke this week thanks to Barclays and need 5 meal ideas that are extremely cheap.

Needs to feed 1 adult and 3 kids.

Haven't got much food in to start with so anything I buy will have to be very inexspensive.

[misdee]

have you got a slow cook? if so, cheap cuts of meat cook very well in them, and male great dishes.

[Nemo1977]

spag bol
beans on toast
baked potato cheese
egg and chips
grilled chicken with pasta or salad
curry

[misdee]

what about lunches?

[Lucycat]

Buy one chicken and it will do a roast, a casserole/curry and then the stock can be used for a soup.

[schneebly]

filling homemade soup and sandwiches (cheese and onion cheap)
tuna pasta
homemade past and tomato sauce made with cheap tinned toms, onion, garlic and chillies.
eggy bread and beans

[nutcracker]

Lunches I should be ok cos we have cheese and ham and tuna and a tin of salmon i think.

Just found some mine in the freezer and a jar of pasta sauce in the cupboard.

The kids love egg and chips so can definatly do that one, and beans on toast should go down well too.

I do have a slow cooker yeah so might pop to asda and look at the cheap meat.

[colditz]

Big bag of tesco value potatoes - enough for all 5 meals

big bag of tesco value carrots - enough for all 5 meals(keep these in the fridge, they go off quicker than 'normal' carrots)

Bag pasta

tinned tomatoes

1 bag tesco value cooking onions

Belly pork - enough for 2 meals

Eggs - enough for 1 main meal and as many eggy lunches as you can stand

1 bag frozen chicken portions

2 portions tesco value mince/ bag frozen mince

1 bag tesco value frozen white fish fillets

Few bags of tesco value fruit - apples, pears, bananas, grapes.

SO

5 meals.

1. Belly pork, mash, and carrots with onion gravy
   
   
2. Chicken, roast potatoes and carrots
   
   
3. Fish pie - cook the fish, chuck in a cheese sauce with chopped onion in, top with mash potato, serve with carrots
   
   
4. Belly pork, fried eggs, home made chips and - yes, carrots
   
   
5. Pasta bologneise - fry mince, add onions, tinned toms and grated carrot with garlic if you have it, serve with pasta.
   
   very very basic meals, you may find them a bit boring, but for 1 skint week it should be ok.

[nutcracker]

Got 2 tins of soup too. It's amazing what I can find when I look properly

[nutcracker]

They are great Colditz althoug I will have to bribe Dd1 to eat the fish pie LOL.

[colditz]

Nutty, you could use a couple of tins of tuna for the fish pie ihnstead of white fich, and it also works with chicken and gravy instead of fish and cheese sauce.

[colditz]

Also - bonus....

Your kids will not moan for at least a month about the food you buy by the time you get to the end of this week, but you may have a problem feeding them carrots ever again!

[noddyholder]

omelette and beans is cheap and filling

[colditz]

And, take a calculator to tesco with you. Tot it up on the way round the shop.

[nutcracker]

Thanks for all of those, have written them all down and am going to do a plan for the week.

Thankfully my kids aren't too fussy with their eating and generally will eat some of anything I give them.

My mums just given me a large chicken that she wasn't going to use so we are having that for tea and there will be plenty left over to make another meal too

[Blossomhill]

Hiya

In the dinnerlady they have a moussaka recipie that's so cheap and easy to do. I use beef mince as can't stand lamb.

[colditz]

About the belly pork, I forgot to say, if you haven't cooked it before...

Don't attempt to cassarole it, it's too fatty and goes rank (at least when I tried it, it did).

Put it on a baking tray with some pepper, and bake it in the oven on about gas 5 until it is really well browned and crispy.

[Munz]

our tescos hasve whole chickens on BOGOF at the mo for 2.99, not oragnic or anything but needs must/all.

sausage/chips, corned beef hash. pasta bake. with just sauce/pasta maybe tuna if u have it??