Cheapest meals?

[katykuns]

Need some help for incredibly cheap meal ideas, we are financially in a bit of a state and I really need to reduce our outgoings the next couple of months...

Jkt potatoes with various fillings.
Pasta with tomato sauces - No meat
Egg fried Rice.

this website has lots of recipes and costings, although I think that they haven't updated cost for a couple of years. I don't that there would that much of a higher cost.

thank you wheredidiputit

Sausage casserole - brown sausages (I use veggie hotdog ones, so they don't need precooking). Fry a chopped onion, a couple of diced carrots, a couple of diced sticks of celery and a couple of crushed garlic cloves. Add paprika, honey and grainy mustard. Add a tub of passata and a bit of water and shove all this (not the sausages) in the oven for forty mins or so until the carrots are soft. Add the sausages and a drained tin of butter beans, green lentils or cannelini bins plus s&p and warm through. Serve with jacket or hassleback potatoes.

Dhal and rice.

Spanish omelette.

Pasta with a sauce made with passata, value peppers, chilli etc for a kind of Arabiatta.

Homemade wedges with omelettes or fried eggs and frozen peas.

Chickpea curry.

beans on toast - can add bacon and or cheese

Home made veg soup - the hairy bikers do good ones and you can add pasta.

toas in the hole / pancakes.

• home made soup - use up leftover veggies
• dhal and rice
• bean chilli with rice
• macaroni cheese - can stick in any veg you have to hand (or sausages/bacon)
• pasta and tomato sauce with cheese
• grilled cheese sandwiches with tomato soup
• omelettes
• noodles with stir fried veggies
• make a roast on sunday, then use leftover meat for soups/stews/pies/stirfries, then bones for stock
• potato gratin - can fancy up with cheese/sausages/bacon/veggies
• filled yorkshires - stuff with mince and veggies
• cheese and bean quesedillas

We use a lot of dried beans and other pulses. 500g of dried kidney beans or chickpeas typically costs between 70p and £1.10 depending on where you shop and, after soaking and cooking according to the packet instructions, becomes about 1.3kgs.. nearly 3lbs... of versatile, filling, nutritious protein. Once cooked, drained and allowed to cool I spread mine in a thin layer in a large freezer bag so that they can be used in things like these

Vegetable Chilli 'non' Carne... with canned tomatoes, chilli spices and diced vegetables
Spicy Beanburgers.... mashed up with egg, grated carrot, oats, chilli and plenty of seasoning
Chunky Bean Soups.... add a little chopped smoked ham, chorizo or bacon for flavour plus stock, onions, root vegetables etc.
A Bean/Root Veg base for pot-roasted beef or chicken.
Cassoulet type casseroles using cheaper belly pork or sausages