Low cost meal ideas with limited or hidden veg please

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I am very skint at the moment and desperately trying to keep to a budget!

The problem I have is that DD2 is very fussy and won't eat anything where there is any visible veg!

At the moment our meals include:

-- Sausage casserole with kidney beans (DD2 will eat the beans at a push!)
-- Pasta with pesto and spinach (spinach is blended into pesto)
-- Cottage pie with small amount of minced beef and bulked out with lentils and suede (DD2 not keen but allowed me to spoon feed her so she could have a ice pole, she asked)
-- Roast chicken
-- bolognaise (includes grated carrot)

I am really struggling to think of anything else!

Well you could do a chicken thigh casserole with cassoulet beans in it. With blended veg like leek, onion, carrots, courgettes so that she doesn't notice the veg.

In fact, I often just make up a big vat of blended veg sauce and freeze it. I then use different meats and beans in it. Not awfully imaginative I know!

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What about space cakes? That's what my mum called them lol
It was mashed potatoes mixed in with leftover veg.She put them into ball shapes all mixed in & then fried them in the tiniest bit of oil/works with that light fry stuff too :)

I've made a homemade tomato sauce before with onion, carrot courgette and tomatoes (or similar) and put on whole meat pitta with grated cheese on top as a 'pizza'?!

Dd won't eat visible veg either but does accept dahl (we eat it with homefried poppodums) and likes herbs so I throw in lots finely chopped coriander or parsley (also in chicken stews etc), hoping that counts as green leafy veg

Homemade baked beans (soften onion, add tins tomatoes, herbs &blend and add giant white beans? )

I forgot to say my pizza sauce was blended too so no visible courgette!

Does she eat tomatoey sauce? Pasta in hm.tomato sauce (clove of garlic, tin of toms, herbs and seasoning) is very cheap and easy. Tomato sauce can also be spread on pizza bases.

Does she like hummous? There are loads of hummous recipes, with all sorts of veg blended in, and it's cheap and filling if you make it at home.

Butter bean and cheese burgers from BBC good food website. My DC love these and the beans count as veg. In fact what about carrot, or Chickpea burgers? Or would that be too veggie?

What about soup? Veg soup, tomato soup, leek and potato soup, Courgette soup, cream of onion soup- all cheap, all easy, no veg shaped veg. my veg refuser eats a lot of soup

Sausages and Swede and potato mash is popular in this house, same goes for celeriac mash.

Veggie is good for me.

Yes she does eat tomato sauce with pasta. I used to do a Moroccan lamb stew type thing with chickpeas but that is too expensive now.

She has been reluctant to eat soup in the past but I might give it a try again. I have some potatoes and leek so might have a look at doing the soup tomorrow.

I think I will Google Dahl as well as they quite like curry but I am trying to limit the meat, plus my curry and chilli normally use a jar

Thank you for the suggestions they all look great.

Turkey enchiladas. Turkey mince, fine chopped onion and peppers fried in little oil until cooked then pesto stirred through. Put into tortilla wraps and top with tomato sauce with optional cheese and bake in oven.