Need some more cheap easy meal ideas

[daisydee43]

Hi

Was doing really well with my shopping as was buying cheap meals, most from scratch and got food bill down to £50 week. This week I'm struggling for new ideas so have already spent £40 and I have to go again on thurs (do my shopping in 2 halves due to lack of car ).
Really need some new ideas to freshen it up

Please help

Jacket potatoes

anything with mince in

pasta

Spinach and coriander dal with rice and cucmber raita
Omelette, new potatoes and salad
Chickpea and sweet potato salad with toasted pumpkin seeds
Spaghetti with garlic and chilli with salad
Spice marinated tofu with sesame noodles
Pasta with roasted vegetables
Vegetable frittata
Brown lentils cooked with garlic and herbs served with a poached egg
Stir fried vegetables with rice, cook extra rice
Fried rice with lots of vegetables, ginger, tin of tuna, slices of omelette
Chilli con carne made without meat topped with coriander salsa and sour cream

breaded turkey escalopes in buns with salad
jacket potatoes, beans and cheese/coleslaw
eggy bread with beans and melted cheese
puff pastry/tortilla wrap/pitta bread/french stick pizzas
sausages and mash
ratatouille and cous cous
leek and potato soup

Toad in the hole,mash and veggies
Sausage casserole,roast potatoes and veggies.
Lasagna,HM garlic bread and salad.
HM Pizza(we can make Pizza for 7 of us for £1)and salads
Carbonara and HM garlic bread
Chicken in blackbean sauce and rice
Chicken korma and rice
Beef casserole,mash and veggies
Chicken/steak fajitas(we make our own flour tortillas they cost less than 1p each to make)making your own salsa and seasoning costs a fraction of the price of the ready made kits
HM quiche,HM chips and beans
HM burgers,j/pots and salads
Ploughman's salad
Roast chicken dinner
Spaghetti bolognese and HM garlic bread
Cottage pie and veggies
Cold meats,J/pots and salads
HM sausage rolls/pasty/pie
HM macaroni cheese/pasta and vegetable bake
HM meatballs,chunky tomato sauce and pasta
Cod,chips and peas.Lidl sell some lovely frozen battered cod that's really cheap but tastes like what you'd get from a fish and chip shop and they're tarter sauce is lovely as well.
Fisherman's pie and veggies
Smoked mackeral,hot buttered new potatoes and peas.Lidl sell whole smoked mackeral for £3 that would feed about 3-4 people.

Chicken wings. Chop off the tips, place on a baking sheet, sprinkle with Cajun or some such seasoning, roast for about 30 mins turning a couple of times. Alternatively, drizzle with honey towards end of cooking and sprinkle with lightly toasted sesame seeds. Serve with 'dirty' rice or baked potatoes and salad.

Great ideas, soditall you should write a book you have some genius ideas

Spaghetti with tomato sauce
Pancakes with bacon and cheese served with golden syrup
Vegetable curry (fry onion in some olive oil add cubed potatoes, chopped carrots, chopped green beans or cauliflower, add water to cover the veg add curry powder and simmer for 40 minutes) serve with rice. You could add tofu as a meat replacement, in that case add tofu to onion and fry for further 5 minutes before adding all veg.
Red lentil soup

our family favourites are:

mixed halved veg sausages,potatoes(part cooked in microwave 1st),cubed squash and wedges of onion and tomato mixed in a tbs of oil and roasted at 170 -180 for @ 40 mins

potato (cooked),pea and cheese omelette with salad and crusty bread (dh and dd like this with left over spaghetti instead of potatoes but they are weird imo )

veg curry,chilli,stew,pasta sauce are easy to make in bulk with whatever veg/herbs are in season and freeze. ..

mussels (out of their shells,the asda pack for £1 does 2 easily) in a spicy(paprika,chilli), lemony, tomato,garlic and onion sauce with crusty bread and a few oven chips

Catalan style fish and potato stew on a tomato,garlic and onion sauce base

and never forget the power of a crumble (freeze a load of topping)/semolina/rice pudding ,done when the oven is on,to fill em up!