foodie types come over here! also menu planners!

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ok, am 95% of being a full time SAHM but am now after some good cheap filling meal ideas so as to shave a bit off the food bill if we can.

tried filling stues/soups out with lentils & chick peas ect but DH won't budge meat or fish every night.

is it much cheaper to make your own pizza bases than buy them? i've often thought about doing it and would love to but a i'm thinking they'll be a disaster and also tonnes of effort, althou now we're weaning the boy i'd rather give him home cooked than processed iycwim.

so come on cheap ideas and recipes.

(also do u guys menu plan each month - I used to do it weekly depnding on what was in the freezer but is it cheaper/better to do it the other way around?)

(ooh and DH comes home for his dinner as well - perhaps main meal should be done for then? althou he's not home every day is 95% of the time.)

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wothca york

ooh didn't think of doin it in there, I've got one collectin dust! lol.

come on then girlies any more recipes I can do?? tonights toad in the hole! really gonna get into doing things from scratch is this SAHM is going to work out.

i love home made lasagne, shephards pie, soups

although at them moment i aint allowed them as we are on a health kick which last 8 weeks

• they can be mnade healthily surely?? how do u make up your tomato sauce for the lasagna? I've tried but bugger me if I can get it rihgt, it's normally too thin and watery adding cornflower takes the flavour away!

(and how do u make home made potato wedges (stupid Q I know but v v intrested on that one)

I make tomato sauce

using tinned chopped tomatoes(i use the cheap ones too)

Herbs
seasonimg
tomato puree
water if needed