What's on the menu

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I am after ideas for cheap meals because I am on a budget and can't think of any meal ideas

Tia

We are having toad in the hole today with value sausage and onions peas and gravy
Beef goulash tomorrow and adding veg and potato for pasties on tue.
Veggie curry on wed, cottage pie on Thursday and hopefully the freezer will be empty and I will not have been shopping all week except for milk apples and bananas
Looking forward to others ideas as our budget has really had to be reined in

Love toad in the hole!!! Can I have your recipe for the goulash please like the idea of making pasties

Thankyou

i do not weigh ok?
packet of beef diced cheapo is fine,
2 onions
garlic
spoon of tomato puree
pinch paprika
tin tomato
two piced peppers ( or any veg you need to use)
a half glass wine if you have it
a half pint of stock
salt and pepper
a spoon of flour
Toss the beef in flour and salt and pepper fry off , fry off veg
add wine reduce
add all ing
bung in oven for about 2 hrs onmedium covered
Or throw it into a slow cooker but reduce the cooking liquid by half
I have alsonot bothered cooking off the beef or veg and just stuck it into oven or slow cooker if i feel lazy

anotherlazy but no so cheapAldi do fresh pastry that is very nice

I do pasta with a ton of tomatoes, veg (aldi super six) and pasta with red lentils

Pasta and pesto with value garlic bread

Sausage and mash

Omelette with baby potatoes

Sometimes homemade pancakes

Soup and potatoes

another favourite here is fried onion, sausage, egg, beans and creamed potato
or toast, beans and egg

Pasta bake with 1 onion, 6 rashers of bacon, 1 passata, Italian dried herbs, a bit of double cream and a can of berlotti beans. Some cheddar bits out of the freezer sprinkled on the too. Rich and delicious. Left overs cold for Monday lunchtime.

I then use the left over cream to pour into a can of fruit salad to go with value ice cream for pudding.

Frittata! Chop up some cooked potatoes, tomato, spring onions and wilted spinach (or other vegetables), mix with 2 eggs per person and some grated cheese, pour into a frying pan, allow to set and then finish off under the grill. Serve in generous wedges with salad or beans.

Not everyones taste, but we love chicken livers and lambs kidneys both really cheap- do in a tomato sauce if wanted, with couscous.
Tomato sauce with pasta
Bubble and squeak with bacon and/ or eggs
Cauliflowers are cheap here at the moment ( 50p on our local market) so cauliflower cheese and jacket potato

I forgot my favourite - corned beef hash! :)

I've got lots of vegetables to use up ATM, so I'm going to be making capponata and puttanesca sauces for pasta, not sure if that's how to spell them, hopefully my cooking is better than my spelling!

Also agree about offal, cheap and tasty, love liver and onions with mash, and also eggs make a cheap meal, pasta carbonara or a spanish omelette.

Egg fried rice ( with any veg and frozen peas( is often a cheap end of month staple here. Cook rice, cool rapidly, abs fry with some veg and give spice, add an egg or two and peas - done. A splash of soy perfecta it.

Soups are popular too- red lentil and country veg being my cheap favourites.

I make a lot of Dhaka chickpea curry
Home made pizzas

Oh yes, I often have egg fried rice for a quick hot lunch, works well with left over broccoli too.

I also like asian style noodle soup, any leftover veg, stock either homemade or from granules, some noodles, some slivers of garlic and ginger if you have them, a splash of soy sauce, shredded chicken, beef or pork or whatever you have, tasty and cheap.

Sausage casserole with chickpeas and plenty of vegetables is cheap too, make it spicy with Moroccan spices and serve with cous-cous, quick and filling.