Cheap recipes

[Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain]

Hit me with your cheap recipes. Trying to save money. Not overly keen on fish, prawns aside from cod, salmon, tuna and scallops and sometimes crab.

Got air fryer, oven, micro wave.

I made this https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/honey-mustard-and-garlic-sausage-traybake.html last night, really tasty and in expensive. I subbed pork sausages for chicken sausages which worked well.

Tinned tomato risotto https://www.bbc.co.uk/food/recipes/tinned_tomato_risotto_50756

Frittata https://realfood.tesco.com/recipes/pea-and-potato-frittata.html

I default to pasta a lot when I want cheap. Even if you use meat, it goes a LOT further when used in pasta. eg, I can stretch one packet of sausages to feed 4 people generously if I turn them into a pasta sauce. Ditto a half a packet of bacon or a small chorizo ring. Add lots of vegetables, tinned tomatoes etc - depending on preference and taste.

Jacket potatoes are good choices too. Beans and cheese. Bit of tuna (you can be stingy) with some cream cheese. Or make your own creamy bean mix with any white bean.

Slow cooked cheaper joints of meat are also good - not served as a roast but used for other things. eg I do pork shoulder in the slow cooker which I can then use in tacos and freeze for other days. or a whole chicken used in fajitas one day, a risotto the next, on sandwiches etc.

I quite like Dahl with rice. The Dahl is very tasty, filling and full of protein and fibre.

I have a load of spare penne pasta I found stored away and some shell pasta too.

I need to be clever with chickens and buy whole rather than breasts.

Those recipe ideas in the Tesco magazine are worth a go. Easy, and they even do a shopping list and price it all up.

I just made lentil and leek soup:

8oz red lentils
1 leek
1 tbsp tomato puree
2pt stock (from cube)
1-2 tsp cumin
3-4 cloves garlic

Bung it in a saucepan, cook it till the lentils are done, blend it.

Very cheap, very nice.

@Gonnagetgoingreturnsagain Morrisons had whole large chickens for £5 I noticed yesterday.

Veg soup is cheap and filling - fry onion, carrots, celery and garlic, add a tin of tomato and a tin of chickpeas, a bit of water or stock, some dried herbs from the back of the cupboard, serve with toast on the side and cheese on top. It's one of my daughter's favourite meals. Even nicer with some bacon lardons but depends on cost.