What are your best feed your family for a fiver recipes?

[mamadiva]

On a tight budget need some inspiration DS and DP very fussy, so am limited.

None of them will eat veg anything cheap I can hide veg in? Also DP wont touch fish so none of that

I bloody hate feedin my house is a waste of time no one eats it bar me ARGH so yeah anything cheap without veg or hidden or things without too.

Oh it's to feed 3 adults and a toddler my cousin has just decided to move in

pizza - I just buy very basic ones and put extra fillings on, make your own dough even cheaper. And garlic bread reasonably cheap.
Sausage & mash
Spag bol (van hide veg in it)
no veg? my ds's won't eat much but like corn on the cob.

My kids love some of the dishes I used to cook when I was a student:

Corned beef hash (fried chopped onions, stir in tin of corned beef and mashed potato). You could mix in cooked parsnips and they'd never know the difference. Serve with gravy and extra veg for those who will eat it (I like it with carrots and peas)Also makes a nice pie or pancake filling.

Sausage risotto: sausages, rice, tinned tomatoes, chopped onion and stock all cooked together. Am sure you could sneak a finely chopped carrot in there.

Toad in the hole

Pancakes with whatever fillings you fancy

Toast hawaii (toast, topped with ham and a pineapple ring and grated cheese; grill)

baked potatoes with bacon, cheese and onion.

fry onion and chopped bacon together whilspotatoes have almost baked.
take the potatoes out of the oven, slice in half and scoop out potato into a bowl.
Mash the potato with the cheese and a tiny bit of milk or butter.
Stir in the bacon and onion, season and spoon back into potato skins. Replace back in oven (on baking tray) and bake for about another 10 mins until browned on the top.

YUM YUM YUm and it doesn't matter if you don't have much bacon...

Shepherds pie or fish pie with a topping of mashed root veg instead of just mashed potato.

Make your own pasta sauce, just saute some onion, garlic, skinned peppers, courgette etc, then add tinned tomatoes and herbs and blend until smooth. They will never know that the veg is in there.

Pour cheese sauce over veg?

If all else fails serve raw veg and fruit as a side dish.

Echo the rec for homemade tomato sauce for pasta - easy, cheap and you can blend loads of vege into it.

Roast a load of vege with a few spices, then blend with stock for easy, cheap soup.

Lentil dahl - costs pennies. Serve with rice, natural yoghurt and some cucumber and onion in mint.