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So am going to ASDA wih £25 for as much food as possible. What do u suggest?

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mamadiva · 07/10/2008 17:58

Yeah that's about it.

I kind of have a menu.

Is smart price mince okay?

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mamadiva · 07/10/2008 18:02

Frozen onions? ny good?

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moondog · 07/10/2008 18:03

Noooo!
Too expensive
Rice
Lentils
Eggs
Cheese

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Saturn74 · 07/10/2008 18:05

potatoes
beans
cheese
pasta
tinned tomatoes
rice
eggs
tinned tuna/mackerel fillets/sardines

Flamebat · 07/10/2008 18:05

smart price mince is fine - just strain it.

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lulumama · 07/10/2008 18:06

go veggie ! pulses, rice, smart price veg that can be made into soup or frittatas. if you must have meat, you can bulk up mince with red lentils. jacket potatos with any manner of fillings cheap and cheerful

SaintRiven · 07/10/2008 18:07

lentils. You can bulk out everything with those.

mamadiva · 07/10/2008 18:07

LOL at moondog

Okay realised have been daft asking for help when already have menu, I am having

Spag Bol
Chicken casserole
Cheese Burgers
Chilli
Chicken Curry

Have most of the stuff in but just need help with the cheaper stuff my ethics have gone out the window at the mo

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mamadiva · 07/10/2008 18:09

Okay no I don't have most of the stuff in but do have some LOL.

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lulumama · 07/10/2008 18:12

that is a lot of meat

you can make the spag bol and chilli together really, and bulk up with lentils, and then add beans etc to one half and add bolognese stuff to the other half

chicken casserole : there is a good feed your family for a £5 recipe for chicken and green lentil hotpot...

curry you can bulk up again with lentil and with sweet potatos and chick peas

mummyplonk · 07/10/2008 18:12

They were doing £2 for a whole chicken (max 3 pp last week) hope still on, we r turning into chickens...cluck

mamadiva · 07/10/2008 18:18

I know it's a lot of meat lulumama

My DS and DP are very fussy eaters

I am trying to think of other things but can't, lentils I think are a no go unless you can blend them I love veg and things like that but they won't even attempt it. DP has never tried a carrot!

Any suggestions for cheap meals that don't involve to much veg unless hidden maybe can be sly about it LOL.

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elmoandella · 07/10/2008 18:21

noodles. 8p a pack.

lulumama · 07/10/2008 18:23

red lentils will go to nothing in mince meat, i have started using htem recently and they are great. they suck up a lot of liquid though so you need to add more stock etc to what you are cooking

can you not encourage your DP to try some different foods? at not eating carrots

MyDingaling · 07/10/2008 18:24

Your DP has never tried a carrot

TsarChasm · 07/10/2008 18:27

Big frozen yorkshire puddings are quite cheap to buy. Could have with some sausages, gravy, mash and veg.

mamadiva · 07/10/2008 18:28

I know shocked me too, I assumed he didn't like them but no his mum hasn't either it's a case of don't like the look of so won't try pathetic really.

DS sin't to bad although he is only 2. But I encourage him as much as possible but he is a very fussy eater.

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mamadiva · 07/10/2008 18:29

Does anyone have a recipe for tomato and chilli sauce?

Might have it with some pasta and some cheap garlic bread. YUM.

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SmugColditz · 07/10/2008 18:31

Don't buy frozen anything.

Get fresh smartprice veg. a couple of packets of smartprice spaghetti, a bag of smartp[rice rice.

Get a dozen eggs. Get some cheese.

Do you have pack ups to make? buy7 lots of smartprice wholemeal bread and freeze it, make a big flap jack with smartprice ingredients and buy a bag of apples, bananas, and every day shove in cheese sandwich, piece of flapjack, an apple and a banana.

choose a protein food for every teatime for the next 7 days. This can be beans, fish, chicken, meat, cheese or eggs. The non meat foods are cheaper, but remember fish includes tinned tuna which is cheap and nutricious.

Use tinned tomato on pasta with carrots and tinned beans.
Make special fried rice, with eggs, shredded cabbage and carrot, and boiled rice with a dash of soy sauce
Make sausage, mash and veg (buy cheap potatoes, not expensive ones)
make cauliflower cheese with bread and butter or a jacket potato.
make potato wedges with fried egg, tinned tomatoes and baked beans
Make chicken drumsticks (the leg, baked in the oven for about 30 minutes) with roast potatoes, carrots and cabbage and gravy
Make fish pie - frozen smartprice white fish OR tuna, with a cheese sauce and tine of sweedcorn, with mashed potato topping, served with brocolli
Pork rib chops with rice and veg

SmugColditz · 07/10/2008 18:32

empty a cheap tin of tomatoes into a jug, add chillis or chilli powder, microwave, leave to stand until cool, microwave again.

mamadiva · 07/10/2008 18:35

Wow colditz that sounds easy enough for even me! LOL.25

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SmugColditz · 07/10/2008 18:39

Har, have been skint since I left hime, I had to learn to cook cheap!

mamadiva · 07/10/2008 18:45

That's the way to do it though ain't it

Wish I'd have done it sooner

I know how to cook basics but not alot... I am only 21 though so plenty of time yet

Have just looked at a chilli recipe too sounds really easy and cheap so will try that instead of a jar

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SmugColditz · 07/10/2008 19:37

I was a shit cook at 21, my mum was a packet cook and that's all I knew how to do.

But if you get the basics right sauces are really cheap and easy to make.

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