How Much Did Your Main Meal Cost Today?

[sunny-dave]

Just cooked Sunday Lunch for four people :

Free Range Chicken
Roast Spuds
Singing Swede
Steamed Cauli
Yorkshire Pudds
Stuffing
Gravy
Horseradish Sauce

All from Aldi - total cost approx £8.50

No huge cooking skills (although it was damn good) - and it was (I think) cheaper than any sort of instant/ready meal option that would have filled us up as nicely.

So why do we get so much noise about "Can't afford to eat properly"?

Is it an age thing? Are the skills just not there?

Or am I just a boring old fart with out-of-date ideas?

[-Talbot-]

Yes

[Mamyalynne]

£1.45p

[Zacs-Master]

Ha ha^^
We had similar. Chicken was £6ish then a few veg. So,about not same but only 3 people (and Zac).

[-Talbot-]

Sorry, that was in reply to your last question, Dave.


Veg is cheap, the trick is to make it tasty for the kids (which I do brilliantly)

[Zacs-Master]

It will do me for lunch tomorrow too.

[sherrardk]

My lot had tuna pasta bake - I reckon it was less than a fiver for six of them (and I would class that as one of the more expensive meals that I make). I'm v fortunate that I buy chicken (that is pre-packed ready for a Tesco) from the Cargill factory shop - this week I got 8 packs of 3 breast fillets for £6 (would have cost about £28 from Tesco). Meals don't have to be expensive but they do take thinking about and careful shopping.

[tamborine]

Gkids wznted pizza express 3 @ £8 each...... robbery! I made shepherds pie for £6.50, enough for 6 but they all complain of IBS - i give up :(

[Ken4155]

Add to that the cost of cooking it all, multiply by 7 - comes to somewhere in the region of £65-£70. Probably why some of those on benefits "can't afford to eat properly", Dave.

[Eve]

I had a treat in going out for Sunday lunch and was about £16 for a full Sunday Roast, drink, coffee and gorgeous rhubarb crumble and custard!

[nailit]

I had an 89p shepherds pie from iceland with a bit of veg.
Nothing like pushing the boat out....

[Retrochic]

We had a free range chicken from Aldi £4.99 and it was huge -enough for two meals. Unfortunately the venison fillet that OH bought yesterday at a farmers market, served alongside the chicken was £9.99 for 300 grms so our meal altogether was around £20 for three people but with enough leftovers for chicken caeser salad tomorrow.

And you are totally correct -its a skills thing. Cookery and Budgeting should be mandatory in schools. Some kids waste hours at school doing R.E or a language they will never use and leave school not being able to make a simple meal from scratch.

[sunny-dave]

Nailit - that was £8.50 for all four of us - not EACH !!!

Cost of cooking might have been 20p perhaps/maybe.

[B00]

pmsl @ grandkids wanting pizza but get shepherds pie instead. Poor beggers, can almost picture their looks of disappointment!

[Canary42]

What is, or how do you prepare/cook, Singing Swede (the only one i know is ABBA) ?

[sunny-dave]

Sorry - my reply was to ken4155 not Nailit - failing eyesight and a small iPad to blame ...

[Mamyalynne]

Canary


http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Food-and-Drink/Question1383186.html

[tamborine]

Listen here boo, they left the spie in favor of pizza. If I get any more gkids I will drown them!

[sunny-dave]

Singing Swede :

http://www.theanswerbank.co.uk/Food-and-Drink/Question1383186.html

[Ken4155]

Yes, dave, i read it in your opening sentence - you cooked for four. A million years ago when my lot were kids and i was unfortunate enough to be unemployed for quite some time - almost 3 years - the only way we could get by was by doing our shopping at those stores that sold (insipid) cheap food items - such as family value beefburgers that were as thin as (and tasted like) cardboard. And i dare say that things are pretty much the same nowadays.

I find myself on benefits once again but only have myself to cater for now, and i am savvy enough to ensure that i have at least one decent meal per day.

[Baldric]

Roast Lamb (for 2) Roast Tatties and Cauliflower Cheese was about £8 all in,
But to be fair the gallon of Red Wine most likely pushed it up a bit! ;o)