Cheap meal ideas

[mycats]

ok folks I am VERY very skint this week :-( so I need ideas for cheap meals for my son and I. So far I am thinking:
peppers stuffed with rice
chicken wings with spices and cucumber and tomato slices
home made pizza's
and home made kebabs (pork, red onions and peppers) but thats only 4 nights dinners, help!!

[mycats]

ooops obviously this was meant for food and drink,

[bex401]

Pasta with a tomato & herb sauce,my fave,YUMMY!!!

[douch007]

sausage and mash

[SaxyJag]

Mince
Tin of tomatoes
Tin of red kidney beans
Onion
Chilli Powder to taste

Voila - Chilli Con Carne! Serve it with rice or jacket spuds.

[mccfluff]

tuna and pasta bake
curry
mac cheese
omlette's

[nat_84]

Cant go wrong with a few jacket potatoes during the week!

[sunflower68]

Ward minter I do agree and similarly pizza toast which my kids love. Whole meal bread, toasted then put some chopped tinned tomatoes and cheese over and grill till bubbly.

[mycats]

bex yeah pasta is always good, ta
Wardy I know what you are saying but I'm not keen on beans (and my son likes peppers and rice ) thanks though
SaxyJag I dont like chilli lol but ta
Sunflower thats pretty much what we do with home made pizza, we use french loafs cut in hakf then lengthways and covered in tomato puree, cheese, onions etc

[flip-flop]

Blimey - sounds lovely: I wish we were skint if that meant Mrs Flop served that sort of grub instead of the rubbish she normally manages to screw up!!!

[Champagne]

Spanish omelette. Dead cheap! The traditional version is made with just potatoes and onion, but you can add ham, mushrooms, peppers, sweetcorn, or anything else you can think of! Make a big one in the frying pan, then pop the frying pan under the grill for a few minutes to finish it off. Easy peasy!

Jacket spuds are good too. Loads of carbs & fibre. Top with tuna for extra goodness and cheese too just because it's delicious!

[mycats]

I'm really bad at making baked potatoes lol whats the best way to cook them and get it right?

[mycats]

ooops sorry Wardy hon, here you go *****

[spudqueen]

I make jacket potatoes by pricking them all over and sticking in the oven, gas mark 6 for one hour. One cheap meal I like is macaroni cheese, with onion and a bit of bacon. Also, look out for special offers, eg Somerfield have been selling ready cooked chickens at half price and you should be able to get a couple of good meals out of them for two people.

[Vics128]

If you make a spag bog, grate a carrot into it at the beggining.. it adds an extra veg into the meal, and makes your mince go evan further.. you might evan get another serving out of it! and you cant taste it (or see it if you have a picky eater!)

[shaneystar2]

Cold spuds ,onion.green pepper,cherry toms (on offer 89p in Somerfields ) fry it all up and chop up a tin of corned beef and pop a fried egg on top .
Buy any veg that's on offer ..dice it all up .clove of garlic and plenty of seasoning...roast in oven stir in couscous which is cheap and filling and good for you....
Buy veg again and make a chunky soup add pasta to bulk it out.
Macaroni or cauliflower cheese.
Bulk out mince with breadcrumbs ..it goes further.
Liver is cheap and nourishing ..cook in the oven with bacon( you can buy the cheap mishapes) onions and apple and serve with mash.

[shaneystar2]

The Somerfields chicken offer is great as spuqueen says and you can boil the carcasses ..strip off any meat add loads of veg and some stock and bung some dumplings or pasta in ..Voila .. a cheap and tasty meal.

[sense4all]

Lidl do great cheap noodles 15p a packet or something like it . We have Singapore style noodles, whatever tasty noodle spices you like, a bit of red pepper etc and meats - scavenged from your other meals and chucked in with a little bit of bacon and veg etc - versatile ,nutricious, and not too boring. You can re-invent recipie combo and call it allsorts.
Asda do a couple of chickens for a fiver, my sister would section them something like this : Sunday decent cuts for roast, Mon wings and legs and inspiration, Tue boil them up refridgerate stock for soup use floating bits for noodles or rice dish, Wednesday home made soup.

[nat_84]

Jacket Potatoes > prick them with a fork all over and what i do is rub the outside with salt so that the skin gets nice and crispy.

Leave them in a high oven for about 1 hour and... taaa daaaa!