for fabulously frugal food
Need to feed your family with the minimum of cash? This meal plan is based on minced beef, bacon & red lentils. As at 27th August 2025, £1.46 each, per day! Everything you need, three meals a day plus cakey extras
This recipe uses a third of an easy beef ragu made for use in Meal Plan 7. We use the other 2 thirds for a spaghetti bolognese and a cottage pie.
Make 1 big ragu and you can make a cottage pie, a lasagna and spaghetti bolognese with it!
Oats are a great addition to any crumble topping. This one is from a 7 day, £1.22 a day meal plan. Lots of ideas for other flavourings too
Gorgeous raisiny pancakes. Use whatever dried fruit you have. Super quick, a great hollow leg filler. Vegan too
Very, very variable oaty biscuit recipe, much, much too moreish
I based this on a recipe I devised whilst doing the LBLUK challenge earlier this year. The picture comes from then, and I apologise for the blocky image it is! 50g soft cheese, Asda Smart Price (SP) 200g/88p, 22p 50g bacon, Asda SP 500g/75p, 8p 200g onion, Asda SP...
This very versatile casserole of bacon, veg, tomatoes and soft cheese is part of a weekly meal plan
A good useful everyday soup
This recipe is by request. It is from my recent LBL week. On the first day I had planned Lentil dumplings with tomato sauce. I have added more flavourings here than I had available on LBL! I had allocated 100g of flour and 100g lentils, but that was far far too much...
Try these with garlic butter on, extraordinarily good, and like yorkshire puddings, a great, cheap filler, before a main event
Fruit Scones that are quick and simple to make and just happen to be vegan