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Meal Plan 4 – butter beans, oats and parsnips
How to eat well on a teeny, tiny budget! A weekly meal planner to serve 2 adults for 7 days at a cost of £1.34 a day each as at August 2025
Meal Plan 3 – chorizo, chick peas and dried mash
A weekly meal plan based around chorizo or salami, chick peas and dried mash. Feed yourself all week for £1.40 a day – priced in August 2025
Meal Plan Two – salted cashews, black olives and soft cheese
First written in September 2013, re-priced annually since then. I’m so pleased this meal plan is still pricing up at just over £1 a day in August 2025 – 12 years old, and still going strong!
Meal Plan 7 – Lasagna
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.
Meal plan 7 – Beef Ragu for 3 different dishes
Make 1 big ragu and you can make a cottage pie, a lasagna and spaghetti bolognese with it!
Cheese and Onion Sandwich Filling – how to copy a deli filling, much cheaper!
Do you love those little deli pots of cheese and onion sandwich filling sold in the supermarkets? If you do, then this post is for you – you can make an even more delicious sandwich filling at half the price!
Crunchy Broccoli Salad
This is a delicious salad that takes just a few minutes to make. It is creamy from the dressing and has a wonderful balance of flavours, with little pops of sweetness from the currants and savouriness from the sunflower seeds. It doesn’t taste particularly vegetabley strangely, probably because of the dressing, so might be liked by those not especially fond of veg.
Three Bean Salad
Three Bean Salad – an absolute classic dish. It’s super easy to make, is absolutely delicious, can be used as a main or a side and is very adaptable.
Chicken and Sweetcorn Sandwich – how to copy a deli filling for a third of the cost
Just mix three ingredients together to make a delicious copy of a chicken and sweetcorn deli filling from a supermarket – and for a third of the price!
Smoked Mackerel Sandwich, with Egg
This simply gorgeous sandwich is made with a smoked mackerel fillet, a boiled egg and a slick of mayonnaise. It’s SO good and costs just 53p!
Hidden Veggies Pasta Sauce
Most people, including veggie-phobes of all ages, seem to like tomato pasta. If you cook and whizz in a mix of other vegetables, it’s a good way to get more of a variety into people.
Egg Mayonnaise Sandwich
A boiled egg, chopped, with a generous spoon of mayonnaise, classic deli filling, found in all the supermarkets. Absolutely delicious, and very quick to make yourself at home, with just 2 ingredients!