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Mackerel Pate & Pasta – 45p a serving
Make a bowl of deliciousness (Mackerel Pate) using half a mackerel fillet, and stir it through 200g cooked pasta for a delicious dinner or lunch for 2
Courgette Pasta
An experiment yesterday with a recipe I cooked all last summer from Hugh Fearnley-Whittingstall’s book Three Good Things. . He slow cooks courgettes in olive oil and garlic, then mixes them with mozzarella and pasta, tops them with parmesan and bakes them in the oven....
Beetroot & Feta Tart. As good cold in a packed lunch as it is hot for dinner
Beetroot, feta, onion and crunchy little bits of rosemary in a tart case – very yum!
Spaghetti with Beef & Tomato Pasta Sauce – 29p a portion
I was inspired yesterday by Jack Monroe’s ingenious use of fish paste to make a pasta sauce, it isn’t an ingredient I have ever given a passing thought to and had a look on mysupermarket.co.uk to see what other varieties were available. At that price there were...
Massive Tomatoes @ Tiny Price
Ooh, Ooh, I am so excited! I bagged a HUGE carrier bag of beef steak tomatoes for 20p a pound!! In my travels around Heathfield, where I live, I popped into the greengrocers. They have a cheapy box there for stuff they need to sell quickly, super cheap – and there...
Stuffed Beefsteak Tomato 51p each
I stuffed one of the tomatoes I got cheap at the green grocers with a few puy lentils, a bit of feta and a few black olives from a big jar I got from Morrisons.
Great British Budget Menu – is £1 a meal really such a big challenge
Great British Budget Menu – is £1 a meal really such a big challenge?
Spicy Cabbage, Lentils & Nan
A spicy dish that’s delicious, filling & a cheap meal. Red lentils for protein, spices for flavour and lots of veg for everything else
Vegetable Casserole & Dumplings
Only takes about half an hour to make and is a delicious warming dish to come home to. Root vegetables in cder or apple juice, with cheesy dumplings on top
Vegetable Crumble. Root veg in a tomato sauce, topped with oats, cheese and salted peanuts
Vegetable Crumble, a favourite in our house and a fabulous budget family meal
Potato and Onion Hash
You could whizz up all the same ingredients into a warming soup instead and take it with you in a flask
Carrot & Lentil Soup – 20p a serving, Meal Plan 1
A delicious, quick and simple soup, and only 20p a serving. Many vegetables can be substituted for the carrots, depending on what you have in.