cheap, tasty, healthy food

[Guest2]

What meals can you come up with that cover the above 3 things?

1 sweet potato (medium-large size) - 20p
100grams chicken breast - £1
a bit of brocolli - 30p


Peel the sweet potato and cut into wedges, put on baking tray. Chop chicken into bits and put on try, but brocolli on tray.
Cover in olive oil, add salt, pepper. I also add jamaican jerk herbs

Put in oven for around 10 - 15 minutes on 250

I also have a couple of medium sized eggs before - 26p (£2 for 15 free range eggs)

Total meal cost is < £2, very easy to cook, healthy and very tasty

 

[PapaLazaru]

I would have made all that into an omelette.

*edit*

A sweet potato and broccoli ommelette with a grilled chicken breast.

 

[dave_beast]

Butterfly the chicken breast and grill, chop the broccoli into small chunks and flash fry in olive oil, peel then boil the sweet potato and make into mash with the broccoli.

Or using the egg, make an omolette with chicken pieces and broccoli, and wedges as above with the sweet potato.

 

[ThieveryCorp]

I would have made all that into an omelette.

*edit*

A sweet potato and broccoli ommelette with a grilled chicken breast.

This is a good idea if you have enough eggs and a bit of onion. A nice twist on a Spanish tortilla.

 

[Raymond Lin]

Basically a meal for £2?

We should do this as a challenge, allow a couple of things we all have in the house - seasoning, pasta, rice and bread.

1 - Go shopping
2 - Photo of receipt
3 - Photo of final meal

Profit???

Though I think £4/5 might be more realistic, £2 doesn't get you much these days!

 

[cdcopyman]

fruit, peanut butter, oatmeal

 

[PapaLazaru]

Basically a meal for £2?

We should do this as a challenge, allow a couple of things we all have in the house - seasoning, pasta, rice and bread.

1 - Go shopping
2 - Photo of receipt
3 - Photo of final meal

Profit???

Though I think £4/5 might be more realistic, £2 doesn't get you much these days!

Sounds like a good idea to me.

 

[JHeaton]

Basically a meal for £2?

We should do this as a challenge, allow a couple of things we all have in the house - seasoning, pasta, rice and bread.

1 - Go shopping
2 - Photo of receipt
3 - Photo of final meal

Profit???

Though I think £4/5 might be more realistic, £2 doesn't get you much these days!

Agree, would probably be good fun.

 

[Raymond Lin]

Bonus point if you can afford the dessert in the budget

 

[MikeHunt79]

Would pot noodle on toast be considered healthy?

 

[wannabedamned]

Would pot noodle on toast be considered healthy?

is it wholegrain toast?

 

[Deadbeat]

1) Long grain rice, 100g: 10p - 15p depending on how big the pack you puy is and assuming you go for decent stuff

2) 125g lean steak mince - about 80p from your local butcher's

3) ~20ml lemon juice - 10p - 20p, again, depending on what you buy and how much at a time

4) 1 Orange - 30p

Fry the mince in the lemon juice, cook the rice, drain mince & add to rice with finely diced orange. Mix with a few twists of black pepper. Don't knock it until you try it

 

[sigma]

Tuna & Pasta with some sort of sauce.

Avoid cheap meat if you can as it's cheap for a reason!

 

[wannabedamned]

I have wholegrain tuna mayo pasta.

90p for extra light mayo from asda
50p for the tuna from sainsburys
Wholegrain Pasta is around 90p too.

 

[Amp34]

What meals can you come up with that cover the above 3 things?

1 sweet potato (medium-large size) - 20p
100grams chicken breast - £1
a bit of brocolli - 30p


Peel the sweet potato and cut into wedges, put on baking tray. Chop chicken into bits and put on try, but brocolli on tray.
Cover in olive oil, add salt, pepper. I also add jamaican jerk herbs

Put in oven for around 10 - 15 minutes on 250

I also have a couple of medium sized eggs before - 26p (£2 for 15 free range eggs)

Total meal cost is < £2, very easy to cook, healthy and very tasty

Right, that's you're snack sorted, what's for dinner?

 

[Andr3w]

1 x uncle bens microwave rice
1 x tin of tune chunks

Put rice in microwave for as long as it says (i think 2 minutes) get it out and put it in a bowl, add tuna chunks and stir it in, put back in the microwave for about 30seconds

-Eat


Seriously, this is LOVELY even though it might not sound it.

 

[J-FRO]

Tin of baked bears abour 30p - also one of your five a day and high in fibre
2 slices of multigrain bread toasted - about 8-10p
about 100g Chedder cheese - 15-30p tops
few dashes of Lea & Perrins - price=negligible.

That's about 70p. Lots of fibre, some carbs and some protein. Healthy din dins and dirt cheap.

 

[alexakasloth]

The next few days i'm eating Arrabiata sauce; onion, celery, carrot, chilli, tin of tomatoes and a bit of tomato paste. You can add in chicken if you want, top with some grilled cheese.

 

[mangobreeder]

75g Risotto Rice: 13p
1 Leek : 20p
1 oxo cube : 5p
1 fillet smoked Haddock £1.50, Cooked

Fry leek in olive oil, for 10 mins until softened
Make 1 pint stock using oxo cube
add the risotto rice to the leeks and fry for one minute
add one ladle full of stock, stir until absorbed
repeat until all stock gone or risotto is ready
5 mins before serving flake the haddock in the risotto and warm though.

serve

 

[kwerk]

Tin of baked bears abour 30p - also one of your five a day and high in fibre
2 slices of multigrain bread toasted - about 8-10p
about 100g Chedder cheese - 15-30p tops
few dashes of Lea & Perrins - price=negligible.

That's about 70p. Lots of fibre, some carbs and some protein. Healthy din dins and dirt cheap.

Or a really ghetto bean burrito

Take a big flour tortilla
Put some baked beans in a big line in middle
Grate some chedder on top of the beans
Fold it up and microwave for 1 min.

You can put scrambled eggs in there too if you want.