Can You Cook...

[securespark]

...a filling and nutritious meal for 30p?

Recipe ideas please for families that are struggling.

This price does not include cooking or getting the food.

I immediately thought of a pasta dish.

But meat (or even veggie meat replacements) are too expensive, so I thought of red lentils.

So. To feed 6.....

500g spaghetti 20p
2 jars of pasta sauce 78p
500g red lentils 88p
100g cheese for topping 44p

2.30 divide 6 = 38p
Or 31p without cheese.

Has anyone else priced a budget meal?

 

[Deleted member 267285]

There’s plenty of online stuff about budget meals, but they don’t seem to mention costs (guessing it’s because retailers prices vary).

What needs to be accounted for is gas and electric, I’ve seen meals state budget, but cooks in 2 hours. So your 31p meal might become 40p, or more.

Slow cookers don’t use much I believe, we have one and cook satisfying meals in it.

 

[securespark]

That's what I'm aiming for.

 

[diy_fun_uk]

In the true sense of the word, I'm too lazy to cook. I went through a phase of living off ready meals (no lectures thanks ) now I'm back to 'cooking' in the sense that I'll put together meals such as steak (fried) potatoes (boiled, baby or mash) and veg (steamed.) However I've never cooked in the sense of pulling x raw ingredients together and cooking them.

 

[Dork Lard]

All the best chef's are men & I am a MAN who enjoys the ceremony of sourcing the food he cooks & serves to his loved ones.

In what context does this 30p meal exist? If I'm up at 04.00am & pick a few wild mushrooms to cook a tasty breakfast for when the rest of the house awakens???

A tasty breakfast to be enjoyed by all that cost nothing more than a knob of butter & me wandering the countryside at the right time, knowing where to look & what to pick.

 

[Ihavenojob]

500g spaghetti 20p
2 jars of pasta sauce 78p

Where can you get pasta sauce at 78p a jar and spaghetti at 20p for 500g? Or cheese at £4.40 a kilo?
You could bulk it out more with grated carrots.

 

[Deleted member 18243]

There's a lesbian called Jack Monroe who publishes very cheap meal recipes for benefit scroungers etc.

You can get lots of cheap food when the supermarkets reduce the prices at the end of the day. I got a chicken for 50p the other week. There is sometimes a scrum at the reduced shelves though, it's not for the faint hearted.

 

[JP_]

spaghetti at 20p for 500g?

https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-everyday-essentials-spaghetti-500g/4088600231266

 

[denso13]

Where can you get pasta sauce at 78p a jar

https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-cucina-smooth-tomato-pasta-sauce-500g/4088600304632

 

[Ihavenojob]

https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-everyday-essentials-spaghetti-500g/4088600231266

That's cheap, food prices dropping ?

 

[securespark]

Where can you get pasta sauce at 78p a jar and spaghetti at 20p for 500g? Or cheese at £4.40 a kilo?
You could bulk it out more with grated carrots.

You never been to Aldi?

And it's 78p for TWO jars!

 

[The Samaritan]

Where is the supermarket???

I beleive the MP was misquoted. It meant average cost of 30p x 3 meals daily, IE Breakfast/5p + lunch/33p + Dinner/52p = Total for 3 meals, 90 diveded
by 3 = 30p per meal

Breakfast - cornflakes, skimmed milk = 5p

Lunch = 2 slices toast, bit of butter, egg, cheese and beetroot = 33p

Dinner - masg, beans, fishfingers cup of tea, a slice of cake etc = 52p
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As the other poster stated, you can get bargains, so some of the meals could be cheaper.

Thanks

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[Dork Lard]

The shill AI postings are maturing, they are learning from us.

Poverty doesn't exist because a good meal can be had for 30p. I mean, really.

 

[Ihavenojob]

You never been to Aldi?

No, we have a Waitrose near us.

 

[securespark]

https://groceries.aldi.co.uk/en-GB/p-everyday-essentials-pasta-sauce-with-tomato-herbs-440g/25234114