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Jonnyboy

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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 4:40 pm Post subject: Meals for under a quid
This is inspired by Deeno's posting on the RC forums. Post your favourire budgets recipes here that cost less that ï¿½1 per person. We will take the best ones and use them for a front page article during the summer. They will be cooked and reviewed by our resident panel of experts.

tahir

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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 4:42 pm Post subject: Re: Meals for under a quid

Jonnyboy wrote:

our resident panel of experts.

Who's that then?

tahir

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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 4:44 pm Post subject:
I can think of 100s of veggie dishes but what about meaty stuff, any ideas anyone?

twoscoops

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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 4:48 pm Post subject:
I can think of some liver ones.

tahir

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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 4:48 pm Post subject:
Actually kidneys add a lot of meatiness for little cost too.

cab

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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 4:49 pm Post subject:

Meaty meals for under a quid?

You can pick up bones from any good butcher for free (or nearly free). Good meat stock is at the heart of good soups, so I'd say that perhaps the best cheap meals are soups.

Say, beef stock, boiled down with dried wild mushrooms, seasoning, caremalised onions and some wild herbs (cow parsley is good, maybe some thyme from the garden), with bread from the bread that's going a little stale and is otherwise going for the birds in the morning... More or less a free meal. All I've really bought is the onion, salt and pepper. Not such an uncommon dish for us, and it's very, very cheap.

tahir

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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 4:55 pm Post subject:
Good tip Cab, Sean's stock making article will be useful

tahir

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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 4:59 pm Post subject:
A lot of "Indian" stuff is really cheap dhal's, saag, most veg curries, chapattis, rice, home made yog. It can be very cheap and nutritious

jema
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 5:03 pm Post subject:
I was contemplating a Rice and Tarka Dhal tonight, Probably in the meals for under 50p a head section

tahir

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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 5:04 pm Post subject:
Well you'd better post your recipe, which dhal do you use?

twoscoops

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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 5:05 pm Post subject:
I'll start costing stuuf where possible. Delia's egg & lentil curry is cheap, especially if you have hens. I do like tarka dahl, but prefer something a little 'otter.

tahir

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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 5:09 pm Post subject:
I reckon a chana dhal with chapatti or nan, yoghurt and salad on the side and sweet rice ( https://www.learningindustries.com/nrk/recipes/index.asp?rid=129 ) without the saffron should come in at way less than a quid a head.

jema
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 5:12 pm Post subject:

tahir wrote:

Well you'd better post your recipe, which dhal do you use?

Pretty basic, red lentil, tomato, ginger onions, garlic, fenergic [spelling] , chile, mustard seeds. I confess i basically follow a book recipe.

jema

tahir

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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 5:12 pm Post subject:
Could make a shin of beef casserole for tha kind of budget??

sean
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Posted: Mon Feb 14, 05 5:14 pm Post subject:
I'll start costing some stuff. Since I almost never buy all the ingredients for a meal from scratch I know what I spend/week, but not really/meal.

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