Frugal food

Maybe we can all help... post a cheap recipe.

Special fried rice. Rice of choice, 1 scrambled egg, handfull of frozen peas, handfull of frozen shrimp and a small amount of pork loin marinated in light soy sauce and garlic. Cook everything off. Stir fry all the cooked ingredients together for 5 mins with a good ground of pepper, a pinch of Chinese 5 spice powder and an extra lashing of light soy suace if you like it salty. Serves one. Scale up for more people.

I lived off that when I was out of work for 3 months and worked out I could be full and really enjoy a full plate of food for less than a quid. Changed my perspective on what I really enjoy eating as well.
 
poolseasider said:
Fruit and veg is cheap but try telling that to half the lazy fat bastards who refuse to cook.
Don't often do Takeaways but the last one was over 20 quid for two of us I can make at least 3 cheap meals out of that.
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Yeah but that’s just your opinion🇬🇧😜👍
 
Roast one large free-range chicken (say, £15.00). Get four meals off carving the breast meat. A couple of days later get two more meals from the drumsticks and thighs with chips. Denude the chicken and, with the darker meat from the back of the bird make a chicken and ham pie (a tin of condensed Campbell's chicken soup will help). That's another four meals. Finally, put all of the bones, cartilage and skin into a big pan, add a stick of celery, a small onion, a carrot and some sage. Bring to the boil then simmer down for two hours. Sieve into another pan, leave to go cold and put in the fridge overnight. Then skim the fat off and heat on the hob. Add back the last bits of unused chicken, add butter and a simple plain flour roux, season and warm to produce a cream chicken soup (at least five servings).
That £15 bird has gone quite a way by then.
 
If I’m a bit skint I go for 8 week aged ribeye, asparagus tips, a peppercorn sauce ( not a cheap powder one- Tesco’s finest range )
A decent amount of foie gras on the side with seasonal veg cooked in honey
If you go into the big Tesco between 2-4 am the security guards are half asleep,they can’t be arsed pulling me up for a bit of shoplifting
 
Graham berrys plastic bag said:
If I’m a bit skint I go for 8 week aged ribeye, asparagus tips, a peppercorn sauce ( not a cheap powder one- Tesco’s finest range )
A decent amount of foie gras on the side with seasonal veg cooked in honey
If you go into the big Tesco between 2-4 am the security guards are half asleep,they can’t be arsed pulling me up for a bit of shoplifting
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I find that's when they're more likely, you need busy times, safety in numbers.
 
Graham berrys plastic bag said:
If I’m a bit skint I go for 8 week aged ribeye, asparagus tips, a peppercorn sauce ( not a cheap powder one- Tesco’s finest range )
A decent amount of foie gras on the side with seasonal veg cooked in honey
If you go into the big Tesco between 2-4 am the security guards are half asleep,they can’t be arsed pulling me up for a bit of shoplifting
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I'd arrest you just for eating the froie gras.
 
1966_and_all_that said:
I'd arrest you just for eating the froie gras.
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I watched a YouTube video a while back and it was shocking to see the process for producing it, I like my travel for food vloggers
& have seen some horrendous things re animal welfare, the foie gra industry has very much changed now though with most countries outlawing the methods, although it’s still produced in a totally different way
 
1966_and_all_that said:
Roast one large free-range chicken (say, £15.00). Get four meals off carving the breast meat. A couple of days later get two more meals from the drumsticks and thighs with chips. Denude the chicken and, with the darker meat from the back of the bird make a chicken and ham pie (a tin of condensed Campbell's chicken soup will help). That's another four meals. Finally, put all of the bones, cartilage and skin into a big pan, add a stick of celery, a small onion, a carrot and some sage. Bring to the boil then simmer down for two hours. Sieve into another pan, leave to go cold and put in the fridge overnight. Then skim the fat off and heat on the hob. Add back the last bits of unused chicken, add butter and a simple plain flour roux, season and warm to produce a cream chicken soup (at least five servings).
That £15 bird has gone quite a way by then.
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Maybe for 1 person! And £15 for a large chicken? Eh? £4 in Aldi!

I do like your posts but your lovely recipes seem more "lavish" than frugal.
 
Macseasider said:
Maybe for 1 person! And £15 for a large chicken? Eh? £4 in Aldi!

I do like your posts but your lovely recipes seem more "lavish" than frugal.
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I'm just trying to say - and the £15 chicken is something that actually happened - that it's possible to spread the cost of that chicken down to about £1.00 per meal. I wasn't trying to be snobby or anything but the way things are going (meat-wise) perhaps we should think of doing a lot more with stuff than we tend to do at the moment.
 
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