Budget food/living

Seems quite an expensive way of making food "interesting".

is there a cheap way to stop vegetarians being 'boring'

^ No.

vegetable soup. A carrot, stick of celery, and an onion, plus a budget chicken stock cube and you've got a base for adding any veg you like.

Also thick cut smokey bacon from a butcher goes a long way - use the fat to fry into soups and sauces for flavor, and you can get away with half a rash per dish.

Also porridge for breakfast... or maybe just skip it.

Grilled tomatoes topped with old breadcrumbs salt and pepper - assuming you have access to cheap ones (turkish shops in stokey do)

Big tubs of yogurt from turkish places, then add a little olive oil, salt and pepper to use as a dip for raw veg.

Also making ramen style soups. The outlay for fish sauce, soy sauce and ginger sucks, but if used sparingly it can last. Also if you add meat cut into uber thin slices then you can make one of those horrific minute steaks that you'd usually much in 2 bits, last 2 or 3 servings.

Also don't drink, smoke, or date.

Good idea for a thread.

Thanks to my post grad program, the cost of printmaking supplies and the joy of mechanics not being paid very much, I've been living on something between £20-£50 a week after rent.

The big thing is, don't go to the pub. I can't afford to drink out, so it's about making sure that if you have time to see friends you do it over a can of beer in your house (or even better at their house because the might feed you).

I eat a lot of dhal (being vegan), I've discoved frozen spinach and use it with pasta and with sag aloo.

Lori's put some recipes up here, she's got loads more to put up... Enjoy... :]

For the past year I've spent a (usually Sunday am ) cooking a variety of meals that would serve 4 people. I then divide into 3 or 4 'disposable' (not necessary) food containers , scribble the description and date on the lid and freeze. Doing this means I dont waste food that I will not be able to use quickly enough before it goes off and I have a good variety of meals to choose from during the week.Saves alot of money not buying food outside at work plus I have the choice and control over what goes in. (these 'street food' stalls charging £3.50 - £4.50 for something that costs me about £1.00 - wtf)
A variety of meals (your creativity is your limit) is important - you don't want to be eating the same thing all week.

Veg is so cheap at sainsburys if you buy the per kilogram stuff... Example:

1 carrot: 4p
1 parsnip: 11p
1 brocolli: 40p
1 sweet potato: 38p
1 onion: 9p
Baguette: 60p
**
Grand total: **£1.62

Everything in a pot, boil until soft, blend (with the water included) until smooth.

Makes 4 portions.

That is 4 absolutely delicious, nutricious lunches at 40p each.

(don't boil/blend the baguette, dip it in the soup)

Needs more bacon and brie cheese.

Sorry, but I'd prefer to eat cock.

My good lady makes the most amazing cock soup. Apparently it's a national dish even if it makes me giggle like a schoolboy.

Joeslain, where is Nour in Brixton, what do they sell?

Am loving this thread!

On Electric Avenue, Atlantic Road end... Tiny entrance with a Supermalt awning...

They sell EVERYTHING!!!

On Electric Avenue, Atlantic Road end... Tiny entrance with a Supermalt awning...

They sell EVERYTHING!!!

Cool, thanks fella, will have to check them out!

subscribed.

My good lady makes the most amazing cock soup. Apparently it's a national dish even if it makes me giggle like a schoolboy.

Yep, mine always sends me to the corner shop for some instant cock soup which she adds to the proper dutch pot with knuckle.
I always have problem locating it and have to ask...

By the way, I've just came back home with a shoulder of lamb. Lamb's bloody expensive. Very strange, since it's a smelly meat.

By the way, I've just came back home with a shoulder of lamb. Lamb's bloody expensive. Very strange, since it's a smelly meat.

I don't know why but this made me giggle more than cock soup

The two animals not meant to be consumed are for sure sheep and goats. And halal meat is just barbarian.

I had the best mutton soup for lunch, Atlantic Bakeries on Atlantic Road... £3.50 for the large portion, and a beef pattie for an extra £1.30... Nom!

I love goat and mutton, that lamby/goaty musk is awesome...

mutton/goat are both great

now thinking of kidneys - steak and kidney pie, using the suet from the kidneys to make the pastry or to make dumplings

the joy of cutting a peeling the suet off the kidney then cutting the kidney in two and removing the skin and the vein - pretending to be a surgeon

So how's the frugal living going for you? ;)
Or does it start next week love?

liver in the fridge for tomorrow - will be rustling up liver and bacon to go on pasta post mtb session

you are not a good influence on my spending habits

That reminds me. I've got an appointment at Gastroenterology.

bookmarked, this topic has been real useful, my budget diet is usually rice since it's easy to cook and obtain.

I don't like easy cook rice. Prefer basmati.

Fuck me some of the culinary accidents being banded about on this thread is putting me off my roast pigeon

Last time I read at the table.

^ I do hope you realise that London Pigeons are actually Rock Doves and not Pigeons at all?