Budget food/living

The thing about eating well but cheaply is not just the main ingrediants but the flavorings that you use with it. Having a decent selection of herbs and spices makes all the difference.

Morrocan Roast veg with Lemon and Mint Cous Cous

Whatever veg you can get cheap, courgette, onions, peppers, tomatoes, carrots, etc.
Oil - Olive for preferance
1 Lemon
Dried Mint
Moroccan Spice mix ( not that cheap but lasts ages, or mix up your own if you have a decent spice collection)

Roughly chop the veg and chuck in a roasting pan. Drizzle with oil, sprinkle with a teaspoon of spice mix. Mix well to coat and chuck in the oven.

Zest the lemon and squeeze for the juice. Mix with oil to mak a dressing and add a teaspoon of died mint. Mix well and leave untill the veg is done.

Add the zest to the cous cous when cooked.

Drizzle the dressing over the cous cous and pile the veg on top.

Eat.

Chorizo stew

Sainsbury do a reasonably priced chorizo sausage - The horse shoe one, not the ready sliced or chopped stuff. Costs about £2 but will do three meals for two people.

1/3 Chorizo sausage
1 can tinned tomatoes
1 can beans - Butter, Haricot, Canelini whatever you fancy.
2 loves garlic
1 onion
Oil to cook.
Mixed Herbs or whatever you have
Tomatoe puree
Salt
Pepper

Roughly chop the onion and garlic and fry gently in a pan.

While that cooks cut a third of the chorizo and slice.

Make space in the pan and add the chorizo in a layer so that it cooks, when the fat starts to melt flip the slices and cook a little more.

Add the tomatoes, beans, herbs salt, pepper and half a can of water. If you are feeling flush or have a bottle open anyway add red wine instead of water, and a squeeze of tomatoe puree.

Stir and leave to cook on a simmer for half an hour.

Eat.

You can make it go further by serving with bread or add a couple of sliced pork sausages to turn it into a proper cassoulet. Fry them with the chorizo at the start.