Hi I am trying to cut back on $$$.And was wondering if anybody has some recipes for good home made meals that are relatively cheap?
Cheap home made meals
sarbear on 10/08/2014 - 19:50
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If you're living and cooking alone, it's generally… Cheap, Tasty or Healthy: choose two.
If you have a bit of freezer space, buy 20 takeaway containers and do a few bulk cook ups. You can buy cheaper cuts of meat and do casseroles or mince+tinned tomato+garlice+passata+dried herbs for easy pasta sauce (grated carrot and zucchini can be added for some sneaky veges if you struggle with the kids).
For variety, chicken thighs are great - not as expensive as breast, more flavour and versatile. If you wanted to do soups, try chicken wings and drumsticks - again quite cheap and something you can make in bulk and freeze when things are on special. Chicken wings done with honey and soy sauce in the oven served on rice is good too.
Keep a few different dry pastas and some rice in the cupboard and frozen veges and you can knock something together with minimal fuss, plenty of taste and debatable nutritional value using your frozen bits. Saves having to cook actual meals from scratch every night, plus reduces the need to go to the shops more regularly which tends to be very expensive. If you've got an Aldi near you, check it out. The quality of the food is good and I do a 3-4 weekly shop there for "basics". My partner likes certain brand name things so we still end up going to Woolies, the butcher and the fruit shop on the other weeks.
I tin cannelloni beans 80c. Handful of frozen peas 8c. Slice of bread 10c.
Protein, greens, carbs.
Accompany with a glass of tap water.
That sounds absolutely horrible haha
Have you tried the Taste website? It's my regular go to for lots of great recipes, they have a collection for budget recipes as well http://www.taste.com.au/recipes/collections/budget
some people eat to live whilst other live to eat…
http://www.leannebrown.ca/good-and-cheap-pdf
Give this a go. The recipe book is all about cheap and good food (hence the title 'good and cheap'). All fairly simple recipes requiring only basic ingredients, you won't see ginseng root or saffron in these recipes :)
Otherwise, Reddit is an absolute goldmine of community recipes.
http://www.reddit.com/r/studentfood
http://www.reddit.com/r/EatCheapAndHealthy/
http://www.reddit.com/r/budgetfood
http://www.reddit.com/r/Cheap_Meals/
http://www.reddit.com/r/minimeals
http://cavemanketo.com/
and to save money you will need to shop smart. Buy from grocery stores, not Woolies. You may find certain food items relatively cheap from Catch of the Day ebay (the shipping is free using the CSHIP4FREE voucher code) and may beat Woolies prices.
e.g Pasta, cooking spray, salt grinder, tomato paste, mustard jar, ground coffee, Bertolli olive oil, and curry paste