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Split Pea Soup – a 3 ingredient soup recipe
A soup that uses minimal ingredients, is very delicious and just 19p a portion
Poach A Chicken
How to stretch a chicken to make it last the family the whole week with seven budget stretching chicken recipes
Budget meal plan with lentils and chickpeas
A cheap 7-day meal plan using red lentils, chickpeas and bacon. Frugal, nutritious and easy to cook
Week Seven Meal Planner – minced beef, bacon, red lentils
Need to feed your family with the minimum of cash? This meal plan is based on minced beef, bacon & red lentils. As at 27th August 2025, £1.46 each, per day! Everything you need, three meals a day plus cakey extras
Meal Plan 4 – butter beans, oats and parsnips
How to eat well on a teeny, tiny budget! A weekly meal planner to serve 2 adults for 7 days at a cost of £1.34 a day each as at August 2025
Meal Plan 3 – chorizo, chick peas and dried mash
A weekly meal plan based around chorizo or salami, chick peas and dried mash. Feed yourself all week for £1.40 a day – priced in August 2025
Meal Plan Two – salted cashews, black olives and soft cheese
First written in September 2013, re-priced annually since then. I’m so pleased this meal plan is still pricing up at just over £1 a day in August 2025 – 12 years old, and still going strong!
Meal Plan 7 – Lasagna
This recipe uses a third of an easy beef ragu made for use in Meal Plan 7. We use the other 2 thirds for a spaghetti bolognese and a cottage pie.
Meal plan 7 – Beef Ragu for 3 different dishes
Make 1 big ragu and you can make a cottage pie, a lasagna and spaghetti bolognese with it!
Cheese and Onion Sandwich Filling – how to copy a deli filling, much cheaper!
Do you love those little deli pots of cheese and onion sandwich filling sold in the supermarkets? If you do, then this post is for you – you can make an even more delicious sandwich filling at half the price!
Crunchy Broccoli Salad
This is a delicious salad that takes just a few minutes to make. It is creamy from the dressing and has a wonderful balance of flavours, with little pops of sweetness from the currants and savouriness from the sunflower seeds. It doesn’t taste particularly vegetabley strangely, probably because of the dressing, so might be liked by those not especially fond of veg.
Three Bean Salad
Three Bean Salad – an absolute classic dish. It’s super easy to make, is absolutely delicious, can be used as a main or a side and is very adaptable.