Cheap recipes

[tintinthegingertomcat]

Some months ago one of you gave me the link to a cheap recipe site - it was by a young single mum who made meals for under £1. I seem to have lost my link.....can anybody help out please - thanks.

[merc1_clocks]

I remember it was called ' A girl called Jack ' if that's any help

[****merlin*****]

it was a girl called Jack, it was me who posted it

her bean burgers are lovely, although i add more spice, chili or paprika

if you are looking for nutritional cheap recipes

thsi is a great site

it was planned with all the RDAs etc included there is a meat eaters plan, and a vegetarian one

you wont like all of them but i do make quite a few of them

http://www.cheap-family-recipes.org.uk/

[tintinthegingertomcat]

Thanks. Have now written this down so hopefully wont need to ask again.

[leoleoleo123]

Looks intersting Merlin thanks...

[1311rose]

Thanks Merlin - lots of ideas on that site

[kaeptm]

Thanks for reminding me about a girl called Jack and for the other link.

I've just made soda bread,  I added some grated cheese. It was so easy and tasty - so thank you 

[mustavaquid]

Obviously not a direct answer to the OP's question, but something very cheap I've found this week.

If you like pork chops try pig cheeks instead. I've just had some for tea tonight, £3-49 per kilo so my 270gr. pack ( Waitrose ) was marked at just 94p.. Cook the same as you would for chops. No bone, no fat layer, maybe just a tiny bit of waste, a little darker than chops when cooked with a smoother texture, very tender and really tasty. I bought mine at the Company Shop ( which I've posted about before ) so the price was reduced to just 47p.  Yep, 47p. for a really good feed.    

[lhasa.two]

What ever happened to offal?!

Apart from liver you never see it these days, did they stop it after the BSE scare? I was living abroad at that time and when I came back you couldn't buy heart or sweetbreads, anyway...

Just after being a student and in to the first forays of working life and therefore being quite poor lol,  I bought a book by Jocasta Innes called "The Pauper's Cookbook". You should still be able to buy it on somewhere like Amazon UK. Loads of cheap recipes and my very favourite one is the Onion, Bacon and Potato Hotpot, great for the winter. Here's the recipe:

Onion, Bacon and Potato Hotpot

(4 Servings)

Ingredients

4 large onions

4 large potatoes

1/4 - 1/2lb bacon rashers

1 pint of milk

2oz flour

2oz butter

S & P

First, make some white sauce. Melt the butter, stir in the flour and add the cold milk, stirring occasionally, until the mixture boils and thickens. Add salt and pepper, and nutmeg if you like, and leave the sauce simmering gently on an asbestos mat while you prepare the rest of the dish. (I usually take it off the heat completely then give it a stir just before pouring on the mixture...)

Peel and slice onions and potatoes. The onions which take longer to cook, need to be sliced extra thin. Remove the rind and cut the bacon into smallish strips. Grease a casserole (I use a heavy based one) with a lid. Fill it with alternate layers of sliced onions, sliced potatoes and bacon strips, ending with a layer of potato. 

Pour over the white sauce. Give the casserole a good shake to distribute the sauce throughout. 

Cover, and bake in a fairly hot oven (Gas 6, 205c or 185c for a fan oven)  for 1 hour. 

Uncover and bake a further hour at reduced heat (Gas 4, 150c or 130c Fan).

The bacon need not be rashers - scraps of cooked bacon left over from a boiled joint will do just as well. You can use more or less bacon as convenient. A couple of tablespoons of grated cheese can be added to the white sauce. This is really a winter dish, and goes best with winter vegetables.