Cooking on a Budget! Reviews

Here you go, this is my plan for cooking on a budget. A budget of £50 actually to feed a family of 4 in accordance with government guidelines on nutritional intake for a week, no consideration given to allergy sufferers sorry, I just don't suffer myself so I haven't got a clue what is good and what is not for you guys! It is also on the assumption ...  Read the complete review

As a person who has just changed job paths and struggling to meet ends meet I have become a queen on budget recipes that taste really nice. We have decided to start saving now to move house so the one thing we could think to cut back a lot is food shopping so I am trying my hardest to make tasty meals that don't cost too much and here are a ...  Read the complete review

I have spent several years when my children were very young cooking on a very limited budget,trying not to compromise on nutrition. Some of the things I did which seemed ok: 1. Use your vouchers, samples , and enter competitions if you have time. If you spot a moneyback offer spend the small ammount of time it takes to post off the ...  Read the complete review

I like to bake our own pizza. The variations are endless. Now I would like to share with you my chicken and sweet corn topped pizza. I make the dough in my bread maker, and while it works, I can prepare the toppings comfortably. Most of the times I use tomato base, but not this time. Are you prepared to taste something ...  Read the complete review

I love cooking and I love spicy food but I often don't have much time to cook these days (or it seems write reviews - apologies for going AWOL for a bit!). It would be easy therefore to slip into the tempting and expensive trap of takeaways and ready meals. So to counter this when I do get some time I love to batch cook meals and freeze them for ...  Read the complete review

This recipe feeds my hungry family of four is no hassle and is cheap . Sausage Casserole - ish ! Ingredients 1 Pack of sausages ( I get cheap ones but i make sure they are min 70% pork but use which you like ) 3 Carrots chopped chunky 1 tin of baked beans 1 tin of chopped toms ...  Read the complete review

As times are quite hard at the moment, my family and myself have been looking for ways that we can eat cheaply yet still enjoy what we are eating and not living on noodles every day! In fact by following the two recipes that I discovered you can save more money than living on noodles! Not only that but they are also quite healthy and very quick to ...  Read the complete review

Due to the credit crunch many of us including me have had to tighten our belts in many ways with the monthly budget. My wife and I have looked into many ways of lowering our monthly payments without much success but the one way in which we have succeeded is our weekly shopping bills. Having two young children who do have good appetites as well ...  Read the complete review

Cooking for one and on a budget can be an arduos task and can be very boring. Ready meals are not the answer as they often do not live up to expectations, and often contain a lot of salt and sugar. This is my recipe for a simple and nutritious egg dish which takes about five minutes to cook. Creamy poached ...  Read the complete review

This is the worlds easiest and cheapest treat for children to make - great with mini eggs in for Easter! Use the value range to stretch your money. Chocolate Cornflake Cakes ********************** These are absolutely gorgeous and although everyone knows how to make them anyway, they have to be ...  Read the complete review

Since Dave and I have been following the Slimming World healthy eating plan we have eaten a lot more potatoes than we ever used to. The way the plan works is that certain foods are 'free' and you can eat as much of them as you like - these foods include almost all fruit and vegetables so we can fill up with potatoes. The reason that we ...  Read the complete review

I have found that the best way to eat on a budget is to make big pans or pots of filling hearty food that will feed you for a few days and can be frozen if there is any left over. Here are a few tips for saving money on food: Shop around: Have a look in bargain stores and cheaper supermarkets such as Aldi and Lidl for any canned food, ...  Read the complete review

At this time of year, a combination of cold weather, unavoidable post-Christmas frugality (yes, 2 months on!) and the desire to eat a bit more healthily before spring arrives usually prompts me to cook up a few batches of the ultimate cheapo comfort food: soup. The following recipe is one of the easiest I've ever made; it requires simple ...  Read the complete review

Here's how we approached cooking on a budget: we halved our shopping bill by planning and writing out a cheap menu for the month. We found we were spending so much more on food than we needed to as we didn't have any sort of plan for what we were doing with it. Below is the menu we came up with. The basic principles were that I would ...  Read the complete review

Nothing drives me nuts more than hearing people complaining about not having any money, and yet going ahead and wasting a fortune on takeaways! Or throwing away perfectly fine food straight into the bin, sometimes even unopened packets. The excuses for not cooking are endless: - I Don't have the time. - I don't know ...  Read the complete review

I will not lie and say that my cooking's skills are bordering on that of a gourmet chef, but I enjoy giving recipes a go and trying some of my own additions, although not all of these tend to come off well, but there is after all no harm in trying. This is the first recipe that I have put on here, so if it is hard to follow or not that good, ...  Read the complete review

I am never going to be a terrific cook. Or rather, I probably can cook but won't - a case of too little time and too little money. However, I thought I'd pass on an idea which a friend gave me to make a Baked Potato with Tuna more interesting. It's a very simple idea but I LOVE it - it tastes very yummy and it's much better than just sticking a ...  Read the complete review

Meatballs in a tomato sauce. I make this for dinner when I have had left over mince from cooking Spaghetti Bolognese. Very economical and perfect to make when you are on a budget. When you make spaghetti Bolognese just half the mince that comes in the packet using half for the Bolognese and half to make these meatballs. Also if you do ...  Read the complete review

Me and my husband are desperately trying to pay off our debts, and as part of the review of our outgoings we decided to try and cut down on our food bill. We used to spend anywhere up to £50 a week on food, we now spend around £20! I must admit though that I bought a breadmaker to make fresh bread, but the cost of that has now long been recouped ...  Read the complete review

Like most people at the moment money can be incredibly tight, especially with outgoings and prices rising it's becoming increasingly hard to appreciate money! When it comes to food I never really thought about the expense. Now don't get me wrong I very rarely shop in Waitrose or Marks and Spencers purely because I do think products are very ...  Read the complete review