I'm skint for the week any cheap meal ideas?

Question

i'm really hard up at the mo, anyone know anycheap meals i can eat, i go to the supermaket lost, plus i'm vegetarian

Answer 1

as a recently former undergrad (i just graduated), I have some experience with skimping:

-Grilled cheese sandwiches (bread, cheese and butter)

-plain yogurt mixed with sliced apples (with honey on top, if you like)

-pasta and pasta sauce (pre-made sauce is usually available in any grocery store)

-noodles (ramen)

-stir fry (basically you can stir fry anything: mushrooms, tomatoes, onions, bell peppers, garlic, other veggies; add in soy sauce and a bit of water) served with steamed rice and you're golden

-tortilla heated with cheese (and sliced mushrooms and/or green bell peppers, if you'd like)

-tempura! there are tempura mixes in most chain grocery stores now (like safeway and albertson's); all you need is a lot of veggie oil and some of the leftovers of any veggies that you've got left over from your other meals (potatoes, mushrooms, asparagus, bell peppers, ANYTHING will work)

hope this helps!

Answer 2

Chicken Wing Soup is cheap and delicious!

Answer 3

tin of baked beans:D!!

Answer 4

Go to trader joes, if you have one near, they have several cheap, and good meals.  Plus they also do vegetarian specific meals that actually taste good. :-)

Answer 5

Tinned Tomatoes!! Cheap and versatile.

They can be eaten as a soup.

Eaten on toast (Yum!)

Any tinned products really... Baked beans, soups etc.

I used to be vegetarian .. Vegan now =)

Answer 6

black beans and rice with salsa is cheap and i wrap it in a burritto.healthy and good,and cheap!!!

Answer 7

If you eat fish, then get a tin of tuna, some pasta and a packet sauce (that you make up with milk). Cook the pasta, make the sauce, stir the tuna in at the last minute, pasta in a dish and pour over the tuna/sauce mix. A couple of slices of bread and butter to mop up with.

Enjoy

I'm not a vegetarian so forgive me if there are hidden meaty bits. But I love this little concoction.

Answer 8

I cook this up and it lasts for days,

cooked pasta,

1 onion

tin of tomatos

tuna (optional) couls replace with any veg like brocolli .

grated cheese,

dollop of mayo

when pasta is cooked fry the onions add the veg or tuna.

add tin of chopped tomatos when hot

turn off the heat and stir in a dollop of mayo.

stir in pasta, add cheese on top and grill until cheese is golden.

Answer 9

Chip shop!

Answer 10

Buy cans of Pinto, cannelli and kidney beans (about 30p each) and make a huge pot of 3 bean chilli.  You also need a big onion, garlic, some veggie mince and some ground chilli, ground cumin, salt, pepper, paprika and tinned tomatoes.

If there is only you it will last 3 days so serve with rice and tortilla chips one day, as a baked potato filling the next and pitta bread and lettuce/other salad the third day.

There are four of us and we reckon this is the cheapest meal we cook.

You can get lots of recipes from the internet by typing in 'three bean chilli recipe' so find one that suits you. Some include fresh pepers but we dont bother as some of us dont like them.

As a general point stock up on some seasonings and spices as and when you can afford them.  They have a long shelf life and can transform something very dull to something really exciting just by adding a teaspoon, especially something like Thai stir fry seasoning or some cajun spice.  The source below has lots.

Cheap doesnt have to mean bland!

Answer 11

Shop at the Bulk Foods store, get whole wheat pasta.

If cheese sauce made with milk is not your choice,

get tomato or mushroom soup, canned or as a base.

As a vegetarian, you have to worry about protein;

try adding whatever beans you like.

Answer 12

Veggie Lasagna is cheap, filling and will last for a few days!

Veggie Chilii

Make it yourself! (Then it's cheap)

Answer 13

Cowboy bean pot, my recipe is half an onion fried add half a tin each of baked beans, red kidney beans and butter beans and spice up with a hot sauce and serve on a bed of rice. Lovely!

Answer 14

Any type of bean is going to be cheap.  Use chick peas to make hummus.  Make a black bean soup.  Get a bunch of veggies and potatoes and make a thick soup that will take through a few days or you could do a vegetable curry with rice.    

Answer 15

Skip raiding, Sainsbury's Tesco's or any large superstore chucks tons of edible food away every day.

Answer 16

-1 X White Bread and Butter (cost you around 1.50 quid tops)

(Should get you through the whole week)

-1 X Supermarket's Own Whole Cooked/Roasted Chicken (4 quid)

(2 Meals)

-1 X Box Supermarkets Own Apple Pies (1 pounds max)

About 6 pieces- should get you through the whole week

-2 X Pot Noodles (1 pound)

(2 Meals)

-1 Soup Pack/Can (2 quid)

(2 Meals)

-Macaroni and Cheese (3 quid)

Choose yourself: should get you through the week !!

Answer 17

One bag of own brand dried pasta and one jar of own brand pasta sauce. Less than one pound for both and it will feed you for at least three nights.  

Answer 18

pasta and tomato based Sauce (with herbs)

baked potatos

4 bean cassorole