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Dinners from supermarket offers
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04-09-2014 11:06pm#1
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Changed my plans a little. Here's my breakdown of costs. I'd love to see others do similar and learn some new stuff! Where I knew it I've marked the full cost of the ingredient, then the price of the ingredient used. If its marked CB I already had it. I've priced any of the really minor stuff at 5c where they are just too small to figure out cost.
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lazeedaisy wrote: »I have a 3 euro aldi chicken roasting to make soup for the week. Roast chicken soup is divine, just takes a lot of effort. Once roasted, you then make chicken stock from carcass etc. and then make soup using whatever veg you like. I use pots, onions, Carrots, celery, squash.
You can add pasta too if it needs it, but the cheap chicken is the hero
You should try making turkey soup. My mother used to make it every Christmas, using the turkey carcass and the bone from the ham joint. It was mind blowingly flavourful, far more so than chicken soup. You need a pretty big pot though. That's the only down side, but its well worth it. As you get A LOT of flavour from a turkey carcass, you can add truck loads of water and still have loads of soup. She would feed a family of 5 for two days running, on the one batch of soup. We all looked forward to the soup on the 27th & 28th, far more than we did the Xmas day dinner. Bleedin' delish so it was !
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You should try making turkey soup. My mother used to make it every Christmas, using the turkey carcass and the bone from the ham joint. It was mind blowingly flavourful, far more so than chicken soup. You need a pretty big pot though. That's the only down side, but its well worth it. As you get A LOT of flavour from a turkey carcass, you can add truck loads of water and still have loads of soup. She would feed a family of 5 for two days running, on the one batch of soup. We all looked forward to the soup on the 27th & 28th, far more than we did the Xmas day dinner. Bleedin' delish so it was !
we'll be needing mammy's recipe there so thanx;)0 -
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Leeks and carrots on offer this week in aldi, got a €3 chicken, chopped it up, with the cheap spuds I got Tuesday from last weeks offer, we got two dinners, roasted breast on bone, roast spuds, carrots and leeks.
Second dinner was soup, cook off the remaining parts of the chicken in the oven, with a carrot, leek and some garlic, pick off bones and skin, add to a pot with more carrots and sauté leeks, some spuds, use the roast bits from the chicken tin, deglaze roasting dish and add to soup. It's delicious, I add a few peas too.
Butternut squash soup here for the next week, add a few chilli flakes for a kick. That feeds us lunch and dinner for about 4 days, for just over a tenner including peas.
The above used almost two bags of spuds and two bags carrots, two squashes.
Next time I'll try and price it all out.
Oh, forgot to add, I'm feeding a teenager too, so might last two adults a bit longer! 0 -
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SparkySpitfire wrote: »Best thread I've ever come across while procrastinating at 4.20 at night Keep up the good work mirrorwall and chums!
I did a lot of random browsing the last few nights coz I was back in hospital. I'll be intermittent but I will keep posting. It's quite motivating
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Popping in again.
Last two days:
Roast Pork dinner
Pork Loin stuffed (Aldi) 3e (only ate half of 6e super 6)
Carrots and Parsnips (Aldi) 39c (saved two carrots for tomorrow)
White potatoes (Tesco) 19c (only used half)
Sweet potato (Tesco) 70c (only used half)
Bisto best gravy (Cupboard) 5c
Butter (Fridge) 5c
Total Cost for a generous two 4.38
Sweet potato and potato mash (boil and mash with butter)
Carrot and parsnip mash (boil and mash with salt/pepper/butter to taste)
Pork (baked in oven until correct temp using thermometer, gravy to taste)
Sweet potato/Potato/Pork patties for tea
As there was mash over I chopped some left over pork, mixed it and some flour through the mash and fried it up in patties for tea. Turned out lovely and cost maybe 50c for the pork? Note this is mainly because the sweet potatoes are huge at this time of year and you have to match it with equal white potato)
Pork Fried Rice
1 Egg (Tesco value) 18c
Basmati Rice (Tesco value cupboard) 25c
Frozen Peas (Tesco Value freezer) 20c
Carrots (Aldi offer) 20c
Soy Sauce (Aldi) ?? 10c
Remaining Pork (Aldi) 2.50
Garlic/Ginger (Fridge squeezies) ?? 40c
Half an onion (Cupboard) 10c
Total 3.93 for two (plus some over)
Fry up onion, garlic and ginger. Add pork and heat up thoroughly. Boil rice, carrots and peas while doing this.
Remove pork mix from pan
Add beaten egg and cook until fully scrambled. Add back the pork mix plus the soy sauce.
Drain the rice/carrots/peas and toss into pan with the mix. Stir thoroughly.
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A staff member in the local Super Valu told me their fruit and veg offers run Thursday to Wednesday, sometimes for one week, sometimes for two weeks. If you go in on the Wednesday afternoon they are reducing the offers to make way for the new ones on the Thursday. I got trays of carrots and parsnips for 19c down from 49c, bags of carrots and parsnips 80c down from 1.49, punnets of plums 50c from one euro. Happy hunting all. 0
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Well this is the perfect time of year for this
Cooked a big Sunday dinner style dinner for 7 last night as follows:
2 3e chickens from aldi
2 49c bags of white potatoes Aldi
1kg 49c bag of carrots aldi
1 49c bag parsnips aldi
1 49c bag of Brussels sprouts Aldi
1 99c 400g bag of breadcrumbs aldi
1 ~2e sausage meat aldi
1 9c bag onions Eurospar
Total shop: ~11.50 (only used half sausage meat)
Cupboard:/owned:
Parsley, thyme, rosemary, salt, pepper, butter, bisto best chicken gravy, chicken stock, spray oil, garlic
Best guess at cost: 14-15e odd
Roasted the two chickens in a tin with some onion inside, spray oil, herbs salt and pepper on skin
Parboiled then roasted the potatoes in oven tossed in salt, pepper, butter and spray oil
Boiled/mashed carrots/parsnips. Boiled Brussels sprouts.
Breadcrumb stuffing: finely diced onion fried, add garlic and herbs, add breadcrumbs, add stock a spoon at a time (with some chicken juice), salt and pepper to taste
Cooking club stuffing balls as per recipe on boards.ie though using dried herbs. Forgot the egg but didn't need it!
Consensus was dinner was fabulous, everyone got fed and there were leftovers. For 15e it was a cheap and lovely way to have visitors without breaking the bank0 -
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I lost my receipt so these are approx costings!
Irish Stew
Stewing Beef 4e
Carrots (used half 1.5kg bag) ~1e
Onions ~50c
Dash of garlic 10c
Roosters 2e
Stock pot 50c
Parboil carrots/spuds and toss the whole lot into the slow cooker. Yum two days dinner for us (serving at least 4). Bit of flour and water and a few Yorkshire puddings are a nice addition if you have the time/are using the oven
8.10 total (approx 2e per person, depends on the spuds!)
Pork, roasties and mash
Stuffed loin of pork 4e
Roast potatoes 1e
Carrot/parsnip mash 99c
Enough for leftovers so served four though prob need more spuds on day 2. Roast pork (used BBC good food instructions). Parboil spuds then roast above the pork in the oven. Carrots/parsnip mash (yes I know again, OH doesn't like most veg but he will always eat this so we have it a lot!)
Cost about 1.50-2e depending on numbers served.
Also just a reminder when veg is on offer, soups can be made for next to nothing and if served before dinner they really do help stretch meals as well as getting veg into the kids!0 -
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This will be one of four recipes posted in the next day or two. I'm due and may end up being induced due to high BP so I'm stocking the freezer with meals. Note that not all of this is the cheapest you could get it at, for example I went for pre prepped carrots because I'm not up to much and I didn't have time/energy to shop around for the ingredients. Total cost of everything for the four different recipes from Aldi came to 50e though so its not expensive for the amount of food. This is including 2 sets of small foil trays and 2 sets of large small trays which can go from freezer to oven after defrosting. I will mark any additions I use
First up is beef and stout stew
Ingredients
Irish Stewing Beef 4.99 (unfortunately the super 6 was out of stock, you could save here)
Irish stout 1.89
Soup Mix 1.29 (only used onion and parsnip for this dish, the leek and carrot are for a different one)
Large Onions 0.47 (used one, the largest-it was massive!)
Prepared carrots 1.19
(Note: I couldn't fit the salad potatoes in, we will just cook them and eat them separately. If you have a large slow cooker then they'd fit)
Additional store cupboard ingredients
Beef stock (cube or pot is fine)
2 tablespoons of plain flour
1 bouquet garni (only because I had it)
Salt/Pepper
Dash rosemary
3 bay leaves
Total Cost approx 10e/11e (allowing for unused ingredients for other recipies and the store cupboard. Judging from the size of the food in the slow cooker even without the carb then I estimate at least 6 portions from this. I plan on splitting it into three for the freezer
Instructions
This is an ammended recipe from here for slow cooker with some changes based on comments
Parboil chopped carrots/parsnips (this is optional, I barely bring them to the boil just enough in case the don't fully soften in the slow cooker)
Fry up beef with a little bit of rosemary if you like it until sealed then transfer to slow cooker (low heat)
Add onions to the pan (without washing it from the beef) and soften
Drain and add the carrots/parsnips to the pan
Fry up lightly
Add two tablespoons of flour, stir and fry
Transfer the whole lot to the slow cooker
Add the stout, bouquet garni, bay leaf, salt/pepper and stock cube to the slow cooker.
Stir thoroughly.
Cook on a low heat for 6-8hrs.
Depending on the gravy thickness you may like to transfer it to the hob for the last while to reduce or thicken the sauce.0
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